Michael Stephen Fuchs Books in Order

Two million dollars in cash, a rumored document that might explain the meaning of life, and a shadow internet site draw a wild cast together. Hackers, dealers, mercenaries, agents, and a gang of Angry Young Taoists collide in a violent chase to control the Manuscript.

AI designer Kate Quinlan works on ultra violent video games in Silicon Valley and wonders how consciousness evolved. When a geneticist and a cryptologist drag her into research on junk DNA, she finds herself hunted across continents by zealots and governments desperate to own the Pandora Sequence.

Islamist terrorists use a massive online game as a secure command center for chemical attacks, cyber intrusions, and raids on nuclear storage sites. Delta Force operators team up with DHS infosec specialist Mike Brown, dragging a deskbound hacker into a globe spanning fight in both code and blood.

Set against an isolated valley and the bad decisions that echo there, this short piece follows a small group of characters as a job goes sideways. Violence, guilt, and a landscape that offers no easy exits make survival as much an emotional question as a physical one.

A collection of ten action and tech driven stories that range from civil unrest in California to corporate wars in the dot com boom. Expect gunfights, hacking, oddball humor, and recurring questions about purpose, loyalty, and what people owe each other when everything falls apart.

This short story uses Fuchs's sharp, contemporary voice to explore identity, attraction, and the stories people tell about themselves. Relationships, labels, and sudden moments of danger intersect in a tale that is as uncomfortable as it is darkly funny.

A lean, fast moving short story about people who reach for weapons faster than answers. As a confrontation escalates through bravado and fear, Fuchs digs into the absurdity and danger of living in a world where there is always one more gun to draw.

Silicon Valley cryptographer Allison Blue balances lucrative work for a shadowy government agency with a life built on code and motorcycles. When a job turns into open warfare inside a secure office complex, she must outthink multiple factions converging on the same high value data.

At Stanford, a young web developer and his friends build sites for a medical center by day and play violent games by night. Between beers, banter, and crushes they wonder if their problems began with modern culture or way back in the first stirrings of life.

Sergeant Major Eric Rheinhardt is ready to retire from the Unit until his old mentor resurfaces working for Iranian backed extremists. As plots involving nuclear material and cyberwar talent come together, Rheinhardt must lead D-Boys against an enemy who knows all their tricks.

The remnants of organized forces race to pull people and resources out of doomed regions before they are swallowed by the dead. Alpha, the Raiders, and Royal Marines undertake overlapping evacuation and interdiction missions that test how far they can stretch without breaking.

When a zombie pandemic wipes out most of the planet, Britain survives by sealing its borders. Inside this fragile sanctuary, an international Tier 1 team called Alpha is formed and sent into devastated Europe to hunt for clues to a cure and keep Fortress Britain standing.

Agency analyst Zack Altringham runs a high tech operations center in the Horn of Africa, tracking jihadists and crises. When a new plague erupts and the city implodes, he and a small team of shooters must fight through militias and outbreaks to reach a distant base alive.

Royal Marine Commandos fight a 360 degree battle to save Channel Tunnel survivors before air strikes erase them, while the Kennedy risks its reactor to outrun an ocean of undead. Above, Fick leads a small Raider team to seize a remote airfield that hides deadly secrets.

Alpha deploys to the ruined city of Mogadishu on a rescue mission that quickly spirals into a nightmare of tight streets, collapsing strongpoints, and terrifying fast movers. At the same time, pressure mounts back in Britain as the illusion of a secure homeland begins to crack.

Adrift on Lake Michigan, Alpha drifts toward a hostile shore while a lone survivalist and her family debate whether to trust them. Elsewhere, the Kennedy runs aground off Virginia and Fortress Britain faces a new breach, turning multiple fronts into potential last stands.

The fall of great powers plays out in real time as Alpha and their allies fight across collapsing capitals, contested seas, and failing command structures. Every mission underscores that no nation is immune, and that only small bands of professionals are still holding the line.

Alpha team, Royal Marines, and Marine Raiders collide with their most dangerous human adversaries yet amid a world already overrun. As they race for a strategic prize, they are forced to decide whether the bigger threat now comes from the undead or the living who would control them.

As the Zulu Alpha grinds into its second year, Alpha team and the USS John F. Kennedy push toward a distant objective that might change the course of the war. Along the way they confront mutiny, new forms of the infected, and the crushing fatigue of endless combat.

