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Mark Sullivan Books in Order

See all Mark Sullivan books in order, with quick summaries, series overviews, and guidance on where to start with his thrillers and historical novels.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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23 books

The Fall Line

by Mark T Sullivan

1994

Adrenaline-addict Jack Farrell thinks he has escaped his past after laundering money for a South American drug cartel and vanishing into a Utah ski town. When a reckless ski-film director lures him back onto the slopes, old enemies and buried guilt close in.

Hard News

by Mark Sullivan

1995

Burned-out reporter Gideon McCarthy is barely holding his life together when a murdered call girl leads him to a story that could save his career. As he digs into police corruption, real-estate scams, and rival newspapers, he discovers that chasing the truth may cost him everything.

The Purification Ceremony

by Mark T Sullivan

1997

Third-generation tracker Diana Jackman joins an exclusive deer hunt on an isolated estate in the snowy wilds of British Columbia. When an unseen killer begins stalking the party, she must revive her buried skills and confront a violent legacy to survive.

Ghost Dance

by Mark T Sullivan

1999

After washed-up filmmaker Patrick Gallagher hauls a mutilated body from a Vermont river, his quiet retreat turns into a nightmare. Partnering with haunted police officer Andi Nightingale, he uncovers a town’s century-old crime and the eerie spiritual legacy it left behind.

Labyrinth

by Mark T Sullivan

2002

Marine biologist and cave researcher Whitney Burke swore she would never go underground again after a fatal accident. When criminals hijack a NASA training expedition that includes her husband and daughter, she must face flooding tunnels, rockfalls, and her own terror to bring them out alive.

The Serpent's Kiss

by Mark T Sullivan

2003

San Diego homicide detective Seamus Moynihan is drawn into a series of bizarre murders in which victims die from exotic poisons and snakebites. Following a trail of scripture, serpents, and obsession, he chases a Bible-quoting killer from city streets to a secretive snake-handling church.

Triple Cross

by Mark T Sullivan

2009

On New Year’s Eve at Montana’s ultra-exclusive Jefferson Club, a militant group storms the resort and puts the world’s richest men on live-streamed trial for crimes against humanity. Security chief Mickey Hennessy and his hidden teenage triplets must outwit the gunmen before markets and lives implode.

Rogue

by Mark T Sullivan

2011

Once the CIA’s best black-ops specialist, Robin Monarch walked away mid-mission and reinvented himself as a high-end thief. When a jewel heist in St. Tropez goes wrong, he is forced back into the operation he abandoned, racing ruthless enemies to control a terrifying weapons technology.

Brotherhood

by Mark T Sullivan

2012

Locked inside the military supermax at Leavenworth, Robin Monarch is offered a single chance at freedom: steal a closely guarded object from the heart of a war zone and escape alive. Flashbacks to his youth in a Buenos Aires thieves’ guild reveal how he became the man who might pull it off.

Private Games

by Mark T Sullivan

2012

Private London investigator Peter Knight is racing to secure the 2012 Olympic Games when a top official is murdered. As a killer calling himself Cronus targets those he deems corrupt, Knight and reporter Karen Pope must stop a campaign of terror before the games are destroyed.

The Art of Rendition

by Mark T Sullivan

2012

World-class thief and covert operative Robin Monarch is ordered back into CIA service to snatch a Russian nuclear scientist selling secrets to Iran. He must kidnap, interrogate, and then return the man without any side ever realizing he was taken.

The Escape Artist

by Mark T Sullivan

2012

To stop a brutal Congolese warlord funding his army of boy soldiers, Robin Monarch goes undercover as a diamond dealer inside the man’s jungle camp. His mission is simple but nearly suicidal: steal a legendary gemstone and fight his way back out.

The Second Woman

by Mark T Sullivan

2012

A naked tourist dies in a San Diego luxury resort, his body ravaged as if by disease but actually killed by a rattlesnake. Detective Seamus Moynihan’s investigation pulls him into black-market reptiles, erotic rites, and a fanatical cult fixated on the second woman after Eve.

Brotherhood and Other Stories

by Mark T Sullivan

2013

This collection gathers three high-octane Robin Monarch stories that trace his evolution from Buenos Aires street thief to covert operator. Each tale drops him into an impossible mission, highlighting the personal code and divided loyalties that drive the full-length novels.

Outlaw

by Mark T Sullivan

2013

During secret talks aboard a tanker in the South China Sea, the U.S. Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of China and India are kidnapped. Former CIA operative Robin Monarch dives into the criminal underworld of Southeast Asia, uncovering a plot that reaches straight into the White House.

Private Berlin

by Mark T Sullivan

2013

When star investigator Chris Schneider vanishes while working a case for Private’s Berlin office, his colleague and former lover Mattie Engel takes the search personally. Following clues through Cold War ruins and her own painful past, she uncovers a killer who has been perfecting his craft for decades.

Private L.A.

by Mark T Sullivan

2014

Hollywood’s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer Harlow, vanish from their guarded Los Angeles estate, and Private founder Jack Morgan is hired to find out whether they’re missing or dead. As he digs, he uncovers a carefully managed image, dangerous secrets, and a violent extortion ring terrorizing the city.

