Rollback Books in Order

The Rollback series introduces Mike Mansfield, a middle aged investigator who is most comfortable operating in the shadows. He has a rough sense of humor, a very strict personal code, and a small network of trusted helpers he calls his invisibles, people who see things others overlook and quietly pass information his way.

In Rollback Mansfield's anonymous career of finding missing people and righting certain wrongs collides with an even bigger secret. David Bruni, a wealthy technologist, has been quietly building a supercomputer system that can stitch together billions of images from phones, traffic cameras, doorbells, and other sources into moving snapshots of almost any moment in time. While testing the system, he discovers the trick behind Mansfield's uncanny success and realizes this stubborn investigator is the key piece he did not know he was missing.

What begins as a tense meeting between two very different men soon spirals into a story about power, privacy, and justice. Bruni did not spend a fortune on his surveillance engine out of idle curiosity. He has a deeply personal reason for wanting to look backward and forward through the world's digital memory, and he is willing to bend laws and ethics to achieve it.

A third major character, INTERPOL agent Leslie Salazar, rounds out the triangle. She brings global jurisdiction and her own stake in seeing certain crimes fully exposed, but partnering with Mansfield and Bruni means walking a tightrope between what is legal and what is right. As the three of them cross paths with kidnappers, corrupt officials, and people who thought their worst acts were invisible, the consequences of the technology become impossible to ignore.

The Mirage finds Mansfield and his invisibles working to help a grieving family make sense of a tragedy that never felt quite real. The official explanation is neat and convenient, the kind of story designed to stop questions instead of answering them. When they start pulling on loose threads, they uncover a manufactured narrative that was meant to distract everyone from something larger moving under the surface.

The planned third book, The Circle, is set to pull those threads even tighter, bringing Mansfield into direct conflict with the forces who believe they alone should control the system that can see nearly everything. Taken together, the Rollback novels explore what happens when near total information awareness collides with human motives that are anything but pure.

Expect a blend of investigative work, cutting edge surveillance concepts, and a found family of operatives who rely on trust more than badges. The tone is firmly thriller, but the questions about how much of ourselves we give away every time we take a picture or step in front of a camera linger long after the action scenes end.