John Ringo Books in Order

Pushed to the limits of her abilities, Lynn Raven leads veteran players and uneasy allies into a final campaign that reaches past the game’s familiar arenas. To close the rift for good, she must risk everything she has built in both the virtual world and the life she is still learning to live.

Now operating as Boogie Knight and Stone Tactical, Michael Edwards returns to New York with a score to settle and powers honed. Hunting the secretive Society that runs much of the world from the shadows, he brings his own brutal brand of justice to the superhero game.

Raised in one of the most dangerous inner-city environments in America, Michael Edwards survives on street smarts and hard lessons. When latent earth-based superpowers awaken, he is recruited as a hero—but his rough past and ruthless pragmatism make him anything but a shining knight.

As the TransDimensional Hunter storyline deepens, Lynn Raven chases answers about the AI behind the game and the entities it fights. New layers of secrecy, both corporate and cosmic, force her to decide who to trust when every revelation makes the threat feel more real.

Set in the Black Tide Rising universe, this anthology focuses on the hard work of rebuilding after the zombie plague. Communities that survived the Fall now wrestle with how to connect, cooperate, and defend a fragile future without losing the grit that got them through.

After Earth’s destruction, drifter Jason Graham wakes to find himself among hundreds of millions of humans given a second chance on a distant, untouched world. As a new society struggles to organize, he seizes the opportunity to finally test his ambitions—and to question the motives of their alien benefactors.

Fame from the TransDimensional Hunter game shoves Lynn Raven into the public eye just as the stakes inside the AR world spike higher. Juggling school, media, and a team that does not always get along, she has to face the possibility that losing in-game could cost real lives.

Top gamer Lynn Raven is happiest as online persona “Larry the Snake,” but a favor for a game company CEO drags her into beta-testing an ambitious AR title. As glitches mount and accidents spill into real life, Lynn realizes the “game” may be preparing her for an actual invasion.

In this Black Tide Rising anthology, new voices and returning favorites show how scattered enclaves begin to link up after the worst of the plague. From small towns to military units, each story explores what it takes not just to live through the apocalypse, but to build something better.

Thirty years after rifts brought giant electrovoric beasts that wiped out modern technology, a young cowboy named Chuck Gordon crosses a ruined America. With a motley band of allies and a tamed dragon, he hunts for lost knowledge that could either rekindle industry or start another war.

This Black Tide Rising anthology collects stories from the chaotic early months of the zombie plague, the time survivors call the Fall. Submariners, hunters, stranded families, and more face impossible choices as civilization crumbles around them.

After escaping burning New York, Tom Smith leads a convoy toward a prepared refuge in Tennessee. Between them and safety lie wrecked highways, predatory gangs, and endless hordes of infected, forcing hard calls about who can be saved and what must be sacrificed.

As the zombie plague topples New York, bank security chief Tom Smith is tasked with saving employees, clients, and critical data. From skyscrapers to fortified suburbs, he cobbles together a private army and a long-shot plan to ride out the fall without losing his humanity.

In the finale of Chad Gardenier’s memoirs, the monsters of New Orleans are only symptoms of something far worse: a larval Great Old One preparing to hatch. Out of allies and out of time, Chad has to rally unlikely saints for one last stand.

Chad Gardenier is sent to reinforce MHI’s Hoodoo Squad in monster-choked New Orleans. Between loup-garou packs, necromancers, and swamp-born horrors, his job is to keep the Big Easy from becoming Hell on Earth, one chaotic hunt at a time.

In the 1980s, Marine Chad Gardenier gets a second chance at life and a divine mission, joining Monster Hunter International’s Seattle team. His memoirs chronicle bar fights, monster outbreaks, and one man’s very personal war against the darkness.

This anthology set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising universe gathers tales of survival and resistance from multiple authors. From rooftop communities to desperate emergency teams, each story shows new angles on how ordinary people adapt when the zombie plague upends the world.

Wolf Squadron grows as the Smiths and their allies purge ship after ship of infected and add survivors to the flotilla. Between mutinous captains, supply problems, and zombie-choked ports, they struggle to turn a ragged convoy into the core of a civilization worth rebuilding.

Now allied with the remnants of the U.S. military, Wolf Squadron pushes back onto the North American mainland. Coordinating fleets, ground forces, and fragile refugee enclaves, the Smiths lead a campaign to clear the infected and prove that civilization can rise again from the plague.

With their floating city expanding, Wolf Squadron and the U.S. Navy begin retaking key islands and coastal regions. Teen sisters Sophia and Faith Smith find themselves at the sharp end of boarding actions and beachheads as the fight for a future home grows more ambitious and deadly.

