Joshua Hood Books in Order

If you want his original military thriller series: Clear by Fire → Warning Order
If you want Bourne universe spy action: The Treadstone Resurrection → The Treadstone Exile → The Treadstone Transgression → The Treadstone Rendition
If you want a new hero and a rescue mission: The Guardian
If you want a standalone outside espionage: Burn Out

Joshua Hood grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in a house where books and art mattered. He has said some of his earliest reading memories come from listening to his father read The Hobbit. He also spent every other summer on the West Coast, where his father's family gave him a wider sense of the world beyond home.

He always wanted to write.

At the University of Memphis, writing was the part that came naturally. He graduated in 2003 with an English degree focused on technical writing, then chose a very different path and joined the Army. Hood spent five years in the 82nd Airborne Division, served in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, later served in Afghanistan with the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and was decorated for valor during Operation Furious Pursuit.

The seed of his fiction was planted overseas.

While deployed, Hood started thinking about what would happen to a soldier with a rare skill set who suddenly found himself cut loose by the system he served. That idea eventually became Clear by Fire, his debut novel. He has also talked about how seeing a former squad leader publish a book gave him the final push to stop putting writing off and actually do it.

Breaking in was not quick. He went through rejections, worked with an agent who told him he had a story to tell but still needed to learn the craft, and kept going. That steady, workmanlike attitude still feels central to his image as a writer. He often talks about writing less like a glamorous art form and more like a trade, something you show up for, build carefully, and try to do honestly.

That background shapes the books.

Readers usually come to Hood for the things you can feel on the page: the weight of gear, the logic of tactics, the exhaustion after violence, and the way loyalty can get messy under pressure. In Clear by Fire and Warning Order, he follows Mason Kane through black ops missions, political conspiracies, and the moral gray zones of the war on terror. In the Treadstone novels, beginning with The Treadstone Resurrection, he moves into a bigger spy-thriller arena, using Adam Hayes to explore what happens when a man trained for covert violence tries to build a normal life and gets dragged back in.

He has not stayed in one lane, either. The Guardian introduces Travis Lane, a former Air Force pararescueman pulled into a rescue mission in the Congo, while Burn Out shifts to California wildfire country and follows smokejumper Jake Slade into a very different kind of danger. The settings change, but the appeal is similar: capable people, hard choices, and action scenes that feel grounded instead of floaty.

After the Army, Hood worked with a SWAT team in the Memphis area before moving into full-time writing. Recent author bios place him in Collierville, Tennessee, with his wife and two children. That mix of soldier, officer, craftsman, and family man helps explain why his books tend to balance speed with duty, and why even at their loudest they keep circling back to conscience.