Lara King Espionage Thriller Books in Order
Part ofJack Mars Books in OrderSee the Lara King espionage thrillers by Jack Mars in order, with descriptions, series background, and ideas on where to begin this CIA operative’s high‑stakes missions.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Asset One
by Jack Mars
2024
Raised and trained by the CIA, orphan Lara King infiltrates an extremist cell bent on triggering nuclear Armageddon. To stop the doomsday plan, she must navigate double agents, buried secrets, and a past she’s only beginning to question.
Asset Three
by Jack Mars
2024
A high‑level target vanishes along with intelligence pointing to a catastrophic plot. Lara King races across borders, piecing together clues that suggest someone is using her missions to test a much larger scheme.
Asset Two
by Jack Mars
2024
Lara King tracks a new terror network that treats nuclear materials as bargaining chips. Operating under deep cover, she has to keep the weapon out of play while staying ahead of rivals inside her own government.
Asset Eight
by Jack Mars
2025
A deadly alliance between cartels and terrorist financiers emerges along a crucial smuggling route. Lara King goes undercover in the criminal underworld, walking a razor’s edge between earning trust and becoming disposable.
Asset Eleven
by Jack Mars
2025
As rival agencies fight over a captured mastermind, Lara King suspects he’s still directing moves from a cell. She must break through layers of manipulation before he engineers one last devastating strike.
Asset Fifteen
by Jack Mars
2025
A rogue scientist threatens to auction a breakthrough that could upend global power. Lara King must determine whether to capture the technology, destroy it, or turn it against the very players bidding for control.
Asset Five
by Jack Mars
2025
A mysterious cyberattack cripples critical defenses, and all signs point to a mole within the intelligence community. Lara King hunts the traitor, knowing that unmasking them may come at the cost of her own career.
Asset Four
by Jack Mars
2025
Sent into a volatile region, Lara King must infiltrate a circle of power brokers trading in weapons and secrets. One wrong move could tip a fragile peace into open conflict—and expose her true identity.
Asset Fourteen
by Jack Mars
2025
Hidden accounts and shell companies point to a vast slush fund fueling covert wars. Following the money, Lara King dives into the opaque world of offshore finance, where paper trails can be as deadly as bullets.
Asset Nine
by Jack Mars
2025
An attack using a designer virus nearly succeeds, and the culprit vanishes. Lara King must trace the pathogen back through labs, black markets, and compromised officials before the next release hits an even bigger target.
Asset Seven
by Jack Mars
2025
When an ally’s defection threatens to expose covert networks worldwide, Lara King must decide whether to silence an old friend or help them reveal the truth. Either choice will reverberate through the shadow world she inhabits.
Asset Six
by Jack Mars
2025
A stolen sonic device capable of influencing minds is about to debut on the world stage. Lara King races to find its creators and their backers, even as revelations about her own past shake her trust in the agency she serves.
Asset Ten
by Jack Mars
2025
Lara King uncovers a plot to rig international negotiations using hidden leverage on key delegates. To derail it, she has to expose secrets powerful people are willing to kill to keep buried.
Asset Thirteen
by Jack Mars
2025
Lara King is tasked with protecting a whistleblower whose testimony could topple governments. As assassins close in, she balances keeping the witness alive with deciding how much truth the world is ready to hear.
Asset Twelve
by Jack Mars
2025
A mission meant to be simple intelligence‑gathering turns lethal, revealing a clandestine weapons program. Lara King must pivot from observer to saboteur, stopping the project before it leaves the testing ground.
Asset Seventeen
by Jack Mars
2026
In the aftermath of successive crises, Lara King faces a final gauntlet that ties together threads from earlier missions. To end the cycle, she must confront the architects who viewed her as an expendable asset from the start.
Asset Sixteen
by Jack Mars
2026
A picturesque small town becomes ground zero for a lethal new virus. Tracing the outbreak, Lara King discovers a genius‑turned‑madman intent on unleashing a global pandemic—and must stop him before the world realizes what’s coming.
Series background & context
The Lara King series introduces a different kind of protagonist to Jack Mars’s roster: an orphan raised from childhood inside the machinery of intelligence work. Lara is taken in and trained by the CIA, molded into one of its most effective covert assets long before most people finish school. That upbringing leaves her lethal, fiercely capable—and carrying questions about who she really is when the mission ends.
In Asset One, the first book, Lara is thrown into a scenario that captures the stakes of the series. A nuclear cataclysm becomes a bargaining chip in an international terror game, and Lara has to infiltrate an extremist cell bent on triggering Armageddon. She’s operating in a world where the lines between official policy, rogue elements, and private agendas blur constantly, and where a single misread signal could mean the difference between deterrence and disaster.
Subsequent books take her into equally unnerving territory. Threats range from stolen sonic devices designed to manipulate world leaders’ minds to engineered viruses tested in unsuspecting small towns. Each mission forces Lara to navigate not only enemy networks but also factions within her own government that may be more interested in controlling new technologies than in neutralizing them.
Because she has been an asset almost her entire life, Lara moves through the world with a mix of confidence and detachment. She is used to slipping into new identities, building trust quickly, and walking away when the job is done. The series explores what happens when that way of living collides with deeper attachments, old secrets about her training, and moral lines she never expected to cross.
Mars uses Lara’s perspective to lean into the espionage side of his storytelling: dead drops, double agents, backstopped covers, and the complex logistics of international operations. At the same time, the action is never far away; firefights, chases, and last‑second disarms are as common here as in his more overtly military series.
For readers, the Lara King novels offer spy thrillers that feel both modern and just a little unsettling in how they imagine new weapons and tools. If you’re interested in stories about someone shaped by an agency from childhood—and then forced to decide how much of that shaping she’ll accept—the Lara King series is a compelling place to spend time.
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