Blake Banner Books in Order
Explore Blake Banner books in order, with short summaries, series background, and easy help choosing where to start across his major thriller series.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
95 books
Ace and a Pair
by Blake Banner
2017
Old-school NYPD detective John Stone and abrasive Carmen Dehan are shoved into cold cases and reopen a grotesque Bronx massacre from ten years earlier. What starts as a dead file turns into gang, mob, and crooked-cop territory.
Dawn of the Hunter
by Blake Banner
2017
Ex-SAS killer Lacklan Walker returns to Boston after his father calls him home and his childhood love, Marni, goes missing. There he learns the truth about Omega and begins a hunt that turns personal fast.
Double Edged Blade
by Blake Banner
2017
At his father’s funeral, Lacklan comes face to face with Marni, the woman who killed him and the woman he has been told to protect. The trail leads through Arizona and deeper into Omega’s shadow world.
Garden of the Damned
by Blake Banner
2017
A supposed tramp found in a Bronx dumpster turns out to be something else entirely. Stone and Dehan follow the cold trail into the church, the city’s powerful men, and shadows from Dehan’s past.
Let Us Prey
by Blake Banner
2017
A request to reopen a forgotten file pulls Stone and Dehan into a case that is far darker than it first appears. The investigation leads them toward a clever, dangerous killer who keeps staying one move ahead.
The Sins of the Father
by Blake Banner
2017
Eighteen years after a husband is murdered outside a Bronx church, the one witness still remembers nothing. Stone and Dehan must rebuild the case from scraps of faith, sex, and buried family secrets.
Two Bare Arms
by Blake Banner
2017
Stone and Dehan tackle a chilling old case built around a pair of severed arms and no body. The deeper they dig, the more it looks like a taunting serial killer wanted to be noticed.
A Harvest of Blood
by Blake Banner
2018
A wrong turn in a blizzard leaves Lacklan in a remote Wyoming ghost town where a local girl’s death is being waved away. He decides to stay, and the people responsible are about to regret it.
Fire From Heaven
by Blake Banner
2018
Stone and Dehan reopen a cold case that quickly widens into something larger and more volatile. Old evidence, fresh danger, and a killer who still has room to move keep the pressure high.
Kill: One
by Blake Banner
2018
Lacklan goes fully off-book and takes on a solo assassination mission in Hollywood. His target is a beloved TV mogul who also happens to be one of Omega’s most dangerous figures.
Kill: Two
by Blake Banner
2018
Just when Lacklan thinks he has cut Omega down, the chaos starts again. Old enemies, fresh killings, and the feeling that the cabal is still moving force him back onto the hunt.
Little Dead Riding Hood
by Blake Banner
2018
A young woman disappears on a short walk to her boyfriend’s house and turns up dead days later in the Bronx River. New evidence gives Stone and Dehan a way back into a case that once seemed impossible.
Murder Most Scottish
by Blake Banner
2018
Stone and Dehan’s honeymoon on a remote Scottish island becomes a murder investigation when an old locked-room mystery echoes into the present. Even off duty, they can’t resist a cold case.
Powder Burn
by Blake Banner
2018
A plea for help pulls Lacklan to New York, where a vanished young man and a cluster of gifted missing friends hint at a hidden war. The case opens another door into Omega’s reach.
Strange and Sinister Path
by Blake Banner
2018
The body of a Bronx girl turns up in the Colorado Rockies, far from where the crime should have happened. Stone and Dehan head west and find a brutal case with very few answers and far too many suspects.
The Butcher of Whitechapel
by Blake Banner
2018
A trip to London turns personal when Stone is dragged back toward the killer who once got away from him. Past failures, new murders, and Dehan’s safety all land on the line at once.
The Hand of War
by Blake Banner
2018
Marni is set to expose Omega at a UN conference in New York, which makes her a target already. Then an infamous killer enters the picture and the stakes jump from personal to catastrophic.
The Heart to Kill
by Blake Banner
2018
When a murdered investigative reporter resurfaces in the cold-case files, Stone and Dehan uncover links to money, politics, and a rising public figure. The deeper they go, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
The Storm
by Blake Banner
2018
While Hurricane Sarah barrels toward Louisiana, Lacklan heads after missing Marni and stumbles into an impossible murder case involving an old SAS comrade. Storm pressure and conspiracy pressure rise together.
To Kill Upon a Kiss
by Blake Banner
2018
A man in Rikers claims he knows who committed the Westchester Angel murder, but he wants his freedom in return. Stone and Dehan must decide how far to trust a prisoner when a serial killer may still be hunting.
