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Jeff Kirkham Books in Order

See all Jeff Kirkham books in order, from the Black Autumn saga to ReadyMan Info-comics, with quick summaries, series background, and simple where-to-start tips.

Last updated: January 17, 2026

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Homestead: Black Autumn Part One

by Jeff Kirkham

2024

This Faith and Family edition retells the opening of Black Autumn through the story of ex Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family, who flee a nuclear blast in Los Angeles for a mountain refuge called the Homestead. It keeps the danger and hard choices while softening language and leaning more into hope, prayer, and the ties that hold families together.

Blood Spring

by Jeff Kirkham

2022

As the long conflict of Black Autumn nears its end, rival leaders at the Homestead turn on each other just as a cartel offensive surges into the Rocky Mountain West. Jenna Ross sees that personal vendettas may doom everyone and is willing to bargain, deceive, and sacrifice to protect her children and community.

White Wasteland

by Jeff Kirkham

2021

As deep winter settles over a shattered America, the Homestead compound faces a lethal flu outbreak, starving crowds, and a ruthless warlord pressing in on its borders. The veterans and families inside must confront their own fears and divisions while deciding how far they will go to survive.

Toasty Survival

by Jeff Kirkham

2021

This quick reading Info-comic tackles the problem of staying warm and fed when modern heating and cooking stop working. It offers simple, low tech ideas for clothing, shelter, stoves, and fire that help families ride out winter storms or longer grid failures in relative comfort.

President Partisan

by Jeff Kirkham

2021

Former president Dutch McAdams hides with his family among the Paiute after failing to save the country from collapse, training himself for a last stand as a guerrilla. When Russian commandos arrive hunting a lost nuclear briefcase, he must choose between quiet exile and one more attempt to defend the ruined West.

Electric Apocalypse

by Jeff Kirkham

2021

Electric Apocalypse explains how to build small, resilient sources of power so your family is not helpless when the grid fails. Using cartoons and clear examples, it walks through batteries, generators, solar panels, radios, and smart load management to keep lights, communication, and key tools running.

America Invaded

by Jeff Kirkham

2021

After Black Autumn, a Mexican cartel occupies Flagstaff and enslaves the surviving townspeople while winter blocks any escape through the mountains. Ex mercenary Bill McCallister and his adopted son fight on opposite sides, forcing a final reckoning between family loyalty and a battered idea of America.

Water Hero

by Jeff Kirkham

2020

Water Hero uses cheeky illustrations to explain how to keep your family drinking safely without hoarding pallets of bottles. It covers storage, filtration, purification, and creative ways to find or make clean water when public systems fail or local supplies are suddenly cut off.

Poor Man's Tactical Campsite

by Jeff Kirkham

2020

Blending field craft with dark humor, this guide shows how to build a campsite that can handle both bad weather and bad people. It adapts patrol base concepts to civilian life, covering site selection, layout, noise and light discipline, and basic security in rough times.

Fragments of America: Short Stories of the Apocalypse

by Jeff Kirkham

2020

Set during the same seventeen days as the first Black Autumn novel, this anthology gathers short stories about lawyers, kids, retirees, criminals, and quiet neighbors facing the collapse. Each tale shows a different corner of America cracking under pressure and what courage or fear looks like in that moment.

Fixed for Food Storage

by Jeff Kirkham

2020

Focused on everyday households, this Info-comic turns food storage into a simple, repeatable routine instead of a bunker fantasy. It shows how to choose staples, organize shelves, rotate cans, and avoid waste so your pantry quietly becomes a buffer against shortages and hard times.

Do-it-yourself Defense

by Jeff Kirkham

2020

Do-it-yourself Defense treats home protection as a layered family plan rather than a single tool. Starting with awareness and communication, it walks readers through hardening a house, planning for emergencies, and, only as a last resort, bringing firearms into a thoughtful overall defense strategy.

The Last Air Force One

by Jeff Kirkham

2019

When an economic shock sends the United States into panic, President Dutch McAdams and his family are rushed aboard Air Force One for safety, only to find chaos waiting at altitude. Trapped between mutiny, outside threats, and the people he swore to serve, Dutch faces an unbearable choice between nation and child.

Poor Man's Bug Out, Escape and Evasion

by Jeff Kirkham

2019

Packed with irreverent art and hard earned tips, this booklet teaches how to leave home fast when staying means dying. It covers bug out timing, routes, gear that will actually get carried, and simple escape and evasion tricks for dodging trouble rather than charging into it.

Conquistadors

by Jeff Kirkham

2019

In the vacuum left by twin terror attacks, a ruthless cartel boss drives armored columns into the American Southwest and sets out to build his own empire. As he tightens his grip, local fighters and partisans discover that resisting him may cost their souls as well as their lives.

Black Autumn Travelers

by Jeff Kirkham

2019

During the first seventeen days of Black Autumn, a Special Forces veteran, a doubtful family man, and a pampered teenager travel from different corners of the country toward a hidden mountain Homestead. The journey strips away their illusions and forces each to decide what kind of man he really is.

