Rick Jones Books in Order

Nineteen years after helping put a killer behind bars, Ashley Quinton starts receiving messages only he should know how to send. The problem is that he is supposed to be 3,000 miles away.

A terrorist group gains control of self-replicating microbots designed to devour everything in their path. Kimball and the Vatican Knights must stop a plan to use the Ark of the Covenant as cover for an attack on Rome.

Terrorists seize the papal plane over the United States and reveal a nuclear device on board. With the White House under pressure, Kimball Hayden must retake Shepherd One before the crisis becomes a catastrophe.

A 14,000-year-old temple discovered in southeast Turkey may be the real cradle of mankind. When Alyssa Moore enters its buried crypts, she finds that Eden may hold horrors instead of paradise.

Kimball Hayden is hunted by a brutal assassin tied to his past, a killer who is systematically destroying his old Force Elite team. The clues carved into the dead all point to one word: Iscariot.

When Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped during a U.S. visit, FBI specialist Shari Cohen discovers she is not alone on the case. A hidden Vatican commando unit joins the hunt, and the rescue quickly opens into a deadly political conspiracy.

An earthquake beneath the Yucatan reveals what looks like an ancient ark hidden below the earth. Alyssa Moore and John Savage uncover a zoo of apex predators and a secret that could rewrite humanity's past.

A stolen lethal strain, a massacred town, and a violent underground clan pull Kimball Hayden out of hiding in Las Vegas. Presumed dead by the Vatican, he is forced back into the fight when the Church itself faces annihilation.

When Shari Cohen's children are kidnapped in Paris by a ruthless human trafficker, she turns to Kimball Hayden for help. The rescue mission becomes a brutal war against one of the deadliest enemies the Vatican Knights have faced.

Newly found temples promise answers about humanity's fate, but they also awaken ancient sentinels built to protect a darker future. John Savage and Alyssa Moore are caught between revelation and extinction.

A terror cell steals deadly Reaper drones and begins turning them against the United States. O.U.T.C.A.S.T, six discarded elite operatives, step in to stop a stateside threat no official team is ready to contain.

Political leaders gather aboard a space mausoleum for a formal ceremony when a strange interstellar cloud changes everything. As the dead begin to rise, former special operative Eriq Wyman fights to get the president back to Earth alive.

Years after a papal airliner disappears over Brazil, people from the flight begin reappearing in Vatican City. Kimball follows the trail into the jungle, where a ruined cathedral, buried secrets, and a threat to the pope wait in the dark.

In a dystopian future, convicts are thrown into a sealed valley in Argentina filled with carnivorous dinosaurs. To win freedom, Ben Peyton and the others must cross the killing ground while the world watches their struggle as entertainment.

In the Syrian desert, the Vatican Knights try to extract a priest and a group of war orphans before ISIS closes in. Kimball soon realizes the team is protecting something far more important than anyone expected.

An earthquake off the Florida Straits uncovers a city believed to be Atlantis. John Savage and Alyssa Moore enter its ruins and find clues that point not to wonder, but to humanity's destruction.

This origin story follows a young Kimball Hayden as gang violence tears through his world. Loss, rage, and survival begin shaping the dark protector he will later become.

After a mission in Syria ends his Delta Force career, Jon Jericho returns home and stumbles into a conspiracy around stolen ICBM plans. Soon the Hunter is running from the same intelligence world that should be protecting him.

Kimball's past as a U.S. government assassin catches up with him during a retreat in Malta. Hunted by a CIA liquidation squad, he must survive long enough to expose the secret mission that made him a target.

The Islamic State steals the True Cross and plans to trade it for devastating weapons. Kimball and the Vatican Knights race to intercept the exchange before Europe and the United States are pushed toward disaster.

Kimball is asked to escort a mysterious guest by train from Zurich to Rome, only to find himself trapped in a violent operation tied to a stolen scientific breakthrough. More than 400 innocent passengers are suddenly in the balance.

Set in Auschwitz in 1943, this prequel steps away from Kimball to tell a darker earlier story. A forbidden bond inside the camp helps lay the foundation for the force that will one day become the Vatican Knights.

The president turns to Jon Jericho when a shadowy enemy gains the power to destroy a superpower with a single command. Jericho and his team face a brutal ticking-clock mission with national survival at stake.

A coup in Niger and a hidden secret beneath a dead hospital threaten to widen into global conflict. The Centurion Group must breach enemy lines and survive a mission where the cost of failure is enormous.

A sacred text written by Saint Peter is stolen from the Vatican archives, and its secrets begin leaving bodies behind. Kimball faces threats on two fronts as enemies close in on both the book and Vatican City.

When a cardinal is taken by ISIS in Damascus and a Vatican team is ambushed, only Kimball Hayden can pull them out. His rescue mission soon leads back toward betrayal inside the Vatican itself.

Mutilated priests in Washington, D.C. point to an old underground order known as the Nocturnal Saints. Shari Cohen and the Vatican Knights must stop the killers before their campaign reaches the pope.

With mankind facing an extinction-level future, John Savage and Alyssa Moore go searching for a relic hidden deep beneath ancient structures. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the next secret may wake something terrible.

A towering structure rises from Antarctica and opens the way to an ancient city under the ice. As world powers race for the weapon hidden there, Savage and Moore try to destroy it before it destroys everyone else.

Inside the Himalayas, a hidden valley of temples and pyramids may hold the key to a final extinction event. Savage and Moore must push forward while rival military units and buried horrors close in.

A terrorist once tied to an attempt on Shari Cohen's life is freed from a blacksite, and America reels under coordinated attacks. Kimball and Shari reunite to stop an operation that could break the country and destroy them both.

