Mark Dawson Books in Order

Rock band Dystopia heads to America after European success, but jealousy, affairs, and financial ambition undermine the tour. When a member dies in an apparent accident, the group's private conflicts begin revealing a more sinister story.

Celebrity lawyer Daniel Tate enjoys wealth, a glamorous girlfriend, and a high-profile career until his personal and professional worlds unravel. Betrayal, unwanted press attention, and a client's mounting legal troubles leave him struggling to regain control.

Government assassin John Milton wants to leave a decade of killing behind and disappears into London's East End. Helping a troubled family offers a chance at redemption, but his former employers will not simply let him go.

In postwar London, the Costello family exploits a thriving black market under ruthless matriarch Violet's leadership. War hero Edward Fabian enters their criminal world, concealing a dangerous identity that could overturn the family's carefully built power.

Blackmailed into tracking down his predecessor in Group Fifteen, John Milton confronts an operative as dangerous as himself. British and Russian interests converge on the hunt, forcing him to navigate betrayal while protecting an old friend.

Hiding in Ciudad Juárez, John Milton becomes involved with a journalist investigating cartels and a girl who knows too much. Their struggle pulls him into a violent border conflict and the sights of a feared cartel killer.

John Milton goes to Louisiana to repay a debt to a woman rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward. Protecting her charity from a ruthless property magnate draws him into a conflict complicated by a dangerous former intelligence operative.

Still serving Group Fifteen, John Milton travels to southern Italy to investigate a fellow operative's murder. The trail leads through the Camorra to an assassin known as Tarantula, forcing Milton to confront a deadly criminal network.

Working anonymously as a San Francisco taxi driver, John Milton hopes he can finally build a future. A passenger disappears after a party, and two bodies turn the police investigation toward him, threatening his fragile refuge.

A confrontation with a sheriff leaves John Milton injured and framed in a remote Michigan town. Fleeing into the Porcupine Mountains without weapons, he must evade a pursuing posse while uncovering the corruption behind his predicament.

With two names remaining on her revenge list, Beatrix Rose finds that her enemies are now hunting her. She and her daughter face a powerful private army as their pursuit crosses North Africa, New York, and North Carolina.

Beatrix Rose tracks her next revenge target, Bryan Duffy, to Iraq, where mercenaries surround him. Reaching the man she blames for her family's destruction means entering a dangerous operation with few clear routes to safety.

John Milton seeks peace in the Australian outback, but escaped former Mossad assassin Avi Bachman wants revenge for his wife's death. Their collision sends Milton across several countries as he tries to survive an old enemy's pursuit.

Betrayed by her covert unit, Beatrix Rose resurfaces years later with a list of those responsible for destroying her family. Her next target is a mercenary held by Somali terrorists, making revenge a dangerous infiltration mission.

After a suicide bombing destroys a London Underground carriage, Group Fifteen leader Michael Pope follows the attack's money trail. Stopping those responsible requires an unconventional operative, bringing the young and specially trained Isabella Rose into the investigation.

Former government assassin Beatrix Rose finds work in Hong Kong after her husband is murdered and her daughter abducted. A dispute with ruthless employer Mr. Ying draws her through shifting alliances in this collection of three connected novellas.

Abducted Isabella Rose ends up in Raqqa after ISIS seizes her captors, leaving her dependent on Michael Pope's help. Threats against Pope's own family complicate his dangerous journey toward the Turkish-Syrian border to find her.

A young refugee asks John Milton to find his sister after human traffickers take her. Following the route from Libya through Italy and France, Milton confronts smugglers and corrupt enforcers profiting from vulnerable people seeking safety.

Living quietly in London, John Milton promises to help Eddie Fabian seek justice for childhood abuse. When Eddie dies suspiciously, Milton investigates a network of cover-ups and powerful people determined to keep the past concealed.

Sent to Venezuela to locate a missing geneticist, assassin Beatrix Rose teams up with special-forces soldier John Milton. Their mission uncovers a secret with personal consequences for Beatrix in this short story linking the two characters.

They call him Scorpion, a legendary contract killer hired to silence an investigative journalist in London. When John Milton moves to protect her, the assassin finds his perfect record threatened in a short, relentless clash between hunters.

