Robert Hoon Thrillers (Barry J Hutchison) Books in Order
Part ofBarry J Hutchison Books in OrderBrowse the Robert Hoon thrillers by Barry J Hutchison in order, with summaries, series background, and tips on where to start.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Robert Hoon Thrillers (Barry J Hutchison) books in publication order
5 books
Northwind
by Barry J Hutchison (writing as JD Kirk)
2021
Disgraced ex superintendent Bob Hoon is drinking his way through a dead end job when an old Special Forces friend asks him to find his missing teenage daughter. The search drags Hoon from the Highlands to London’s underworld and into a trafficking network that reignites his very dangerous sense of purpose.
Eastgate
by Barry J Hutchison
2022
Bob Hoon's war with the Loop drags him into a violent new crisis, this time with civilians trapped in the firing line. The result is another bruising, foul-mouthed thriller where survival and revenge keep colliding.
Southpaw
by Barry J Hutchison (writing as JD Kirk)
2022
After tearing into a trafficking ring, Bob Hoon finds himself hunted by the Loop, a secretive criminal organisation with friends in very high places. Rather than run, he decides to go undercover inside the cabal, planning to burn it down even if it costs him his life.
Westward
by Barry J Hutchison
2022
Having humiliated the Loop, Bob Hoon is marked for death by the Alphas, an elite squad of assassins. Outgunned and far from safety, he is forced back to the Highland home he swore never to see again, where a final, bloody confrontation is waiting.
Stateside
by Barry J Hutchison
2024
Bob Hoon heads to America when his friend, MI5 agent Miles Crabtree, goes missing. The trail runs through the Everglades and on to Vegas, with violence, conspiracy, and one very odd private investigator along the way.
Robert Hoon Thrillers (Barry J Hutchison) books in chronological order
Westward
by Barry J Hutchison
2022Robert Hoon Thrillers, Book 3
Eastgate
by Barry J Hutchison
2022Robert Hoon Thrillers, Book 4
Stateside
by Barry J Hutchison
2024Robert Hoon Thrillers, Book 5
Series background & context
The Robert Hoon books take one of Barry J Hutchison's most explosive crime characters and give him room to wreck things properly. Hoon is a former detective superintendent and former soldier who has alienated most of the world around him. He drinks too much, swears with real commitment, and solves problems in ways no police manual would ever approve.
He is also, in his own warped fashion, trying to do the right thing.
That is the tension that carries the series. In Northwind, Hoon is pulled back into action when an old army contact asks him to find a missing teenage girl. What starts as one private search opens into trafficking, abuse, and a criminal network with reach far beyond the Highlands. The later books widen the scale, but they keep that same pattern. Hoon gets involved because a case hits him personally, and from there the damage spreads.
These are not quiet mysteries. They are action-heavy thrillers built on pursuit, ambushes, dirty conspiracies, and the sort of decision-making that leaves buildings damaged and enemies very sorry they crossed the wrong man. Southpaw pushes Hoon up against the Loop, a powerful criminal cabal. Westward strips him down to survival. Eastgate and Stateside keep enlarging the world while holding onto what makes him fun to read, his anger, his battered conscience, and the very thin line between heroism and catastrophe.
Hoon himself is the point. He is rude, reckless, and often completely out of order, but he is never empty. The books keep finding small, telling moments beneath the insults and violence, and that is what stops him becoming a cartoon.
If the Logan novels are Barry J Hutchison's police procedurals, the Hoon books are the louder, bloodier cousin. They still share the same wider crime world, and readers who know Logan will catch extra texture, but Hoon's series has its own rhythm. Read it if you want danger, black humor, and a lead character who would be a terrible dinner guest and a very useful man to have on your side.
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