John Wells Books in Order

A drug bust staged at a Dallas basketball arena turns into a massacre, igniting outrage across the country. As Wells follows a lead to Colombia, he uncovers a wider Russian driven scheme using terror attacks, sleeper cells, and political manipulation to tilt an American presidential race.

Evidence suggests a senior CIA officer is secretly feeding information to ISIS. To unmask the traitor, Wells once again adopts his old jihadist cover, arranging to be thrown into a brutal Bulgarian prison where befriending a key Islamic State commander may be his only chance.

After barely preventing war with Iran, Wells goes after the financier who orchestrated the crisis. His personal vendetta pulls him into a deadly contest involving Wall Street money, Russian and Chinese interests, and a fragile CIA outpost in Afghanistan that may already be compromised.

Picking up after The Counterfeit Agent, Wells, Ellis Shafer, and Senator Vinny Duto have less than two weeks to prove that a supposed Iranian attack was staged. With no hard evidence and powerful people invested in war, they scramble to stop the United States from striking Iran.

A shadowy source in Istanbul claims Iran is targeting a CIA station chief and planning to ship radioactive material toward the United States. When the first warning comes true, Wells is pulled into a global chase to learn whether the evidence pointing to Tehran has been faked.

Four American aid workers vanish after leaving a Somali refugee camp in Kenya for a weekend drive. Asked as a personal favor to help, Wells heads to East Africa, where tangled motives, clan politics, and Washington pressure complicate a race to bring the hostages home alive.

Years after a Jordanian double agent blew up CIA officers at the Kabul station, sources in Afghanistan are still dying. Sent back to his old battleground, Wells must discover whether the Taliban have penetrated the agency itself, even as suspicion turns inward.

Saudi Arabia is shaken by a string of attacks that threaten King Abdullah’s hold on power. With the kingdom unsure whom to trust, Wells is asked to unravel a plot that reaches beyond Riyadh toward rivals hoping to ignite a wider war between America and the Islamic world.

Retired members of a secret interrogation team are being murdered one by one, and their deaths point back to a covert prison in Poland known as the Midnight House. Wells digs into what happened there, balancing loyalty to colleagues against the truth about torture and revenge.

Burned out from years undercover, Wells is trying to build a quieter life with CIA officer Jennifer Exley when enemies target them in Washington traffic. At the same time jihadists steal nuclear material, drawing Wells into a hunt to stop a catastrophic strike on American soil.

Back from his first mission, Wells is restless and half broken when signs emerge that the Taliban are being armed by a mysterious foreign power. Sent back into Afghanistan, he uncovers a web that links North Korea, China, and a mole inside the CIA.

John Wells is the only American agent to infiltrate al Qaeda, living for years as a jihadi in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Returning to the United States after 9/11, he must prove his loyalty to a wary CIA while racing to stop a devastating new attack.