The war against the dead reaches a new scale as vast hordes converge on key strongholds. Alpha team, Royal Marines, and Marine Raiders are thrown into simultaneous crises on land and sea, forcing impossible choices about what can be saved and who must be left behind.

A handpicked unit known as Team Triple Nickel retreats to a bush camp in the lawless Horn of Africa as the infection spreads. Besieged by undead swarms and a ruthless warlord, they battle to defend their refuge and carry out a rescue before millions of zombies descend.

Relentless tides of infected pour toward the last safe bases while the Kennedy struggles to stay operational. Alpha and their allies are dispatched on high risk missions to plug the gaps, knowing that any failure could unleash a literal flood of death across the remnants of civilization.

The aftermath of catastrophic battles leaves Alpha, the Raiders, and their allies broken, scattered, and hunted. As the dead evolve and human enemies close in, the survivors must claw their way through fresh hell to keep the mission alive and their people breathing.

Alpha and the Marine Raiders meet a human enemy as ruthless and capable as they are, while a British troop assaults an underground bunker to seize a potential anti zombie virus. At sea, maritime commandos fight to save the Kennedy and the hope it carries.

With Alpha battered and the infection pressing in on every front, CentCom faces its longest night. As political alliances fray and new threats emerge, the remaining special operators and Marines must hold an ever shrinking perimeter or lose the war in one final rush.

The four remaining Alpha operators launch their final missions into a dying London while Handon fights his way back from a coma at CentCom. As the last human redoubt is overrun, the surviving teams make a last stand to give humanity a chance at survival.

A collection of Master Gunnery Sergeant Fick's foul mouthed, brutally funny put downs and field wisdom from the Arisen series, gathered in one place for fans who enjoy his creative abuse almost as much as his marksmanship and leadership.

Navy operator Homer must cross a thousand miles of ruined North America to reach his children and rejoin Alpha team. Traveling with ex cop survivalist Sarah Cameron, he faces marauders, shifting alliances, and the last remnants of a SEAL team that has turned into something monstrous.

A platoon from the 75th Ranger Regiment holds a lonely combat outpost in the Spin Ghar mountains as the world collapses into the Zulu Alpha. Surrounded by Taliban fighters, Spetsnaz operatives, and the undead, they gamble everything on one impossible mission.

In the first Raiders volume, two Marine special operations teams are left for dead as North America falls. Aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, their comrades scramble to recover them, secure vital supplies, and keep the last nuclear supercarrier and its thousands of civilians afloat.

Back on the Kennedy after surviving the continent's collapse, Doc Yaz, Gunny Blane, and their fellow Raiders are thrown straight into new shore missions. Each run for food, fuel, and ammunition forces them to decide how far they will go to keep their tribe alive.

A clandestine cell inside SEAL Team Six, known as Black Squadron, is sent into the blood soaked endgame of the Syrian civil war. Surrounded by militias, extremists, Iranian agents, and Russian special forces, they clash with a platoon of Rangers tasked with keeping them in check.

Two Marine Raider teams and a tight knit tribe of warriors fight to keep the Kennedy strike group supplied as the seas and coasts burn. A young corpsman struggles to earn his place while missions carry them from Indian slums to Dubai and into the deadly heights of the Hindu Kush.

The darkest night of the Zulu Alpha finds the Kennedy strike group pulled from fallen America to Australia and a vast offshore oil field. Exhausted Raiders face betrayal, impossible moral choices, and a final operation where the one thing that could save everyone might also kill them all.

In the climax of the Raiders saga, the Kennedy is trapped near the Straits of Hormuz by its most lethal human foe yet. To break free and preserve any hope for the mission, the Raiders gear up for one last assault against a fortress defended by elite mercenaries.

Master Sergeant Yaël Sion watches her homeland implode as the virus and human enemies tear Israel apart. To reach distant Fortress Britain she must fight through collapsing cities, hijacked ships, and lonely stretches of ocean, confronting both external threats and the cost of surviving alone.

After escaping the fall of Israel and crossing a ruined Europe, Yaël Sion is folded into Echo team, a misfit unit of the last elite operators. Their deep strike missions force her to battle zombies, human adversaries, and the trauma that makes her dangerous even to her own side.

The third Arisen: Operators novel returns to the early years of the Zulu Alpha, following Yaël Sion and other USOC operators as they defend one of humanity's last fortified refuges and push back into the dead world beyond its walls.