Joseph Flynn Books in Order

Former undercover narc Doc Kildare has lost an eye, his job, and his marriage, then goes after a share of seized drug money. Hitmen, old Chicago enemies, and a missing boy make his rough retirement even rougher.

John Fortunato, a Vietnam tunnel rat, rebuilt the tunnels of Cu Chi beneath his Illinois hometown and hoped to leave war behind. Then a brutal killing and a labor battle turn Elk River into a new battlefield.

Vietnam veteran J.D. Cade thought he was done killing until a blackmailer forces him toward one last job. To save his son, he must stop a conspiracy and an assassination that could rewrite American politics.

A stolen typewriter once owned by Ben Hecht helps newspaperman Dan Cameron write a bestseller, then drags him into trouble. When escaped convicts take the machine and begin copying crimes from his novel, Dan has to chase them down.

Nearly retired LAPD sergeant Rick Valkonen expects an easy last assignment, watching the new chief's teenage twins. When one of them slips away and a suspended Santa Monica detective enters the picture, the quiet sendoff vanishes.

When his wife becomes president, ex Chicago cop Jim McGill turns into the first private eye to live in the White House. His opening case mixes a stalker in the press corps with trouble that could wound a new administration.

Former LAPD cop Ron Ketchum takes over as police chief in Goldstrike and finds a murdered minister nailed to a tree. A public curse, a media circus, and a rogue mountain lion turn the case into chaos.

This collection gathers twelve short pieces that move between suspense, humor, romance, and trouble. The stories are compact, sharp, and built to land fast.

Before escorting the president to a royal dinner in London, Jim McGill takes a case in Paris. A former Chicago cop says he killed a French sports hero while trying to save a missing blonde woman, and McGill has to find her fast.

Five rich young artists invent a fake Chicago gang to make their murals impossible to ignore. Then real gangs notice, drugs go missing, and a very smart cop starts hunting the people behind the myth.

A killer is hunting Washington lobbyists and leaving a strange calling card behind. Jim McGill is pulled in to protect a man who thinks he is next, while family illness and White House turmoil raise the pressure.

A dirty bomb, a drained corpse, and competing federal egos land at Ron Ketchum's feet in Goldstrike. As he hunts both a terrorist and a killer, he has to consider suspects uncomfortably close to home.

Two boys find a skeleton in the dry bed of Lake Travis, and John Tall Wolf is called in because one of the old dead cops was Native. The case pits him against the FBI and a mystery buried for twenty five years.

With his wife and son both near death, Jim McGill faces a choice that could save them or lose them. At the same time, escaped covert operatives and a filthy presidential race drive the series into bigger territory.

The crisis around Jim McGill, Patti Grant, and their family rolls straight toward election day. Old enemies resurface, violence closes in, and Flynn brings a long political story toward its hardest reckoning.

After Patricia Grant wins reelection by a single electoral vote, her second inauguration draws fears of a missile attack. McGill and his allies have to stop an assassination plot without letting terror shut the ceremony down.

A bank robbery in New Orleans, staged to look like a Native American war party, pulls John Tall Wolf into a messy federal case. He has to sort out whether the costumes are a taunt, a cover, or part of something much bigger.

A vanished Super Chief locomotive sends John Tall Wolf after suspects ranging from Native activists to Silicon Valley billionaires. The trail leads back to the reservation where he was born, and to family trouble he never wanted again.

A whistleblower's terrified wife hires Jim McGill just as a school coach unleashes a mass shooting that leaves the man dead. McGill digs into Pentagon corruption while others try to turn the killing into a convenient slogan.

Racing through a Sierra Nevada blizzard, Ron Ketchum arrives too late to save Clay Steadman. With a stake through the victim's heart, an earthquake shaking Goldstrike, and a second body turning up, Ron has a nasty case on his hands.

Rookie private eye Zeke Edison, a former Chicago Bears linebacker, takes a case from a young woman who says a mob tied lawyer killed her aunt. Then she adds the part that really tests him, she believes she was that aunt in a previous life.

With President Patricia Grant facing impeachment, Jim McGill is sent to Los Angeles to investigate stolen frozen embryos. The case pulls in John Tall Wolf, Washington enemies, and a growing threat to McGill's own life.

John Tall Wolf heads to the Cascades to investigate a suspected marijuana operation on a billionaire's land. The job soon tangles with Marlene Flower Moon's political games and questions of identity, money, and power.

The Secret Service creates child lookalikes to protect the McGill family, and the plan backfires when one decoy is kidnapped. Jim McGill goes all in to bring her home before Caitie blames herself forever.

President Jean Morrissey wants John Tall Wolf in the Cabinet, but he would rather solve a case. A stolen laptop containing crucial medical research gives him three days to act, while old family trouble closes in.

As Patricia Grant's second term winds down, Jim McGill faces killers, rising tension with China, and the question of who will take the White House next. A Georgetown ambush pushes his expanded detective team straight into the fire.

After a dying man asks him to find a missing sister, Jim McGill follows the trail into the world of a prickly performance artist. Meanwhile his Texas partners chase a very different prize, John Wayne's last movie hat.

John Tall Wolf travels to Paris with his wife and Alan White River to recover sacred Native artifacts before they are sold. When the straight path fails, he has to consider stealing them back.

A disputed lottery jackpot pulls Jim McGill into a high stakes money fight just as a provocative newswoman is nearly gunned down outside his office. The two cases look separate, then start folding into each other.

Now serving in a special Army unit, Dan McGill, under the name Charlie Hart, moves toward combat in southern France. The war gives him cover, but it also sharpens every danger around his false identity and the mob money behind him.

With Germany beaten, Charlie Hart is sent to hunt a Dachau commandant fleeing across Europe. After that, Dan McGill still has to become himself again and face the bloody question of stolen mob money.

In 1941 Chicago, honest cop Dan McGill refuses mob money, strikes back, and walks away with three million dollars. To stay alive, he vanishes into the Army under another man's name as America heads into war.

Young senator A.B. Lincoln arrives in Washington as the deciding vote in a split Senate, and that makes him dangerous to the wrong people. Jim McGill must protect him while also hunting the man who may have kidnapped his daughter's brilliant boyfriend.

When U.S. intelligence says China wants Jim McGill dead for spoiling a kidnapping plot, hiding is not his style. His answer is pure McGill, turn the tables by entering the presidential race.

A dream about honoring Alan White River with a giant mountain monument sounds wild enough, until billionaires start copying the idea. John Tall Wolf ends up dealing with vanity, murder, and a family legacy that refuses to rest.

Ongoing threats to his life push Jim McGill toward a future he never expected, a presidential campaign of his own. With a fierce running mate and enemies already taking aim, even reaching election day looks hard.