To Rule in Hell
by Blake Banner
2018
Sent on what seems like a simple errand, Lacklan ends up protecting a senator while dodging killers and the law alike. At the same time, he is starting to wonder whether he can ever leave Omega behind.
Unleashed
by Blake Banner
2018
Broken and grieving, Lacklan retreats to Galveston hoping to heal. Instead he meets a frightened young woman with a buried past, and the fight he thought was over comes roaring back.
Unnatural Murder
by Blake Banner
2018
A fresh double shooting in the Bronx appears tied to a fifteen-year-old rape and murder that never stopped haunting Dehan’s family. Stone and Dehan find themselves working a case that is both personal and deadly.
9mm Justice
by Blake Banner
2019
A drive-by shooting in Tucson kills an innocent young woman right in front of Lacklan. When the gangs and the law fail her, he brings his own kind of justice to the people responsible.
Blood In Babylon
by Blake Banner
2019
Stone only takes cases that have some chance of being solved, but this one has almost no evidence at all. A murdered schizophrenic, missing proof, and a simple story that won’t quite fit make it hard to walk away.
Blood Into Wine
by Blake Banner
2019
What looks polished on the surface turns ugly fast when Stone and Dehan reopen a case steeped in old grudges and quiet betrayals. The deeper they go, the more blood they find beneath the good taste.
Death in Dexter
by Blake Banner
2019
A teenager is raped, beaten, and murdered in a town that almost never sees violent crime. The evidence points one way, the timeline points another, and Stone and Dehan are called in to untangle the contradiction.
Death In Freedom
by Blake Banner
2019
A night drive goes wrong and leaves Lacklan stranded in a town called Freedom, where the clean streets hide something deeply sinister. He plans to stay one night, then finds he can’t walk away.
Endgame
by Blake Banner
2019
With only Omega’s last branch still standing, Lacklan sets out for the final reckoning. The chase runs from the Bering Strait through Siberia and into the truth he has been hunting all along.
Jack in the Box
by Blake Banner
2019
A novelist receives a package containing her husband’s severed head, and Stone and Dehan inherit a case with no witnesses and almost no evidence. The hunt takes them far beyond the Bronx and into darker personal territory.
Kill: Four
by Blake Banner
2019
By now the war with Omega has cost Lacklan almost everything, and the next strike forces him to choose between peace and revenge. Either way, somebody is going to die.
Mustang Sally
by Blake Banner
2019
A woman is found stabbed in bed, with her hands and feet removed and almost no trace of the killer left behind. Stone and Dehan reopen the case and find religion, secrecy, and a mystery that may truly be unsolvable.
The Fall Moon
by Blake Banner
2019
An old murder starts to glow again under autumn skies as Stone and Dehan revisit a case everyone else gave up on. What seemed buried soon proves very much alive.
The Omicron Kill
by Blake Banner
2019
Loss and fury drive Lacklan back toward Omega when a new threat proves the cabal is far from finished. This is another hard, fast leg in his long war with the people who ruined his life.
Trick or Treat
by Blake Banner
2019
A Halloween party murder should have been easy to solve, the DNA and prints were right there, but the killer vanished anyway. Twelve years later, Stone and Dehan try to crack the trick that fooled everyone.
Verdugo Dawn
by Blake Banner
2019
A man wakes in the New Mexico desert with no memory, only elite killing skills and a fierce urge to hunt traffickers. His search for his name quickly turns into a war with cartels and hidden powers.
A Christmas Killing
by Blake Banner
2020
A young woman is murdered on Christmas Day, and the obvious suspect vanishes as if she fell off the map. Stone and Dehan dig into a holiday killing that only gets stranger the closer they look.
Bleed Out
by Blake Banner
2020
Stone becomes fixated on a rape case that technically was never a homicide, until a related murder suggests otherwise. He and Dehan uncover a link between two cases that looked like coincidence and nothing more.
Dead and Buried
by Blake Banner
2020
A woman is shot in a brightly lit cellar beside a mummified corpse buried decades earlier. Stone and Dehan must solve two killings at once, both tied to the same gun.
Dead of Night
by Blake Banner
2020
Kicked out of the SAS and sent back to New York, Harry Bauer seems headed for mob work until Cobra recruits him. That is the moment his second life as a sanctioned killer begins.
Dying Breath
by Blake Banner
2020
A hit on two Chinese biochemists starts as business as usual for Harry. Then Cobra asks why they are in New York, and the answer opens into a much bigger conspiracy.
