Stephen Knight Books in Order

Cut off in fallen New York, First Sergeant David Gartrell is almost out of ammo and out of time. With a terrified woman and her young son depending on him, he has to carve a path out of the city or die in it.

Major Cordell McDaniels leads a Special Forces team into New York to rescue the one man who might stop the virus raising the dead. A violent storm and increasingly dangerous zombies turn the mission into a fight just to get out alive.

Cord McDaniels and David Gartrell reunite as the zombie outbreak spreads nationwide. Their new mission is to protect a Texas lab working on a vaccine while millions of dead close in on the perimeter.

Now commanding Joint Task Force SPARTA, McDaniels has to hold a fortified Texas laboratory against an enormous undead siege. The scale gets bigger, the ammunition smaller, and every decision carries the weight of a collapsing country.

Ten years after the Sixty Minute War, Harmony Base may be America's last functioning outpost. Captain Mike Andrews leads a mission into the ruins to recover vital parts, only to find dangerous survivors waiting in the wreckage.

A new disease turns people into sadistic, laughing killers, and a battalion in Boston loses control of the city almost overnight. Their only hope is a long retreat through an America already falling apart.

Three light infantry soldiers are stranded outside New York as the dead boil out of the city. Their route home runs past a farm, and what looks like cover quickly turns into another fight to stay alive.

On the day nuclear war begins, Command Sergeant Major Scott Mulligan takes on the hardest mission of his life, getting his family out before annihilation closes in. It is a grim, fast prequel to the Earthfall world.

Escaping Boston, Harry Lee leads the First Battalion toward Fort Drum through a country overrun by laughing killers. Ambushes, exhaustion, and the burden of command make every mile costly.

A massive solar event wipes out modern technology in seconds, and Manhattan drops into chaos. Stranded TV executive Tony Vincenzo starts walking toward Los Angeles, but the trip gets far worse when he takes charge of two young children.

After weeks of retreat, Harry Lee's battalion reaches Philadelphia with thousands of refugees in tow. When Lee is arrested, Major Chris Walker has to hold the survivors together as the infected gather again.

As the dead overrun New York, Captain Phil Hastings leads the surviving soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division toward Fort Indiantown Gap. Their fight is not just against the horde, but against panic, exhaustion, and the living people exploiting the collapse.

At a fortified government site, Harry Lee discovers the president has been infected while thousands of killers close in outside. A team is sent underground on a mission as simple and awful as it sounds.

When Robert Wallace recovers from a sudden illness, his wife is dead, his son is missing, and Los Angeles belongs to the undead. He has to cross a collapsing city and find the boy before the hordes do.

As a plague turns the dead into flesh-eating corpses, America's big cities fall fast. In remote Single Tree, California, locals race to turn a small desert town into a fortress before the hordes, and other survivors, arrive.

The battalion's retreat narrows to one more brutal stand, where command frays and the infected keep coming. It is a grim late-series entry built on siege pressure, fatigue, and ugly choices.

This short Earthfall novella fills in the ground between the bigger missions. In a world still reeling from nuclear war, unfinished business and old history catch up with the survivors.

Escaping the slaughter at Fort Indiantown Gap, the survivors split into two desperate columns. One heads for Fort Bragg with the acting president, while the other fights west toward Colorado Springs as the reekers close in.

After a brutal run across ruined America, Mike Andrews and the crew of SCEV Four finally find a thriving survivor town in Oregon. Then a violent army out of the wasteland turns a hopeful contact mission into another desperate defense.

Battered by months of retreat, Harry Lee's battalion reaches the Georgia-Florida line and gets one last mission at Moody Air Force Base. It reads like a final march into disaster, with survival of the country hanging on exhausted soldiers.