William C Dietz Books in Order

A traitorous captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. Ex-naval officer turned bounty hunter Sam McCade is the one sent to stop him.

Colonel Stell and his band of mercenaries see the troubled planet Freehold as a place they can finally claim as home. But its instability also makes it the perfect target for conquest and conflict.

Princess Claudia seizes the throne while Prince Alexander disappears, pushing the empire toward war. Sam McCade has to find the missing heir before the fleet, and his enemies, stop him.

In the middle volume of a larger space-opera saga, General Anson Merikur is sent into a crisis mixing rebellion, corporate power, and interstellar politics. Military pressure and questions of nonhuman equality drive the conflict.

Framed and sent to the Swamp, Jonathan Renn has one goal, escape. With danger coming from both monsters and fellow prisoners, the prison world's death sentence gets worse by the day.

A stolen holy relic threatens the fragile peace between humanity and the Il Ronnian Empire. Bounty hunter Sam McCade takes the case, partly for the money and partly because he has old scores to settle.

Reporter Rex Corvan, who records the world through a camera implanted in his eye, stumbles onto a deadly conspiracy. With technician Kim at his side, he follows the trail of the Matrix Man toward the heart of government.

Sam McCade is back in another rough-edged space-opera hunt full of double-crosses, fugitives, and imperial headaches. The series keeps its focus on action, attitude, and survival.

Smooth operator Pik Lando takes a job from a beautiful client and lands in a nest of revolutionaries and violence on the world of Angel. It is a quick, pulpy space adventure built on charm and bad luck.

On the move from old enemies, con man Pik Lando takes what should be a quiet job piloting a space tug. Instead he attracts bounty hunters, government attention, and a lot more trouble than promised.

Pik Lando's latest scheme drops him into the middle of a widening holy war. He wants a payday, but getting out alive becomes the real prize.

Reporter Rex Corvan heads to Mars, where colonization, conspiracy, and murder collide. What begins as investigation opens into a bigger mystery with implications beyond the colony.

Condemned criminals and the terminally ill can be reborn as cyborg legionnaires, humanity's most feared shock troops. When aliens attack a rotten empire, the Legion has to decide what, and who, it is really fighting for.

Ex-marine Max Maxon is paid to keep rich teenager Sasha Casad alive on a dangerous trip offworld. The job turns ugly fast when well-funded enemies start shooting.

As war with the Hudathans reaches a breaking point, soldiers, politicians, and cyborg legionnaires are pushed into one last brutal campaign. Victory may be possible, but the price keeps rising.

Dorn Voss searches space for the lost wormhole called the Mescalaro Gap. Whoever finds it first controls trade, power, and perhaps the future of the galaxy.

Kyle Katarn is a promising Imperial cadet until the truth about his father shatters his loyalty. His path toward life beyond the Empire starts here.

Kyle Katarn's search for truth and revenge draws him toward the Force and a showdown with Dark Jedi. It is the most openly mythic part of the trilogy.

Now working against the Empire, Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors take on increasingly dangerous missions for the Rebellion. The story pushes deeper into espionage, sabotage, and betrayal.

On the unstable world of Zuul, an android named Harley Doon is forced into a fight that crosses humans, aliens, machines, and religious zealots. Saving the planet means uniting factions that barely tolerate each other.

Colonel Bill Booly is sent to backwater Earth after offending the wrong people in a complacent Legion. Then a Legion-led coup turns the planet into a battlefield and forces him to fight his own side.

War spreads across the Confederacy as old enemies press their advantage and political fractures widen. Front-line soldiers and commanders have to hold the line while the galaxy edges toward collapse.

After insectoid Saurons devastate Earth and enslave the survivors, Jack Manning is pushed close to the center of their new regime. Learning the truth behind the aliens' temples could save humanity, or doom it faster.

Earth is still under Sauron rule, but resistance is spreading among humans and other oppressed species. To have any chance at freedom, scattered rebels must turn survival into coordinated war.

