Robert Vaughan Books in Order

Army helicopter pilot Brandywine approaches the Vietnam War with a disregard for convention. Around him, military routines and combat produce dangerous situations and absurd encounters, as soldiers find humor amid the disorder of their daily lives.

A wealthy planter’s troubled past shadows the lives of his wife and mixed-race son. On their plantation, personal ambition and brutal power transform family relationships as the woman of the house becomes increasingly cruel toward the people she enslaves.

In Saigon in 1963, Colonel Justin Barclay receives a covert assignment to help engineer a political coup. Growing violence and a dangerous conspiracy force him to balance American demands against his loyalties to Vietnam and the people whose lives depend on his choices.

A powerful family builds an oil empire through ambition, determination, and a relentless appetite for influence. As wealth grows, personal passions and struggles for control threaten the enterprise, bringing the people who created it dangerously close to destroying their own achievement.

The murder of Leah Graves unsettles a Missouri town where violent crime is rare. Beautiful, privileged, and difficult to control, Leah leaves behind troubled relationships and concealed family secrets that complicate the search for the truth about her death.

Country singer Dee Hamilton wants to share her success by helping another performer become a star. Discovering the talented and attractive Wilson Powers draws her into a relationship where musical ambition and personal desire threaten to become inseparable.

As George Armstrong Custer prepares to confront an unseen enemy, he confides doubts about his scouts and a fellow officer to adjutant Jack Shields. Their conversations reveal the uncertainty beneath military confidence on a frontier where crucial information remains missing.

Army officer Jake Culpepper arrives in Vietnam to confront a war that challenges his family’s traditions of service. As his sons take opposing paths and those around him struggle with divided loyalties, personal attachments collide with the conflict’s escalating violence.

Across three generations, a Texas family risks fortunes and relationships in pursuit of wealth from the land. Their bold ambitions, ruthless dealings, and powerful attachments shape a dynasty whose prosperity carries the costs of competition and personal obsession.

The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair brings together ambitious Americans facing a changing century. A wealthy landowner, a young cowboy, a reporter, and a campaigner for women’s equality pursue opportunities while risking fortunes, loyalties, and deeply held hopes.

The century’s second decade brings migration, revolution, and war into the lives of an expanding America. From the Titanic’s sinking to Alaska’s goldfields and the conflict beginning in Europe, personal ambitions unfold against a rapidly changing world.

Jazz and Prohibition reshape American life as criminal rivalries, political unrest, and economic danger gather force. This installment moves through the 1920s, placing private hopes and ambitions against a decade whose promises conceal deepening tensions.

As the Great Depression spreads, breadlines and unrest challenge American hopes of security. Against a wider backdrop of crime and civil war abroad, the decade’s upheavals force people to confront danger, frustrated ambitions, and uncertain futures.

World War II transforms America and the wider world through military conquest, persecution, and extraordinary acts of courage. The saga follows the decade’s upheavals toward the arrival of nuclear weapons, as private lives intersect with events that reshape history.

After World War II, a Holocaust survivor, a Black war hero, a correspondent, and a Hollywood director seek new beginnings. Their hopes encounter displacement, racism, grief, and political suspicion as America struggles to define its postwar future.

As Sputnik launches the space race and rock and roll transforms popular culture, America confronts nuclear rivalry and demands for civil rights. The saga follows a nation moving into modernity while personal lives unfold within these mounting pressures.

Fourteen-year-old Richard Prouty reaches Plymouth Colony in 1666 and begins building a life in New England. Marriage and settlement bring hope, but disease, pirate raids, and war test his determination to establish a family legacy in a precarious new home.

The civil rights struggle, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, and the Bay of Pigs mark an era of upheaval. America’s changing ambitions and conflicts converge with an assassination in Dallas, reshaping the future and the lives caught within it.

Captured Union soldiers struggle to survive inside the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. Drawing on journals and historical records, this Civil War story follows men facing brutal treatment and the conditions that killed thousands of prisoners.

The later 1960s bring new freedoms, war, political violence, and a journey to the moon. As public ideals collide with the Tet Offensive and the deaths of national leaders, the decade’s hopes give way to increasingly uncertain times.