In a world where AI actors have replaced human stars, digital hominid Brock Romero learns he has been marked for deletion. He runs through shifting cyber landscapes while corporate assassins try to erase him for good.

Before he served the Vatican, Kimball Hayden led a CIA kill squad and followed orders without mercy. This book digs into the missions, betrayals, and moral collapse that pushed him toward redemption.

A terror cell steals Reaper drones from a U.S. military base and turns American technology against the homeland. The Centurion Group, a deniable black-ops team, is sent in before the country is forced to surrender to fear.

As ISIS resurges in Syria and Iraq, a priest connected to the Vatican is taken hostage and Shari Cohen is pulled back into the field. Kimball and the Vatican Knights must rescue the captives and gather intelligence before the next strike lands.

After a massacre during a papal appearance points to Shari Cohen as the assassin, Kimball is forced into the worst hunt of his life. The deeper he digs, the more it looks like someone has weaponized both love and loyalty.

The Spear of Destiny is stolen, Shari Cohen is fighting for her life, and a terrorist faction fortifies itself inside a Vienna high-rise. The Vatican Knights go in knowing the danger is coming from every direction.

A stolen religious icon called the Eye of Moses contains a particle powerful enough to create worlds or erase them. Kimball must navigate murder, betrayal, and Vatican politics before that power is used for something catastrophic.

A secret hidden for 3,500 years is stolen from Saint Catherine's Monastery and linked to a planned exchange of the golden calf for weapons of mass destruction. Kimball leads the Vatican Knights into a race that could ignite a regional war.

A dark manifesto tied to Satan's messiahs is stolen, and Kimball Hayden is already under pressure from a coming court-martial. The Vatican Knights must recover the book before a ruthless enemy turns myth into political power.

A hidden vault in Zurich appears to hold the Unholy Trinity, while terrorists prepare strikes on major cities and old enemies close in on Kimball. The Vatican Knights face a crisis that could shift global power for years.

Impaled priests, a missing nun, and whispers about a bone keep in the Romanian mountains draw the Vatican Knights into one of their strangest cases. Folklore and violence blur until Kimball no longer knows which monster is real.

When a cardinal's niece is abducted by an Albanian mob, Kimball is forced into a fight without the church fully behind him. The case turns uglier when the shadow force hunting him is tied to Shari Cohen's husband.

A Templar mystery, a sacred relic, and a network of killers converge beneath Venice. The Vatican Knights must solve deadly clues before a treasure hunter and a Russian strike team reach the Cup of Miracles first.

A CIA spy ship disguised as a cruise vessel is sunk by a Russian submarine, leaving a terrifying weapon on the ocean floor. Sage Whitmore and the Sons of Perdition dive into a claustrophobic race against time and Russian Spetsnaz.

The theft of Saint Peter's Scepter of Light sends Kimball Hayden and the Vatican Knights into the Philippines. The mission is hard enough already, then Kimball realizes the most dangerous threat may be his own violent young protégé.

A series of murders linked to stigmata leads the Vatican toward a young girl in a shanty town outside Rome. As investigators close in, the Black Templars move to kill her before the Church learns the truth.

A hostile breach in Vatican cybersecurity produces chilling death notices that predict murders before they happen. Kimball and the Knights chase the source to a Greek island stronghold guarded by mercenaries and old grudges.

The shadowy Genteel Man sends Sage Whitmore and the Sons of Perdition into their first off-the-books mission. What begins as a covert operation quickly widens into a deadly struggle over power, technology, and survival.

An ancient relic found off the coast of Greece appears to break the laws of physics, drawing the attention of both the United States and China. The Sons of Perdition head into the chamber holding it, knowing others never came back out.

Joey Cavello enters a hospice expecting to face death, not a building wrapped in strange fog and filled with sinister secrets. As he and the other residents investigate, they realize something supernatural may already have them trapped.

After a final confrontation with the Black Monk, Kimball Hayden lands in a Texas town just as a reporter is murdered and a mining conspiracy turns violent. To protect a mother and daughter, he has to become a weapon again.

With Kimball believed lost, Isaiah takes command against the Black Monk, who uses AI-driven disinformation to turn Europe and the faithful against the pope. To stop him, the Vatican Knights must assault a hidden mountain stronghold.

A secret global market in genetically engineered children draws Kimball Hayden into a nightmare of wealth, science, and moral collapse. To stop it, he must wade into a world where almost everyone is compromised.

Kimball Hayden retreats to a cabin in South Dakota and stumbles into a plot involving stolen nuclear launch codes and satellite sabotage. With a world crisis counting down, the Vatican needs its deadliest knight back in the fight.

Templar-era scrolls tied to Mary Magdalene resurface after centuries in hiding, threatening to shake the Church itself. Kimball, Isaiah, and a Vatican scholar race the Illuminati toward a revelation some people will kill to suppress.

A peace delegate is assassinated in Paris and the blame falls on Israel, pushing the world toward war. Kimball descends into the city's underworld to stop the larger plot before diplomacy gives way to catastrophe.

A vanished World War II-era ship reappears trapped in Arctic ice, carrying technology and secrets both the United States and Russia desperately want. The recovery mission becomes a covert contest that could tip the global balance.

A Russian general responsible for mass slaughter seeks sanctuary inside Vatican City, and the Vatican Knights are ordered to keep him alive. For Kimball Hayden, protecting the monster means reopening one of the worst failures of his past.

A dying former Stasi insider reveals the existence of the Talisman, a secret assassination network that has never missed its target. With the pope now marked for death, Kimball and the Vatican Knights must reach the witness before the killers do.