Chris Ryan

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  • Bibliography:
    77 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1997
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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About the Author

Chris Ryan MM born1961 in Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear is the pseudonym of a former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist. Ryan came to public prominence for being the only member of the eight-man SAS mission Bravo Two Zero to escape, during the First Gulf War in 1991. He also works as a security consultant.

Full Series List in Order

Agent 21

1 - Agent 21 (Jan-2011)
2 - Reloaded (Mar-2012)
3 - Codebreaker (Apr-2013)
4 - Deadfall (Apr-2014)
5 - Under Cover (Mar-2015)

Alpha Force

1 - Survival (Jul-2002)
2 - Rat-Catcher (Jul-2002)
3 - Hostage (Jun-2003)
4 - Desert Pursuit (Jul-2003)
5 - Red Centre (Jun-2004)
6 - Hunted (Nov-2004)
7 - Blood Money (Mar-2005)
8 - Fault Line (Jun-2005)
9 - Black Gold (Oct-2005)
Untouchable (Jun-2010)

Code Red

1 - Flash Flood (Jan-2007)
2 - Wildfire (Feb-2007)
3 - Outbreak (Nov-2007)
4 - Vortex (May-2008)
5 - Twister (Nov-2008)
6 - Battleground (Jan-2010)

Danny Black

1 - Masters of War (Aug-2013)
2 - Bad Soldier (Aug-2016)
3 - Hunter Killer (Aug-2014)
4 - Hellfire (Aug-2015)
5 - Warlord (Nov-2017)
6 - Head Hunters (Sep-2018)
7 - Black Ops (Aug-2019)
8 - Zero 22 (Dec-2020)

Extreme

1 - Hard Target: Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier (Jan-2013)
2 - Night Strike (Aug-2013)
3 - Most Wanted (Nov-2014)
4 - Silent Kill (Oct-2015)

Geordie Sharp

1 - Stand By, Stand By (Jul-1997)
2 - Zero Option (Aug-1998)
3 - The Kremlin Device (Mar-1999)

Matt Browning

1 - Greed (Jun-2003)
2 - The Increment (Jul-2005)

Special Forces Cadets

1 - Siege (Feb-2019)
2 - Missing (May-2019)
3 - Justice (Sep-2019)
4 - Ruthless (Feb-2020)
5 - Hijack (Sep-2020)
6 - Assassin (Feb-2021)

Strikeback

1 - Deathlist (Jan-2016)
2 - Shadow Kill (Feb-2017)
3 - Global Strike (Feb-2018)
4 - Red Strike (Sep-2019)
5 - Circle of Death (Mar-2020)

Book List in Order: 77 titles

  • Stand By, Stand By

    Geordie Sharp - 1

    Never has there been a more graphic account of the SAS in action, never a thriller so authentically grounded in the twists and turns of undercover warfare. Geordie Sharp, a sergeant in the SAS, is struggling to pick up the threads of his army career....

  • Zero Option

    Geordie Sharp - 2

    An unstoppable action thriller from the ex SAS bestselling author of Ultimate Weapon . It's a race against time for Geordie Sharp... SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that, if things ...

  • The Kremlin Device

    Geordie Sharp - 3

  • The Hit List

    When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency, it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day.SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army but soon it see...

  • Rat-Catcher

    Alpha Force - 2

    Target: Drug RatAlpha Force are an elite team of five highly-skilled individuals brought together to battle injustice. The team join a covert SAS operation in South America, fighting to catch an evil drugs baron. To gain information, they infiltrate ...

  • Survival

    Alpha Force - 1

    The first in an exciting new series for children from ex-SAS officer and bestselling adult author Chris Ryan. Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber, are marooned on a desert island where they must face the ultimate test - survival! Killer komodo ...

  • Land of Fire

    1982. The Falklands War. Young SAS trooper, Mike Hood, risks his life to capture an Argentine girl spy. To knock out enemy bombers a daring mission is planned against a fortified airbase on Tierra del Fuego, the remote tip of the South American mainl...

  • Greed

    Matt Browning - 1

    Five Men. One Robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin. Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes -500,000. If he doesn't get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere, he is offered a lifeline. A hit...

  • Hostage

    Alpha Force - 3

    Target: Toxic WasteFlying to Northern Canada to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste, the Alpha Force team must dive into an icy river, cross the harsh landscape on snowmobiles and test their caving skills to complete their mission. ...



  • Desert Pursuit

    Alpha Force - 4

    Mission: Pursuit!Alpha Force are a unique group of five individuals, each with special skills, each ready to go anywhere in the world to help others in need. Undercover, they head for the Sahara Desert, resolved to gather evidence of young landmine v...

