Marc Cameron Books in Order
Browse all Marc Cameron books in order, from Jack Ryan to Jericho Quinn and Arliss Cutter, with short summaries and simple tips on where to start reading.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
27 books
Backtrack
by Marc Cameron
2026
Decades after a bloody armored-truck heist in Texas, the surviving gunman known as Pinky wins release from prison and heads for Alaska. Convinced the missing diamonds became a Cutter family secret, he targets Arliss's loved ones, forcing the marshal to confront an old score.
Dead Line
by Marc Cameron
2025
During a subzero Alaskan winter, Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki close in on Butch Pritchard, a contract killer wanted for murdering a pregnant woman. When their quarry vanishes and witnesses start dying, the chase exposes a deeper threat stalking everyone tied to the case.
Bad River
by Marc Cameron
2024
In an Arctic village, teenagers uncover a woman's body frozen into a permafrost cellar, someone who vanished two years earlier. The strange fossil in her pocket matches one Arliss Cutter's late brother carried, pulling Arliss into a brutal case that threatens his grieving family.
Command and Control
by Marc Cameron
2023
A coup in Panama erupts just as President Jack Ryan visits the country, stranding him behind enemy lines while conspirators move on the Canal. As streets explode in violence, The Campus races to expose the shadow group orchestrating the uprising.
Breakneck
by Marc Cameron
2023
A vengeful Russian mob boss sends terrorists to assassinate a U.S. Supreme Court justice during an Alaskan sightseeing trip. When militants seize a Glacier Discovery train, Arliss Cutter and the justice jump into the backcountry and fight to save her daughter still onboard.
Red Winter
by Marc Cameron
2022
In 1985, young CIA analyst Jack Ryan goes behind the Berlin Wall to assess a potential East German defector, even as another spy steals fragments of a crashed stealth jet in Nevada, putting Ryan between rival agencies, the Stasi, and the KGB.
Cold Snap
by Marc Cameron
2022
Escorting four dangerous prisoners from the oil town of Deadhorse, Arliss Cutter expects a routine flight south until the plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness and the inmates seize control. With a serial killer among them, survival means outwitting both man and nature.
Chain of Command
by Marc Cameron
2021
As President Ryan pushes a hard-fought bill to rein in drug companies, an Indian billionaire unleashes ransomware attacks, deep-fake videos, and a mercenary group that kidnaps the First Lady, forcing The Campus into a global hunt to unravel his scheme.
Bone Rattle
by Marc Cameron
2021
A young Native archaeologist vanishes while monitoring sacred sites near a gold mine, and a dismembered torso washes ashore in Anchorage. Assigned to babysit jurors in a major drug-conspiracy trial, Arliss Cutter uncovers a web linking politics, mining money, and murder.
Stone Cross
by Marc Cameron
2020
Sent to the isolated village of Stone Cross, Alaska, to quietly protect a federal judge receiving death threats, Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki instead find a missing young couple, a dead handyman, and a fogbound community full of buried grudges.
Shadow of the Dragon
by Marc Cameron
2020
A Chinese scientist who designed a silent submarine drive disappears with his Uyghur assistant, just as a damaged ballistic-missile sub surfaces under Arctic ice. President Ryan hunts a mole inside the CIA while The Campus tracks the fugitives across China and Mongolia.
Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
2019
Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter's first Alaskan assignment sends him to fog-shrouded Prince of Wales Island, where a Tlingit girl and two reality-TV crew members vanish. As cartel violence and small-town secrets collide, the hunter quickly becomes the hunted.
Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron
2019
When Jesuit priest and former CIA officer Pat West is jailed in Indonesia on trumped-up charges, President Jack Ryan quietly unleashes The Campus to dig into his arrest and a stolen AI program that could let China cripple U.S. defenses.
Active Measures
by Marc Cameron
2019
While Cuba and the United States move toward normalizing relations, a hard-line Cuban general acquires a leftover Soviet nuclear weapon and aims it at Miami. Undercover on the island, Jericho Quinn must stop the launch while enduring prison, assassins, and a monster hurricane.
The Triple Frontier
by Marc Cameron
2018
In the lawless border region where Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet, Jericho Quinn's younger brother and a wealthy client vanish during a motorcycle trip. Quinn assembles an unsanctioned rescue team to confront cartels, mercenaries, and terrorists on their own ground.
Oath of Office
by Marc Cameron
2018
Deadly protests in Iran hide a covert scheme to steal anti-ballistic missiles and detonate them in space, wiping out satellites. As a vicious flu and floods batter the U.S., President Jack Ryan and The Campus race to stop a manufactured Persian Spring.
Power and Empire
by Marc Cameron
2017
President Jack Ryan faces a shadow campaign to spark war between the United States and China, while The Campus chases a Chinese agent using terror strikes and human trafficking to topple a moderate leader and trigger a violent coup.
Dead Drop
by Marc Cameron
2017
At the country's biggest water park, a bomb rips through the grounds and gunmen herd survivors into the main pool beneath the towering Dead Drop slide. Trapped with his daughter, Jericho Quinn turns a family outing into a brutal one-man counterattack.
Field of Fire
by Marc Cameron
2016
A nerve agent code-named New Archangel devastates a major American city and threatens more attacks. Jericho Quinn heads into the Alaskan bush to find the aging Russian scientist who created it before foreign operatives or his own deteriorating mind unleash another nightmare.
Day Zero
by Marc Cameron
2015
On the run after being framed by conspirators inside the White House, Jericho Quinn sneaks aboard a packed Airbus with his young daughter. When murder and a bomb rip through the cabin, he has to clear his name while keeping everyone alive at thirty thousand feet.
