Jude Hardin Books in Order
See books credited to Jude Hardin in order, including collaborations with Lee Goldberg, with short summaries, background, and where-to-start tips.
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Jude Hardin books in publication order
37 books
Pocket-47
by Jude Hardin
2011
Private investigator Nicholas Colt searches for runaway teenager Brittney Ryan, expecting to find her with a forbidden boyfriend. Instead, the case exposes murder and troubling links to the plane crash that killed Colt's family and former rock band.
Crosscut
by Jude Hardin
2012
An old girlfriend draws Nicholas Colt out of retirement to investigate killings and a missing brother in Tennessee. Evidence suggests a white supremacist militia he previously defeated may have returned, while a new atrocity in Florida makes the danger personal.
Rattled
by Jude Hardin
2012
Private investigator Nicholas Colt offers a ride to a hitchhiker whose intentions go far beyond reaching a destination. As the stranger's dangerous purpose emerges, Colt finds himself trapped in an encounter that stakes his survival on a game of chance.
Snuff Tag 9
by Jude Hardin
2012
Nicholas Colt investigates a threatening invitation to play a violent video game, only to discover a billionaire stages it with real people. Abducted and fitted with a lethal device, Colt must survive a hunt through the Okefenokee Swamp.
Blood Tattoo
by Jude Hardin
2013
Nicholas Colt hopes to settle into music teaching and family life, but covert operative Diana Dawkins recruits him for a paid assignment. Together they confront organized conspirators and assassins pursuing a scheme that could endanger millions of people.
Colt
by Jude Hardin
2013
In this prequel, Nicholas Colt searches for a missing client targeted by someone murdering the children of an anonymous sperm donor. With only days to find him, Colt confronts a motorcycle gang, troubled students and a persistent former girlfriend.
Key Death
by Jude Hardin
2013
A terminally ill woman hires Nicholas Colt to locate her biological father, then asks him to investigate after learning the man was murdered. Colt travels to Key West, where a brutal serial killer complicates his attempt to obtain justice.
Racked
by Jude Hardin
2013
Nicholas Colt and Chicago police lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels encounter an armed robbery during a bar visit. A criminal wearing a Bugs Bunny mask holds the bartender at gunpoint, forcing the two investigators to cooperate before the confrontation turns deadly.
Sycamore Bluff
by Jude Hardin
2013
NASA's isolated Indiana experiment tests whether hundreds of volunteers can govern themselves as if living on another planet. When the project goes wrong, undercover operatives Diana Dawkins and Nicholas Colt investigate and face the challenge of escaping with their findings.
Annex 1/ Fugitive
by Jude Hardin
2014
Framed for a crime and hunted by his own covert agency, Nicholas Colt must enter Annex 1, a guarded vault beneath the Capitol. Documents concerning Jack Reacher may determine whether Colt can protect his family and expose a threat to the country.
Fused
by Jude Hardin
2014
This volume combines the first two iSEAL installments, following Nathan Brennan after a military brain-interface trial destroys his memory. Pursued by police, the CIA and a criminal mastermind, he must use his enhanced abilities while searching for answers and Nika Dunning.
iSEAL
by Jude Hardin
2014
Nathan Brennan volunteers for a brain-computer implant trial hoping to regain his place in Special Forces training. Within a day he has lost his memories and become a fugitive, pursued by authorities and a criminal mastermind seeking the technology.
iSEAL 2
by Jude Hardin
2014
An enhanced soldier calling himself Mike possesses extraordinary abilities from the MK-2 brain interface but cannot remember his true identity. When those seeking the implant take Nika Dunning, he must use his technological advantages to search for her.
Lady 52
by Jude Hardin
2014
Nicholas Colt investigates a homeless woman's remains discovered near Chicago decades after she vanished. A physician's violent murder draws Jacqueline Daniels into a case that converges with Colt's inquiry, confronting both investigators with a dangerous shared mystery.
Hostage
by Jude Hardin
2015
Assassin Caminha Sozinho faces death unless he succeeds in killing Jack Reacher after an earlier failure. When a police officer disappears in a Colorado town, her connection to Reacher becomes the basis for a carefully arranged trap.
The Blood Notebooks
by Jude Hardin
2015
Nicholas Colt lives under a changed name and appearance in Florida's Amberjack Heights, posing as a retired police officer and occasional investigator. His apparently peaceful life in the beach community is disrupted when residents begin disappearing.
A Thin Ribbon of Smoke
by Jude Hardin
2016
Former homicide detective Kari Phillips believes Witness Protection has secured her new life, but an unexplained black SUV suggests otherwise. Unaware that five assassins are competing for a cash prize to kill her, she investigates while a new romance deepens.
Dead Ringer
by Jude Hardin
2016
Retired Navy master-at-arms Rock Wahlman discovers he is a clone of Jack Reacher, created through a secret human experiment. When people determined to erase the evidence target him, he goes on the run while trying to uncover the truth.
