Owen Parry Books in Order

Set in West Germany, this early thriller follows an intelligence officer pulled into a deadly conspiracy amid Cold War tension. It mixes espionage, fieldcraft, and the pressure of serving on a dangerous frontier.

Told from the Soviet side, this alternate World War III novel follows soldiers and commanders driving into West Germany. The action is large-scale, but the real pull is how it shows fear, doctrine, and ambition inside the invading force.

In a shattered future, American forces are thrown into Central Asia as plague, rebellion, and high-tech warfare remake the battlefield. Colonel George Taylor must survive a war of lasers, satellites, and terrible escalation.

The Soviet Union is collapsing into ethnic violence, ruin, and power struggles no one can control. Peters turns the breakup into a tense political thriller about soldiers, officials, and civilians trapped inside a system coming apart.

A career soldier confronts one of the Cold War's ugliest ghosts, the fate of American prisoners left inside the Soviet system. Peters uses the search to explore loyalty, betrayal, and the cost of state secrecy.

After a U.S. military team is massacred during a mission in Bolivia, aging Colonel John Church takes the blame and goes back into danger. It is a dark thriller about failed policy, weary soldiers, and one last impossible job.

In Azerbaijan, the kidnapped daughter of a U.S. senator becomes the center of a struggle over oil, religion, and post-Soviet power. Lieutenant Colonel Evan Burton races through coups and double-dealing to find her before everyone else's agenda wins.

Welsh immigrant and Union officer Abel Jones is asked to investigate the murder of young abolitionist Anthony Fowler near Washington. What looks like a wartime killing opens into corruption, class tension, and a darker view of the Union home front.

Peters argues that post-Cold War conflict will be driven as much by culture, disorder, and irregular enemies as by conventional armies. It is a blunt, accessible look at how strategy had to change.

Scarred private investigator David Reynolds digs into Washington corruption and walks straight into bombings, murder, and powerful enemies. It is a hard-edged political thriller with the pace and shadows of modern noir.

In a snowbound Northern town, Abel Jones investigates the torture murders of federal agents as unrest simmers among Irish immigrants. The trail runs from local grievance to wartime intrigue and the wider reach of the Civil War.

After forty murdered enslaved people are found hanging at a crossroads, Abel Jones is sent behind Confederate lines to learn who is responsible. The case pulls him toward Shiloh and into the brutal center of slavery and wartime justice.

This essay collection tackles terrorism, intelligence, and U.S. strategy before and after September 11. Peters argues against easy assumptions and pushes readers to think harder about the enemies modern states actually face.

Abel Jones crosses the Atlantic to block British help for the Confederacy, then gets caught in a string of grotesque murders in London and Glasgow. Espionage, industry, and Jones's own haunted past all collide.

Using the Iraq war as his starting point, Peters looks at what recent combat revealed about American power and its limits. He moves from battlefield lessons to broader questions of foreign policy and future threats.

When a Union general is murdered in Pennsylvania coal country, suspicion falls on Irish laborers already under pressure. Abel Jones must untangle prejudice, corruption, and old-country grudges before panic hardens into injustice.

This collection of Christmas stories ranges across American life, from mining towns to occupied Germany and the Depression. The connecting thread is how sudden grace, sacrifice, or kindness can cut through hard times.

Peters argues that the United States entered the twenty-first century with more power than it realized, and with too little strategic clarity. The book tours global trouble spots while pressing for a more assertive foreign policy.

Abel Jones reaches occupied New Orleans to investigate the death of a young reformer and finds a city thick with rumor, fear, and racial tension. As talk of the walking dead spreads, the mystery grows stranger and darker.

Drawing on travel and military experience, Peters takes aim at Iraq, China, defense spending, and the wider war on terror. The book is argumentative by design, built from sharp essays rather than a single narrative.

Peters contends that ethnicity, religion, and identity, not old ideological blocs, will drive much of the century's violence. He follows that argument through terrorism, failed states, Russia, and Western strategic blind spots.

This memoir follows Peters through the collapsing Soviet world, the Caucasus, Asia, Latin America, and the rough edges of American life. It is part travel book, part soldier's notebook, and part portrait of places where history breaks open.

These Civil War Christmas tales follow soldiers, former slaves, and families trying to hold onto decency during a brutal conflict. The stories are quiet, humane, and more interested in character than battlefield spectacle.

After catastrophe shatters Israel, Europe, and even parts of the United States, America fights to reclaim the Holy Land. Peters imagines a savage near-future war where technology fails, fanaticism spreads, and survival depends on stubborn soldiers.

In this later collection, Peters returns to long conflict, security policy, and the gap between military reality and political wishful thinking. The essays are short, direct, and shaped by firsthand experience.

Gathering decades of writing on strategy, intelligence, and war, this collection shows the themes Peters returned to again and again. It offers a broad survey of his arguments about terrorism, bureaucracy, technology, and military reform.

At Fort Huachuca in the early 1980s, Lieutenant Roy Banks gets caught up in adultery, ambition, and the murder of a young female officer. The mystery doubles as a portrait of the battered post-Vietnam Army trying to rebuild itself.

This sweeping novel retells Gettysburg through generals, staff officers, and common soldiers on both sides. Pride, confusion, endurance, and sheer chance all shape the battle that became a turning point in the war.

Grant drives toward Richmond, and the war turns into relentless slaughter in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Peters follows leaders and enlisted men alike as courage and exhaustion collide.

The fight for the Shenandoah Valley becomes a fight for food, roads, and access to Washington. Jubal Early's raid, Philip Sheridan's counterstroke, and soldiers on both sides drive a brutal campaign full of reversals and high stakes.

Grant pins Lee at Petersburg, and the war grinds into trenches, heat, and attrition. From the disaster at the Crater to the strain of the 1864 campaign, Peters shows glory turning grim and modern warfare taking shape.

Lee's army is starving, Richmond is falling, and Grant is determined to finish the war. This finale follows the last desperate marches and battles that lead to Appomattox and the end of a nation-shaping conflict.

Set during the Chancellorsville campaign, this novel tracks the Confederate gamble that humiliated a much larger Union army. Peters captures thick Virginia woods, divided Union command, and the bitter cost of Stonewall Jackson's greatest victory.