Space Ops Books in Order

Space Ops (also known as the Station Breaker series) pushes Andrew Mayne’s love of high stakes puzzles into orbit. The books follow astronaut and test pilot David Dixon, whose supposedly routine commercial missions keep turning into improvisational survival tests that span continents and orbits.

In Station Breaker, David’s first trip to space goes wrong in a hurry. A gunfight erupts on a Russian space station, leaving him scrambling to survive in a place where every mistake is fatal. Forced into an emergency return to Earth, he crash lands from orbit and instantly becomes the most wanted man on the planet. With armed teams chasing him from the Mexican desert to the streets of Rio, David has to figure out who set him up, why the mission was sabotaged, and how to turn the same technology that nearly killed him into a weapon on his side.

Orbital sends him back upstairs. A clandestine agency offers David a chance to return to space, this time under deep cover. His target is a spymaster known only as Silverback, believed to be operating from an orbiting science platform and connected to a stolen nuclear device. To get close, David has to pose as a contractor, blend in with scientists and technicians, and pull off an investigation in an environment where every move is monitored and escape routes are limited to lifeboats and reentry pods.

The Space Ops books lean into real world orbital mechanics and hardware while still running like chase movies. Mayne treats space as both a wonder and a hostile wilderness, where tiny pieces of debris are as dangerous as bullets and political decisions made on the ground can kill you hundreds of miles above it. If readers like the idea of a resourceful pilot using physics, guts, and occasionally outright theft to stay alive, this series is built for that itch.