Mac Dekker Books in Order

The Mac Dekker novels take Christopher Reich’s espionage interests into more personal, reflective territory. Mac Dekker is a former CIA operator who has paid a steep price for his time in the shadows. By the time readers meet him in Matterhorn, he is living under the name Robbie Steinhardt in a small Swiss alpine village, tending cattle and deliberately keeping his past at arm’s length.

That quiet life shatters when he learns that his adult son, Will, has died in an apparent climbing accident on the Matterhorn. Local news reports present it as a tragic fall, but details do not add up. When Mac digs deeper, he discovers that Will was not an ordinary tourist but a covert CIA officer carrying a flash drive tied to a Russian operation code named Hercules. The mission involved a new chemical weapon that could be used for a mass casualty attack.

Forced out of hiding, Mac reconnects with scattered contacts inside the agency and reunites with family he has tried to protect by staying away. As he searches for the truth behind Will’s death, he moves between the serenity of the mountains and the more claustrophobic world of embassies, safe houses, and intelligence briefings. The question of who to trust is constant, especially when old rivalries and betrayals resurface.

The second book, The Tourists, finds Mac trying again to claim a piece of normal life. He travels to Paris to propose to Ava Attal, a former Mossad operative and a woman who knows exactly who he is and what he has done. Before he can ask the question, she steps away to take a phone call and never comes back. What should have been a quiet, joyful night turns into a frantic search across the city.

Mac’s hunt leads through grand restaurants, back alleys, and the bright and dark corners of the City of Light. Along the way he runs into conflicting stories from intelligence officers, hired killers, and a powerful prince whose plans point toward a large scale act of terror. As in Matterhorn, family and loyalty sit alongside the mechanics of spy craft. Mac has to decide whether Ava is a victim, an agent running her own mission, or both.

Compared with the flashier Simon Riske books, the Mac Dekker series has a slightly more haunted tone. The action is still sharp, with chases on ice, tight gunfights, and ticking clocks, but there is also space for an aging operative to think about what his choices have cost him and the people around him. The alpine setting in the first book and the rich detail of Paris in the second give the series a strong sense of place.

Taken together, these novels offer a look at espionage from the far side of a career, where every new mission risks not only lives and cities but also the fragile attempts to build a life beyond the job.