King & Slater Books in Order
Part ofMatt Rogers Books in OrderExplore the King & Slater series by Matt Rogers in order, with book lists, plot summaries, character guides, and tips on how their joint adventures link to the wider thriller universe.
Last updated: January 16, 2026
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Publication Order
13 books
Heroes
by Matt Rogers
2022
In self imposed exile after declaring war on the CIA director, Will Slater waits for the first strike. When Jack Raynor finally moves, whispers about a puppet master called the Golden One surface, forcing Slater to drag Jason King back into one last, all or nothing fight.
Daggers
by Matt Rogers
2022
After a rare year of peace, a mysterious assassin begins killing people close to Jason King and Will Slater in the small town of Millinocket. Forced to abandon any illusion of normal life, the two men confront an enemy who makes them question how they can ever stand down.
Tyrants
by Matt Rogers
2021
Working through a revenge list tied to a gangster’s blackmail trove, Will Slater tracks an ex televangelist who flees to Durango, Mexico. Knowing cartel muscle waits across the border, Slater pulls in Jason King, and together they carve a bloody path toward a fleeing tyrant.
Monsters
by Matt Rogers
2021
Silicon Valley darling Heidi Waters claims her company has a neurochemical cure for caffeine anxiety, but the miracle drug is a sham. When Alexis follows a tip about the fraud, King and Slater join her, uncovering a web of lies that runs from sleek boardrooms to brutal fight gyms.
Fathers
by Matt Rogers
2021
On the day Jason King is about to become a father, Will Slater intervenes when a twelve year old boy is threatened on a Boston street corner. His violent response ignites a turf war that drags King out of the hospital and forces both men to rethink what family really means.
Sharks
by Matt Rogers
2020
Hunting the remnants of a trafficking ring, King and Slater follow dirty money to Freeport in the Bahamas. There they clash with Dylan Walcott, a predatory financier who preys on hurricane survivors, and must decide how far they will go to stop a man who feeds on desperation.
Messiahs
by Matt Rogers
2020
An unsettling act in Nassau leads King and Slater to rural Wyoming, where a commune called Mother Libertas worships a charismatic leader and a mind bending drug known as Bodhi. To dismantle the cult, they and their partners must descend into a world that threatens their sanity.
Hunters
by Matt Rogers
2020
After a compromised asset nearly seizes the US presidency, the shadow world decides King and Slater have to be made examples. Black ops killers with similar training are unleashed across America, turning the country into a hunting ground where the fugitives become the hunted.
Ghosts
by Matt Rogers
2020
Operating as outlaw vigilantes in Las Vegas, King and Slater take a case for a woman facing a decade in prison for a crime she did not commit. What starts as a Chinatown club infiltration spirals into open war with crooked judges, retired cops and a ruthless district attorney.
Weapons
by Matt Rogers
2019
Trying to build new lives in New York, Jason King and Will Slater reunite and start taking aim at the city’s worst predators. Their vigilante campaign soon collides with old government contacts, forcing them to decide whether they are private crusaders or weapons on a leash.
Outlaws
by Matt Rogers
2019
Burned out by endless covert missions, Will Slater considers walking away from government service. His desire to leave collides with the fact that men like him are not allowed to retire, and soon he and Jason King are forced to choose between obedience and open rebellion.
Contracts
by Matt Rogers
2019
Their first official job as a team sends King and Slater to Nepal to find a missing black ops official’s teenage daughter on the trail to Everest. What looks like a simple kidnap case turns into a high altitude nightmare as enemies and thin air grind their strength away.
Ciphers
by Matt Rogers
2019
A devastating cyberattack knocks out New York City’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity, water or order. Tracing the malicious code to Manhattan, King and Slater race through a darkened city to restore the lights before panic and old grudges tear it apart.
Series background & context
The King & Slater books pick up after years of chaos in Jason King’s life and introduce his unlikely counterpart, Will Slater. Both men are former black ops weapons who have seen too much, done too much and owe too little to the agencies that built them. Together they take all that experience off the books.
At the start of the series, in Weapons, they reunite in New York City and begin a vigilante campaign against the worst kind of predators hiding in plain sight. They go after traffickers, fixers and corrupt officials, using the same skills that once served secret agendas. It is violent, messy work, but for the two of them it feels closer to honest than anything they have done under official orders.
Very quickly, nothing stays simple. In Contracts, a supposedly contained kidnapping rescue in the high Himalayas becomes a brutal fight for survival on thin air. Ciphers drags them into a cyberattack that shuts down New York’s power grid and turns a modern city into a powder keg. These are still contract jobs on paper, but every one pulls on threads that prove to be tangled into something larger.
The middle stretch of the series pushes King and Slater further out onto the edge. They take on corrupt judges and bent cops in Las Vegas, hunt financial sharks in the Bahamas and descend into the heart of a cult fuelling its followers with a mind warping drug in rural Wyoming. Books like Ghosts, Sharks, Messiahs and Hunters show them shifting from hired problem solvers into figures that whole criminal networks fear.
Along the way their world fills with people they care about. Partners, children, friends and old comrades orbit the two men, turning each operation into something more than a faceless mission. That family element comes to the front in Fathers, Tyrants and Monsters, where old sins collide with new responsibilities and the cost of violence lands uncomfortably close to home.
The later novels escalate toward an endgame. Enemies in government, in intelligence circles and in boardrooms converge, all linked to a shadowy figure known only as the Golden One. By Daggers and Heroes, King and Slater are fighting not just for their own survival, but for the chance to finally cut the strings that have been on them since their earliest days in the field.
If you want a long running arc that balances relentless action with loyalty, family, revenge and the question of whether two career killers can ever really change, King & Slater is where the entire universe comes together.
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