Nick Ryan Books in Order

As Russian forces surge into northern Poland, an American Stryker scout platoon must clear the route for a US Cavalry counterattack. The job gets even worse when unreliable militia allies and a fiercely defended bridge turn the mission into a near-impossible fight.

With Warsaw under threat, a lone company of American Abrams tanks and Irish infantry are sent to Stare Lubiejewo to hold off the Russian advance. Their only hope is a desperate last plan that might buy the Allies time.

An isolated American outpost sits directly in the path of a major Russian assault near the Poland-Lithuania border. A rookie lieutenant must earn his soldiers' trust and turn a doomed position into one savage stand.

USS Oklahoma City heads into the Pacific to intercept a Chinese arms shipment believed to be bound for Pakistan. Then the crew uncovers an even bigger threat, and their covert mission turns into a deadly contest of nerve and seamanship.

After Warsaw falls, Lieutenant Simon McLane and a handful of cut-off American infantry struggle north toward Gdansk. Joined by British Challenger tanks, they form an uneasy alliance and fight to survive a brutal retreat.

An American F-16 pilot is shot down over Ukraine and rescued by civilians trying to build resistance to the Russian invasion. Hunted behind enemy lines, Steve McQuade has to choose between survival and a chance to change the fight.

A hidden Russian electronic warfare system could wreck an Allied armored attack near the Oder. An improvised American and German team heads behind enemy lines to find it before hundreds of tanks crash into battle.

A surprise Belarusian attack into central eastern Poland leaves a thin force of Polish regulars and American paratroopers trying to stop a rush toward Warsaw. Outnumbered and isolated, they need to hold long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

On the Korean Peninsula, the war grinds toward Kaesong and Culprit Company gets dragged into the worst of it. For new recruits joining the unit of troublemakers and misfits, combat becomes a brutal test of endurance.

Nick Ryan turns Hannibal's greatest victory into close-up battlefield fiction. Outnumbered Carthaginians face a massive Roman army, and the novel follows the chaos, tactics, and slaughter that made Cannae legendary.

Persia lands a huge invasion force at Marathon, and a much smaller Athenian army marches out to meet it. Ryan tells the battle as a hard-charging piece of historical combat fiction, with tension rising on every advance.

Leonidas and his Greeks hold the narrow pass at Thermopylae against impossible odds. Ryan leans into the grind of shield-wall combat and the doomed courage that turned the battle into legend.

A company of older private military contractors is hired to protect corporate assets in Germany as the war reaches the border. What begins as an evacuation mission quickly becomes a fight that could shape the European front.

As Allied forces mass for an invasion of China, Captain Buck Gillette leads a risky strike on a Chinese artillery park near Dandong. When his own recklessness sparks disaster, he gets one last shot at redemption.

The veteran fighters of Devil's Detail head back into the war when their financier's daughter is captured in occupied Warsaw. The rescue mission is personal, fast-moving, and brutally dangerous from the moment they cross the lines.

The wider war edges toward a breaking point as another front becomes a test of nerve, leadership, and survival. Ryan keeps the focus tight on soldiers under crushing pressure and the brutal cost of holding the line.

At Baranovichi in Belarus, an Allied drive toward Minsk slams into a prepared Russian defensive ring. For three brutal days, the battle becomes a grinding test of armor, fortifications, and sheer endurance.