The Confederacy needs heroes, but ambition, propaganda, and battlefield reality rarely match. As the Legion fights on, personal loyalties matter just as much as firepower.

On Halo, Master Chief and Cortana fight Covenant forces while scattered Marines struggle to survive on the ring. The novel follows the first game's campaign but adds new viewpoints, especially among human survivors and Covenant hunters.

Long wars leave scars on both bodies and institutions. This installment follows soldiers and survivors as the cost of victory, loss, and duty comes due.

This omnibus brings together the first two Sam McCade novels. Ex-officer turned bounty hunter Sam McCade chases military secrets and a missing prince through a dangerous interstellar empire.

This omnibus pairs the later Sam McCade adventures, sending the bounty hunter into fresh trouble with aliens, criminals, and imperial politics. It is a fast-moving return to Dietz's pulpy space-opera roots.

In a far-future society living off failing ships and half-lost technology, courier Jak Rebo takes a boy to a distant world while assassins close in. Then a clairvoyant woman and a secret about instant travel make the job much bigger.

Courier Jak Rebo agrees to transport the AI Logos, a mind with the power to restore the ancient star-gate network. Religious zealots, technocrats, and killers all want it first.

Agent 47 becomes the target when a rival murder-for-hire network moves against the Agency. The novel follows him through a cold, efficient campaign of counterattack and survival.

With the Confederacy reeling, scattered fighters face defeat on multiple fronts. The story turns on whether battered allies can regroup before everything finally breaks.

FBI agent Christine Rossi becomes the face of a successful raid on eco-terrorists, then gets thrown into a new case targeting human smugglers. Soon enemies from both investigations are hunting her and her daughter.

As new threats rise, the Legion is pulled into another desperate conflict where politics and battlefield survival collide. Duty is clear, but the truth behind the mission is not.

A prisoner transfer goes disastrously wrong, leaving xeno-cop Cato stranded on a remote world with a shape-shifting killer on the loose. His hunt pulls him into local revolt and imperial intrigue.

Young Jim Raynor joins the Confederate Marines hoping to help his family, then forms a complicated bond with Tychus Findlay. War, loyalty, and the slide into criminal work shape this StarCraft prequel.

In an alternate 1950s America under Chimeran attack, Lieutenant Nathan Hale fights a brutal war on the ground while dangerous games unfold in Washington. Survival depends on action and on who can be trusted.

Xeno Corps officer Cato uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to the top of the Uman Empire. To stop it, he has to survive alien politics, shifting loyalties, and the return of an enemy he thought dead.

Dr. Sara Devlin learns that a microscopic alien parasite has been quietly infecting humans for ages. As governments and spies try to exploit it, she races to stop an invasion already underway.

War and intrigue converge as the Legion faces enemies outside and within. Outgunned and under pressure, its people must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for one last chance.

After the fall of the San Francisco and Nathan Hale's death, Joseph Capelli wanders a broken America as a runner. What starts as an escort job turns into a fight for survival against the Chimera.

After Imperial Princess Ophelia murders her brother and purges his allies, Lady Catherine Carletto loses everything. Reinvented as Andromeda McKee, she joins the Legion to survive and strike back.

Kahlee Sanders, David Anderson, and Gillian Grayson follow a trail that points toward Cerberus, the Reapers, and a dangerous cover-up. Set in the Mass Effect universe, it mixes political pressure with pursuit across space.

On the run from Empress Ophelia's regime, Andromeda McKee builds new alliances inside the Legion. Every decision pulls her further from her old life and closer to open rebellion.

This military SF anthology gathers five novellas by different authors, including Dietz's Legion tale Legio Patria Nostra. The stories throw soldiers and survivors into hard fights across multiple futures.

This short standalone science fiction adventure follows hard choices on a dangerous world where survival and local power struggles go hand in hand.

