Randall Wood Books in Order

If you want the true starting point: Closure → Pestilence → Scarcity
If you want the tightest FBI thriller run: Pestilence → Scarcity → Security
If you want the bigger vigilante arc: Closure → Rebellion → Resistance → Rubicon
If you want the endgame once you're hooked: Revolution → Renaissance → Rebirth

Randall Wood is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and he did not take a neat workshop path into fiction. He joined the Army right out of high school and served with the 82nd Airborne, training as a combat medic and working mainly in Central and South America.

After the military, he kept collecting jobs and stories. Over the years he worked as a paramedic and flight medic, but also as a bartender, teacher, student, and entrepreneur. That mix matters, because his books often feel written by someone who has seen hectic rooms, strange hours, and people under pressure.

Writing had been with him much longer than the publishing career. In junior high he wrote stories starring friends, and his mother printed copies for him to pass around at school. Later, while working long shifts, he used the downtime between calls to write longer pieces, building the habit of fast scenes, practical detail, and sharp dialogue.

Then came the fire station moment.

He has told the story a few times: he left a manuscript behind during a call, came back, and found firefighters passing the pages down a row of recliners instead of watching TV. That was the nudge he needed. After trying the traditional route and getting real interest, he chose to self-publish Closure in 2009. Sales grew, more books followed, and within about a year he was writing full time.

Most readers know him for the Jack Randall books, which begin with Closure and continue through Pestilence, Scarcity, and Security. They are big, propulsive thrillers, FBI investigations, terrorism plots, black market organ trafficking, threats to public infrastructure, but they stay readable because Wood keeps the human stakes clear. Jack Randall is capable and stubborn, but he is rarely comfortable, and the best books keep putting him in problems that test both skill and conscience.

The later novels, especially Rebellion and the linked Twelve Shepherds arc, push harder into questions about justice, public anger, and how badly broken systems can drive people toward extreme answers. Even his shorter work ties back into that world. Time is a companion collection built around six core characters over a single day, and Insight shifts focus to Danny Drake, a reporter chasing a much bigger story than he expected.

Readers who stick with him usually point to the same pleasures: fast pacing, clean action scenes, solid procedural know-how, and a cast that feels like a working team instead of a lone genius with backup. His medical background gives the danger weight, but he seldom lets research smother the story.

He likes big stakes, but he also likes the machinery behind them.

That interest in systems shows up outside the novels too. In 2021 he launched ScribeCount, a reporting tool for independent authors, after getting tired of wrestling sales data into something useful. These days he divides his time between a home on the Gulf of Mexico and another in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife. He still writes through the workweek and keeps plenty of ideas in motion.