Michael Arnold Books in Order
Explore Michael Arnold books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start tips for his Civil War, thriller, and Roman Britain novels.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Michael Arnold books in publication order
14 books
Traitor's Blood
by Michael Arnold
2010
As civil war erupts in 1642, battle-scarred Captain Innocent Stryker is sent to catch a spy inside the Royalist camp. The hunt becomes personal when it leads him back to the man who mutilated him and left him for dead.
Devil's Charge
by Michael Arnold
2011
England is tearing itself apart, and Stryker cares more about his comrades than slogans. Sent to find the missing Lisette Gaillard and a man vital to Royalist hopes, he fights through ambushes, sieges, and fanatics.
Hunter's Rage
by Michael Arnold
2012
Hunted across Dartmoor by Colonel Gabriel Wild and the witchfinder Osmyn Hogg, Stryker watches his company torn apart. To survive, he must turn a desperate retreat into a fight for honor, revenge, and Royalist survival in the southwest.
Assassin's Reign
by Michael Arnold
2013
After Bristol falls, Stryker is ordered into Gloucester to learn whether the city will surrender to the king. Inside the walls he finds old comrades, divided loyalties, and a hidden threat that could reach all the way to Charles I.
Ironside
by Michael Arnold
2013
In 1655, former Roundhead Major Samson Lyle returns as a feared highwayman under Cromwell's Protectorate. A robbery leads him into a dangerous plot involving an imprisoned comrade, powerful enemies, and the relentless hunter on his trail, Colonel Maddocks.
Stryker and the Angels of Death
by Michael Arnold
2013
Before England's civil war, a young Innocent Stryker serves as a mercenary in the Thirty Years' War. A mission to escort a spy goes disastrously wrong, forcing him to choose between escape and a brutal last stand.
Warlord's Gold
by Michael Arnold
2014
Ordered to recover a lost treasure crucial to the Royalist cause, Stryker sets out for the remote Scilly Isles. The mission becomes a dangerous chase through stormy seas, enemy territory, and betrayal on both sides.
Marston Moor
by Michael Arnold
2015
On the eve of one of the biggest battles of the British Civil Wars, Major Stryker marches toward Marston Moor. He must guide his men through slaughter and uncover treachery in Royalist ranks before the day breaks them all.
Winter Swarm
by Michael Arnold
2016
Exiled outlaw Samson Lyle turns predator in Cromwell's England, hunting the men who ruined his life. With Bella and Eustace beside him, he launches a bold strike against the regime while enemies close in from every side.
Corpse Thief
by Michael Arnold
2019
In 1821 London, body snatcher Joshua Hawke is pressed into investigating the murder of a young girl with seemingly supernatural overtones. His search drags him from graveyards and rookeries to docks and Westminster, while his own past closes in.
War's End
by Michael Arnold
2020
When a stolen Bible leads mercenary sailors to seize a boy hostage, outlaw Samson Lyle has to ride again. The hunt pulls him across England, toward old enemy Colonel Maddocks and a tangle of betrayal that will not stay simple.
The Savage Isle
by Michael Arnold
2025
Britannia, 42 AD. Orphaned Cullen is captured by the Catuvellauni after a savage raid and must find his place among the very people he hates, just as tribal rivalry leaves Britain exposed to the coming Roman invasion.
The River Warriors
by Michael Arnold
2026
The Romans have landed, and Britain's tribes are scrambling to hold together. While Caratacos prepares for battle at the Vaga River, Cullen is sent to find a sacred totem that might unite the resistance before the armies collide.
The Hemlock Throne
by Michael Arnold
2027
After defeat at the River Vaga, the Celtic resistance reels back toward the Tamesas as a mysterious sickness spreads through the ranks. Cullen and healer Cassia race for a cure while Roman pressure, panic, and darker forces close around them.