Fifty years after nuclear war and winter wrecked the planet, Lora Larsy leaves the safety of a seed vault with the supplies humanity needs to start over. Outside, starvation, raiders, and rival visions of the future are waiting.

Andromeda McKee's campaign against Empress Ophelia reaches open war. To win, she has to balance vengeance, leadership, and the brutal demands of the Legion.

In a scarred 2038 Los Angeles, Detective Cassandra Lee and her mutant partner investigate a kidnapping that could inflame tensions between norms and mutants. All the while, the cop killer Bonebreaker keeps circling closer.

Cassandra Lee enters the dangerous mutant zones after a message from the mother who abandoned her years earlier. Family secrets, political unrest, and the ever-present Bonebreaker make the search deadly.

As violence between norms and mutants worsens, Detective Cassandra Lee is dragged into a deeper conspiracy. The hunt for Bonebreaker and the fight over who controls the future both come to a head.

Meteor strikes wreck the United States, and panic, shortages, and political opportunists push the country into a second civil war. Captain Robin MacIntyre becomes one of the soldiers trying to keep it from breaking completely.

President Samuel Sloan struggles to hold the Union together while Captain Robin MacIntyre hunts a ruthless western warlord. The mission gets personal when Mac's Confederate sister is helping the enemy.

The second American Civil War reaches its final stage as Robin MacIntyre fights to reunify the country. Personal betrayals, family conflict, and a last gamble for power drive the closing campaign.

World War III begins after China sinks an American destroyer and invades Tibet, while Russia moves into Ukraine. U.S. forces fight in Afghanistan and Alaska as the conflict spirals outward.

As Russia attacks Alaska and chaos spreads through the Middle East, the Allies launch a dangerous mission up the Nile. Lieutenant Commander Harley Kydd must seize the Aswan Dam before millions pay the price.

Chinese agents move to kill the Dalai Lama while Green Beret Jon Lee races behind enemy lines in Nepal. If he fails, the war in the subcontinent could tip into catastrophe.

A multinational Allied unit crosses into Russia to steal a crucial rhenium shipment before it can reach Moscow. Their odd mix of soldiers, spies, and a celebrity colonel makes the mission even riskier.

Strike Team 3 is sent into Iran on a near-suicidal mission against the Natanz fuel enrichment site. Major Sean Finn has to manage the desert, enemy armor, and a mission that can go wrong in a dozen ways.

The Chinese cruiser Sea Dragon devastates a U.S. carrier group and triggers a global hunt across dangerous waters. At the same time, Allied forces gamble on a major Black Sea operation.

CIA officer Jim Carter investigates the slaughter of a Texas town and discovers ravenous insectoid aliens have reached Earth. Teaming with entomologist Anne Blake, he fights to understand the Prax before humanity becomes food.

Lieutenant Commander Leo Baxter and his Riverines fight through the Gulf and into Africa to free a kidnapped Nigerian leader. If they fail, China gains leverage and Nigeria pays the price.

The Prax have already killed billions and turned huge parts of Earth into feeding grounds. As humans fight back, Lester Evans and Cassie Lang face a war that keeps getting worse.

In the far future, rebels buy pilot Copernicus Synn from a slaver because they need ships, and ships need someone bold enough to steal them. His search for allies may lead him to the vanished Legion.

A helicopter pilot, a hard-bitten master sergeant, and a hunted woman collide in war-torn Syria. Everyone is chasing secrets, and hidden gold only makes the chaos worse.

North Korea seizes Seoul in a surprise attack, forcing the United States, Japan, and South Korea into a huge counteroffensive. The battleground is crowded with soldiers, spies, and very high stakes.

After a Chinese laser strike brings down Air Force Two over El Salvador, a rescue mission forms around disgraced captain Jim Brody. The novella turns a global war into a tense hunt on dangerous ground.

Two years into World War III, Allied planners turn to Mongolian guerrilla warfare and Uyghur resistance to pressure China. Captain Nick Stone and his team have to build a rebellion on a brutal deadline.