The Girl From the Wrong Side of Cordial
by Jude Hardin
2016
Covert operative Diana Dawkins travels to Cordial, Kentucky, to identify a murder victim thought to be Jack Reacher. Recognizing that the dead man is someone else, she investigates his identity, the killing and a suspect's guarded account of events.
Kill Shot
by Jude Hardin
2017
A newly hired team of killers pursues Rock Wahlman, the surviving clone of Jack Reacher. As their campaign puts more civilians in danger, Rock must protect his girlfriend Kasey and her family while resisting the forces hunting him.
Moving Target
by Jude Hardin
2017
Still fleeing those who want to erase the cloning experiment that created him, Rock Wahlman travels west and encounters a waitress named Kasey. A new assassin tracks him as their developing relationship and his temporary stops create fresh vulnerabilities.
No Escape
by Jude Hardin
2017
Rock Wahlman's pursuers threaten Kasey, the waitress who knows his true origin as a Reacher clone. Her daughter also faces danger, leaving Rock struggling to keep them safe while a covert military operation continues sending killers after him.
357 Sunset
by Jude Hardin
2018
Stopping to repair his SUV, Rock Wahlman interferes with a robbery and earns the thieves' hostility. Meanwhile, a private investigator pressures Kasey to betray him, and a hacker complicates his search for the officials ordering attempts on his life.
End Game
by Jude Hardin
2018
Rock Wahlman uncovers secrets behind the Army's latest medical research project while trying to escape the people who want him dead. As a surviving clone of Jack Reacher, he must turn those discoveries into a chance to end his pursuit.
Redline
by Jude Hardin
2018
Rock Wahlman's investigation into the officials pursuing him leads toward a secret military base and another research project. Closing in on the source of the conspiracy brings new information about his origins, along with the danger of confronting his hunters directly.
Rocked
by Jude Hardin
2018
A former Navy SEAL becomes a cage-fighting fugitive after being wrongly accused in his identical twin's murder. With authorities closing in, he must discover who killed his brother and uncover the truth that could clear his own name.
Gone
by Jude Hardin
2019
In 2101, Rock Wahlman begins a day that appears to involve familiar troubles, including a client accused of murder. Unexpected challenges soon force choices unlike anything he has faced before, threatening to transform his life and sense of what is possible.
Ricochet
by Jude Hardin
2019
Rock Wahlman has settled into family life and private investigation after escaping the threats surrounding his creation as a Reacher clone. Turning down a celebrity lookalike's stalking complaint proves consequential when she is killed and the real star arrives nearby.
Timestream 1
by Jude Hardin
2019
Rock Wahlman travels back in time to protect Jack Reacher from criminals seeking to rewrite history for profit. Waking from a coma in Germany without his memories, he faces a mission whose failure could erase his own existence as Reacher's clone.
Drifter
by Jude Hardin
2020
Jake Ruger wakes with no memory in an Arizona mining town in 1882, yet recognizes technologies that do not exist there. What initially seems like an elaborate reenactment becomes dangerous when the bullets prove real.
The Reacher Code
by Jude Hardin
2020
Time-traveling operative Rock Wahlman protects Jack Reacher from criminals trying to reshape history for profit. When the group targets a vulnerable moment in 1990 with a new weapon, Wahlman's mission becomes a race to prevent Reacher's murder.
Timestream 3
by Jude Hardin
2020
Rock Wahlman travels to 1994 to stop criminals from destroying the blood sample that created him as Jack Reacher’s genetic duplicate. His hopes of retiring with his family collide with his secret agency’s plans for him.
Velocity
by Jude Hardin
2020
The Circle sends Nicholas Colt to a Great Plains farming community to monitor Jack Reacher and await instructions. Secret activity in the area forces Colt to investigate, with the possibility of a major disaster hanging over the assignment.
Au Revoir from a Bridge to Nowhere
by Jude Hardin
2022
Grieving teenager Garrett becomes trapped in the cave he once shared with his dead friend, then emerges more than a century in the past. Forced into military service, he searches for a way to send a warning that might save her.
A Single Red Alibi
by Jude Hardin
2023
Future operative Stetson Granite poses as a private investigator while seeking his stranded family. Genetically altered former SEAL Nikolina Radko joins his agency, where routine work changes abruptly when a woman facing possible murder charges asks for help.
Lawless
by Jude Hardin
2023
Stranded in the Old West, Jake Ruger begins recovering memories that could help him return to his own time. A vicious crime interrupts those hopes, compelling him to pursue the men responsible and seek justice.
The Cold Gray Adiós
by Jude Hardin
2023
Former SEAL Nikolina Radko returns home after a relative disappears and joins investigator Stetson Granite, a genetic duplicate of Reacher. Their separate secrets converge in an effort to stop a rogue genetic engineer from irreversibly changing human history.
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