Tom Rollins Thriller Books in Order
Part ofPaul Heatley Books in OrderBrowse the Tom Rollins Thriller books by Paul Heatley in order, with short summaries, series background, and easy help on where to start.
Last updated: July 7, 2026
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Tom Rollins Thriller books in publication order
21 books
Blood Line
by Paul Heatley
2021
Living off the grid after walking away from black ops work, Tom Rollins learns the woman he loved has been murdered. His hunt for the killers starts as revenge and grows into a much larger conspiracy.
Hard To Kill
by Paul Heatley
2021
Hiding out in Mexico, Tom Rollins helps a woman search for her abducted younger sister. The trail leads from a savage cartel to a wider trafficking conspiracy, and Tom ends up fighting enemies on both sides of the border.
Snow Burn
by Paul Heatley
2021
Tom Rollins is trying to live quietly in the Alaskan wilds when he rescues a crooked accountant from two hitmen. That split-second decision puts him in the path of the Russian mafia and a looming ecological disaster.
Wrong Turn
by Paul Heatley
2021
A forced detour drops Tom Rollins into Brenton, Texas, where the McQuade family rules through fear. They make one mistake too many when they steal something precious from him, and Tom decides to take the town apart.
Hard Target
by Paul Heatley
2022
When figures from Cindy Vaughan’s past come hunting her, she turns to Tom Rollins for help. Their search for justice leads to a billionaire with limitless resources and a dirty operation that does not forgive loose ends.
No Quarter
by Paul Heatley
2022
Working as a forest ranger in Northern California, Tom Rollins finds a starving man being chased through the woods. The rescue pulls him into a vicious network of gangs, cartel activity, and corruption that will not leave witnesses.
Road Kill
by Paul Heatley
2022
After Tom Rollins steps into a rough scene at a gas station, a hunted teenage girl turns up hiding in his truck. Getting her safely to Oregon should be simple, but the men chasing her have power, money, and patience.
Blood Feud
by Paul Heatley
2023
Tom Rollins has rescued his reckless brother Anthony before, and he is tired of paying that price. But when family trouble in Chicago turns deadly, Tom gets dragged into gang debt, crooked cops, and a fight with the mob.
Ghost Team
by Paul Heatley
2023
At the funeral of an old Army friend, Tom Rollins hears a troubling claim, the dead man did not kill himself. Staying in town to investigate puts Tom up against a militia, a hostile sheriff, and something bigger underneath.
Last Stand
by Paul Heatley
2023
Tom Rollins heads back to his hometown hoping to build something like a normal life. Instead he finds drugs, corrupt cops, and a horrifying criminal operation that puts the woman he loves in immediate danger.
Search and Destroy
by Paul Heatley
2023
A Honduran cartel boss escapes prison with revenge on his mind. When he comes for Tom Rollins and the remnants of his old unit, Tom realizes the only way to end it is to carry the war back to Honduras.
Choke Hold
by Paul Heatley
2024
Cindy Vaughan asks Tom Rollins to help find a missing woman named Louise after uncovering footage of her abduction. The search uncovers a vicious gang, a secret operation, and a game where Tom may become the next victim.
Full Throttle
by Paul Heatley
2024
Passing through Detroit, Tom Rollins meets siblings Ruth and Calvin Styles, who are still trying to uncover who murdered their parents. Helping them means taking on corrupt police, street gangs, and a city ready to explode.
Kill Switch
by Paul Heatley
2024
Tom Rollins and local cop Nina Perry wake up in the worst possible place, kidnapped and about to be framed for a terrorist bombing. Once they escape, they have a city on their backs and almost nobody they can trust.
Sudden Impact
by Paul Heatley
2024
While working security in Mississippi, Tom Rollins gets drawn into a fight with a giant chemical company hiding vicious secrets. An ecologist wants the truth out, a biker gang wants him dead, and Tom chooses war.
Deep Water
by Paul Heatley
2025
In Newark, a friend of Tom Rollins witnesses a savage crime and does the right thing by reporting it. That choice only exposes how deep the corruption goes, and soon Tom is running from a powerful family with pharmaceutical money.
Kill Zone
by Paul Heatley
2025
This prequel drops Tom Rollins into his first CIA mission, deep in the mountains of Afghanistan. Betrayal wrecks the operation, a teammate is captured, and Tom chooses a rescue that should be impossible.
