Walter Wager Books in Order

Two American counterintelligence agents search Chicago's nightspots and gambling rooms for a thief prepared to kill to protect his stolen property. Working alongside the FBI and local police brings them into an unexpected alliance with racketeers.

Five specialists from a wartime OSS unit live under contrasting civilian identities, carrying expertise in covert warfare into their later lives. When one member is murdered, the surviving four redirect their skills toward a shared mission of revenge.

After surviving devastating wounds in Vietnam, David Garrison offers to repay the surgeon who saved him. The favour becomes a dangerous mission to extract a teenage girl from a Soviet orphanage and bring her to America.

A retired general seizes a nuclear missile installation and threatens to trigger a world war unless the president reveals a concealed Vietnam-era meeting. The confrontation turns into a struggle over political secrecy, redemption, and the lives endangered by both sides.

King Kong offers his own version of a Hollywood career in this satirical fictional memoir. Recollections of film stars, powerful public figures, and the making of his famous screen appearance recast the giant ape as a frank and opinionated actor.

Soviet agents programmed through hypnosis to live as ordinary Americans can be activated by a coded telephone message. When the wrong man begins triggering the dormant network, Russian operatives must enter the United States to prevent their own plan from causing catastrophe.

Years after witnessing Dachau's liberation, Ernest Beller remains haunted by its victims and the perpetrators who escaped punishment. An investigation into the murders of former Nazis explores vengeance, justice, and the enduring effects of Holocaust trauma.

A female private investigator is hired to determine how a young man died. Her inquiry takes her beyond familiar surroundings to Asia, where she pursues the circumstances behind his death and the answers her client needs.

Private investigator Alison Gordon becomes involved with a Mafia boss whose Las Vegas businesses face a terrorist threat. An international group demands millions of dollars and threatens to destroy the city's hotels and casinos unless its demands are met.

Hired by a Hollywood star to locate her missing brother, private investigator Alison Gordon uncovers a conspiracy far larger than the disappearance. A major robbery, a presidential kidnapping plot, and a planned attack on America emerge from the investigation.

The CIA's deputy director of operations faces two linked threats: an internal leak and a highly skilled assassin working for a rival power. Stopping the killer requires confronting compromised intelligence as the pursuit crosses international borders.

Country singer Mel Tillis recounts his rise from a poor Florida childhood to a successful entertainment career. Written with Walter Wager, the autobiography follows the struggles and changes behind his emergence as a prominent performer and songwriter.

A gang steals nerve gas from a military convoy and demonstrates its lethality by killing more than a hundred people. Led by an unstable mastermind, the extortionists demand millions from a Nevada casino and threaten another attack if refused.

Discredited officer Harry Kaminski is offered a route back onto the police force through a dangerous undercover assignment. To earn reinstatement, he must identify the insider passing confidential information to organized crime, despite the mission's near-suicidal risks.

Operatives officially listed as dead are sent to destroy a biological weapon stolen by a North African dictator. The Spirit Team must locate a guarded laboratory, stop its scientists, and eliminate a pathogen capable of devastating cities, without official support.

Terrorists seize the Lincoln Tunnel, turning a critical New York crossing into a hostage crisis. As the FBI and police argue over how to respond, Captain Jake Malloy favors immediate armed action over negotiation and bureaucratic delay.

Five covert agents with transplanted organs and chemically linked minds confront a terrorist trafficking stolen nuclear weapons. Their leader, Denny Monroe, must determine whom to trust inside the institute controlling their lives while protecting his team from being treated as expendable.