Matthew Bracken Books in Order

In this political thriller, a football stadium massacre prompts emergency gun restrictions and suspicion of a Virginia gun club. As authorities pursue an alleged militia connection, questions about the attack expose a conspiracy beneath the official account.

In a fictional America transformed by authoritarian government and conflict in the Southwest, Ranya Bardiwell begins in a secret prison camp. Her search for her son brings her together with his adoptive father and into danger from powerful pursuers.

Former Marine sniper Dan Kilmer lives aboard an inherited schooner, staying outside official scrutiny as new taxes threaten its confiscation. His wandering life takes a dangerous turn when he must secretly return to South Florida for a rescue.

After earthquakes devastate the Tennessee Valley in a future American depression, survivors resist forced relocation to government camps. When foreign troops are brought in to enforce the policy, a small group organizes resistance against the occupiers and their allies.

After global financial collapse, Dan Kilmer trades salvaged diesel fuel from his schooner in Ireland. A retired SAS colonel asks him to transport former commandos toward Morocco for a mission to rescue kidnapped boarding-school girls.

Essays and short fiction from 2010 through 2019 explore civil conflict, political unrest, security, and contemporary society. Stories including Professor Raoul X and Wolfophobia on Dog Island accompany practical discussions and arguments about the pressures facing modern America.

Ten years after the end of the world they knew, Dan Kilmer and the crew of Rebel Yell set out on a desperate voyage in the third novel of his sailing adventures.