Nicholas Cain Books in Order

Burned out Green Beret Mark Stryker returns to Saigon and joins the 716th MPs, cops trying to keep a war city from blowing apart. Deserters, black-market gangs, and a vicious street killer turn every patrol into a case.

Someone called the Torch is dousing drunken GIs with gasoline and setting them ablaze, and Stryker needs answers fast. Meanwhile, deserters, street thieves, and a frightened rookie pull the MPs into trouble on every block.

Stryker and the 716th juggle a city full of trouble, from peace talks and bad dope to deserters and nervous new MPs. It is a busy, wide-angle look at Saigon, where any small disturbance can turn into a major crisis.

Back with the 716th, Stryker hunts a missing MP after a sniper attack and uncovers a trail that runs through double lives and foreign intrigue. As the case widens, Saigon keeps throwing fresh chaos at his squad.

After mercenaries ambush a payroll convoy and slaughter dozens of MPs, Stryker hunts the corrupt network behind the attack. Dirty officers, leaked schedules, and superstition all shadow a mission that could end in another massacre.

A bounty is put on a reckless First Cavalry captain, and Stryker sends two rookie MPs undercover into the field to stop the hit. Out in the jungle, they learn the man they are protecting may be as dangerous as the assassin.

In 1963, Lt. Justin Ross survives a disastrous covert mission tied to the coup against Diem and has to rebuild his team from damaged, dangerous men. It is the start of a dirty-war series built on expendable soldiers and impossible orders.

Ross leads the War Dogs on a secret strike against a North Vietnamese interrogation camp near the Cambodian border. It is a straight-ahead assault novel with covert-war stakes and no safe exit.

Ross and the War Dogs go after June Wanda, an American antiwar celebrity in Hanoi whose actions could cost U.S. troops dearly. The mission turns propaganda and politics into a lethal manhunt.

A rogue former MP begins a one-man terror campaign against supposed Communist sympathizers, while Stryker is framed for murder. His friends must clear his name and stop the killings before Saigon swallows one more good man.

An old enemy comes to Saigon looking for revenge on Mark Stryker, just as the MPs are hit with bizarre killings and crooked schemes. Danger comes from every direction as several messy cases begin to connect.

CID detective Robert Quinn becomes the center of the story when a sadistic escaped criminal kidnaps his family to settle an old score. The hunt is personal, brutal, and far more intimate than the usual squad-wide cases.

At Ia Drang, helicopter gunship soldier Treat Brody faces one of the war's toughest early battles. The first Chopper 1 book throws him straight into the chaos of air cavalry combat and hard lessons about survival.

When a friend in the Philippines is framed for a bombing, Ross and part of the War Dogs head to Manila to break her out. The rescue mission pulls the series away from the battlefield without making it any less violent.

The first shock of Tet has passed, but Saigon is still full of snipers, holdouts, and desperate firefights. Stryker's MPs fight block by block while trying to clear a sergeant accused of murdering his own commander.

In the final book, the mop-up after Tet is still deadly, with small bands of enemy fighters turning the city into a maze of last stands. Stryker races between flashpoints and a family crisis as the series heads toward a hard finish.

As the Tet Offensive erupts on January 31, 1968, Stryker and the 716th MPs are pushed from policing into all-out street combat. Saigon becomes a battlefield, and holding the city together suddenly feels almost impossible.

Brody and the First Air Cav are enjoying a little rest when rockets slam into a supposedly secure village and orphanage. Furious and back in the field, they head into dense jungle for a punishing revenge mission.

Brody and the gunship crews are dropped into another stretch of Vietnam where every landing zone feels like a trap. It is a hard, fast combat novel about surviving the next pass through enemy fire.

In the Mekong Delta, the war turns into a battle for rivers, patrol routes, and survival on bad water. Brody and the First Air Cav are sent to take back territory the enemy controls too well.

A hunt tied to missing Americans pulls Brody and the First Air Cav into another ugly mission behind uncertain lines. The title promises rescue, but in this series nothing comes back clean.

When a medevac chopper goes down deep in enemy territory near the Cambodian border, Brody's unit is sent after it. The rescue becomes exactly what the title promises, a mission with terrible odds.

After heavy fighting, Treat Brody and the First Air Cav are sent back into a landscape full of hidden enemies and underground danger. The mission pushes the series deeper into close, dirty combat.

Operating in the Central Highlands, the First Air Cav faces another brutal campaign of helicopter assaults and desperate firefights. The eighth Chopper 1 book keeps the pressure on Brody and his crew from takeoff to touchdown.

Rain, mud, and enemy fire make a lethal mix as the First Air Cav fights through another campaign. The weather is as dangerous as the shooting in this grim helicopter-war adventure.

The war gets personal as Brody and the First Air Cav head into another mission with revenge hanging over every decision. Fast air-mobile action and hard losses drive this entry.

This entry leans hard into airborne attack, sending the First Air Cav back into the skies for another punishing operation. Brody and his crew have speed and firepower, but not much margin for error.

A hidden marksman turns the battlefield into a waiting game of nerves and sudden death. Brody and the Air Cav have to find the shooter before one more routine mission turns fatal.

Lieutenant Luke Abel brings old Saigon experience to Southern California's Little Saigon, where gangs, extortion, and murder are pushing the neighborhood toward open war. It is part police thriller, part Vietnam-aftershock novel.

The later Chopper 1 books widen the war, and this one keeps Brody's unit moving from one violent contact to the next. It is another tough air-cavalry story built on rescue runs, assaults, and attrition.

Abel takes on a case in a world where murder and intimidation have become just another business expense. To stop the next killing, he has to cut through gang politics, fear, and silence.

A space shuttle mission carries secret cargo the Soviets badly want, so Able Team is sent to guard it. What starts as security duty becomes a high-stakes race to stop sabotage before the mission leaves Earth.

Able Team seems to be chasing bandits preying on people crossing into the United States, but that hunt is only cover. The real target is a terrorist plot to smuggle nuclear weapons across the border.

Abel is pushed into territory nobody wants touched, where criminal power and community fear keep whole blocks quiet. The case turns Little Saigon into a pressure cooker all over again.

A patrol boat's desperate call for help pulls Brody and Blue Team into a bloody fight along the Song Boung River. Before they can catch their breath, another surrounded unit needs rescue in the jungle nearby.

Crime bosses, anxious residents, and hard-charging cops all want different versions of justice, and Abel gets caught between them. In a neighborhood already on edge, even the right move can leave damage behind.

Street hustles, gang pressure, and quick betrayals pull Abel into a case built on deception. Every lead is slippery, and one wrong move could leave the people he is trying to protect trapped in the middle.

With thousands of Marines trapped at Khe Sanh, Brody and the Blues are thrown into one of the war's biggest rescue efforts. Their job is to find enemy positions, call in strikes, and open landing zones under fire.

Able Team is ordered to intercept a smuggler carrying millions in Vietnamese emeralds and a stolen document from Hanoi. The search pulls Carl Lyons and company into a deadly chase through refugee enclaves and old war secrets.

This omnibus gathers three men's-adventure novellas, including Nicholas Cain's Zebra Cube. His section mixes a late-war prisoner exchange, a rogue South Vietnamese general, and a bleak stateside subplot involving one team member back home.