Settlers and fighters from different backgrounds converge in Texas as the struggle for independence intensifies. Their lives meet at the Alamo, where an outnumbered force faces Santa Anna’s army and personal destinies become bound to a defining frontier battle.

This historical novel follows the United States Army on the post-Civil War frontier, drawing on the author’s study of the Seventh Cavalry. Troopers and officers face dangerous campaigns, difficult duties, and competing ambitions in the years surrounding Custer’s final expedition.

Before the Civil War, two West Point cadets receive a secret presidential assignment on the Kansas-Missouri border. Amid raids and competing visions for the nation, they confront a violent landscape where neighbors become enemies and personal courage offers no easy protection.

Wyoming’s powerful cattle owners push through a law that threatens small ranchers, then begin assembling a private army to enforce their demands. In Johnson County, competing claims over land and livelihood move toward an increasingly violent confrontation.

Returning from the Civil War to find his family dead, Major Hank Dawson drifts west to Adobe Walls. When the settlement comes under overwhelming attack, its defenders must rely on his experience despite dwindling ammunition and desperate odds.

The destruction of the Maine sends American soldiers toward war with Spain in Cuba. Amid patriotic excitement and harsh battlefield realities, men and women confront the personal cost of a conflict that promises glory but delivers bloodshed.

Bomber pilot Mark White and Emily Hagan fall in love through wartime letters, while a chaplain seeks reconciliation with his military father. Their lives intersect with World War II’s dangers, testing faith, relationships, and hopes for the future.

A couple nearing divorce takes their children to a remote Christmas retreat for one final family holiday. An unexpectedly immersive Victorian celebration gives them a chance to rediscover their marriage, but their hosts conceal an extraordinary mystery.

Two rival former sheriffs put aside their feud when their shared granddaughter’s husband disappears after a bank robbery. Convinced he is an innocent captive, she sends them into hostile territory for one more dangerous rescue.

Former preacher and Civil War gunfighter Cole Collier hopes to live quietly as a cook at a Texas ranch. The arrival of a new owner disrupts that peace, drawing Cole back toward the violent skills he hoped to leave behind.

Patrick and Diane meet while escaping Asia on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Reunited through their naval service, they face wartime danger and loss as their relationship deepens, while Patrick confronts a crisis that tests his faith.

American student Dewey Bradley and German engineering student Gunter Reinhardt enter World War II on opposing sides. As battle hardens one man and disillusions the other, their intersecting paths raise difficult questions about loyalty, faith, and mercy.

Oil-company employee Galen arrives in an Alaskan community still grieving his wife and estranged from faith. His attraction to teacher Ellie grows despite her opposition to his company’s plans, bringing personal hopes into conflict with the town’s future.

Hoping to bury his wartime past, Mason Hawke stops in Salcedo, Texas, where corrupt lawmen control the town. When violence forces him to intervene, he risks exposing the secrets he has tried to leave behind.

Mason Hawke rescues a kidnapped woman while drifting through Wyoming Territory and becomes an unlikely local hero. His intervention earns powerful enemies, drawing him into a struggle against land fraud, corrupt authority, and a hired killer in Green River.

After avenging a friend’s murder, pianist and gunfighter Mason Hawke travels to New Orleans to honor her memory. Another shooting draws him into a criminal organization’s vendetta, sending him across several states while violence frustrates his search for peace.

A deadly saloon confrontation gives an unscrupulous cattleman leverage against drifter Mason Hawke. As the businessman sends killers to advance a scheme against a struggling Nebraska town, Hawke must survive their attacks while resisting another man’s attempt to exploit his violent past.

Haunted Civil War veteran Mason Hawke answers a former lover’s plea for help in Idaho. Wealthy cattlemen are tearing King Hill apart, and protecting her family against their hired guns threatens to expose the painful history he has tried to escape.

The discovery of an ancient gospel introduces a symbol connecting Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Irish priest Michael Flannery investigates its impossible origins and message of religious unity, while opponents work to keep its implications from reaching the world.

A scarred stranger seeking peace arrives in a Texas town threatened by an outlaw gang awaiting a shipment of gold. When the criminals seize control, his hidden past as both priest and gunfighter makes retreat increasingly difficult.

