Robert Ryan Books in Order

A bungled robbery sends Hilton "Rabbit" Babcock and his young hostage crashing into the buried streets beneath Seattle. Hunted above and below ground, they enter a dark, forgotten world with almost no way back out.

After a strange casino shooting, Atlantic City cabbie Ed Behr sees a chance to reconnect with his old life and settle old scores. His damaged memory makes every step riskier as revenge starts to look possible again.

Based on real figures from racing and the French Resistance, this novel follows William Grover-Williams, Robert Benoist, and Eve Aubicq from fast cars to occupied France. Friendship, rivalry, and espionage all pull in different directions.

Harry Cole is a charming rogue who drifts into occupied France under the cover of secret work. Love, danger, and the Resistance push him into risks he never planned to take, and toward a reckoning for treason.

Berlin, 1938. A British executive is murdered, vital papers vanish, and Inspector Cameron Ross is sent in to learn what was lost. His search leads to a gifted violinist, and then into war, exile, and divided loyalties.

Twenty years after her father vanished on a mission over northern Italy, Lindy Carr goes looking for the truth. With a former wartime pilot as her guide, she uncovers resistance secrets that never stayed buried.

FBI field officer Vince Piper loses his daughter in a terrorist bombing at a London bookshop and cannot let it go. His hunt for the people behind the attack leads into a conspiracy that is bigger, and uglier, than he expected.

A terrible accident on a baseball field leaves one family facing an impossible demand, while elsewhere another child is taken. As the two stories converge, Ryan uncovers a grim world of trafficking, coercion, and desperate love.

Years after the war, pilot Lee Crane is ready to leave Singapore behind when he sees a woman he believed dead. The shock sends him back into memories of the Flying Tigers, lost love, and everything he may have misunderstood.

Vince Piper returns to London hoping not to make another mistake, but the woman he loves is suddenly at risk. As murdered women and political corruption close in, the case turns darker and far more personal.

In 1948, Laura McGill is done waiting for answers about the sister who vanished on a wartime mission. Her search takes her to divided Berlin, where old secret work is giving way to a colder, murkier kind of war.

Before he became Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence was a young officer in Cairo with large ideas and a dangerous assignment. Sent into a desert struggle against a German rival, he begins to become the legend history remembers.

This novel reimagines Scott's doomed race to the South Pole through the men who lived it, especially Lawrence Oates. Hope, pride, and small mistakes harden into catastrophe as the expedition's long retreat begins.

Ryan turns the Great Train Robbery into a tense crime novel about nerve, greed, and the cost of keeping quiet. Once the money is taken, the real trouble begins, and the gang starts to crack under pressure.

In the trenches of Flanders, one strange death should disappear into the slaughter of war, but Watson knows better. As more bodies appear, he must hunt a killer in one of the most lethal places on earth.

Back in England, Watson is helping shell-shocked soldiers when a secret tank project goes disastrously wrong. Seven men are dead, one survives in silence, and Watson is drawn into a wartime mystery the army wants solved fast.

Imprisoned in a German POW camp in 1917, Dr. Watson is asked to look into a prisoner's murder. What seems like a simple wartime killing soon becomes a deeper conspiracy, and escape may be his only chance to expose it.

This collection gathers six Watson-centered stories, reworking Arthur Conan Doyle material in clever new ways. It is a lighter side road in the series, but still full of mystery, danger, and Ryan's affection for Watson.

Bodyguard Sam Wylde takes a protection job for a wealthy family and quickly senses that something is badly wrong. Trapped underground with her young charge and danger closing in, she has to fight smart to get them out alive.

Wartime London is under threat from the sky when Watson loses an old friend and another is kidnapped. A grisly ransom demand and an uneasy alliance with a former enemy drag him into espionage and murder.

In this short Sam Wylde story, Sam heads to Ibiza chasing any clue that might lead her back to her daughter Jess. The search is personal, urgent, and dangerous enough to pull her in deeper than ever.

With her British licence revoked, Sam Wylde is working security on a luxury yacht in Europe while still searching for her ex-husband and daughter. A failing client, rising violence, and shifting loyalties leave her boxed in from every side.

Sam Wylde tracks her ex-husband and missing daughter to the nightclub world of Bali, only to find that someone is hunting her too. When an old enemy resurfaces, the search turns into a brutal race for survival.

A short R.J. Bailey collection that delivers suspense in a compact form, with sharp turns and a dark undercurrent. It works well as a quick sampler of the tense, fast-moving style behind the Sam Wylde books.