Matthew Rief Books in Order

When a man’s body washes ashore in the Lower Keys, Logan assumes it is a tragic accident until he recognizes the victim as someone who once saved his life. Following thin leads across the country, he uncovers a wider plot and a rising body count.

Logan and his family are on a dream kayaking and camping trip through the Keys when news from home cuts it short. A beloved friend and sitting mayor has shuttered his island restaurant under pressure from a ruthless developer, and Logan moves to fight back.

Driving home through the Keys, Logan gives a quiet hitchhiker a ride and thinks nothing of it. The next morning detectives arrive, saying the young man is wanted for a triple homicide. Sensing something off, Logan investigates and uncovers a far more tangled truth.

Set two years before Gold in the Keys, this novella shows Logan and Angelina as separate mercenaries hired to eliminate a brutal African drug lord. When the job goes sideways, their violent first encounter forges the partnership that will reshape their lives.

On a family trip to Normandy’s battlefields, Logan finds a soldier’s journal that hints at a long-lost Key West treasure. Back home, an abusive financier and professional criminals converge on the same trail, turning a summer treasure hunt deadly.

A decade after the serial killer dubbed the Honeymoon Homicider last struck, a new couple is murdered near Key West. Logan joins the investigation, only to realize the killer has changed tactics and is now targeting him and those he loves.

On a normal morning in Key West, Logan witnesses a young man being forced into a vehicle and is taken at gunpoint himself. Imprisoned on an offshore yacht, he learns his fellow captive is politically important, and escape becomes a matter of survival for both.

Admiral James Harrington, a legendary special operations commander and father figure to many, disappears soon after retiring. Logan reunites with old SEAL teammates to track him down, facing an organized outlaw gang on their own ruthless home turf.

A hostage rescue off the coast of Panama goes catastrophically wrong, pitting Jason and his covert team against a fanatical warlord with thousands of followers. Fighting from island hideouts to unmapped jungle, Jason battles to stop a catastrophic attack.

A fleet of modern pirates descends on the Keys, striking fast and vanishing with high-tech precision. When one raid kills a local, Logan launches a personal war against the syndicate threatening his family, friends, and the islands themselves.

While celebrating their anniversary on a remote island, Logan and Angelina spot a refugee boat sinking on the horizon. Their rescue attempt drags them into a vast human trafficking network stretching from the Keys to Haiti, with countless lives at stake.

Logan Dodge, worn down by battles at home, heads to Cozumel with his family for a rare vacation. A charter captain’s tip about a lost Spanish galleon and a string of brutal murders pull him into another deadly treasure hunt.

While spearfishing near Key West, Logan and a friend stumble onto an attempt to murder a world-famous model. Her secret about a powerful Hollywood figure draws a lethal hit squad to the islands, forcing Logan to protect her and expose the plot.

After Jason prevents a bioweapon attack, members of a secret warfare program hire assassins to erase him. As a mysterious strike pushes major powers toward war, he races to expose who is really pulling the strings before the world tips over the edge.

When a team of scientists probing a lost Viking shipwreck is massacred, Jason’s team is called to Iceland for answers. They uncover a plan to unleash a deadly virus, forcing them to fight through ice, storms, and ambushes to stop a global disaster.

Investigating a string of underwater explosions in the Virgin Islands, Jason and his operatives are ambushed by elite killers. The trail leads to a ruthless Russian oligarch obsessed with unearthing a legendary treasure, even if it means ruining a paradise.

Old sins catch up with Logan when a former brother in arms and a disgraced crime boss join forces against him. As revenge plans target his family and friends, he has to confront buried history and survive a storm of payback.

Framed for a high-profile murder, Logan suddenly finds himself the most wanted man in Key West. To clear his name, he must outmaneuver law enforcement and an arms dealer hunting a secret cache of weapons hidden in the Gulf of Mexico.

Still wrestling with loss and his father’s legacy, Jason hunts for injustice instead of running from it. With a former special forces commander and a new covert team, he tracks a sophisticated human trafficking ring spreading across the Caribbean islands.

Months after dismantling a trafficking ring, Logan hears that a corrupt billionaire on the run has been located. The hunt takes him across the Caribbean, but when the target escapes, hired killers descend on Key West for a final, violent reckoning.

Jason Wake had money, education, and a future until a terror attack killed his fiancée before his eyes. After grueling covert training, he heads into the Caribbean to dismantle the group responsible, no matter the personal cost.

Checking on a friend who has gone off the rails, Logan uncovers the edge of a drug network tearing through the islands. With Angelina and their sharp-tongued daughter beside him, he goes after a ruthless crime boss who thrives on chaos.

A local treasure hunter is murdered hours after the find of his career. Logan and Angelina follow the clues to a violent white supremacist group seeking a legendary Civil War hoard, racing to stop them before the treasure funds further atrocities.

A figure from Logan’s past, long branded a traitor, returns asking for help. Against his better judgment, Logan agrees, launching a mission that forces him to reconsider old events while fending off new enemies determined to silence them both.

Hours after returning from his honeymoon, Logan learns two close friends have been murdered in the Everglades. He heads into the swamps to hunt their killers, facing both brutal criminals and the lethal natural world they use as cover.

Logan teams up with a washed-up treasure hunter chasing a fabled diamond hidden somewhere in the Keys. Following century-old clues, they clash with an Albanian crime boss who will happily kill anyone standing between her and the prize.

A runaway boat carrying injured scientists slams into a Keys island, exposing a conspiracy that could devastate South Florida’s waters. Logan and his crew battle a corrupt billionaire, a dangerous former foe, and hired killers on a ticking clock.

After Logan grows close to a teen orphan named Scarlett, she is kidnapped by sex traffickers. Logan and Angelina slip into Cuba to find her, taking on a notorious gang in its own backyard before the girl disappears into the black market.

Logan discovers his father did not die of natural causes but was murdered by drug smugglers still at large. Chasing them across the Caribbean, he uncovers a lost U-boat, a hidden bioweapon, and a fortune on the seafloor that others will kill for.

As summer empties the Keys of tourists, Logan is content with the ocean, friends, and a new relationship. Gunshots on a Dry Tortugas island change everything, trapping him alone between a terrified family and a heavily armed gang bent on murder.

A 17th-century dagger recovered from Florida Bay points toward a legendary pirate wreck. As Logan follows the trail, an old enemy resurfaces and betrayal strikes close, pushing him from the Keys to Thailand in a high-risk, double-crossing adventure.

Former Navy SEAL Logan Dodge finds a strange gold coin on a secret ledge in the Keys and learns it is tied to a vanished Aztec treasure. Racing a vicious cartel to the hoard, he assembles a small crew and heads into danger on the open water.