Where to start with Michael Arnold
If you want the big Civil War story: Traitor's Blood → Devil's Charge → Hunter's Rage
If you want a lean outlaw adventure: Ironside → Winter Swarm → War's End
If you want a dark Georgian thriller: Corpse Thief
If you want ancient Britain under Rome's shadow: The Savage Isle → The River Warriors → The Hemlock Throne
Michael Arnold sub-series and character series
Civil War Chronicles books in order
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Traitor's Blood
by Michael Arnold
2010Civil War Chronicles, Book 1
Devil's Charge
by Michael Arnold
2011Civil War Chronicles, Book 2
Hunter's Rage
by Michael Arnold
2012Civil War Chronicles, Book 3
Assassin's Reign
by Michael Arnold
2013Civil War Chronicles, Book 5
Stryker and the Angels of Death
by Michael Arnold
2013Civil War Chronicles, Book 4
Warlord's Gold
by Michael Arnold
2014Civil War Chronicles, Book 6
Marston Moor
by Michael Arnold
2015Civil War Chronicles, Book 7
Civil War Chronicles books in chronological order

Traitor's Blood
by Michael Arnold
2010Civil War Chronicles, Book 1
Devil's Charge
by Michael Arnold
2011Civil War Chronicles, Book 2
Hunter's Rage
by Michael Arnold
2012Civil War Chronicles, Book 3
Stryker and the Angels of Death
by Michael Arnold
2013Civil War Chronicles, Book 4
Assassin's Reign
by Michael Arnold
2013Civil War Chronicles, Book 5
Warlord's Gold
by Michael Arnold
2014Civil War Chronicles, Book 6
Marston Moor
by Michael Arnold
2015Civil War Chronicles, Book 7
Highwayman books in order
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Explore this seriesAuthor bio
Michael Arnold was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1979, and he has stayed closely tied to that part of southern England ever since. He grew up in a place where old roads, battlefields, and historic sites are never far away, and that sense of the past seems to have sunk in early. He was educated in Petersfield and still lives in Hampshire with his wife and four children.
History got to him young.
As a boy, Arnold spent holidays visiting castles and battlefields, and later did work experience at Butser Ancient Farm. He has also spoken about reading Bernard Cornwell as a teenager and realising that history on the page did not have to feel dusty or dutiful. It could move. It could fight. It could tell a good story at speed.
He did not move straight into a writing life. Before becoming a novelist, Arnold spent about a decade working in financial services, then started building his first Civil War novel in 2009. That detour matters, because his books do not read like the work of someone trying to sound scholarly. They read like the work of someone who loves the research, then puts the story first.
That first novel was Traitor's Blood, published in 2010. It introduced Captain Innocent Stryker, a scarred Royalist soldier moving through the chaos of the English Civil War, and it set the tone for much of Arnold's best known work: muddy battlefields, hard choices, sharp pace, and a strong feel for how politics and violence crash into ordinary lives. He followed it with books including Devil's Charge, Hunter's Rage, Assassin's Reign, and Marston Moor. One of those Stryker novels, Devil's Charge, was chosen as a Sunday Times Book of the Year.
He does not stay in one century.
Arnold later widened his range with the Highwayman stories, beginning with Ironside, and with the darker historical thriller Corpse Thief, which follows body snatcher Joshua Hawke through the underworld of 1821 London. Those books keep the things that make his fiction recognisable: danger, pressure, strong setting, and an interest in people who live close to the edge of the law. More recently, he shifted much further back in time with The Savage Isle and The River Warriors, novels set around the Roman invasion of Britain.
That move makes sense. His interest has always been British history, but not in a museum-case way. He likes moments when the ground is moving under everybody's feet, when old loyalties are breaking down, and when survival depends on nerve, speed, and knowing who to trust. Whether he is writing the Civil Wars, Cromwell's England, Georgian London, or Iron Age Britain, he tends to find the point where large historical change becomes immediate and personal.
He still lives in Hampshire, and local landscapes continue to feed the work. He has said that places near home, including historic sites and ruins, help spark stories, and he now shares that history obsession with his children too. That feels like a neat summary of Michael Arnold as a writer: someone who grew up among the traces of the past, wandered off into a different career for a while, and then came back to turn those old battles into fast, vivid fiction.
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