Ryan Flynn distrusts the official treatment of the Apache people and chooses his own understanding of justice. Fighting alongside them and marrying into the community, he challenges military orders and the dishonesty of officials who claim authority over their lives.

Childhood friends Johnny Sangremano and Mike Kelly find themselves on opposite sides of the law as a Mafia heir and a federal agent. Loyalty to family, friendship, and justice collides when Mike targets the organization Johnny is expected to serve.

Helicopter pilot W. W. Brandywine returns to Vietnam for an unwanted six-month extension of duty. Reunited with an eccentric military cast, he navigates combat and bureaucracy through unconventional schemes that turn the absurdities of army life into opportunities for defiance.

With the Civil War over, Marcus Quinn and his Confederate guerrillas face execution for their crimes. A prison train carries them toward Texas, but the resourceful raiders have little intention of staying captive or accepting the punishment awaiting them.

Brothers Lance and Buck Chaney fight on opposite sides of the Civil War until a clash over a gold shipment exposes a shared betrayal. Setting their divided loyalties aside, they join forces to pursue the man who stole the missing fortune.

Abandoned by her husband among the Sioux, a young woman struggles to reclaim a life of her own. Her search for love and fulfillment brings her into conflict with powerful men and the different worlds they control.

Rancher Crack Conrad travels to Bad Water, Texas, hoping to acquire a prized bull called Fancy Red. Rival rancher Raymond Tyrell stands in his way as murder, corruption, and abusive lawmen engulf the town.

As organized crime extends its influence into 1920s Hollywood, Mafia heir Johnny and federal agent Mike are drawn into a new struggle. Former friends turned enemies must decide whether a common threat makes cooperation possible or simply more dangerous.

Buck Chaney interrupts a train robbery, killing two gunmen while their leader escapes without the loot. The encounter leaves Rufus Blanton determined to retaliate, drawing Buck and his brother Lance into another confrontation with an outlaw who has not forgotten his defeat.

Mike Kelly and Johnny Sangremano try to escape the futures their fathers represent, traveling across America in a battered biplane. When circumstances draw them back to New York, a war between Mafia families tests their friendship and competing loyalties.

A reporter enters Vietnam’s combat zones to understand a war with few clear front lines. His search for the real story follows young soldiers confronting an elusive enemy, shifting danger, and the uncertainty of fighting without familiar rules.

Cade McCall drives longhorns toward Kansas along the Chisholm Trail, confronting dangerous rivers, cattle thieves, and armed resistance. Reaching his destination brings a devastating crime instead of relief, sending him on a determined pursuit of justice against those responsible.

After a judge sentences three men for murdering an Indigenous woman, escaped prisoners and former guerrillas begin killing his relatives. Remington sends two trusted men to stop the reprisals, following a bloody trail into country notorious for swallowing those who enter.

Former Confederate soldier Cade McCall survives a prisoner-of-war camp only to face betrayal and abduction into a life at sea. Escaping back toward America begins another struggle, as enemies and a grueling cattle drive test his determination to rebuild his future.

Rejecting official briefings as an adequate picture of Vietnam, a reporter follows soldiers into the field. Jungle patrols, dangerous helicopter missions, and sudden losses reveal a war whose daily realities seldom fit the speeches and explanations presented far from combat.

Chief Territorial Marshal Ned Remington enforces the law in a territory where violence overwhelms ordinary authority. Protecting a woman from a killer tests his speed, judgment, and resolve as conflicting threats turn a dangerous assignment into a struggle on several fronts.

Ned Remington and his men enter Indigenous territory to arrest a Comanche cattle rustler. Capturing their quarry proves only the beginning of their troubles, as an apparently straightforward law-enforcement mission becomes a far larger and more dangerous confrontation.

A Confederate captain risks the Union blockade while Candice Pratt becomes entangled in his dangerous life on land and sea. Their growing connection complicates adventures that could leave him condemned as either a spy or a pirate.

An heiress to a cattle empire becomes caught between two powerful men as a range war intensifies. Their bitter feud threatens both the land she stands to inherit and her ability to choose her own future.