Isabella Rose and Michael Pope hide in India while their former employers hunt them. An informer's clues about Pope's missing family lead them from Mumbai to Shanghai, offering a chance to strike back at their pursuers.

Seeking quiet in off-season Coney Island, John Milton intervenes when a local boy witnesses a murder. Protecting the witness leads him into a struggle with a drug kingpin and corrupt police from a precinct called the Alamo.

John Milton wakes in a Manila hotel with no memory of the previous night and a murdered woman nearby. Arrested and imprisoned, he must reconstruct events and expose the people behind his predicament before they silence him.

In Rio de Janeiro, John Milton fills in as a bodyguard for an old army friend. An ambush leaves a judge's daughter kidnapped, turning a routine favor into a search through organized crime and political corruption.

Before leaving Group Fifteen, John Milton joins Michael Pope in investigating a Russian defector's murder in England. Their search leads to Moscow's sleeper-agent directorate, where double-crosses and Milton's worsening alcoholism threaten a mission without backup.

A failed operation against a Mexican cartel leaves Isabella Rose imprisoned in Ciudad Juárez. British and American agents race to reach her, while the shadowy Prometheus organization threatens both Isabella and her mentor Michael Pope.

John Milton returns to London to watch promising boxer Elijah Warriner fight before Christmas. Elijah's rising profile attracts former associates with grudges, forcing Milton to protect the young man and his mother from renewed gang violence.

John Milton tries to help a woman escape a crime family's influence and becomes entangled in a feud with a Mexican cartel. Double-crossed and pursued, he must protect innocent people while navigating Las Vegas's shifting criminal loyalties.

Searching for her abducted daughter, Beatrix Rose meets Vietnam deserter Danny Nakamura in Hong Kong. Danny has discovered a daughter of his own, but CIA enemies obstruct his return to America, making mutual help essential.

In Kansas City seeking help with his own dangerous predicament, John Milton intervenes in a suspicious parking-lot confrontation. His decision draws the attention of money-laundering criminals, complicating an effort to escape enemies already pursuing him.

Seeking a new identity, John Milton travels to Bali to call in a friend's favor. Meeting Sakura Nishimoto brings police attention and Japanese yakuza threats, forcing him to choose how far he will go to protect her.

Four bodies at a remote farmhouse turn a Christmas Eve investigation into a disputed murder case. Private investigator Atticus Priest challenges DCI Mackenzie Jones's evidence while their shared history complicates efforts to uncover what happened.

A conspiracy within Group Fifteen threatens John Milton's remaining friends and pulls him back into British intelligence's shadows. Pursuing deception across Europe and South America, he confronts former colleagues and a mysterious figure at the plot's center.

After a Berlin extraction ends in a deadly Stasi ambush, intelligence officer Harry Mackintosh seeks revenge. Assigned bank robber Jimmy Walker as his only help, he plans a risky operation complicated by gold hidden in a secret vault.

A human bone on Salisbury Plain leads Mackenzie Jones and Atticus Priest to unexplained burials in an abandoned village. Meanwhile, a missing daughter's case draws Atticus toward drug gangs and witnesses hiding parts of the truth.

Captured by Group Fifteen, John Milton is offered freedom in exchange for protecting billionaire fixer Tristan Huxley during a weapons deal. The assignment raises doubts about his old friend's activities and whether the agency will honor its bargain.

An old friend's request to investigate a missing journalist takes John Milton to Scotland's remote Flannan Isles. Mercenaries and covert operatives complicate the search, forcing him to uncover a conspiracy while surviving violence in an isolated setting.

Hiding in rural France, Isabella Rose longs for ordinary life while Michael Pope protects his family. Her unusual genetic abilities attract powerful pursuers, drawing them into another violent chase from Montpellier to Malta as their refuge collapses.

Human trafficker Tristan Huxley disappears while being transported from prison to hospital, putting those who betrayed him at risk. John Milton must confront his former friend again before Huxley's plans for revenge reach the other people targeted.

In Ukraine in 1986, a scientist prepares to defect with evidence of corruption and negligence in the Soviet nuclear industry. Two British agents undertake his extraction, but an unexpected event transforms their mission into something far more dangerous.

Living quietly in Marrakech, contract killer Isabella Rose helps an orphanage threatened by a corrupt general who wants its land. After violence destroys its security, she must choose between escaping danger and fighting for the children’s future.