When an engineered plague turns ordinary people into feral killers, the Smith family flees to sea in a sailboat rather than face the chaos ashore. As the scale of the disaster becomes clear, they turn from simple survival to rescuing others and clearing ships, seeding a new fleet.

On what was supposed to be a working vacation, Mike Harmon takes the Keldara to Southeast Asian waters to hunt pirates. A cache of stolen nuclear-reactor control chips turns the op into a race across the Pacific to stop a coup and keep a fragile democracy from being hijacked.

Barbara Everette, now a seasoned operative for a secretive faith-based organization, faces a crisis when her colleague Janea falls into an occult coma. To bring her back and stop an undead apocalypse, Barbara has to tackle dark magic across both the physical and spiritual planes.

The Troy Rising saga reaches its next crescendo as Troy and her allies face a major offensive at a critical wormhole chokepoint. Surrounded by enemies and political backstabbers, Tyler Vernon’s fledgling space navy must hold the line or see Earth dragged back into subjugation.

Humanity has seized back the solar system and built Troy, a titanic battlestation carved from an asteroid. As new alien empires move against them, Tyler Vernon and the crews of Troy must turn raw industrial might, untested doctrine, and sheer stubbornness into a fighting chance.

When alien gates appear in the solar system, peaceful traders arrive first, followed by conquerors who casually devastate cities to enforce tribute. Small businessman Tyler Vernon spots a loophole, turning a niche product into the seed of a space-based resistance that may free Earth.

This anthology collects military and adventure SF stories written by authors who have themselves worn a uniform. Selected by John Ringo and Brian M. Thomsen, it showcases how firsthand experience with service and war shapes everything from small-unit firefights to galaxy-spanning campaigns.

After their crushing defeat on Earth, a remnant of the Posleen flees into deep space under the guidance of unlikely alien allies. Their pilgrimage to rediscover their origins becomes a test of whether a species bred for slaughter can find faith, meaning, or even redemption.

Cally O’Neal and her fellow Bane Sidhe intensify their covert war against the Darhel just as her father, General Michael O’Neal, is ordered to preserve the fragile postwar order. Father and daughter find themselves on a collision course where duty, loyalty, and family violently intersect.

Framed for war crimes and stripped of command, Michael O’Neal faces a sham trial and a death sentence—until an even worse alien threat appears. Forced back into service, he has to decide whether to save the same Darhel-led Federation that betrayed him or let the galaxy burn.

Told as a blunt, blog-style memoir, a U.S. Army officer nicknamed Bandit Six recounts how pandemic and abrupt climate cooling wrecked the world. From a stranded deployment in the Middle East to rebuilding shattered American farms, he fights to hold a line no one else seems to see.

When an off-world archaeological team vanishes after a likely Dreen attack, Vorpal Blade is sent to investigate. The crew must thread hostile space, face new bioengineered horrors, and decide how much risk they are willing to take to keep the enemy away from Earth.

A rumor of lost alien technology sends a new Vorpal Blade on a high-stakes mission to a world littered with ruins. Training green crew, juggling alien allies, and racing the Dreen to the prize, the veterans aboard must win a treasure hunt that could decide the fate of the war.

The Posleen turn their attention to Panama, threatening the canal that keeps North America fed. With only a handful of armored suits, rejuvenated veterans, and three aging warships, defenders must use wits, terrain, and sheer stubbornness to hold the jungle line.

Outfitted with alien hyperdrive tech, the former ballistic-missile submarine Vorpal Blade becomes humanity’s first true starship. Its mixed crew of Navy sailors, Marines, and scientists heads out to scout distant worlds, only to find that deep space is far stranger and deadlier than expected.

Cally O’Neal, legendary assassin of the Bane Sidhe, is forced to reconnect with the sister who believes she has been dead for decades. Family ties, old grudges, and new missions collide as Cally juggles covert war against the Darhel with the messy work of being a sibling again.

Reeling from losses among the Keldara, Mike Harmon wants nothing more than to stand down—until a terror plot puts weapons of mass destruction on American soil. Dragged back into the game, the Kildar takes his fury stateside in a hunt that runs from the Bahamas to the Florida Keys.

Mysterious structures on Mars herald an invasion by self-replicating alien machines that eat metal and build more of themselves. As the swarm spreads toward Earth, soldiers and scientists scramble to understand the probes and improvise a way to fight back against an enemy with no fear.

Mike Harmon’s deniable strike force is tapped for a mission that escalates from hostage rescue to a full-blown covert war. With the Keldara operating far from home, Mike must juggle alliances, logistics, and his own ruthless instincts to keep his people alive.

