Sean Black Books in Order

At Christmas in New York, Ryan Lock's bodyguard job explodes into open war after gunmen target his billionaire client. The chase leads toward something far bigger than one man, and Lock may be the only thing standing in the way.

Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson go inside Pelican Bay Supermax to keep a marked inmate alive until he can testify. Surrounded by prisoners who want their man dead, they are trapped in one of Black's toughest pressure-cooker setups.

An adult-film star finds a headless corpse in the trunk of her car and hires Ryan Lock when the police are no help. The deeper he digs into Hollywood's shadows, the less innocent his client looks.

In this short nonfiction piece, Sean Black looks at the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon from its fan-fiction roots to its publishing impact. It is part cultural snapshot, part quick industry-side analysis.

Ryan Lock takes a Malibu protection job that should be straightforward, but celebrity lives rarely stay simple for long. This short adventure fills in more of Lock's personal world while still delivering danger at close range.

A serial predator has bought protection behind a Mexican drug cartel, and Ryan Lock decides to bring him back anyway. It is a brutal cross-border hunt with justice, revenge, and survival colliding at every turn.

Twelve-year-old Extolziby Gruff survives a near-fatal crash and wakes up in a secret Oxford college. There, children shaped by trauma are transformed into something extraordinary, and X has to decide what kind of boy he will become.

In Los Angeles, Lock and Ty go after a cult whose reach is broader and deadlier than it first appears. The threat builds toward catastrophe, and stopping it means getting close to people built around absolute belief.

A secret government program turns war-damaged veteran Byron Tibor into a more effective weapon, then tries to keep him under control. He escapes and heads for home, but the people who built him do not intend to let him disappear.

When Ty Johnson's oldest friend disappears in a small Minnesota town, the official story feels wrong from the start. Lock and Ty pull at the loose threads and uncover a conspiracy the locals will do almost anything to keep hidden.

Former child star Sofia Salgado quits Hollywood and joins Maloney Investigations to become a real detective. Her first case brings paparazzi, awkward stakeouts, and murder, which is a lot messier than anything television ever promised.

Sofia goes undercover in a Malibu rehab clinic after a case collides with reality stars, bad behavior, and the death of a rising rock star. To solve it, she has to survive the clinic long enough to find the killer.

Still hunted by the people who made him, Byron Tibor drifts into a Texas border county ruled by one powerful family. What starts as another stretch of survival becomes a fight against a place built on fear and impunity.

A kidnap-for-ransom exchange in Budapest looks like easy money for Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson. It is supposed to take forty-eight hours, but nothing about the job stays simple once they touch down.

This short nonfiction book tracks Conor McGregor's rise from Dublin obscurity to UFC champion. Sean Black frames the story around the thirteen-second knockout of Jose Aldo and the force of personality behind it.

What starts as a search for a thirteen-year-old boy's father turns into Sofia's strangest case yet. With too many candidates and a child's life on the line, she and Aidan have to move fast and ask some very awkward questions.

A petty water feud between neighboring vineyard owners turns deadly when one of them ends up murdered. Sofia and Aidan must clear their eccentric client while wading through wine-country grudges, secrets, and very undignified behavior.

A father asks Ryan Lock to rescue his daughter from a remote academy for troubled teens. Behind its walls, students are dying and the official suicides do not add up.

A blackmail case drags Sofia into the world of male strippers, whipped cream, and bad secrets. With her mother's friend in trouble and Aidan undercover on stage, the job gets more dangerous than either of them expected.

Ryan Lock's life turns personal when his girlfriend is abducted in a precise, violent strike. The kidnappers do not want money. They want a prison break, and the clock is already moving.

Hiding in a remote mountain town, Byron Tibor is drawn into danger when a young woman arrives with killers on her trail. A closing blizzard traps everyone together and leaves Tibor little room to keep his past buried.

A Chinese billionaire's daughter vanishes from her California home, and Ryan Lock finds himself between gang violence and a killer from overseas. Everyone is hunting the same girl, but not everyone wants her alive.

Ty Johnson spots an old Marine friend at the center of an armed hospital siege and refuses to stand back. This short, emotionally charged thriller turns a headline crisis into a story about loyalty, trauma, and time running out.

Sofia comes home to find Fred the seagull has become a tiny paparazzo with a camera on his back. When he films the wrong people at a luxury party, she has to find the bird before someone kills him and anyone helping him.

Ty Johnson is hired to protect a journalist investigating a decades-old murder in a quiet Everglades town. The locals smile, the landscape closes in, and the past proves more dangerous than anyone admits.

A Russian oligarch's family and bodyguards start dying, and Ryan Lock is called in before the fortune behind it all disappears too. The trail runs from present-day Manhattan back to the collapse of the Soviet world.

Sofia Salgado goes undercover inside the Church of the Divine Goddess when a rich young woman gets tangled up with a Malibu cult. At the same time, she has to protect a wildly troublesome English bulldog from a very determined movie star.

A missing fourteen-year-old girl sends Ryan Lock into the predatory machinery of trafficking. The hunt is urgent, ugly, and painfully human, with every hour making rescue less certain.

Neil Brody takes center stage in a harder-edged Sean Black thriller built around crime, pressure, and violent choices. It works as the opening move in a new branch of Black's fiction, lean, tense, and close to the bone.

Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson arrive at a billionaire's private island to audit security and find a place built on secrecy. Then they hear about a vanished girl, and paradise starts to look like a trap.

Byron Tibor finds a fragile kind of home among veterans the system has chewed up and discarded. When an old injustice threatens that refuge, he is pulled into another fight with nothing easy about the odds.

A wealthy man's kidnapped son is returned after ransom is paid, but Ryan Lock cannot shake the feeling that the job is far from over. The more he questions the abduction, the more dangerous it becomes for him.