Swaggerverse Books in Order

Years after a disastrous covert campaign to back Kurdish rebels, disgraced ex CIA man Paul Chardy is dragged back into the game when legendary fighter Ulu Beg surfaces in America, apparently bent on revenge against the statesman who ordered the betrayal.

Bob Lee Swagger, once one of the best Marine snipers in Vietnam, is lured out of isolation to help stop an assassination, then framed as the lone gunman and forced to outthink the conspiracy hunting him across the country.

Violent convict Lamar Pye escapes an Oklahoma prison with his hulking cousin and an unstable cellmate, leaving a trail of blood across the Southwest, while state trooper Bud Pewtie, brave but flawed, risks his family and career to track them down.

Years after clearing his own name, Bob Lee Swagger teams up with writer Russ Pewtie to investigate the 1955 killing of his state trooper father Earl, uncovering buried racism, small town corruption, and a link to the brutal events of Dirty White Boys.

Trying to live quietly with his wife Julie and daughter Nikki, Bob is dragged back into the past when a new attack suggests the Soviet sniper who wounded him in Vietnam is still alive, forcing him to relive the patrol where his spotter died.

In postwar 1946, Medal of Honor recipient Earl Swagger is recruited to clean up the mob run gambling and prostitution rackets in Hot Springs, Arkansas, training an elite squad of young cops for raids that quickly turn into pitched battles in smoky casinos.

A worried Sam Vincent goes to investigate a brutal, almost off the map Mississippi prison farm for Black convicts and disappears, forcing Earl Swagger to slip into the swamp country around Thebes, peel back the town's secrets, and decide how far he will go to set things right.

Sent to Cuba in 1953 as bodyguard to an Arkansas politician, Earl finds himself amid mobbed up casinos, Batista's security forces, and a young firebrand named Fidel Castro, as US intelligence quietly presses him to solve a looming revolution with a sniper's bullet.

Bob agrees to return a sword Earl took on Iwo Jima to the son of the man Earl killed, a task that draws him to Tokyo, a priceless samurai blade, yakuza power struggles, and a final confrontation fought under ancient warrior rules.

When investigative reporter Nikki Swagger is run off a mountain road near Bristol Motor Speedway, Bob heads to Tennessee, following clues through a fake prayer camp, moonshine country, and the high pressure world of NASCAR to stop a daring armored truck heist.

A string of long range assassinations of famous Vietnam era radicals seems to point to a legendary Marine sniper, but when the suspect dies in an apparent suicide, Bob is brought in to read the crime scenes and discovers a much more modern plot.

After a Marine sniper team is wiped out in Afghanistan, only Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz survives, determined to finish the mission himself even after their target becomes a prized American ally, while Bob is hired to stop the Cruise Missile before he fires again.

On Black Friday at America's largest mall, a dozen gunmen styling themselves on Mumbai terrorists shoot Santa and herd about a thousand shoppers into the central atrium, unaware that retired Marine sniper Ray Cruz is loose inside, hunting them from the shadows.

Obsessed with the ballistics of Dealey Plaza, Bob starts pulling at loose threads in the Kennedy assassination and finds gaps the official story cannot explain, drawing the attention of a modern conspiracy that has already killed to keep its version of history intact.

Reporter Kathy Reilly stumbles across a mention of Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova, a vanished Soviet sniper from World War II, and turns to Bob for help, sending them from Moscow archives to the Carpathian Mountains to learn why such a deadly woman was erased from history.

When a hidden strongbox full of 1930s memorabilia turns up in Arkansas, Bob begins tracing the secret career of his grandfather, Charles Swagger, a gifted gunman who helped hunt bank robbers like Baby Face Nelson, and whose fall from grace still echoes.

A grieving mother asks Bob to find the mercenary sniper who killed her son in Iraq, a hunt that leads from Israeli intelligence briefings to an American city where a fanatical shooter plans an ultra long range strike on a high value target.

Summoned before Congress to answer for a controversial counterterrorism mission, Bob ends up inside a packed hearing room when a well organized assault team storms the building, turning his hostile interrogators into hostages he has to keep alive with limited weapons and time.

Set in 1944, this Earl Swagger prequel sends the battle hardened Marine to Europe to track down an uncanny German sniper who is decimating Allied troops in Normandy's hedgerows, a mission that entangles him with London spies, traitors, and the politics of a global war.

Set in the drought stricken Southwest of the 1890s, this Western traces aging Civil War veteran Jack Swagger as he hires on at the prosperous Callahan ranch, secretly investigates a young cowboy's suspicious death, and uncovers the violent machinery behind the spread's wealth.