John Ringo Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.