The Agency: Young Guns Books in Order

With Blaine Blackmore recovering from surgery, Farrell Donovan takes charge of a new violent-crime squad. Rising gang violence and a puzzling murder test the inexperienced team as its members learn to trust one another and work together.

After the mayor and a council member are killed with a primitive weapon, Blaine Blackmore’s squad struggles to identify a suspect. A weak apparent motive and missing clues suggest something crucial has been overlooked before another death occurs.

The Violent Crime Squad pursues a spree killer attacking men in strip clubs with a changing choice of weapons. Few useful clues and mounting deaths pressure the team to uncover the connection behind the seemingly unpredictable murders.

Annie Powell discovers that someone in her employ has betrayed and exploited her efforts to do good. Angry and unsettled, she turns once more to the Creed, determined to confront the deception and make the responsible person answer for it.

Truck drivers are found beaten to death in different cities, leaving Blaine Blackmore with few clues and no witnesses. When a similar killing occurs closer to home, he gains a possible opening to stop the widening series of murders.

Officials dismiss warnings of a Texas prison riot until inmates kill guards and escape across the country. Annie Powell and the Violent Crime Squad help Marshal Jack Farrington pursue the fugitives before their freedom leads to further violence.

A murderous turn at a book club leaves Blaine Blackmore and the Violent Crime Squad facing too many suspects and too little evidence. An eyewitness may offer the breakthrough they need, but cannot testify in court.

The Violent Crime Squad hunts a young axe murderer as the discovery of another victim brings FBI agents into the investigation. Mounting pressure from their chief pushes Blaine Blackmore’s team to resolve the case before the killer strikes again.

The Young Guns pursue an arsonist destroying historic Victorian houses in Texas while Annie heads to Alaska to find Travis and Lukas. Their unanswered calls drive her into unfamiliar wilderness as both searches become increasingly urgent.

A multiple-murder investigation is complicated by outside interference that divides the Violent Crime Squad. Blaine Blackmore must address the conflict within his team while helping Farrell Donovan through a personal crisis that further threatens their work.

Asked to suppress gang activity in Austin, Blaine Blackmore assigns the Violent Crime Squad to the operation. During a raid, Tommy Donovan recognizes someone whose unexpected presence brings consequences reaching far beyond the case and into his own family.

Annie Powell wakes from a coma remembering only her former life in Las Vegas. A recuperation trip draws her into a killer’s vendetta, while investigators searching for her also confront a disturbing series of murders back in Austin.

A young woman’s body is recovered from the Colorado River, splitting an Austin motorcycle club into hostile factions. As grief turns to violence, the Blackmore Agency and the Violent Crime Squad struggle to contain the mounting deaths.