Steve Perry Books in Order

Former operative Bram Thorn is drawn back into danger when the Agency finds him in the Australian outback. A former friend turned enemy challenges him to a deadly game involving a plague that could threaten millions.

This interactive adventure sends the reader to America before the Civil War to find Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Choices about where to travel and whom to trust determine the progress of a mission involving escape from slavery.

A colony ship halfway through its long voyage begins experiencing small failures that resist ordinary explanations. As instruments and computers malfunction, its passengers discover that changes in matter and energy may be carrying them toward an unimaginable destination.

The reader travels to the age of the samurai in this branching historical adventure. Encounters with ninja and dangerous traps demand decisions that can lead toward the mission's goal or leave the traveler stranded in the past.

After witnessing the brutality of the Galactic Confederation, soldier Emile Khadaji deserts and seeks another way to resist its rule. Martial training and a rejection of killing shape his attempt to challenge an empire through unconventional tactics.

Conan becomes a bodyguard to a magician and Eldia, a girl who can control fire elementals. An ambitious sorcerer wants her powers, drawing the Cimmerian into a web of demons, shapeshifters, thieves, and competing magical schemes.

Martial artist Dirisha Zuri attracts the attention of Matador Villa, a school training elite bodyguards. Its offer of a new purpose draws her into a broader struggle where protecting chosen clients can also challenge the Confederation's power.

After losing their protector, the young members of Psi-Force try to return to Sanctuary while police and CIA agents pursue them. Their unusual abilities become their main defense as the authorities demand answers they cannot safely provide.

The outlawed Matadors emerge from hiding to confront the Galactic Confederation and Marcus Wall, who used his wealth to dismantle their school. Their resistance brings Khadaji's vision of a new order toward a dangerous confrontation.

Conan accompanies a priest carrying a powerful jewel back to his temple. A necromancer covets the talisman's magic to raise an undead army, turning the journey into a struggle against theft, sorcery, and enemies seeking the same prize.

Survivors of a global biological war are trapped in an underwater laboratory not yet ready to sustain itself. Scientists, technicians, and unusually gifted inhabitants must confront isolation and the challenge of preserving humanity beneath the ocean.

Smuggler Dain Maro is framed for murder after crossing the Black Sun criminal organization. Sent to the galaxy's most notorious prison, he faces a place known for killing its inmates and a seemingly impossible need to escape.

Conan and Elashi flee pirates who want his sword for its supposed power to undo a magical transformation. Their escape leads into a subterranean world where rival sorcerous rulers struggle for control over its inhabitants.

Former CIA agent Emmett Proudhawk gathers five teenagers with paranormal abilities at Sanctuary. When a young refugee fears she has endangered the group, a confrontation with the KGB tests their ability to protect one another.

Born on a harsh planet, the man later known as Pen moves through lives as Mwili, the smuggler Ferret, and a student of master warriors. This prequel traces the experiences that shape Khadaji's future mentor.

A giantess rescues Conan from bandits, only to deliver him into her father's cruel experiments. Rival swamp creatures and a traveling showman's schemes complicate his attempts to escape captivity and survive the competing forces pursuing him.

Conan helps a healer among the Tree Folk while rival groups pursue a mystical Seed. A sorcerer cursed with an insubstantial body and a displaced race each seek its power, placing Conan amid competing needs and dangerous magic.

Emile Khadaji's daughter searches for the legendary father she has never met. Trained as a Matador, she must confront a scheme that uses her mother as bait and extends an old enemy's vengeance beyond his death.

A woman sword master seeks a student worthy of her centuries-old blade and capable of confronting a protected enemy. Her search leads to James Ransom, a gifted warrior whose own circumstances make the proposed partnership precarious.

The ruling elite turns to Bork, the Matadors' formidable strongman, for help against a secret brotherhood. Armed with powers drawn from an alien civilization, the group poses a danger that demands more than ordinary political defenses.

Marine Wilks and colony survivor Billie are reunited for an expedition to the aliens' home world. Corporate and government interest in weaponizing the creatures creates another danger as their mission draws the attention of a human assassin.

Wilks, Billie, and Bueller flee an alien-infested Earth aboard a military transport carrying a dangerous cargo. Their journey leads toward an isolated outpost ruled by General Spears, whose private agenda threatens to create an entirely new nightmare.

Ripley joins Wilks and Billie in an attempt to turn a powerful alien queen against the creatures overwhelming Earth. Gaps in her memory and a secret surrounding her long sleep complicate the mission and her understanding of herself.

Disgraced scientist Stan Myakovsky meets Julie Lish, a skilled thief with an extraordinarily risky proposal. Their unlikely partnership launches a spacefaring criminal venture, bringing his technical talents together with her ruthlessness in the dangerous world of the aliens.

Machiko Noguchi takes charge of a ranching colony on Ryushi, unaware that two alien species have arrived nearby. Caught between Predators and their lethal prey, she must find a way to protect settlers unequipped for the hunt.

Venture Silk manages news and damage control for a powerful corporation in a future Hawaii. His work becomes dangerous when murder, espionage, assassins, and religious fanatics entangle him in events that cannot be settled by rewriting the public story.

Stellar Ranger Cinch Carston patrols the galactic frontier until a wealthy, brilliant adversary creates something intended to advance his ambitions. On the desert world of Roget, Carston faces an opponent whose dangerous capabilities are far from human.

Mild-mannered bank employee Stanley Ipkiss discovers a strange mask that transforms him into a green-faced figure with astonishing powers. His new freedom to indulge fantasies and settle grudges creates trouble far beyond his ordinary life.