Suburban homemaker and devout Christian Barbara Everette wants a quiet weekend away, not a showdown with demons in the bayou. When a trip to Louisiana drops her into a supernatural murder case, she discovers a calling as Heaven’s very dangerous soccer mom.

Lying low after bloody anti-terror missions, Mike Harmon stumbles on an isolated valley in Georgia inhabited by the warrior-descended Keldara. Buying their crumbling castle, he becomes the Kildar and begins shaping the fierce but neglected farmers into a lethal commando company.

As The Council Wars escalate, Herzer Herrick and Megan Travante are tasked with capturing an orbital ship that keeps Earth’s power running. To pull off a raid in space, they must blend medieval-style troops, improvisational engineering, and the last scraps of old high technology.

When wealthy American interests hire Mike Harmon and the Keldara to track a powerful man’s kidnapped daughter, the trail leads into the heart of the Balkan sex trade. To pull the girl out, they will have to kick over a hornet’s nest of criminals and complicit officials.

Facing a Posleen assault on Europe, Germany makes a forbidden choice: rejuvenate aging veterans from the Waffen-SS to fight again. As the aliens close in, soldiers and civilians alike confront whether desperate survival can justify unleashing ghosts of the past.

A mysterious explosion at a Florida university tears open portals to other worlds, unleashing monsters and opportunity in equal measure. Physicist Bill Weaver and a hastily assembled task force race to understand the “looking glasses” before Earth is overrun—or left behind.

Ex–Navy SEAL Mike Harmon is drifting through college life when he witnesses a brutal kidnapping and cannot walk away. His one-man rescue spirals into a series of off-the-books missions that reveal both his talent for violence and the dangerous darkness he carries inside.

With the sea war seemingly lost, Edmund Talbot scrambles to save the free lands from invasion by New Destiny’s engineered legions. Mixing legions, cavalry, longbowmen, and dragons, he turns the land campaign into a brutal chess match against a ruthless enemy.

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On a war-torn colony world, a self-aware Bolo supertank begins to question the orders it receives and the politicians who give them. As rebellion flares, the massive AI must choose between programmed loyalty and a broader sense of duty to the people it was built to protect.

Centuries after the Posleen War, a human commando and an alien outcast are thrown together on a covert mission deep in enemy space. Their uneasy partnership forces both to question everything they have been taught about loyalty, honor, and who the real monsters are.

In the shattered world of The Council Wars, Duke Edmund Talbot sails south to win over mer-folk who once rewrote their bodies for life beneath the waves. Courtship, diplomacy, and sea battles mix as dragons and warships clash above and below the waterline.

Officially dead for decades, Cally O’Neal has lived as an elite assassin moving through layers of forged identities and covert wars. When a job and her own conscience collide, she has to decide whether there is any way to claw back a soul in a life built on killing.

When the world-spanning computer that quietly ran a post-scarcity utopia is shut down in a civil war, paradise collapses overnight. Historian Edmund Talbot must help his community survive in a world suddenly full of swords, dragons, and ruthless would-be tyrants.

Earth’s war with the Posleen grinds into its bloodiest phase as new weapons and fresh tactics finally give humanity a chance to hit back. Michael O’Neal and his comrades stand at the heart of the last great battles, knowing that victory and extinction are both still possible.

After years of brutal fighting, human forces launch a desperate counteroffensive to push the Posleen back from the brink of victory. Michael O’Neal and his armored troops are thrown into one meat grinder after another as both sides gamble everything on one last series of blows.

At](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743488180%22,%22description%22:%22At) last nearing their objective, Roger and his dwindling Marines must cross an ocean, confront new cultures, and seize a foothold near the guarded spaceport. The march becomes a campaign, and every decision Roger makes now shapes the fate of the Empire of Man.

Prince](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743435389%22,%22description%22:%22Prince) Roger MacClintock, a pampered imperial heir, is stranded with his Marine bodyguards on the deadly jungle world of Marduk. To reach the only spaceport, they must march across a hostile planet, forging uneasy alliances and fighting for every mile.

Having](https://www.amazon.com/dp/074343580X%22,%22description%22:%22Having) survived their first trek on Marduk, Prince Roger and the battered Bronze Battalion push toward the far side of the world. New enemies, fragile local allies, and brutal terrain test whether the prince has truly become a leader or will get them all killed.

The Posleen invasion of Earth is no longer a future threat, it is landing now. Captain Michael O’Neal and scattered defenders race to turn half-trained troops, desperate engineering projects, and aging veterans into a shield strong enough to keep humanity alive.

Humanity joins a seemingly peaceful Galactic Federation only to learn it has been drafted to fight the ravenous Posleen. As Earth rushes to arm up and deploy troops to alien worlds, soldiers and spooks alike realize their new allies may be as dangerous as the enemy.