Paul Heatley Books in Order

Jake grows up on a trailer park after his mother leaves him behind with his father. One night changes everything, pushing this bleak coming-of-age story toward the moment when a boy becomes something harder.

Billy McCracken is an aging drug dealer who wants an easy life, but the town around him is shifting. As younger, hungrier men make their move, Billy gets dragged into a power struggle he never wanted.

In a dying town motel, Joanie lives in room sixteen and sells sex to faceless men under her pimp’s control. All she wants is a day off, but in Heatley’s noir world even that feels out of reach.

Tom Wayman is shaped by hardship, hatred, and the savage world of illegal dog-fighting. This is a dirty, feverish novella about violence, fractured relationships, and a man becoming something closer to an animal than a hero.

Martin is no vampire, just a man working a motel desk and selling pornography in a town full of junkies, dealers, and losers. Returning to the world of The Motel Whore, this novella shows another life lived in the dark.

Henry likes the quiet of janitor work, but that is only half his life. When a one-night job calls for three hits, he has to juggle murder, buried secrets, and the pull of family before the week breaks him.

When Jasmine Doyle is left permanently disfigured, her crime family wants someone to pay. As revenge tears through Newcastle, Graeme Taylor and Tracksuit Tony Gordon get dragged into a brutal hunt that leaves nobody untouched.

A stripped-down noir about small-time criminals, bad choices, and the kind of trouble that grows once violence and easy money get involved. Heatley keeps the focus on people already in over their heads, with no clean way out.

This collection gathers The Motel Whore, The Vampire, and The Boy, then digs deeper into the same ruined world with additional tales. Lonely people, cheap rooms, and bad lives fill every page with a slow, ugly dread.

On Christmas Eve, several strained lives start colliding while Santa gets wasted somewhere in the background. It is a short holiday crime story where sex, resentment, and violence all arrive before morning.

Joey Hidalgo thinks money is the only thing standing between him and getting his family back. So he targets a rich, hateful regular at his bar, but Joey’s temper and one long night turn a desperate plan into a disaster.

Stolen money sends Jackson Stobbart chasing Cathy back to their seaside hometown before anyone notices it is gone. At the same time, Davey Hoy is scrambling in Newcastle, trying to hide his own theft before the wrong people catch up with him.

A raid on a Doyle drug house looks like something Jimmy Finlay can fix quietly. He is wrong, and as a feared taxman keeps hitting back, Newcastle slides toward an all-out underworld war.

Patton falls hard for Patty Dawson, which would be risky enough without her father running the Bad Bastards Motorcycle Club. Beaten and threatened, Patton still will not back off, and the cost keeps climbing.

Lou-Lou runs from her violent father with the man she loves, knowing the price on their heads will bring every lowlife in the area after them. What follows is a savage chase full of double-crosses and bad odds.

Teddy Norton and Bud Corrigan see Christmas as a chance to finally take something back from the world. Their burglary spree looks easy on paper, but one bad assumption turns the holiday into a dangerous, ugly night.

In Newcastle, 1978, John’s affair with his boss’s daughter-in-law puts a target on his back. When the men sent to kill him fail, he comes back looking for revenge and refuses to stop halfway.

Jobless and drifting, Ed lets his old friend Dan pull him into a new line of work, driving for a drug dealer. For a while the roads, the girls, and the money feel easy, until jealousy and dangerous men close in.

Living off the grid after walking away from black ops work, Tom Rollins learns the woman he loved has been murdered. His hunt for the killers starts as revenge and grows into a much larger conspiracy.

Hiding out in Mexico, Tom Rollins helps a woman search for her abducted younger sister. The trail leads from a savage cartel to a wider trafficking conspiracy, and Tom ends up fighting enemies on both sides of the border.

Tom Rollins is trying to live quietly in the Alaskan wilds when he rescues a crooked accountant from two hitmen. That split-second decision puts him in the path of the Russian mafia and a looming ecological disaster.

A forced detour drops Tom Rollins into Brenton, Texas, where the McQuade family rules through fear. They make one mistake too many when they steal something precious from him, and Tom decides to take the town apart.