  • Red Centre

    Alpha Force - 5

    Alpha Force - a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world - are in Australia, helping with a TV reality show. But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town, events suddenly force them into a terr...

  • Hunted

    Alpha Force - 6

    Target: Ivory HuntersAlpha Force - an elite five-member squad of highly trained young people - head to Zambia to compete in an extreme sports contest. They discover a horrifying threat to the local wildlife and immediately snap into action. But soon ...

  • Blood Money

    Alpha Force - 7

    Target: Body SnatchersAlpha Force are a crack team dedicated to fighting injustice around the globe. While in southern India they learn of the growing trade in organ transplants from living donors. With lives on the line and big money to be made, the...

  • Fault Line

    Alpha Force - 8

    Mission: Earthquake SurvivalTough training and even tougher missions have turned the five members of Alpha Force into a formidable team. While honing their survival skills in the Belize jungle the group interrupt a raid on a Mayan tomb - and must abo...

  • Blackout

     
    The new blockbuster from bestselling author Chris Ryan.
     
    Blackout -- three cities all lose power. No-one claims responsibility. Fears of a terrorist strike are imminent.
     
    Josh Harding is a tough SAS soldier. Yet his disregard...

  • The Increment

    Matt Browning - 2

    Three years ago Matt Browning was thrown out of the unit for questioning an order â€" and he was on his way out of the SAS. Now, just when he thinks he has put military life behind him, he finds himself dragged back into action.

    MI6 are demand...

  • Black Gold

    Alpha Force - 9

    Target: Assassin!The five members of Alpha Force are training in the Caribbean when an oil tanker runs aground, spilling oil - black gold - into the seas.Diving down to the stricken tanker, Alpha Force soon discover that all is not as it seems. But t...

  • The Watchman

    A duel to death between an SAS soldier and the man who taught him everything he knows.SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. Someone has been murdering M15 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment’s ow...

  • Flash Flood

    Code Red - 1

    Ben's on a trip to London to meet his mum. But an accident at the Thames Barrier, combined with a tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm - and suddenly his trip turns into something totally different as the Barrier is breached and London is floo...



  • Wildfire

    Code Red - 2

    Ben gets the chance for a trip of a lifetime when his mum is invited to attend a big conference in Australia. In the midst of a drought, it's hot. And it's dry. Drier than it's been for years. And it only takes a spark to set off a fire... As world l...

  • Ultimate Weapon

    The new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Increment and Greed -- a former SAS commander and the only member of his team to escape from Iraq during the Gulf War. Three people. Three stories. And a dangerous struggle for survival in a c...

  • Outbreak

    Code Red - 3

    Thirteen-year-old Ben is spending the summer in the Congo where his father is examining a valuable mineral mining operation. But a mysterious killer virus is spreading throughout the country which the mine manager is trying to hush up. It's up to Ben...

  • One Good Turn

    A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can’t get out. He is covered in mud. His skin is badly burned. And he can’t remember anything. But his nightmare doesn’t end there.

    He is tried and found guilty of cowardice, impersonating...

  • Vortex

    Code Red - 4

    When Ben Tracey sets out with his cousin to spot hen harriers - a protected bird of prey - he doesn't expect to stumble upon a secret operation. But renegade researchers are using a military base near the birds' nest site to develop Project Vortex: a...

  • Strike Back

    Two soldiers: one a celebrated military hero and the other a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now, amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East, their lives are about to collide again. An...

  • Twister

    Code Red - 5

    Ben Tracy is on holiday in the Cayman Islands when a hurricane warning means he and his new friend, the son of an oil billionaire, must fly out of range. But as the plane heads for Miami, an unfamiliar voice comes over the tannoy: the aircraft has be...

  • Firefight

    FORMER SAS CAPTAIN WILL JACKSON IS A MAN WITH NOTHING TO LOSE. A VETERAN OF THE MOST DANGEROUS MISSIONS THE REGIMENT COULD THROW AT HIM, HIS LIFE WAS TORN APART THE DAY A TERRORIST ATTACK KILLED HIS FAMILY. NOW HE LEADS A'LIFE OF GRIEF-STRICKEN OBSCU...

  • Who Dares Wins

  • Battleground

    Code Red - 6

    Fourteen-year-old Ben Tracy goes to Pakistan with his environmental-activist mother, who then travels across the border into Afghanistan, leaving Ben behind, where it's safe. But Ben and his new friend, Aarya, are kidnapped and find themselves caught...



  • Untouchable

    Alpha Force

    Set in Scotland, Alpha Force are helping out on a survival outdoors adventure holiday programme for problem youngsters when they stumble across evidence of an illegal drugs laboratory, hidden high on the moors on the laird's land. High-speed chases w...

  • The Kill Zone

    From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and the hit TV show Strikeback.The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the T...