In Hot Blood
by Blake Banner
2020
A reopened murder drags Stone and Dehan into a case driven by obsession, betrayal, and violence that never really cooled. The answers are close, but so is the danger.
Kill Drive
by Blake Banner
2020
Verdugo keeps chasing the people who made him what he is. The trail runs through violence, memory gaps, and a conspiracy much larger than one man’s revenge.
Lotus
by Blake Banner
2020
Still hunting for his past, the man called Verdugo follows a lead from New Orleans to Baja. What he finds ties drug traffic, strange science, and his own shattered identity together.
Mommy's Little Killer
by Blake Banner
2020
A serial killer who stopped for years starts murdering again, and this time the 43rd wants him finished. Stone and Dehan race through old suspects and new horrors before another girl dies.
Quantum Kill
by Blake Banner
2020
Asked to escort a woman from Calgary to Washington, Harry assumes he is being wasted on babysitting duty. Then the CIA tries to kill them both, and the job turns global.
The Einstaat Brief
by Blake Banner
2020
Harry wants out of the killing life, but Cobra offers him one last job in exchange for protecting the woman he loves. The mission drops him into a secret summit of the world’s richest and most dangerous people.
Along Came A Spider
by Blake Banner
2021
A man is found stabbed with his wife’s DNA all over the scene, but she was seen giving a speech two hundred miles away at the time. Stone and Dehan have to solve the impossible before the wrong person walks.
Breath of Hell
by Blake Banner
2021
When Cobra’s Jane Harris is abducted, Harry goes after her without hesitation. The rescue mission carries him from a Greek island into the heart of a much darker empire.
Fallen Angels
by Blake Banner
2021
A six-year-old serial case lands with Stone and Dehan when it becomes clear the killer chooses victims for reasons no one can read. Sacred music, slow deaths, and a mind games killer make this one especially nasty.
Ice Cold Spy
by Blake Banner
2021
A murdered scientist in the Greenland wilderness kicks off a case that sends Alex Mason into the cold after answers. What looks remote and scientific soon turns into a global security problem.
Immortal Hate
by Blake Banner
2021
On a Caribbean island, Harry is sent to kill a Serbian war criminal hiding among cartel interests. The problem is that two men claim to be the target, and both come with convincing stories.
Invisible Evil
by Blake Banner
2021
Harry is told to kill a private American citizen, not a dictator or warlord, and even Cobra cannot back him up. Once he learns what the man has done, walking away is no longer an option.
Knife Edge
by Blake Banner
2021
Two family massacres, years apart, share details that should not line up at all. Stone and Dehan chase the link through trauma, impossible timing, and a witness who cannot speak.
LA: Wild Justice
by Blake Banner
2021
Cobra orders Harry to kill a billionaire philanthropist who may be hiding arms deals and terrorism behind a charitable image. Getting close is hard, and figuring out who is lying is harder.
Odin
by Blake Banner
2021
When an ODIN intelligence officer vanishes in Manila with an encrypted laptop, elite operative Alex Mason is sent in. The disappearance threatens far more than one man, and the shadow behind it points toward China.
The Shadow of Ukupacha
by Blake Banner
2021
A Cobra mission takes Harry into rougher ground, where old violence, hidden enemies, and a target buried in shadow all collide. He is hunting again, but the landscape is hunting him too.
The Silent Blade
by Blake Banner
2021
Returning from the Caribbean, Harry finds half the criminal and intelligence world hunting him. Trapped in jungle country with almost no one to trust, he has to survive without giving Cobra away.
Assets and Liabilities
by Blake Banner
2022
Inside ODIN, even a secret agency can need a scapegoat. Mason has to sort truth from internal politics while the real danger keeps moving.
Blood of the Innocent
by Blake Banner
2022
Harry is sent after another predator shielded by money and influence. The mission drags him deep into the brutal space where Cobra’s justice begins to look very personal.
Blood on Balthazar
by Blake Banner
2022
Trying to take a vacation in a tiny Maine village, Harry walks into a snowstorm, missing girls, and a town full of secrets. Rest is off the table the moment blood starts spilling.
Dead Man Talking
by Blake Banner
2022
A dead source, or one who should be dead, hands Mason a case that refuses to stay buried. ODIN knows there is more at stake than one vanished truth.
Executive Order
by Blake Banner
2022
A mission touching the highest levels of government sends Mason into the kind of operation where politics and espionage are inseparable. Staying ahead means ignoring the neat version of the story.
Mason's Law
by Blake Banner
2022
A killing that first looks isolated starts to feel like part of something much larger. Mason has to move fast before the violence grows into an international crisis.
