The Debt Collector Books in Order
Part ofJon Mills Books in OrderBrowse The Debt Collector series by Jon Mills in order, with quick summaries, character background, and clear advice on where to start with Jack Winchester.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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The Debt Collector books in publication order
13 books
The Debt Collector
by Jon Mills
2015
Fresh out of prison, former mob hitman Jack Winchester wants a clean life. His old boss forces him into one last job in a Maine town, where a missing target, a troubled woman, and her son complicate everything.
Vengeance
by Jon Mills
2015
Back in New York, Jack finds his friend murdered and his sister taken by the Sicilian Mafia. Trying to protect his new family only pushes him deeper into a personal war he cannot walk away from.
Angel of Death
by Jon Mills
2016
A wealthy businessman hires Jack to rescue his daughter from a dangerous cult in Peru. The job carries him from Florida to the Amazon, where federal pressure and fanatical followers close in fast.
Hard to Kill
by Jon Mills
2016
Wanted by the FBI and hunted by a mafia assassin, Jack drifts into New Orleans to reconnect with an old flame. A storm, a drug lord, and a desperate family crisis make leaving town impossible.
Prey
by Jon Mills
2016
When police write off a kidnapped twelve-year-old as a runaway, Jack takes the mother's plea seriously. Another missing boy points to a larger, darker pattern, and Jack races to stop it before more children disappear.
Reborn
by Jon Mills
2016
Trying to disappear on Skid Row, Jack instead gets pulled into a case involving a trafficked brother and sister from Hong Kong. Saving them means taking on the Triads and accepting that his old skills still define him.
Hard Time
by Jon Mills
2017
A mysterious job takes Jack to Honduras, where he is framed for murder and thrown into a savage prison. To survive, he must uncover who betrayed him before the warden's deadly games finish the job.
Her Last Breath
by Jon Mills
2017
Armed with clues from a murdered journalist's recorder, Jack heads to a strange West Virginia town to find a missing young woman. The place runs on fear, silence, and rules that suggest something rotten is hiding in plain sight.
Narc
by Jon Mills
2017
Jack agrees to help an old enemy investigate a brutal case in the Florida Everglades. The search pulls him from swamp country to Miami and toward a confrontation with the one fear he cannot easily outrun.
Trail of the Zodiac
by Jon Mills
2017
New murders and taunting ciphers convince San Francisco police the Zodiac may be back. When an old flame contacts Jack after her son's death, the unsolved legend becomes personal and turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse hunt.
Fight Game
by Jon Mills
2018
After tragedy, Jack retires with Dana to a quiet Colorado town, hoping the violence is behind him. A devastating mystery sends him south and into the brutal underground fighting world he wanted to leave for good.
Cry Wolf
by Jon Mills
2019
Following a lead on Dana Grant's disappearance, Jack Winchester stops in a frightened Arkansas town under siege by a white supremacist group. One small act of kindness puts him in the crosshairs and drags him into another violent fight.
Oblivion
by Jon Mills
2019
Days after *Cry Wolf*, a dying man's clue sends Jack to a notorious town in upstate New York in search of answers about Dana Grant. The trail leads into a brutal place where old enemies are still playing games.
The Debt Collector books in chronological order

The Debt Collector
by Jon Mills
2015The Debt Collector, Book 1
Vengeance
by Jon Mills
2015The Debt Collector, Book 2
Reborn
by Jon Mills
2016The Debt Collector, Book 3
Hard to Kill
by Jon Mills
2016The Debt Collector, Book 4
Angel of Death
by Jon Mills
2016The Debt Collector, Book 5
Prey
by Jon Mills
2016The Debt Collector, Book 6
Narc
by Jon Mills
2017The Debt Collector, Book 7
Hard Time
by Jon Mills
2017The Debt Collector, Book 8
Her Last Breath
by Jon Mills
2017The Debt Collector, Book 9
Trail of the Zodiac
by Jon Mills
2017The Debt Collector, Book 10
Fight Game
by Jon Mills
2018The Debt Collector, Book 11
Cry Wolf
by Jon Mills
2019The Debt Collector, Book 12
Oblivion
by Jon Mills
2019The Debt Collector, Book 13
Series background & context
The name The Debt Collector sounds like pure mob business, and at first that is exactly what Jon Mills gives you. Jack Winchester owes a debt to the crime family that shaped him, and the opening novel begins with him trying, and failing, to walk away. Fresh out of prison, he wants out. His old world wants one more favor.
Then the series gets bigger.
Jack starts as a former hitman under pressure, but he quickly becomes the kind of wandering lead who stumbles into trouble and cannot ignore it. In one book he is fighting the Sicilian Mafia over family ties. In another he is dealing with human trafficking in Los Angeles. Later he lands in New Orleans as a storm rolls in, heads into Peru to face a cult, enters the Florida Everglades for a brutal case, survives a violent Honduran prison, and follows grim clues through West Virginia, San Francisco, Colorado, Arkansas, and upstate New York. The books travel a lot, and that movement is part of the fun.
The setting always matters. A small town in Maine feels different from Skid Row. A cult rescue in Peru does not carry the same tension as a Zodiac-style murder trail in California. Mills uses those shifts well. Each stop gives Jack a new kind of threat, a new group of allies or enemies, and another reason to test how far he is willing to go for people he barely knows.
Jack is the glue. He is blunt, capable, and built for violence, but he is also deeply tired of what that life has cost him. He is not trying to be a hero in any shiny, speech-making sense. He just keeps stopping when someone else is cornered. That is what gives the books their vigilante edge. He helps people the police have missed, the criminals have trapped, or the system has already written off.
He can clear a room, but he cannot clear his past.
That past keeps following him in the form of mob enemies, federal attention, broken loyalties, and the people he cares about most. Dana Grant and her son become especially important to the emotional thread, giving the series a human center that balances the action. The result is a thriller run that is fast and pulpy, but not empty. There is always some personal cost attached to the next gunfight, the next rescue, or the next wrong turn.
If you want a Jack Winchester overview, expect a road-tested thriller series with short chapters, strong hooks, and a lead who is always one bad decision away from disaster. It is best read in order, because Jack changes, the stakes keep rising, and the later books hit harder when you know everything he has already carried.
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