When figures from Cindy Vaughan’s past come hunting her, she turns to Tom Rollins for help. Their search for justice leads to a billionaire with limitless resources and a dirty operation that does not forgive loose ends.

Working as a forest ranger in Northern California, Tom Rollins finds a starving man being chased through the woods. The rescue pulls him into a vicious network of gangs, cartel activity, and corruption that will not leave witnesses.

After Tom Rollins steps into a rough scene at a gas station, a hunted teenage girl turns up hiding in his truck. Getting her safely to Oregon should be simple, but the men chasing her have power, money, and patience.

Tom Rollins has rescued his reckless brother Anthony before, and he is tired of paying that price. But when family trouble in Chicago turns deadly, Tom gets dragged into gang debt, crooked cops, and a fight with the mob.

At the funeral of an old Army friend, Tom Rollins hears a troubling claim, the dead man did not kill himself. Staying in town to investigate puts Tom up against a militia, a hostile sheriff, and something bigger underneath.

Tom Rollins heads back to his hometown hoping to build something like a normal life. Instead he finds drugs, corrupt cops, and a horrifying criminal operation that puts the woman he loves in immediate danger.

A Honduran cartel boss escapes prison with revenge on his mind. When he comes for Tom Rollins and the remnants of his old unit, Tom realizes the only way to end it is to carry the war back to Honduras.

After a deadly explosion rocks Washington, a British ex Special Forces operative, an ex Navy SEAL, and a teenage girl all fall under suspicion. Strangers at first, they must work together to survive a widening conspiracy.

A blizzard is bearing down on upstate New York when a shunned Army veteran starts another lonely shift at a gas station. Desperate travelers and men with grudges are all headed for the same stop, and it looks deadly.

Cindy Vaughan asks Tom Rollins to help find a missing woman named Louise after uncovering footage of her abduction. The search uncovers a vicious gang, a secret operation, and a game where Tom may become the next victim.

Passing through Detroit, Tom Rollins meets siblings Ruth and Calvin Styles, who are still trying to uncover who murdered their parents. Helping them means taking on corrupt police, street gangs, and a city ready to explode.

Tom Rollins and local cop Nina Perry wake up in the worst possible place, kidnapped and about to be framed for a terrorist bombing. Once they escape, they have a city on their backs and almost nobody they can trust.

Framed for the attack that shook the nation, Kayla Morrow, Keith Wright, and Charlie Carter are forced across the country with only one real lead. While they run, power in Washington sinks deeper into something rotten.

While working security in Mississippi, Tom Rollins gets drawn into a fight with a giant chemical company hiding vicious secrets. An ecologist wants the truth out, a biker gang wants him dead, and Tom chooses war.

In Newark, a friend of Tom Rollins witnesses a savage crime and does the right thing by reporting it. That choice only exposes how deep the corruption goes, and soon Tom is running from a powerful family with pharmaceutical money.

This prequel drops Tom Rollins into his first CIA mission, deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. Betrayal wrecks the operation, a teammate is captured, and Tom chooses a rescue that should be impossible.

A CIA analyst asks Tom Rollins to help extract a Chinese defector carrying the identities of deep-cover American moles. Triads, spies, and a leak inside the agency turn the mission into a running gun battle across the West.

America is slipping toward disaster, even if most of the country does not see it yet. Scattered and wounded, Kayla, Keith, and Charlie need to reunite before the forces behind the conspiracy tighten their grip for good.

A Christmas crime tale in which a child becomes the center of a tense and dangerous night. As motives clash and pressure rises, Heatley pushes his damaged characters toward choices they may not survive.

Trying to relax in Vermont, Tom Rollins meets a mother and her young son who are being hunted by trained killers. The boy remembers something vital, and if Tom cannot decode it in time, New York could pay the price.

Grieving and adrift in the South, Tom Rollins steps into a cage fight and catches the attention of both a skinhead gang and the FBI. Going undercover means facing a ruthless leader and the hidden mind behind him.

Tom Rollins is trying to build a quieter life when his father’s commune in New Mexico is massacred. Hunting the truth with Cindy Vaughan leads him into a conspiracy involving extremists, corrupt cops, cartel killers, and old enemies.