Vigilante (Terry Mixon) Books in Order

Vigilante is a revenge story that refuses to stay small. It begins with a pirate attack, a dead family, and one survivor drifting in space, but it does not remain a straight hunt for payback for very long. Terry Mixon and Glynn Stewart use that sharp opening to launch a military space opera about mercenaries, spies, pirates, and the kind of Solar System politics that can get millions killed.

Brad Mantruso, later known as Brad Madrid, is the center of it all. After pirates destroy his family's freighter and leave him for dead, he gets a second chance and a new identity. He takes a ship, builds a mercenary life, and sets out to find the people responsible. That gives the early books a nice forward push. Brad always has a target, even when the situation around him keeps changing.

Nothing stays simple for him.

The series works because Brad's private war keeps colliding with public ones. The Cadre are not just random raiders. They are organized, dangerous, and connected to wider struggles across the Commonwealth. Brad's work with the Vikings Mercenary Company brings him into convoy protection, intelligence work, fleet battles, and investigations that keep showing him a bigger picture than the one he wanted. The more he learns, the harder it becomes to separate revenge from duty.

Kate Falcone is a big part of that balance. She is spy, ally, complication, and sometimes the person pushing Brad toward the truths he would rather leave buried. Their uneasy partnership gives the books more texture than a pure combat series would have on its own. So does the fact that Brad is often caught between institutions that need him, enemies who underestimate him, and old loyalties he cannot quite cut loose.

The tone lands somewhere between mercenary adventure and military thriller. The books like tactics, ship classes, ambushes, and the pressures of command, but they are just as interested in divided loyalties and what happens when a man builds himself into something harder than he used to be. Heart of Vengeance and Oath of Vengeance drive the personal side of the story hardest. Bound by Law and Bound by Honor widen the conspiracy. Bound by Blood pushes the whole thing into open political crisis.

It gets bigger book by book.

If you are wondering what to expect overall, think fast-moving space action anchored by one damaged, stubborn lead who keeps getting dragged into fights he did not plan to own. The fun of Vigilante is watching a revenge tale keep mutating into something larger without losing the original wound that started it. Brad wants justice. The series keeps asking what that word even means once whole governments and fleets are involved.