A rescue mission in South America ends with American prisoners freed and civilians reported dead. General Arlie Grant faces court-martial, turning to the daughter of the officer killed in the operation as political and personal accusations mount.

Cade joins buffalo hunters pursuing herds into land reserved by treaty for Native hunting. At Adobe Walls, he and twenty-seven companions face a combined force of Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne warriors, turning the hunt into a desperate fight for survival.

Grieving his wife, Cade settles in Dodge City and loses his share of a saloon during a drunken episode. Rebuilding damaged friendships becomes part of his struggle against despair, while the Slater brothers' effort to control the town creates another dangerous confrontation.

Searching for his missing brother, Danny O’Lee encounters guerrillas, divided loyalties, and an abolitionist who draws him toward the Union cause. His pursuit eventually brings the brothers onto opposing sides of the Civil War in the West.

Peter Tankoff’s specialist Slack Team tackles missions conventional agencies cannot readily handle. When a wealthy media magnate attempts to unseat the American president and rule through financial influence, the team must confront a conspiracy aimed at taking control of the country.

Researchers uncover an ancient gold canister deep beneath Antarctic ice and discover six viable human embryos inside. The finding raises questions about their origins and whether they should be brought to term, with implications far beyond the laboratory.

In Tombstone, an aging lawyer and the young orphan he once rescued work together to confront the town’s dangers. Their shared code demands skill with both legal arguments and firearms when ordinary justice proves difficult to secure.

Marcus Quinn and his raiders find themselves pursued under a wanted notice issued by the Tucson sheriff’s office. Accused of murder, robbery, and cattle rustling, the dangerous group must evade a bounty they believe rests on fabricated charges.

Captain Marcus Cavanaugh tries to contain renewed conflict on the Colorado frontier after a settler attacks a Cheyenne camp. When allied warriors surround his cavalry company on an island in the Arikaree River, dwindling supplies turn the mission into a desperate defense.

Major Marcus Cavanaugh leads inexperienced recruits into the Texas Panhandle, where attacks threaten travelers and settlers. Before he can prepare his men, a wagon train enters an ambush, forcing the company into a fight for which they are barely ready.

Gunfighter Buck Elliot helps small Arizona ranchers resist an English landowner’s hired army. Decades later, Hollywood attempts to turn his life into a film, forcing the aging legend into a new struggle over how his story will be told.

Fresh from West Point, Marcus Cavanaugh reaches Colorado Territory with a platoon of recruits amid attacks on wagon trains and railroad crews. Locating a Cheyenne winter village brings him into a battle whose dangers exceed anything his military training prepared him to face.

Entire communities are mysteriously vanishing, leaving an extraordinary problem for Peter Tankoff and the Slack Team. Their investigation seeks the cause of disappearances that threaten far more than any ordinary criminal operation.

At Fort Keogh, Cavanaugh inherits a command undermined by an officer unwilling to accept his authority. When Major Templeton ignores orders and leads troops into a Sioux trap, Cavanaugh must fight with his remaining men to prevent further disaster.

After fighting alongside Billy the Kid, James Cooper and Henry Newton Brown build very different careers as newspaper editor and town marshal. Their lasting friendship faces a crisis that brings them into a confrontation neither could have anticipated.

Working as an army scout during the Red River War, Cade McCall joins the search for young sisters separated after an attack on their family's wagon. Their survival depends on his efforts and those of the cavalry moving through hostile territory.

Lance and Buck follow a former commanding officer into a dangerous mission, leaving their town exposed after its remaining deputy dies. A one-eyed replacement seems to offer protection, but his plans threaten Barlow with the lawlessness the brothers have ridden away to confront.

Wounded deputy Buck Chaney becomes entangled in a Texas dispute between cattlemen and a Mexican sheep-raising family. Meanwhile, his brother Lance investigates killings intended to erase an old secret, leaving both lawmen fighting separate battles against powerful and determined opponents.

Widowed advertising executive Javanna returns to her Montana hometown and reconnects with childhood friend Luke, now a Christian filmmaker. As their friendship deepens, grief and conflicting relationships with faith complicate the possibility of starting again together.