Thief

by Mark T Sullivan

2014

At a lavish Christmas party thrown by a ruthless power broker, Robin Monarch breaks into a secret vault and barely escapes with his life. The haul points him toward a lost Amazonian tribe whose knowledge could change the world, sending him deep into the jungle to stop others exploiting it.

Private Paris

by Mark T Sullivan

2016

Planning a quick visit to Private’s Paris office, Jack Morgan instead agrees to track down a wealthy client’s runaway granddaughter. When members of the city’s cultural elite start turning up dead, marked by a cryptic graffiti tag, Jack’s search collides with simmering tensions on the streets of Paris.

The Games

by Mark T Sullivan

2016

Two years after averting disaster at the World Cup, Jack Morgan returns to Rio de Janeiro to oversee security for the Olympic Games. As prominent clients disappear and a deadly virus threat surfaces, he races through the city’s favelas and stadiums to stop a catastrophe on the world stage.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark T Sullivan

2017

Based on a true story, this novel follows Milan teenager Pino Lella, who first guides Jewish refugees over the Alps and then, in an SS uniform, becomes driver to a powerful Nazi general. Secretly spying for the Allies, he risks everything for his family, his country, and the woman he loves.

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The Last Green Valley

by Mark T Sullivan

2021

In 1944, Emil and Adeline Martel, ethnic Germans who have farmed in Ukraine for generations, must choose between remaining under Stalin or fleeing west with retreating Nazi forces. Their journey across a collapsing Europe tests their marriage, their faith, and their determination to find a peaceful home.

All The Glimmering Stars

by Mark T Sullivan

2024

Set in 1990s Uganda and inspired by real events, the novel follows Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori, bright teenagers kidnapped into Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Forced into life as child soldiers, they cling to each other, their memories, and a fragile hope of escape and healing.

Where should I start?

If you’re new to his work: Beneath a Scarlet SkyThe Last Green ValleyAll The Glimmering Stars
If you want World War II stories: Beneath a Scarlet SkyThe Last Green Valley
If you love high-stakes thrillers: Triple CrossRogueOutlawThief
If you prefer detective fiction: The Serpent's KissThe Second WomanHard News
If you’re here for the Private novels: Private GamesPrivate BerlinPrivate L.A.Private ParisThe Games

Author bio

Mark Sullivan grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, a small town west of Boston, and spent a lot of his early life reading and daydreaming about faraway places. Today he is best known for blending high-stakes suspense with deeply researched history in novels that have reached readers all over the world.

After studying English at Hamilton College, he graduated in 1980 and almost immediately boarded a plane for West Africa. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, he taught English to Tuareg nomad children in the Sahara and rode deep into the desert on long caravans.

When he came home in 1982, he went to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, trained as a reporter, and began a decade-long career covering everything from the Chicago commodities markets to politics in Washington, D.C.

He eventually joined the San Diego Tribune as an investigative journalist. There he dug into mortgage scandals, the hidden world of corporate funeral homes, and the lives of children growing up with addicted parents. Those years honed his feel for institutions, pressure, and people who operate in the shadows, all of which would later show up in his fiction.

As a kid he had wanted to be a novelist, and at thirty he realized he either had to start writing stories or risk never doing it at all.

He began drafting fiction in his spare hours, publishing short stories and finally taking a leave from the paper to live among extreme skiers in Utah and Wyoming. That winter on the slopes became the backbone of his debut thriller The Fall Line, a New York Times Notable Book that introduced readers to his mix of adrenaline, damaged characters, and moral consequences. He followed it with Hard News, a newsroom mystery, and The Purification Ceremony, a tense tracking novel set in the Canadian wilderness that went on to win major awards and appear on international best-of-the-year lists.

Through the late 1990s and 2000s he kept pushing into new territory with novels like Ghost Dance, Labyrinth, Triple Cross, and the Seamus Moynihan police procedurals. His Robin Monarch books, starting with Rogue, built a globe-trotting series around a former CIA operative and master thief who steals from the powerful under a strict personal code.

At the same time he began collaborating with James Patterson on several entries in the Private series, including Private Games, Private Berlin, Private L.A., Private Paris, and The Games. Those books helped solidify his reputation for fast-moving plots that still leave room for character and place.

In recent years he has become equally known for big, emotional historical novels based on true stories. Beneath a Scarlet Sky follows Italian teenager Pino Lella as he guides Jewish refugees over the Alps and spies on a Nazi general in wartime Milan. The Last Green Valley traces a German family’s desperate trek out of Soviet-occupied Ukraine, while All The Glimmering Stars focuses on two Ugandan teens kidnapped by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army whose love becomes a lifeline.

He now lives with his wife in southwest Montana, where he skis, hikes, and keeps up a long-standing interest in martial arts and fitness. Across his work, readers tend to find the same core interests: people pushed to their limits, stark moral choices, and the stubborn belief that courage and decency still matter, even in the darkest situations.

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