Peter Nealen Books in Order

Jeff Stone and his fellow contractors are guarding a freighter in the Gulf of Aden when a terrorist assault overruns a nearby U.S. base. Outnumbered and far from support, they become the hostages' best chance.

Jed Horn, former Marine and full-time hunter of monsters, rides into Silverton to stop a Shadowman before more people disappear. The town is rotten with sorcery, old evil, and secrets.

Praetorian contractors are supposed to guard oil fields near Kirkuk, not chase terrorists through a collapsing Iraq. As Arab-Kurd tensions rise and the bodies pile up, Jeff Stone's team turns hunter.

This nonfiction book revisits Operation Red Wings and the rescue effort that followed. Drawing on interviews, reports, and research, Nealen examines a famous Afghanistan mission from a harder, more investigative angle.

With Iraq breaking apart, Jeff Stone's battered team must escape Basra, survive treachery, and shut down a rogue American operation tied to ISIS. It is a war story about bad allies, worse enemies, and no clean exits.

Before he became a witch hunter, Jed Horn was a former Marine haunted by what he saw in Iraq. His search for answers draws the attention of dark powers, and then the Order of the Silver Cross finds him.

Praetorian Security is sent into northern Mexico to hunt El Duque, a shadowy broker with ties to terrorists, cartels, and guerrillas. The closer Jeff Stone gets, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Jed and Eryn Horn answer a cryptic call for help from an old platoon sergeant in the lonely town of Coldwell. What looks like one job becomes a hunt for something much older and stranger.

Widowed former Marine Dan Tackett signs on for a rich counter-piracy job in the South China Sea. The mission turns into a brutal hunt for a renegade Chinese captain, with rival forces closing in from every side.

Jed Horn and Dan Weatherby join the search for a missing child in the mountains of Washington State. The trail leads into a canyon where the Otherworld presses dangerously close.

Retired Marine Colonel John Brannigan takes one more impossible job when terrorists seize a tiny Gulf kingdom and hold Americans hostage. With a handpicked mercenary crew and no backup, he goes in anyway.

After their identities are leaked online, the men of Praetorian Solutions discover that the war has come home. Survival means retaliation, and Jeff Stone's team has no choice but to hit back.

A demon follows Jed and his companions home to Ray's uncanny refuge in the Northwest hills. Soon they are trapped between things inside the house and worse things gathering outside.

Brannigan's team heads into northern Burma for a deniable search-and-destroy mission in the middle of civil war, heroin routes, and great-power games. The deeper they go, the bigger the stakes become.

A missing WHO team and villages dying from mysterious plagues pull the Blackhearts into Chad. What starts as a rescue mission turns into a chase through disease, private armies, and a widening conspiracy.

Coordinated attacks kill hundreds across the American Southwest, and no one even knows who claimed them. Brannigan's Blackhearts are sent onto an oil rig in the Gulf, where the bullets are only part of the danger.

A hunt for a notorious arms broker drags the Blackhearts into Transnistria, a gray-zone pocket full of soldiers, smugglers, and bad odds. They are chasing answers before the terrorists erase the trail.

This time the job is personal. When cartel violence hits Mario Gomez's family, Brannigan's crew crosses into the high desert to settle the score and try to bring his sister home.

Matt Bowen's team goes into war-torn Slovakia for a straightforward hostage rescue and gets front-row seats to a much larger disaster. Surprise attacks and mass killings turn a covert mission into the opening of a wider war.

After barely escaping Slovakia, Matt and the Triarii find Europe sliding closer to full-scale conflict. Poland is threatened, the lines are shifting, and the next attack may not come from where anyone expects.

The Blackhearts finally know the enemy behind the mask, and they take the hunt to South America. But chasing a fleeing Humanity Front target into the altiplano may be exactly the trap their enemies want.

While war spreads overseas, Hank's unit is sent into Phoenix to stop cartel-backed insurgents and local gangs from tearing the city apart. When the power grid fails, the whole fight gets uglier.

A rising jihadist wants former Soviet backpack nukes, and the money trail leads to Azerbaijan. Brannigan's Blackhearts step into a dirty mission where Russian interests, local fighters, and hidden agendas collide.

The invasion attempt on America's coast has been checked, but the country is still dark, fractured, and vulnerable. Hank and the Triarii are trying to restore order while enemies, foreign and domestic, circle in.

After the costliest battles yet, Matt's team is sent deep behind enemy lines to learn what the European Defense Council is planning next. The quiet on the front is not peace, it is warning.