Arriving in Cochise Springs, Will and Gid Crockett meet a young woman whose brother was killed by an outlaw cattle rustler. With the local marshal unable to stop him, the brothers take on a criminal whose activities threaten neighboring ranchers.

Will and Gid Crockett are hired to escort a colonel's teenage daughter on a stagecoach journey because he fears her kidnapping. An outlaw gang's pursuit carries them toward the dangerous town of Jericho, where protecting her will require another armed confrontation.

Gabe Hansen plans a railroad from Albuquerque to the Pacific, facing opposition from a landowner and the financier’s ambitious son. An unexpected ally offers both help and love, but the struggle for control threatens their growing relationship.

A Fourth of July massacre sends brothers Will and Gid Crockett after Kansas Charley Kellett. Determined to see the killer answer for an entire family’s deaths, they pursue a confrontation where their anger threatens to shape the justice they deliver.

Will and Gid Crockett help a Texas sheriff trap the Jess Felton gang with a false money shipment. When the sheriff is murdered and Will is blamed, the brothers must expose the outlaws while clearing his name and surviving an increasingly dangerous pursuit.

After rescuing Pamela Wellington, Will and Gid Crockett escort her to her father’s vast Texas ranch, Camelot. Their welcome to the prosperous spread conceals trouble, drawing the brothers into another dangerous encounter beneath the appearance of frontier wealth.

After leaving an orphanage and working as a trapper, Matt becomes a wagon-train guide. Leading families west brings new responsibilities as difficult terrain, tensions among travelers, and violent raiders threaten their hopes of reaching Oregon.

Troy survives his family’s murder and spends years seeking revenge before taking work guarding stagecoaches. Framed for killing his driver, he must clear his name while pursuing the last man responsible for the attack that shaped his life.

Will and Gid Crockett rescue a kidnapped woman and return her to her father’s Texas ranch. Hired to help protect the property, they confront cattle rustling, treachery, and a corrupt government scheme that threatens the valley’s water supply.

Robert Vaughan recalls a life spanning childhood, military service, television, newspaper publishing, and a prolific writing career. Told through personal vignettes, the memoir follows unusual encounters and hard experiences in Korea, Vietnam, and the changing worlds of media and fiction.

Hoping for a quiet stay in Sulphur Springs, Will and Gid Crockett instead hear of a woman’s murdered brother. With the local marshal unable to deal with the outlaws responsible, the brothers find themselves drawn into another dangerous attempt to secure justice.

Brothers Will and Gid Crockett join forces with a fiery redheaded woman in a scheme promising unexpected riches. The planned robbery also offers a chance to settle an old grievance, intertwining the prospect of profit with a personal score.

Arriving too late to fight at the Alamo, Luke Calhoun survives captivity and helps escort its surviving women to safety. He joins Sam Houston’s struggle for Texas independence as a shared ordeal draws him closer to Caroline LaFont.

Will and Gid Crockett buy an Arizona gold mine and discover Prescott is controlled by fraudulent deputies and a corrupt judge. Appointed territorial deputies themselves, the brothers uncover an assassination plot and confront the armed organization ruling the town.

Short of money, Will and Gid Crockett accept a job locating a man’s long-lost lover. Finding her amid a Mexican ranch war turns the search into a dangerous effort to identify a killer, resolve a land dispute, and keep their charge alive.

Will and Gid Crockett win the deed to a saloon in a poker game and become business owners in Belle Springs. Their unexpected good fortune brings them into conflict with a crooked sheriff determined to collect his own special tax.

Pat Flannigan’s plan to revive a railroad initially wins local support, then turns divisive when disease appears among cattle. A newspaperman’s murder intensifies suspicions against him, drawing the valley toward a range war while the sheriff searches for the truth.

Hunting the men who killed his fiancée, Rand Colby undertakes a dying friend’s request to locate an unknown niece. Helping Carrie claim her inheritance creates new obligations that collide with his pursuit of revenge when she is endangered.

With money in the bank and a desire for adventure, brothers Will and Gid Crockett head toward California and the Pacific coast. Their journey west brings encounters with welcoming strangers and dangerous opponents, testing their resourcefulness far from familiar country.