Running Blind
by Paul Heatley
2025
A CIA analyst asks Tom Rollins to help extract a Chinese defector carrying the identities of deep-cover American moles. Triads, spies, and a leak inside the agency turn the mission into a running gun battle across the West.
Trigger Point
by Paul Heatley
2025
Trying to relax in Vermont, Tom Rollins meets a mother and her young son who are being hunted by trained killers. The boy remembers something vital, and if Tom cannot decode it in time, New York could pay the price.
Counter Strike
by Paul Heatley
2026
Grieving and adrift in the South, Tom Rollins steps into a cage fight and catches the attention of both a skinhead gang and the FBI. Going undercover means facing a ruthless leader and the hidden mind behind him.
No Mercy
by Paul Heatley
2026
Tom Rollins is trying to build a quieter life when his father’s commune in New Mexico is massacred. Hunting the truth with Cindy Vaughan leads him into a conspiracy involving extremists, corrupt cops, cartel killers, and old enemies.
Tom Rollins Thriller books in chronological order

Kill Zone
by Paul Heatley
2025Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 1
Blood Line
by Paul Heatley
2021Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 2
Wrong Turn
by Paul Heatley
2021Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 3
Hard To Kill
by Paul Heatley
2021Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 4
Snow Burn
by Paul Heatley
2021Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 5
Road Kill
by Paul Heatley
2022Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 6
No Quarter
by Paul Heatley
2022Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 7
Hard Target
by Paul Heatley
2022Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 8
Last Stand
by Paul Heatley
2023Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 9
Blood Feud
by Paul Heatley
2023Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 10
Search and Destroy
by Paul Heatley
2023Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 11
Ghost Team
by Paul Heatley
2023Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 12
Full Throttle
by Paul Heatley
2024Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 13
Sudden Impact
by Paul Heatley
2024Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 14
Kill Switch
by Paul Heatley
2024Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 15
Choke Hold
by Paul Heatley
2024Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 16
Trigger Point
by Paul Heatley
2025Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 17
Deep Water
by Paul Heatley
2025Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 18
Running Blind
by Paul Heatley
2025Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 19
No Mercy
by Paul Heatley
2026Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 20
Counter Strike
by Paul Heatley
2026Tom Rollins Thriller, Book 21
Series background & context
Tom Rollins wants a quiet life. That is the joke at the center of this series.
He is a former black ops operative, a man with training, discipline, and more experience of violence than most people could handle. When the series opens in Blood Line, he is already off the grid, carrying grief and trying to stay out of sight. It does not last. Again and again, Rollins lands in a new town, a new job, or a new stretch of road, sees somebody being hunted or cornered, and decides he cannot walk away.
That setup gives the books a nice mix of repetition and freedom. You know what kind of man Tom is, but the setting changes all the time. One book might drop him into cartel country, another into the Alaskan wilds, another into a small town run by corrupt law enforcement, another into the orbit of a billionaire, militia, or biker gang. The geography matters. These stories use forests, deserts, motels, back roads, bars, and industrial towns as pressure points, not wallpaper.
Tom is the reason it all works. He is not chatty, flashy, or interested in showing off. He has a blunt moral code, though it is not always a legal one. If someone weaker is being used, trafficked, terrorized, or buried by corrupt power, Tom tends to step in. That can mean taking on gangs, cartels, dirty cops, human traffickers, corporate fixers, or people from his own past. The books make room for recurring figures too, especially the few friends and allies he trusts, so the series slowly builds a larger emotional map around all the action.
The threats keep scaling up. Early books like Wrong Turn, Hard To Kill, Snow Burn, and Road Kill show the pattern clearly, one man against a local machine. Later entries widen the field without losing the core appeal. Old unit history comes back. Family trouble pulls Tom in. Kill Zone even steps backward to show his first CIA mission and how that legend got forged in the first place.
Tom wants peace. The books do not.
That tension gives the series its engine. Heatley writes these as fast, muscular thrillers, but there is still a noir streak running underneath. Power is usually crooked. Institutions are compromised. By the time Tom arrives, the official route has already failed somebody.
If you are here for clean, high concept espionage with gadgets and briefing rooms, this is probably not that lane. If you want hard-driving action thrillers about a drifter with a conscience and a frightening skill set, it very much is. Start at Blood Line if you can, then read in order. The books are fun on their own, but the payoffs are better once you have watched Tom carry his past from one fight to the next.
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