Tom Barber Books in Order

Three killings in the UK and US look unrelated until Archer and the ARU discover a link to a shocking event fifteen years earlier. What follows is a violent vendetta with one of their own in the crosshairs.

On New Year's Eve, a terrorist cell disappears into London's crowds before a planned wave of attacks. Newly selected ARU officer Sam Archer has to help find them before the city pays the price.

A man found dead in Central Park appears to have been killed by a lethal virus, and Archer's new NYPD unit is called in fast. The hunt for the source becomes a race to stop a wider biological attack.

In New York for a funeral, Archer is approached by an FBI agent with an undercover job. A ruthless bank robbery crew is tearing through the city, and stopping them will mean slipping into their world.

In 2113, Corporal Will Miller wakes inside a crashed transport near Mars with rescue still ninety minutes away. The station that takes him in feels wrong from the start, and the danger is not just outside.

After saving US Marshals and a child from a violent ambush, Archer ends up trapped with them inside a Harlem building. Their attackers have sealed off every exit, and more killers are on the way.

Alice Vargas vanishes during a trip to Europe, and Archer learns the disappearance looks like an abduction. With the case turning personal fast, he has to move quickly through a dangerous trail of clues.

A nineteen-year-old woman is murdered in Queens, and the case pulls Archer into a gang war with deep roots in New York history. Even while suspended from duty, he cannot leave it alone, and soon he disappears too.

A sniper has already killed three people, riots are breaking out in Washington, and a federal manhunt is closing in. Archer arrives in the city on what looks like a family visit, only to find himself pulled into the chase.

This collection of three linked stories follows familiar Sam Archer characters in the moments that shaped them. It is part backstory, part high-pressure thriller, and a useful way to deepen the wider cast.

After one passenger jet crashes into the Atlantic and another disappears days later, Archer's team is thrown into a sprawling investigation. With the threat still active, he may have to take the hunt thirty five thousand feet into the air.

When one of Archer's fellow detectives is shot while revisiting an old case, the trail leads back to a baffling death on September 11, 2001. Archer has to dig through buried history before the next hit lands.

At a pre July 4 carnival, a knife nearly kills an eleven-year-old girl whose father was a major mob figure. Archer and his NYPD team race to uncover who wants her dead, and why the threat has resurfaced now.

Set in New York in 2004, this prequel follows young officers Matt Shepherd and Jake Hendricks as several ugly cases begin to overlap. Their quiet unofficial digging may solve the mystery, or make them the prime suspects.

While helping transport an old foe, Archer is caught in a prison crisis that ends with several dangerous inmates on the loose. One escapee has only days left on his sentence, and a very specific reason not to wait.

Two VIPs from very different worlds are attacked during a visit to New York, leaving Archer to untangle a case that grows more dangerous by the hour. The closer he gets to the truth, the less safe anyone looks.

Days before the August 2021 withdrawal deadline in Afghanistan, a reporter is kidnapped in Kabul. Her sister Sloane, a former CIA operative, is sent into a collapsing war zone to find her before time runs out.

Archer and the detectives in Shepherd's squad are pulled into a brutal fight at the Texas-Mexico border. A drug cartel controls the flow across an international bridge, and that crossing is about to become a battleground.