Stellar Ranger Cinch Carston travels to a jungle planet to capture a rebel leader, only to encounter a conspiracy involving mining interests and corrupt officials. Framed for murder, he must survive pursuit while uncovering the scheme behind his assignment.

Captain Joyce Palmer and a small Marine force head to Charon, a former penal colony whose tunnels shelter an alien hive. Their mission brings them against Professor Kleist and the dangerous creature produced by his experiments.

After his lover's murder, Venture Silk leaves Earth and begins again on New Earth with the spy Zia. Enemy agents pursue her for a secret promising eternal life, drawing him into another web of interplanetary danger.

Three people acquire mysterious silver boxes whose combined power might reveal the secrets of the universe. Bringing the objects together requires their owners to confront personal demons as well as the extraordinary possibilities placed in their hands.

Ancient visitors rescued Earth's creatures from an approaching catastrophe and allowed them to evolve on other worlds. Millennia later, their powerful descendants return to the planet, creating a confrontation over who can claim it as home.

New York police officer James Edwards joins a secret agency policing aliens living among humans. Recruited by Agent Kay, he loses his old identity and faces a first assignment that threatens to make Earth a battlefield for rival species.

An amateur investigator living in an orbital habitat looks into the death of a heavy-engineering worker. Management calls it suicide, but the dead man's girlfriend believes otherwise, drawing the detective toward a possible murder hidden behind an official explanation.

A Company team of ex-convicts and a human-powered armored killing machine is sent to destroy a vast alien hive. With nearly a thousand people cocooned inside the space station, the mission combines extermination with orders to preserve the installation.

Zac Robillard flees a power-hungry executive with the advanced, humanlike robots he created. Assassins and gangs hostile to machines pursue them, making it difficult to find refuge for beings whose remarkable abilities include an unexpected degree of free will.

Years after aliens destroy Earth, Cale Tucker discovers a map left by his scientist father. Finding the legendary spacecraft Titan may explain its hidden purpose and offer hope to the human survivors scattered throughout the galaxy.

Wandering musician Flint McLelland gathers artifacts he believes can restore the spirit of the sixties. Former counterculture followers join his quest, but an adversary representing cold reason challenges both his magical mission and his sense of identity.

In the caste-bound Galactic Confederation, the violent martial arts contest known as the Musashi Flex offers a rare route upward. A veteran, an infiltrator, and an ambitious newcomer enter its dangerous world, where their fortunes become intertwined.

Physician’s assistant Rick Scales notices disturbing irregularities among patients near Washington’s Makah Reservation. After a murder and several disappearances, he joins police chief Jasmine Hughes to uncover what is happening before the mystery claims them as well.

Star Risk’s security team accepts a lucrative assignment from a reverend representing oppressed workers on Aretegal. Tasked with blocking local shipping, the mercenaries soon discover that their million-credit contract carries dangers their new offices cannot protect them from.

Indiana Jones and Mac McHale search Haiti for a legendary black pearl during World War II. German and Japanese agents pursue the same artifact, while a voodoo priest and an army of the undead threaten their expedition.

In 1850s Java, a knifemaker, a plantation owner’s daughter, a British sailor, and the head of the Sultan’s guard become entangled in palace intrigue. Martial arts, ghosts, and magical blades complicate the dangers drawing their paths together.

Retired assassins Hull and Khadra are forced back into covert work when a body appears in their quiet backyard. An old enemy, Milos, returns with plans that threaten millions, requiring the couple to draw on long-dormant skills.

Martial artist Sam Kane guides souls through the bardo toward rebirth. A billionaire’s request to help his daughter pass into her next life draws Kane into conspiracies and combat that cross the boundary between the living and the dead.

Ten stories follow Roy the Demon through the profane and unpredictable business of Hell. The collection brings together his misadventures, combining supernatural situations with irreverent humor and adult encounters in a setting where the usual rules of behavior rarely apply.

On the preindustrial world of Eilandia, vast seas separate societies moving toward a global war. Kings, thieves, soldiers, sailors and magicians become entangled in political intrigue and armed conflict as competing ambitions threaten to reshape their world.

Rags Cutter’s team of human and alien mercenaries is hired to rescue a rajah’s kidnapped daughter on New Mumbai. Suspected insurgents are only the beginning, as an assassination attempt reveals a more complicated and dangerous assignment.

This comic fantasy novella parodies the space adventures, barbarian heroes and cosmic horrors associated with E. E. Smith, Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft. Thong’s adventure brings those traditions together through deliberately extravagant prose and broad, irreverent humor.

Alien mercenary and healer Kay returns to Vast as a mysterious plague kills her people, including relatives. With Doc Wink, she investigates whether the disease is natural or engineered, far from the support of the Cutter Force.

The Cutter Force Initiative expects a straightforward support assignment in an industrial war on Earth. A corporate dispute over valuable territory instead draws the mercenaries into hidden complications, forcing them to discover what their employers have concealed.

Kiel earns his living fighting opponents through the mysterious Void, but his career in the ring is nearing its end. Training a wealthy man’s daughter promises an easier life, until the new assignment proves more dangerous than he expected.

Kiel returns alongside Muuaji and the brothers Aryam and Umar, confronting a murderous enemy from the criminal organization Black Sun. Their struggle against Bahz carries the dangers of the Void beyond individual matches and into a wider conflict.

Young Temah advances through the professional Void fighting ranks, only to encounter a deadly threat with her friends. Kiel and their companions offer help as she faces a danger beyond the ring, where more than sporting success is at stake.

Twenty-two stories range across science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales and martial arts, mixing danger and dark humor with adult situations. The collection includes a tale from the Matador universe alongside shorter works that explore other imagined worlds.