Terry Harknett Books in Order

Guiding performers across Texas, Cuchillo runs into a deranged ex-colonel and a desert trail that turns murderous fast.

Edge and Adam Steele cross paths and grudgingly share the same trail, which means twice the firepower and double the trouble.

Barnaby Gold begins his grim trail of vengeance, and one killing sets a whole line of pursuers after him.

Escorting a white woman south of the border, Cuchillo stumbles into a violent land dispute that nobody plans to leave alive.

A strange woman called Water Lily draws Cuchillo into a brutal conflict of mysticism, desire, and sudden death.

After the events of Slow Dying, Cuchillo reaches San Francisco and gets tangled with a seductive madam whose offer looks too good to trust.

Edge takes on a job that sounds bad from the start and grows bloodier by the mile.

Everyday town life cannot hold back the past when a storekeeper becomes part of Steele's private war.

A stranger with an old photograph forces Steele to face both the past he remembers and the past he never knew.

Two corpses and rumors of buried wealth strip the manners off a prosperous town and pull Steele into the killing.

A whole community stands accused in one way or another, and Edge gets caught in the verdict.

In Ventura, old scores sharpen into fresh killing and Edge helps settle them the only lasting way.

Cuchillo takes a white wife and immediately finds himself hunted by outlaw enemies and distrusted by his own people.

Cuchillo crosses the desert half-dead and hunted, only to reach a fort where old loyalties and fresh violence are waiting.

The partnership stays uneasy as Edge and Steele face another violent showdown where neither man likes compromise.

Big country does not soften big trouble, and Montana gives Edge another rough stage for violence.

Arriving just in time for a hanging, Steele gets caught in a range war thick with lies and bad blood.

Steele steps in when a preacher's people are trapped by renegades, and mercy quickly gives way to violence.

Land, ownership, and greed push people toward murder, with Edge too close to every side.

Captivity, shifting control, and desperate escapes keep Edge boxed in with dangerous company.

Finding his own double dead on a beach, Steele is pulled into a case of mistaken identity and deadly resemblance.

Edge gets caught in a revenge fight that reaches beyond one man and deep into tribal and frontier conflict.

Dawn breaks over a scene already primed for ambush, revenge, and swift death.

Chased across hostile country, Cuchillo faces soldiers, settlers, and old enemies on a punishing ride where survival and revenge pull in opposite directions.

A place that ought to offer shelter instead becomes the center of another deadly contest.

Two magnificent stallions land Steele in a town where ownership, law, and life itself change hands fast.

A threat nobody reads correctly until too late leaves Edge reacting under pressure.

Falsely trapped by white justice again, Cuchillo must outthink a town that is ready to hang first and ask questions much later.

Mistaken for a corpse by wagon-train children, Steele survives long enough to learn that his troubles are not over.

Left for dead and barely breathing, Steele gets one slim chance to recover before facing the men who nearly finished him.

Old wounds and unfinished scores drag Cuchillo back toward the past, where memory, betrayal, and frontier violence refuse to stay buried.

Cuchillo Oro's war with Captain Pinner reaches another deadly turn as old vows, old losses, and frontier hatred finally demand payment in blood.

A simple stop at a general store turns violent when armed raiders walk in and Steele happens to be in their way.

Edge rides through hard country full of bad people and fewer reasons to hope.

Confinement does not stay still here, and Edge has to survive while control keeps shifting.

Burdened with travelers and their wagon, Steele is ambushed in bad country and driven toward worse trouble.

A dying rail town, a prospector's death, and gold in the hills give Steele more danger than opportunity.

A hard ride powered by score-settling and relentless violence, exactly the kind of country Edge understands.

In a near-empty Arizona town, Steele finds a wounded lawman, a funeral, and enough fresh killing to prove justice is anything but tidy.

Someone is learning the frontier's ugliest lessons, and Edge gets dragged into the teaching.

Hanging justice looms over this one, with Edge moving under the threat of rope and retribution.

Circumstance strips away delay and leaves only one brutal window for action.

Border country magnifies every feud, and Edge knows it only takes one spark to turn it murderous.

Suddenly saddled with a baby, Steele has to protect the child while outlaw country closes in around him.

A ruin called Trail's End looks like Steele's future until armed intruders remind him how fragile new beginnings can be.

When Edge finds a sick man digging a grave in Wyoming, he knows he is riding into trouble that is already half-buried.

Telegraph poles and modern progress cannot stop a lynch mob, and Steele is pushed into a grim defense of an innocent man.

Holderville is a dying Texas town, but when Edge rides in he discovers gunplay is one industry still showing healthy growth.

A lucky strike draws the usual greed, lies, and bullets, leaving Edge to survive the rush.

Hired to clear town of swaggering gunmen, Steele gets a front-row seat to a deadly contest over who is fastest.

Two nasty claimants arrive to take over Steele's place, forcing him into a fight over property and survival.

Befriending a Mexican family turns Steele into a marked man among locals who think exclusion is law.

Horse theft, escaped outlaws, and a dangerous woman turn a simple trail encounter into another uneasy bloodbath for Edge.

In a place called Utopia, Edge hunts a man believed dead and stirs up old wounds that are ready to bleed again.

A stage holdup and a woman with a derringer drag Steele back into old-style danger with no easy exit.

A respectable Oregon town starts hanging its own, and Edge rides into the panic just as bad law becomes murder.

A bank robbery in progress catches Edge at exactly the wrong moment, and he ends up tied to four hard old-timer outlaws.

Just as Steele's land title seems secure, bank robbers and family vengeance arrive to destroy the peace.

A town celebration turns sour with a stabbing and scandal, proving trouble still knows where Steele lives.

In a shabby Oregon lumber town, Edge watches a half-breed woman traded in a poker game and knows the ugliness is about to spread.

After a rare peaceful year, Steele sees trouble ride in with a beautiful stranger and knows calm is over.

A forced sale, vigilante law, and a hanging at noon make Serrano Dinero a dangerous place for Edge to arrive.

Edge rides into a situation already soaked in loss, where time is running out and the survivors have nowhere good to turn.

Old blood and bad memories call Edge back to hostile ground where the past is armed and waiting.

Edge collides with local law and local grudges, and a deputy's badge proves no shield once the killing starts.

A fresh act of brutality sparks retaliation, panic, and the kind of frontier justice Edge rarely trusts.

An extra Edge adventure that drops him into a frontier mess where a quiet arrival leads quickly to gunfire and death.

When death seems marked in advance, Edge has to work out who is choosing the victims before he becomes one of them.

Gold keeps moving, but fate and family revenge keep steering him toward another funeral.

With enemies closing in, Gold heads toward the coast and finds that distance does little to cool a blood feud.

A gathering storm of revenge leaves Gold heading toward a showdown that promises more than one burial.

Gold's reputation is almost spectral now, and the living who chase him may end up buried instead.

Heat, isolation, and relentless enemies trap Gold in a desert run where every mile could be his last.