Jonathan Quinn Books in Order
Part ofBrett Battles Books in OrderSee the Jonathan Quinn books in order by Brett Battles, with quick summaries, series background, and guidance on where to start this long-running thriller series.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
The Cleaner
by Brett Battles
2007
Jonathan Quinn makes bodies and evidence disappear for a living, until a routine assignment turns into a trap. Hunted across continents and forced to trust a woman from his past, he uncovers a conspiracy far bigger than one cleanup job.
The Deceived
by Brett Battles
2008
Quinn is supposed to erase the traces of a dead former CIA friend, but the job is far too personal to leave alone. Following the trail from Washington to Singapore, he hunts for the truth behind a disappearance and a political conspiracy.
Shadow of Betrayal
by Brett Battles
2009
A tense exchange in rural Ireland erupts into murder, leaving Quinn with bodies to dispose of and one crucial clue. What follows is a fast-moving chase through betrayal, hidden agendas, and a mystery that will not stay contained.
Becoming Quinn
by Brett Battles
2011
Before he was Jonathan Quinn, he was Jake Oliver, a young Phoenix cop who asked the wrong questions. A suspicious death in a burning barn sets him on the path toward the shadow career that will define the rest of his life.
Just Another Job
by Brett Battles
2011
This short early Quinn story shows the cleaner before he became fully settled in the job. A mission has already gone wrong, and Quinn is left dealing with the awkward fact that the man he's meant to clean up is not dead yet.
Off The Clock
by Brett Battles
2011
Even when Quinn is supposed to be off duty, he does not ignore people who hurt his friends. This short story is a compact reminder that crossing someone in his circle is a very bad idea.
The Silenced
by Brett Battles
2011
Quinn is hired to recover a body hidden for twenty-five years inside a London building headed for demolition. The search drags him, Orlando, and Nate into a sprawling conspiracy and makes Quinn himself one of the loose ends.
The Collected
by Brett Battles
2012
With Quinn's future uncertain, Nate has been keeping the business running, until a job turns out to be a trap. When Nate vanishes, Quinn and Orlando go after him and discover a scheme even uglier than they expected.
The Destroyed
by Brett Battles
2012
A woman everyone believed dead appears on security footage in Tanzania, and Quinn is one of the few people who might know why. Her return threatens old secrets and forces him back into a past others would kill to keep buried.
The Enraged
by Brett Battles
2013
A disastrous rescue leaves Quinn certain that someone close to the operation chose self-preservation over innocent lives. He goes hunting for the people responsible, and this time the mission is driven by anger as much as duty.
Lesson Plan
by Brett Battles
2014
Young Quinn knows every job with Durrie is supposed to teach him something, even when the lesson could get him killed. The bright spot this time is the girl pointing a gun at his forehead.
The Discarded
by Brett Battles
2014
When Orlando's retired mentor Abraham asks for help with a job that has haunted him for years, Quinn and Orlando listen. Searching for a long-lost package draws them into an old mystery others still want badly enough to kill for.
Night Work
by Brett Battles
2015
Quinn and his team think they are finished for the night after wrapping one cleanup job in New York. Then a last-minute call sends them after another corpse, and this time other people are already coming for it.
The Buried
by Brett Battles
2015
What starts as an ordinary body-removal job changes when Quinn and Nate discover a living asset tied to a dark secret. With their client gone and several forces closing in, they have to run first and figure out the truth later.
The Unleashed
by Brett Battles
2016
Quinn and Orlando hope a private island getaway will give them rare family time. Instead, revenge arrives with them, turning paradise into another battlefield they may not all escape.
The Aggrieved
by Brett Battles
2017
Someone close to Quinn and Nate has been killed, and the people responsible have made a fatal mistake. Quinn, Nate, and the rest of the team will cross any distance and any border to make them pay.
The Fractured
by Brett Battles
2018
Quinn and Orlando take a new mission that could prevent a mass killing, but it comes with one problem: they need Nate, the one ally who wants nothing to do with them. First they have to find him, and then convince him to return.
The Damaged
by Brett Battles
2019
This earlier Quinn story reaches back to the years when he was still building his name under Durrie. A mission that is supposed to help rehabilitate his mentor instead threatens to wreck Quinn's future and Orlando's life as well.
The Unknown
by Brett Battles
2020
A brilliant scientist vanishes from a train crossing snowy Austria, despite heavy security. Quinn and his team are sent to find him before the knowledge in his head can be taken and used to change the world.
The Vanished
by Brett Battles
2020
Quinn crosses paths again with Mariko Hirahara, a woman whose life was shattered by one of his old jobs. Helping her now means breaking orders, chasing a missing physicist, and risking the career he has left.
The Taken
by Brett Battles
2023
Quinn thought Dmitri Melnikov died in the blast that nearly killed several of his people, but he was wrong. When Melnikov is abducted and intelligence agencies cannot act openly, Quinn takes on a rescue that is both dangerous and personal.
Series background & context
Jonathan Quinn is not the man who carries out the hit. He is the man who comes afterward.
That is the hook of this series, and it is a good one. Quinn is a professional cleaner, a freelance operative whose specialty is making bodies, evidence, and inconvenient traces disappear. It is a job that drops him into the darkest corners of the intelligence world without making him a standard superspy. He is practical, watchful, and usually more interested in getting out alive than in making speeches about justice. That grounded angle is a big part of what makes the books work.
Becoming Quinn fills in the backstory, showing how Jake Oliver, a young Phoenix cop, becomes Jonathan Quinn. From there, The Cleaner launches the main run with Quinn already established in the trade and suddenly caught in a mess far bigger than a routine cleanup. Very quickly the series becomes about more than isolated assignments. The jobs connect. Old loyalties resurface. Secrets that should have stayed buried keep forcing their way back into the light.
Quinn does not work alone for long.
The core cast matters here. Orlando, one of the most important people in Quinn's life, is not just a love interest or sidekick. She is dangerous, capable, and central to the team's survival. Nate begins as Quinn's apprentice and grows into one of the emotional anchors of the series, especially as the books start asking what life in the shadow world costs the people living it. Other allies, mentors, and handlers come and go, but the through-line is this chosen family of professionals who trust one another more than they trust any government or agency.
The settings help keep the books moving. Battles sends Quinn through Washington, London, Singapore, Ireland, Tanzania, Austria, islands, border zones, and all kinds of spaces where official power and unofficial violence overlap. The travel is not there just for glamour. It reinforces the sense that Quinn works in a world with no safe center, where every airport arrival could turn into a betrayal and every client might be lying.
The tone stays tight and efficient. These are thrillers built on competence, improvisation, and damage control. A job goes wrong. A body appears where it should not. A client vanishes. A scientist disappears from a train. A family vacation turns into an ambush. Even when the plots widen into international conspiracies, the engine is often very simple: Quinn has to figure out what happened, who is manipulating whom, and how to keep his people alive.
Readers should expect continuity across the series. You can enjoy individual books on their own, but the emotional payoff grows if you read in order, especially once Nate, Orlando, Durrie, and the rest of Quinn's circle start carrying scars from earlier missions. This is not a puzzle-box series where every book resets the board. It is a long run about a man in a dirty profession trying to draw lines, keep promises, and survive a life that keeps punishing him for caring about anyone at all.
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