Chris Kuzneski Books in Order

While vacationing in Malta, Jonathon Payne and David Jones run into an old friend chasing a Knights Hospitaller treasure. Their search collides with ruthless crime boss Ivan Volkov's hunt for revenge, turning the islands into the stage for a violent race toward a hidden hoard.

After an abrupt discharge from the Army, Jack Cobb struggles to adjust to civilian life and is even turned away from his old contacts at MacDill Air Force Base. An evening with friends Jonathon Payne and David Jones offers unexpected hope and hints at the future Hunters team.

Guided by accounts of Marco Polo's travels, the Hunters search for a fortune he allegedly hid after serving in the court of Kublai Khan. Their quest across China pits them against a powerful criminal network determined to keep that treasure, and its implications, buried.

The Hunters are hired to locate the legendary tomb of Alexander the Great and the riches said to be buried with him. Following scattered clues into Egypt, they clash with enemies willing to destroy a city rather than let the team reach the vault first.

Financed by a mysterious billionaire, soldier Jack Cobb leads a handpicked team that includes a historian, hacker, sniper, and thief. Their first assignment is to track down Romanian treasure trains that vanished in Russia during World War I before rival forces claim the multibillion dollar hoard.

An explosion at a secret research lab in Stockholm wipes out a group of elite scientists and their work. Interpol director Nick Dial investigates while Dr. Mattias Sahlberg flees to Payne and Jones for protection, drawing them into a deadly chase involving radical biomedical discoveries.

Centuries after the Spanish conquest, legends persist about a Christian artifact so dangerous it became known as the death relic. When Maria Pelati's research team vanishes in Mexico, she calls Payne and Jones, who follow clues through the Yucate1n to uncover what her colleagues truly found.

Documents bearing King Ludwig II's black swan emblem surface in a hidden bunker in the Bavarian Alps. Asked to protect the find, Payne and Jones follow riddles through castles, forests, and underground tunnels in search of a rumored royal treasure and the truth behind Ludwig's death.

A coded message linked to the writings of Nostradamus pulls a stranger into the orbit of Jonathon Payne and David Jones. An assassin strikes before she can explain everything, leaving the pair racing across continents to decode the text and stop those twisting prophecy into a weapon.

In the cliff top monasteries of Mete9ora, Greece, monks are hurled to their deaths by warriors wielding ancient weapons. Scholar Richard Byrd believes their secret is tied to a legendary treasure, and his plea for help sends Payne and Jones from Russia back toward the killing ground.

Off the coast of Korea, a boy discovers a blood soaked cave and his entire village soon disappears. In Saudi Arabia, an archaeologist finds an artifact some will kill to hide. When a soldier dies inside a secret bunker, Payne and Jones uncover a plot aimed at sparking holy war.

On shores from Denmark to Asia, priests are found crucified in modern times. At the same time, an archaeologist uncovers a two thousand year old scroll beneath Orvieto, Italy. Payne and Jones must connect the murders and the scroll before more bodies fall.

Across the United States, a series of carefully planned kidnappings leads back to the Deep South. When his girlfriend Ariane is taken, former Special Forces commander Jonathon Payne teams up with David Jones to hunt a brutal Louisiana plantation hiding long buried crimes.