Russian Roulette
by Blake Banner
2022
Mason is pulled into a high-risk intelligence game where one wrong move could trigger a much wider conflict. The title is not kidding about the odds.
Simple Kill
by Blake Banner
2022
What should be a straightforward Cobra hit quickly turns complicated. Harry has to sort bad intel, hidden motives, and the very real chance that he is being used.
Sweet Razor Cut
by Blake Banner
2022
Harry thinks he may finally be ready to stop killing, until a ghost from his past starts visiting his home at night. One last job against a trafficker turns into something much more personal.
All The King's Men
by Blake Banner
2023
When power closes ranks, Mason is the man ODIN sends to pry it open. This is a globe-hopping espionage thriller built on secrets, leverage, and people with too much to lose.
Brotherhood of the Goat
by Blake Banner
2023
A ritual murder leads Mason and Gallin toward a transnational conspiracy centered on a terrifying virus. The case grows stranger and more dangerous the farther they dig.
Cold Blood
by Blake Banner
2023
The Castle Hill Ripper appears to be killing again, even though the convicted man is already behind bars. Stone and Dehan must decide whether they’re facing a copycat, a leak, or a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Curtain Call
by Blake Banner
2023
With retirement and a baby on the way, Stone and Dehan want out, until an actress asks them to reopen a murder Stone once refused to touch. Their final case cuts dangerously close to home.
Dead Hot
by Blake Banner
2023
Mason and ODIN are pulled into a case that burns fast from the outset. The trail is hot, the stakes are high, and the people behind it are not short of nerve.
Flashpoint
by Blake Banner
2023
A tense international problem edges toward open crisis, and Mason is thrown in to stop the spark becoming an explosion. Fast intelligence work matters as much as firepower here.
Riding the Devil
by Blake Banner
2023
Sent to Wyoming to sniff out a cartel operation, Harry finds a missing FBI man and a murdered teenager instead. Once he catches the scent, the hunt becomes merciless.
The Devil's Vengeance
by Blake Banner
2023
Enemies made in earlier missions start pushing back, and Harry walks into a revenge play built to break him. To get through it, he has to outfight people who know exactly how he works.
The Unavenged
by Blake Banner
2023
An old wrong refuses to stay buried, and Harry is the one Cobra points at it. The closer he gets to the truth, the more personal the score feels.
Blood for Blood
by Blake Banner
2024
Harry takes on a case where vengeance is not just motive, it is the whole engine of the plot. Cobra wants results, and Harry is more than capable of delivering them.
Blood on Megiddo
by Blake Banner
2024
A leak inside British intelligence sends Mason and Mossad captain Aila Gallin after whoever is feeding secrets to hostile powers. The hunt quickly takes on apocalyptic overtones.
Bloody Retribution
by Blake Banner
2024
Cobra gives Harry another untouchable target, but this hunt turns savage fast. Justice is still the goal, though the route there is paved with bodies.
Gates of Hell
by Blake Banner
2024
Rogue wakes beside four butchered bodies with blood on his hands and no memory of what happened. All he knows is that he is driven to punish traffickers and find out who he really is.
Hell's Fury
by Blake Banner
2024
Still chasing his lost identity, Rogue keeps moving through a world of lies, violence, and people who may want to use him. The answers stay just out of reach, and the body count keeps climbing.
Silent Crusade
by Blake Banner
2024
Harry is sent into a mission where fanaticism and violence feed each other. To finish the job, he has to cut through people who think murder is a holy duty.
Son of Hell
by Blake Banner
2024
Mason faces a threat with ideological fire behind it and a reach that crosses borders. Stopping it means getting ahead of people who think chaos is a strategy.
Extinction C-14
by Blake Banner
2025
A scientific threat with global implications puts Mason back in the field. He is not just chasing bad actors this time, but the possibility of disaster on a wider scale.
Ice Burn
by Blake Banner
2025
Rogue follows a lead into a North Dakota winter and finds a missing mother and daughter, a town under someone’s control, and another link to his buried past. Survival and truth become the same fight.
Merchant of Death
by Blake Banner
2025
An arms-and-intelligence trail leads Mason into another global tangle where the wrong shipment could change everything. ODIN needs him to find the truth before others can weaponize it.
The Cell
by Blake Banner
2025
A tightly contained threat proves anything but simple when Harry gets inside it. Escape, exposure, and killing the right people become the same problem.
The Dead Don't Lie
by Blake Banner
2025
A supposedly settled old murder starts to come apart, and Stone and Dehan are forced back into the file. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the dead have been pointing at the truth all along.