Brute Force
by Marc Cameron
2015
In the aftermath of a catastrophic biological attack, Washington tilts toward martial law and a ruthless vice president tightens his grip on power. Hunted as a traitor, Jericho Quinn races to expose the plot before America slides into a permanent police state.
Time of Attack
by Marc Cameron
2014
A mysterious plague erupts in a Utah town and quickly surfaces overseas, pointing to a man-made bioweapon. While hunting the sniper who targeted his family, Jericho Quinn uncovers a clandestine league of assassins and a plot to infect the world.
State of Emergency
by Marc Cameron
2013
After college drug mules die from radiation poisoning and dirty bombs explode in San Francisco and St. Petersburg, the next strike will be nuclear. Jericho Quinn and his team chase a black-market arms dealer from Washington to a deadly Dakar-style rally.
Act of Terror
by Marc Cameron
2012
Suicide bombers, a rogue cop, and even a murderous CIA executive turn U.S. cities into war zones, but the attackers are part of a hidden domestic network. Classified asset Jericho Quinn must dismantle the conspiracy even as investigators start hunting him.
National Security
by Marc Cameron
2011
Three terrorists have been turned into walking bioweapons, carrying a hemorrhagic virus onto American soil. Air Force OSI agent Jericho Quinn is pulled into an off-the-books task force and sent racing to stop mass infection before the country unravels.
The Hell Riders
by Marc Cameron
2006
During the final years of the Apache Wars, cavalry scout Trap O'Shannon and a small band of fellow Hell Riders earn a fierce reputation tracking Geronimo's warriors through desert and canyon, only to discover that some of the worst threats wear Army blue.
Hard Road to Heaven
by Marc Cameron
2005
After years apart, former Scout Trackers Trap O'Shannon, Clay Madsen, Ky Roman, and their comrades saddle up again, riding from Montana toward the Arizona Territory to settle old scores and deliver rough justice to the outlaws who cross their path.
Where should I start?
If you want high-octane special-ops thrillers: National Security → Act of Terror → State of Emergency → Time of Attack.
If you like Alaskan crime and survival stories: Open Carry → Stone Cross → Bone Rattle → Cold Snap.
If you're here for modern Jack Ryan adventures: Power and Empire → Oath of Office → Code of Honor → Shadow of the Dragon → Chain of Command → Command and Control.
If you prefer Cold War-era Ryan stories: Red Winter on its own works well, then you can jump forward to the later Jack Ryan novels.
If you want to follow the latest Arliss Cutter arc: Breakneck → Bad River → Dead Line → Backtrack.
Author bio
Marc Cameron was born and raised in Texas, where wide-open spaces, Westerns, and action movies fired his imagination early. As a kid he devoured stories about Indiana Jones and James Bond, long before he had the tools to write thrillers of his own.
Instead of heading straight for a desk, he went into law enforcement. Over nearly three decades he served as a uniformed patrol officer, a mounted horse-patrol cop, a detective, and a SWAT officer. In 1991 he joined the United States Marshals Service and eventually moved north to Alaska, specializing in dignitary protection and fugitive work before retiring as chief of the district of Alaska in 2011.
Those years on the job gave him a front-row seat to how investigations, manhunts, and high-risk arrests really unfold.
While he was still carrying a badge, Cameron began turning that experience into fiction. His debut novel, National Security, introduced Air Force OSI agent Jericho Quinn, a motorcycle-riding, multilingual operative who gets pulled into a covert task force reporting only to the director of national intelligence and the president. The Jericho Quinn books push Quinn and his team through biological attacks, suitcase nukes, dirty bombs, and political conspiracies, with titles like Act of Terror, State of Emergency, Time of Attack, and Active Measures sending them from mall parking lots to war zones.
After leaving the Marshals Service, he created another series closer to the work he knew best. The Arliss Cutter novels, starting with Open Carry and continuing through books such as Stone Cross, Bone Rattle, Cold Snap, Breakneck, Bad River, and Dead Line, follow a Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal based in Alaska. Cutter tracks fugitives, protects judges, escorts prisoners, and stumbles into cases that combine wilderness survival with the quieter, behind-the-scenes duties that keep the federal courts running.
Cameron is also one of the writers chosen to continue Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan universe. Beginning with Power and Empire and continuing through Oath of Office, Code of Honor, Shadow of the Dragon, Chain of Command, Red Winter, and Command and Control, he’s written both present-day stories about President Jack Ryan and The Campus and a Cold War prequel that drops a younger Ryan behind the Berlin Wall. He approaches those books as a longtime Clancy fan, aiming to keep the characters familiar while letting his own voice and background come through.
Along the way he has written Westerns under the name Mark Henry—collected in To Hell and Beyond—and short stories that have appeared in general-interest magazines read far outside the thriller niche.
Off the page, Cameron is a second-degree black belt in jujitsu who often teaches defensive tactics to other officers and civilian groups. He’s a certified scuba diver, a trained man-tracker, and an avid adventure motorcyclist; it’s no accident that so many of his heroes fight hand-to-hand and spend long hours in the saddle of a big BMW bike. He’s also known to escape to a remote cabin with no electricity or running water when a deadline looms and the internet needs to disappear.
Today he lives in Alaska with his wife and that well-traveled motorcycle, splitting his time between researching new stories, writing in all kinds of weather, and occasionally hitting the road to talk with readers. Whether he’s sending Jack Ryan into geopolitical chaos or Arliss Cutter into the Alaskan backcountry, the goal is the same: to turn real-world experience and a love of adventure stories into fast reads that still feel grounded.
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