Ray Keating Books in Order

Keating examines New York State and New York City through statistics on taxes, budgets, education, crime and daily life. The study considers the pressures behind their continuing crises, using numerical evidence to assess public policy and quality of life.

Statistical charts compare American states and the nation with the wider world across economic and social measures. Taxes, education, crime, government debt and business conditions provide a framework for examining public services, private enterprise and regional differences.

Former CIA assassin Stephen Grant has found a quieter calling as a parish pastor. A church shooting and threats against the Pope bring his past back into focus, forcing him to combine intelligence skills with theological convictions to protect others.

Ray Keating uses scenes from the television series Chuck to explore business and career decisions. Examples cover leadership, employee relations, customer service, technology, hiring, and balancing work with personal life, drawing practical lessons from the show's fictional workplace.

A New York mayor's hostility toward the Catholic Church sparks political conflict during Advent, escalating into violence and murder. Pastor Stephen Grant works with the archdiocese, FBI, friends, and former CIA colleagues to confront threats to religious freedom.

Parish pastor and former CIA operative Stephen Grant confronts a deadly intersection of religion, politics, and money. Drug traffickers, politicians, intelligence agencies, and a secretive foreign regime become entangled in a conflict shaped by charity, envy, and greed.

Keating examines how intellectual property protection affects entrepreneurship and smaller businesses across different industries. Discussions of patents, copyright and theft connect legal safeguards with innovation, economic growth and the challenges companies face in an increasingly knowledge-based economy.

When Stephen Grant's wife is kidnapped amid a Las Vegas murder mystery, figures from his CIA past return. The former operative must use his old skills while confronting the difficult boundary between justice and revenge in saving someone he loves.

Pastor Stephen Grant faces a tangled mystery connecting a Christian family's rescue from terrorists, New York minor league baseball, violent murders, and political wrongdoing. His military and intelligence background becomes essential as these seemingly separate dangers converge.

Counterfeit wine leads to murder and revenge, pulling pastor Stephen Grant into an investigation of the wine trade. Drawing on his former Navy SEAL and CIA experience, he must unravel the criminal scheme while remaining grounded in his religious calling.

Terrorist attacks bring violence to American churches, homes, and public institutions. Pastor Stephen Grant returns to skills learned with the Navy SEALs and CIA, confronting a campaign whose physical dangers are intertwined with battles over faith and political ideas.

Stephen Grant attends a comic book, fantasy, and science fiction convention, an unfamiliar world for the pastor and former operative. Joining an unusual group of allies, he tries to stop a plot targeting a celebrated comic creator.

A Russian businessman compared with Ronald Reagan becomes caught in a deadly struggle with forces seeking a return to old national ambitions. Stephen Grant enters an international conflict reaching from California and Washington to a monastery and the Kremlin.

A major beach volleyball tournament on a New York City pier attracts more than spectators and athletes. With his wife, friends, and former CIA colleagues nearby, Stephen Grant confronts terrorism and international intrigue unfolding alongside the sporting competition.

This companion supports individual reflection or group discussion of Warrior Monk's moral and religious questions. Topics include terrorism, war, prayer, marriage, ecumenism, church architecture, and the relationship between public life and the Church, using the novel as a starting point.

A pastor in China and his rising professional golfer son face threats from the government. Stephen Grant's intelligence experience and familiarity with golf place him at major tournaments as caddy and bodyguard while confronting persecution, revenge, and international conflict.

Ten discussions explain Keating’s case for free trade and against protectionism. Focusing on the choices of individuals and businesses, he considers how tariffs, quotas and government restrictions affect consumers, workers, entrepreneurs and opportunities for international exchange.

Stephen Grant hopes for quiet prayer at a European monastery, but encounters a notorious CIA traitor in a nearby village. His retreat becomes a struggle for survival amid disputes over intelligence secrets and events spanning France, Hong Kong, and Langley.

A collection of Ray Keating's essays and columns examines economics, faith, politics, history, immigration, business, and popular culture. His traditional conservative perspective connects current affairs with Christian values, individual responsibility, limited government, and free enterprise.

A pope’s effort to reconsider Jan Hus and Martin Luther provokes opposition from figures inside and outside the Vatican. He seeks former CIA operative Stephen Grant’s help as opponents prepared to use violence threaten the proposed reforms.

Pastor Stephen Grant recounts a troubling episode from his past through entries in his journal. Murder, threatening encounters and puzzling acquaintances draw him into a mystery shaped by lost innocence and revenge, forcing him to reconsider people he once knew.

Through his journal, Stephen Grant revisits a mystery spanning decades and locations from Long Island to Vietnam. Deception, betrayal and sacrifice challenge his understanding of friendship, raising uncomfortable questions about how much he can truly know about other people.

As communism and fascism gain power in the early 1930s, the covert Alliance of Saint Michael begins its first mission. Its members must recover a significant object from Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour before the building is destroyed.

Stephen Grant and those closest to him encounter violent religious persecution stretching from Russia to the Middle East. With danger reaching political and church leaders, the pastor and his former CIA colleagues must act quickly to protect innocent lives.

Fifty-two brief essays introduce economic reasoning to readers without specialist training. Keating applies economic principles to current debates and conflicting claims, offering a weekly framework for thinking through public policy, entrepreneurship and questions about how the economy works.

Stephen Grant welcomes Christmas at St Mary’s with family, a new clergy friendship and a handbell concert. Beneath the seasonal celebrations, an emerging danger forces the pastor to confront questions of justice, forgiveness and sacrifice.

Stephen Grant travels to California to officiate at two friends’ wedding, but an old grievance threatens the celebration. A powerful enemy sends killers seeking revenge, forcing Grant and his former CIA colleagues to protect the couple and stop the attack.

A second set of fifty-two essays offers short weekly introductions to economic thinking. Keating examines important questions about the economy, drawing on his work in small business and entrepreneurship to help readers assess competing explanations and policy claims.

Stephen Grant and his economist wife Jennifer attend a conference at Notre Dame, expecting to speak together. Dangerous political impulses within the Church turn their gathering into a deadly struggle, forcing them to defend more than their ideas about religious freedom.

A priest’s murder on Long Island and Nazi attacks on a Jewish couple in Germany draw in the Alliance of Saint Michael. Its members try to protect those threatened while confronting Nazi deception within the Church.

Fifty-two further essays continue Keating’s introduction to economic reasoning through brief weekly readings. This third volume considers how economies work, connecting accessible explanations with the author’s interests in small business, entrepreneurship and the effects of public policy.

Keating revisits twelve science fiction films from the 1950s, questioning familiar assumptions about cheap spectacle and Cold War paranoia. Assessments of their strengths, limitations and lasting influence connect the movies with the decade that produced them.

Attacks on Eisenhower and Stalin threaten an unexpected transformation of the Cold War in 1953. Secret Service agent Dean Cold leads a clandestine team into a mystery whose consequences reach beyond familiar political rivalries and military dangers.