The Triarii finally know who has been driving the war from behind the curtain. That discovery sends Hank's people toward the South China Sea to hit back, even if the official powers refuse to admit the truth.

When a black-bag raid on a hidden base in Kyrgyzstan goes catastrophically wrong, only one man knows where the prisoners were taken. That man is Dan Tackett, and retirement is over.

With the Galactic Unity pushing on every side, Scalas and the Brotherhood race to gather allies before they are crushed one by one. The war stops being local and becomes a fight for a coalition's survival.

After Valdek, the Unity's advance spreads and Provenia becomes the next hard-pressed front. Nealen broadens the war here, mixing frightened defenders, hard combat, and the sense that the galaxy is sliding toward something bigger.

Centurion Scalas and the Caractacan Brotherhood descend through blockade and fire toward a world already under assault. It is the opening shot of a military science fiction war with starships, honor, and a frightening new enemy.

With Europe still on the edge, Matt joins another offensive that promises victory and smells like disaster. Nealen keeps the pressure on, balancing battlefield action with the fear that one wrong move could make everything worse.

A rogue strongman turns a jungle border city into a narco-funded nightmare, and the Blackhearts are sent in dark to remove him. Killing the target may be the easy part.

A favor to underworld power broker Erika Dalca drags the Blackhearts into a dense urban operation where mafia rivals and larger forces are closing in. The city gives them nowhere easy to disappear.

The Marines return north looking for missing comrades and answers they never got. Instead they walk into a larger war, where sorcery and old hatreds make every mile harder.

Recon Marine Conor McCall expects a training mission off Norway, not a summer fog that drops his platoon into a frozen nightmare world. To survive, the Marines have to fight monsters, sorcerers, and the land itself.

Ships with valuable cargo are vanishing far from the usual pirate waters. Brannigan's crew signs on for what looks like a routine escort and finds a far more dangerous enemy waiting offshore.

The war reaches its breaking point as the final offensive against Taiwan begins and the fight creeps closer to the Chinese mainland. Every side is desperate, and desperate enemies do reckless things.

The European Defense Council has fallen, but Europe is not done bleeding. Matt's battered team keeps moving through jihadist attacks, Russian pressure, and a suspicious new NGO that may be more dangerous than it looks.

Conor McCall and the surviving Marines finally reach safety, but the debt they owe their new allies sends them back into cursed country. A rescue mission becomes a trek into the lair of something ancient and malignant.

A strange island rises in the sea, Deep Ones want Conor's blade, and a quest for an ancient twin sword pulls the Marines east. The road is full of sorcery, monsters, and revenants that do not quit.

Conor and his allies return from a hard-won quest to find their kingdom under siege and treachery blooming at court. To save Cor Legear, the Marines have to fight both enemy armies and a coup from within.

War arrives in force as an empire and its monsters march on Cor Chatha. Conor's Marines can scout, delay, and bleed the enemy, but the fortress may still become their last stand.

The Legion's code endures through defeat, distance, and impossible orders. This Galaxy's Edge story keeps the focus on soldiers who refuse to stop being legionnaires when the galaxy shifts.

A killing in Seattle and a massacre in Northern California put Pallas Group on the trail of a hidden facilitator with reach from the Pacific Northwest to South America's Tri-Border. The closer they get, the dirtier the picture becomes.

Chris Grant took a domestic protection detail to get away from war zones. Then someone tries to kill the client, and Pallas Group Solutions stumbles into a secret war full of drugs, corruption, foreign influence, and terrorism.

The war finally comes home to Pallas Group Solutions, hitting both the business and the men behind it. Chris, Nick, and the rest are done reacting, but fighting back means crossing lines they cannot uncross.

After hitting Chinese operations in Mexico, Pallas Group pushes farther south into Central America. Their mission is no longer quiet, and fresh enemies start stepping out of the shadows.

Pallas Group follows the trail south as Chinese influence operations and cartel violence start to overlap in Mexico. Chris Grant and his team have to figure out who is using whom before the border war gets even bloodier.

Corvan and Zolah edge toward open war while ghost ships stir trouble in the dark between them. Bannon and Draven race through different fronts toward the same looming catastrophe.

As the clash on Zhogalgan spreads, Bannon and Draven are sent on separate missions that point to a larger hand behind the violence. The war grows wider, and the hidden enemy becomes harder to ignore.

When a military junta seizes a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Blackhearts are hired to break out a dissident and spark regime change by proxy. The problem is that the rebels may not be much better.

Lieutenant Bannon and First Sergeant Draven are both peacekeepers on a barren world, but they serve rival powers with very different agendas. Their local conflict looks more and more like the start of an interstellar war.