Beginner Emergency Survival Preparedness

by Jeff Kirkham

2019

Written in a calm, step by step voice, this book walks beginners through ten practical moves to handle job loss, storms, or larger crises. It focuses on budgeting, food, water, and basic gear so a normal family gains a safety net without turning life upside down.

Black Autumn

by Jeff Kirkham

2018

A small nuclear device detonates in the port of Los Angeles, quietly wrecking trade and triggering a chain reaction through an already fragile economy. As the lights go out and systems fail, a group of Special Forces veterans, their families, and their skeptical friends fight to bring their long planned Homestead to life before law and civility disappear.

Small Unit Leaders Operational Planning Guide

by Jeff Kirkham

2015

Designed to live in a cargo pocket, this guide helps small unit leaders build clear orders when time and information are limited. Short sections and checklists walk through mission analysis, course of action development, and issuing concise plans that squads and patrols can actually execute.

Combat Leader's Field Guide

by Jeff Kirkham

2015

This updated field guide gathers the core skills needed for small unit dismounted combat, from planning and offensive drills to patrolling, fighting positions, weapons employment, navigation, communications, and casualty care. It serves as a ready reference for infantry leaders, special operations teams, and anyone who must operate as light infantry.

Where should I start?

If you want the full collapse saga: Black AutumnBlack Autumn TravelersConquistadorsWhite WastelandBlood Spring
If you prefer political thrillers: The Last Air Force OnePresident Partisan
If you like desert warfare and cartel stories: ConquistadorsAmerica InvadedBlood Spring
If you just want a quick taste of the world: Fragments of America: Short Stories of the Apocalypse
If you are here for practical preparedness: Beginner Emergency Survival PreparednessPoor Man's Bug Out, Escape and EvasionDo-it-yourself DefenseWater Hero

Author bio

Jeff Kirkham spent close to three decades in US Army Special Forces before he ever put his name on a novel. He has worn the ruck of a Green Beret, taught soldiers and police, and later turned those experiences into stories about ordinary people in extraordinary emergencies.

He served for nearly 29 years in Special Forces, much of it with the 19th Special Forces Group. Over eight of those years were spent with boots on the ground in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other conflict zones, working on counter terrorist direct action missions and advising elite local units.

Along the way, Kirkham studied several foreign languages, finished a bachelor of science degree, and graduated from some of the military's toughest schools, including high altitude, diving, and free fall training.

He also spent time as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, adding another layer of real world perspective to his later writing on law enforcement, narcotics, and the grey areas where war and crime overlap. That broad background gives his fiction a sense of how institutions actually work when stress and politics collide.

Off the battlefield, he has always been a tinkerer. Kirkham holds multiple utility patents, including one for the Rapid Application Tourniquet, a compact tourniquet built for speed and simplicity under stress. The same habit of studying how people fail under pressure, then designing tools to make survival easier, shows up again and again in his novels and survival handbooks.

Before Black Autumn, his name was already known inside military circles through reference titles such as Combat Leader's Field Guide and Small Unit Leaders Operational Planning Guide. Those books distill small unit tactics and planning into checklists that fit in a cargo pocket, and they grew out of years spent training and mentoring younger leaders on deployments. At home, he has run training and consulting work that teaches paramilitary skills, range safety, and operational planning to both government and private clients.

Black Autumn marked a turning point, taking that background and asking what would really happen if an already fragile American economy took one more hard hit. Co written with his friend and fellow prepper Jason Ross, the series drops Special Forces veterans, their families, and their neighbors into a cascading collapse that begins with a small nuclear device in a West Coast port. Instead of superhero soldiers, the books follow people who make mistakes, argue about politics and faith, and still have to secure water, food, and medical care when the grid fails.

Across the main novels, companion books like Black Autumn Travelers and The Last Air Force One, and later volumes including America Invaded and Blood Spring, Kirkham returns to many of the same questions. How far will someone go to protect family. What happens to presidents, cartel bosses, and small town sheriffs when the rules vanish. How does a tight knit survival compound handle outsiders, disagreements, and its own bad decisions.

At the same time, he writes very practical material for readers who simply want to be less fragile. The ReadyMan Info-comics series and longer guides like Beginner Emergency Survival Preparedness break topics such as bug out planning, water, heat, food storage, and home defense into short, illustrated pieces. The tone is often funny and self aware, but the advice is grounded in field experience and aimed at households that do not see themselves as hardcore preppers.

Today, Kirkham lives in the American West and splits his time between writing, inventing, and teaching. He helps train police special weapons teams, works with veteran and outdoors communities, and has stayed closely involved with Afghan friends he served alongside for years. Away from courses and keyboards, he is a husband and father, and his work consistently circles back to the same core idea, that skills, community, and quiet preparation matter far more than any single piece of gear.

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Anurag Ramdasan

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