Vietnam: Ground Zero Books in Order

Focusing more closely on Bromhead, the officer seen throughout the Ground Zero books, this novel follows his command as new operations shift the balance of power. Old lessons from village defense and earlier battles come due in a campaign that tests him to the limit.

Set late in the series, Proxy War highlights how many outside powers are now pulling strings in Vietnam. Gerber’s Special Forces detachment finds itself caught between local allies, enemy regulars, and shadowy sponsors whose goals do not always match the men on the ground.

One of the newest Vietnam: Ground Zero novels, Pioneer Post follows Gerber’s team as the long war grinds on and new outposts appear on the map. Fresh units, shifting rules, and familiar enemies make every mission feel both routine and newly dangerous.

Enemy traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail suddenly drops, and Gerber’s superiors fear a new offensive building in the shadows. Sent to scout the jungles of Bang Ron, his team must balance smart reconnaissance with the reckless ambitions of a glory-seeking newcomer.

Gerber’s Special Forces team is dropped into territory ruled by a ruthless local commander who plays both sides of the war. To complete their mission, they must navigate jungle ambushes and an uneasy alliance with a man who may be more dangerous than the enemy.

An American officer vanishes inside North Vietnam, and Gerber and Fetterman are ordered to find him. Their hunt runs from jungle trails to the streets of Hanoi, where leaks in the plan turn a covert search into a deadly setup.

War material is pouring down from China by rail, and Gerber’s team is sent to destroy a key staging area near the border. With stale intelligence, dubious scouts, and little planning, the mission feels like a powder keg waiting for a spark.

Special Forces recon teams are disappearing in Laos’s Three Rivers Secret Zone. When a dead Soviet paratrooper turns up beside American bodies, Gerber and Fetterman are sent in to expose Moscow’s role and survive long enough to prove it.

This Vietnam: Ground Zero entry finds Gerber and Fetterman leading a small Special Forces detachment deep into hostile countryside. Skirmishes, rival commanders, and shifting orders force them to decide how hard to push a fight that never quite ends.

An NVA assassination squad is terrorizing villages near Tan Son Nhut and threatening vital air operations. Gerber’s Green Berets must track the killers through nervous hamlets and crowded roads, knowing a single mistake could bring the war straight to Saigon’s main airbase.

Gerber and Fetterman lead a sniper team across the border into supposedly neutral Cambodia to assassinate a powerful general. When the mission is compromised, their in-and-out strike turns into a brutal fight to claw back to friendly lines.

When a Special Forces camp falls into enemy hands, Washington wants it taken back quickly and quietly. Gerber and Fetterman lead the counterattack, facing dug-in defenders, booby-trapped ground, and the ghosts of men who did not survive the first battle.

A covert patrol into Cambodia is wiped out, and Gerber’s relief team walks straight into an ambush. The only explanation is a traitor at MACV headquarters, forcing Gerber to hunt a leak inside Saigon while the enemy keeps reading American plans.

Special Forces and Air Force crews join forces to hit a heavily defended bridge nicknamed the Dragon’s Jaw. While bombers battle anti-aircraft fire overhead, Gerber’s men work on the ground to make sure the target finally comes down and the fliers get out.

Enemy units are slipping into South Vietnam from safe havens just across the Cambodian border. Gerber’s team is dispatched to probe those sanctuaries, testing how far they can push an unofficial war before politics catch up with them in the jungle.

After an American company is wiped out in South Vietnam’s Iron Triangle while high on drugs and alcohol, Gerber and Fetterman are assigned to CID. Their mission is to infiltrate Saigon’s drug scene and shut down the network feeding poison to the troops.

Enemy traffic on the roads from Hanoi has mysteriously vanished by day. When interrogation and recon show a North Vietnamese staging area hidden in a dusty village, Gerber’s team slips across the border to plant sensors and call in night strikes on the shadow war.

Operating along Vietnam’s dark waterways and coastlines, Gerber’s men are drawn into a series of night missions where smugglers, guerrillas, and regular troops all blend together. Every flare-lit firefight forces them to decide who is an enemy and who just wants to survive.

Gerber’s Green Berets are assigned to defend a vulnerable hamlet trapped between Viet Cong influence and American promises. Training local forces, rooting out informers, and facing repeated probes, they learn how fragile loyalty can be when both sides claim to offer protection.

Tasked with turning a vulnerable village into a self-defending community, Gerber’s men train local militia, juggle ambitious officers, and try to win hearts that have seen too many broken promises. When the enemy finally attacks, the whole experiment is tested in one brutal night.

Gerber’s team is ordered to work with a former Viet Cong fighter who has switched sides to serve as a Kit Carson scout. As they move through contested villages, they must decide how far to trust a man who knows the enemy too well.

Back in Vietnam after a year stateside, Gerber and Fetterman find the political mood has shifted. A reconnaissance into the Hobo Woods reveals a massive enemy buildup, and a helicopter assault meant to stop it collapses into a desperate rescue under heavy fire.

When Camp A-555 finally falls to a determined Viet Cong assault, an American general and a journalist are trapped inside. Gerber must lead a rescue through enemy-controlled jungle, knowing the whole world may be watching how and whether he succeeds.

During the Tet Offensive, Gerber finds himself in Saigon just as rockets and coordinated attacks slam into the city. Street by street, his team scrambles to protect key targets and civilians while trying to understand how everything went wrong overnight.

After a patrol is ambushed and wiped out, Sergeant Sean Cavanaugh returns as the sole survivor, broken and obsessed with revenge. When he goes rogue and forms his own hunter–killer team, Gerber must stop a man who now sees himself as judge and executioner.

A remote outpost at Plei Soi becomes the flashpoint for a major clash when enemy forces test its defenses and higher command hesitates to respond. Gerber’s Special Forces team must hold the line long enough to prove the fight is real and not just another false alarm.

Rumors say the North Vietnamese have a new missile guidance system that blinds American radar. To verify it, Gerber and Fetterman take a team on a night-time HALO jump from a B-52 into North Vietnam, where surviving the landing is only their first problem.

In 1965, Operation Phoenix sends Fetterman’s patrol across the Cambodian border to eliminate a dangerous Viet Cong unit. When he is arrested for murder in a neutral country, Gerber must take on hostile generals and a murky legal mess to save his men.

A high-value enemy target may or may not be dead, and the paperwork says the mission succeeded. Gerber’s team knows better. Sent back into hostile territory to confirm the kill, they discover how dangerous unfinished business can be in a war of shadows.

In this early Ground Zero novel, Gerber and Fetterman are drawn into the brutal world of prisoners of war, where rumors of captured Americans force them into risky missions and uncomfortable deals to bring their own people home alive.