The Reaper of Zion
by Blake Banner
2025
A mission with strong political and religious shadows sends Harry after a killer with an apocalyptic edge. Stopping him means moving faster than the fear he spreads.
Time to Die
by Blake Banner
2025
Harry is on the clock from the first page, chasing a target before the body count climbs higher. The action stays lean, brutal, and very personal.
A Vengeful God
by Blake Banner
2026
When Gallin believes the man who killed her mother is coming for her, Mason wants to help immediately. Instead he is sent on another mission first, and the two crises collide hard.
Bad Blood
by Blake Banner
2026
Old grudges and fresh violence mix into one more hard mission for Cobra’s best operative. Harry knows by now that blood never stays in the past for long.
First Blood
by Blake Banner
2026
Another ODIN mission drops Mason into lethal territory where the first strike matters. In this series, first blood is rarely the last.
Judgement by Fire
by Blake Banner
2026
Rogue’s search for himself turns even harsher as old enemies and hidden truths close in. He is still chasing justice, but now the reckoning feels close enough to burn.
Justice Without Mercy
by Blake Banner
2026
Harry is sent after people the law cannot or will not touch. It is exactly the kind of job Cobra was built for, and exactly the kind Harry does best.
Where should I start?
If you want cold-case detective work: Ace and a Pair → Garden of the Damned → Murder Most Scottish
If you want a shadow-government action thriller: Dawn of the Hunter → The Hand of War → Kill: One
If you want a hard-edged assassin series: Dead of Night → The Einstaat Brief → Breath of Hell
If you want high-stakes espionage with David Archer: Odin → Ice Cold Spy → Mason's Law
If you want an amnesia-driven vigilante thriller: Verdugo Dawn → Lotus → Kill Drive
Author bio
Blake Banner keeps a fairly low public profile, which somehow fits the books. The pieces he has shared about himself are not tidy literary milestones. They read more like the rough start of one of his thrillers.
He has said his parents were well-meaning Marxists who chose to homeschool him and hired a governess to do it. While she tried to teach him the Greek alphabet, he has joked that he was far more interested in guns, ancient weapons, and Budo. He has also said he would sneak off whenever he could to help out at the stables across the road or practice Tae Kwon Do with friends.
That does not sound like the making of a quiet, indoor novelist.
Banner has also said he got his first job at sixteen, breaking in wild horses. After that, by his own account, he traveled widely, saw plenty of life and death, and slowly developed a passion for storytelling. He does not lay every detail out in public, and that reserve is part of his author image. What he does make clear is that action, danger, and hard experience came long before publication.
When his fiction took off, it did so in a big way through fast, high-concept thriller series. Readers who come to him through An Ace and a Pair usually stay for John Stone and Carmen Dehan, the mismatched NYPD detectives at the center of the Dead Cold books. Readers who start with Dawn of the Hunter meet Lacklan Walker, an ex-SAS fighter drawn into a shadow-government war in the Omega novels. And readers who pick up Dead of Night get Harry Bauer, another former special forces operator, this time working for the secretive Cobra agency.
He likes damaged professionals.
That is one of the clearest through-lines in Banner’s work. His protagonists tend to be highly skilled, emotionally bruised, hard to manage, and stubborn enough to keep going long after common sense says stop. The worlds around them are full of cartels, secret agencies, corrupt elites, serial killers, old crimes, and hidden loyalties. Even when the plots stretch across continents, the emotional engine is usually personal. Someone has been taken. Someone has been lied to. Someone has to pay.
The tone also stays consistent across very different series. Banner likes short chapters, quick forward motion, and a clean hook at the start of a book. In the Dead Cold novels, that means cold cases that flare back to life in the Bronx. In the Omega and Harry Bauer books, it means men with military training pushed into messy moral territory. In Verdugo Dawn, it means an amnesiac killer waking in the desert and trying to understand what kind of man he is. In the co-written Alex Mason books, beginning with Odin, it means high-level espionage, ODIN operations, and international threats that keep widening.
He also writes with David Archer, and that partnership has produced some of his most overtly globe-spanning thrillers. The Alex Mason books are built around intelligence work, geopolitics, and covert operations. The later Rogue books lean darker and stranger, with an amnesiac vigilante at the center. Even across those collaborations, Banner’s fingerprints are easy to spot: relentless pace, blunt stakes, and heroes who do not wait around for permission.
For readers, that is the appeal. You know you are going to get movement, conflict, and people under pressure. Banner may keep parts of his own story private, but on the page he is very clear about what he likes to write, hard cases, dangerous missions, and men and women who keep going because stopping would be worse.
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