  • Agent 21

    Agent 21 - 1

    Working for a shadowy government agency, teenage special agent Zak Darke goes undercover to infiltrate a dangerous gang of fifteen-year-old gun dealers. But while the gang members may be young, they aren’t so easily fooled. Has Agent 21 made his la...

  • Reloaded

    Agent 21 - 2

    Book Description Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it and lived to tell the tale. This is the second in the new action-thriller Agent 21 series by the real-life SAS hero. Product Description Some authors just write abo...

  • Killing for the Company

    From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and hit TV show Strikeback. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his sixteenth novel and it is full of all his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.2003. Invalided out of the SAS Chet...

  • Medal of Honor

    In this new Chris Ryan adventure, the best soldiers in the world come together to fight Al-Qaeda. It is the early days of the war in Afghanistan. SAS hero, Jock, has never fought alongside America's select Tier 1 Operators before now, but when their...

  • Osama

    From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and the hit TV show Strikeback.Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and i...

  • Hard Target: Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier

    Extreme - 1

    The first book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series. Former SAS Warrant Officer Joe Gardner has fought the Regiment's deadliest enemies, in some of the most desolate places on earth. And he's always won. Now he's about to face his toughest challenge yet...

  • Codebreaker

    Agent 21 - 3

    Special agent Zac Darke is back for his third mission -- and the stakes have never been higher. An unknown bomber is conducting a terror campaign in London. After an explosion on the tube leaves someone dead, Zac and his team are brought in to try an...

  • Masters of War

    Danny Black - 1

    The first book in the hugely popular Danny Black series by the creator of the hit TV show Strikeback.Paris. An elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk.In the war-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their...



  • Night Strike

    Extreme - 2

    The second book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series. Former SAS hero John Bald is a man at war with himself and fighting a losing battle with the bottle. But then he is reluctantly thrust back into battle...In the race to develop ever more powerful weap...

  • War Dog

    Did you ever think that a dog could save someone's life? I'm living proof that it can happen. My name's Jamie, and I want to tell you about something that happened to me last summer. You were probably on your school holidays. I was in Afghanistan, fi...

  • Deadfall

    Agent 21 - 4

    Deep in the African jungle, an army of child soldiers strengthens its troops. Scars on the boys' faces mark their allegiance, for life. Meanwhile shadowy agent Zak Darke is tracking their movements, hunting the source of a huge international crimi...

  • Hunter Killer

    Danny Black - 3

  • Most Wanted

    Extreme - 3

    The third book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series.

    Disavowed.
    No one can escape their past forever. Ex-SAS operator John Bald knows that better than most. So when the Firm corners Bald in Kazakhstan with a promise to wipe the slate clean, ...

  • Under Cover

    Agent 21 - 5

    Some authors just write about it, but Chris Ryan has been there, done it, and lived to tell the tale. An edge-of-your-seat thriller from a British mil...

  • Murder Team

    Danny Black is a lone wolf on an unofficial mission.He is in the deserts of East Africa looking for his old comrade in arms Spud, wounded in their last mission and now missing.A wounded British solder is a commodity in these parts...Danny recruits a ...

  • Hellfire

    Danny Black - 4

  • Silent Kill

    Extreme - 4

    The fourth book in Chris Ryan's Extreme series.The Chris Ryan Extreme books take you even further into the heart of the mission with more extreme action, more extreme language and more extreme pace. Like Call of Duty or Medal of Honour you'll feel pa...

  • Deathlist

    Strikeback - 1

    John Porter, hero of the original Strikeback novel and TV series returns in an exciting adventure, when old enemies attack the SAS. 1999. A bitterly cold morning in the Brecon Beacons, and the soldiers trying out for SAS Selection are preparing t...



  • Bad Soldier

    Danny Black - 2

    ''first rate set operational pieces'' - Sunday Times

    A migrant boat battles through the rough Mediterranean. Its passengers are desperate, starving and scared.

    They are also being ruthlessly targeted by the SAS.

    Islamic State mil...

  • Blackjack

    African American soldier of fortune Arron Day, aka Blackjack, is called to a land of bright lights, witches, and cold-blooded murderers. Can this globetrotting adventurer survive in a world that embraces every color of the rainbow... except his? It i...

  • Shadow Kill

    Strikeback - 2

    Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege, John Porter is tested to the limit in the African jungle. Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald. Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to b...

  • Warlord

    Danny Black - 5

    'The action comes bullet-fast and Ryan's experience of covert operations flash through the high-speed story like tracer rounds.' The SunThe fifth book in the Danny Black series. On the border of the United States and Mexico, a war is raging that can ...

  • Global Strike

    Strikeback - 3

    Charles Street was once a highly-respected agent working for MI6, until a terrible mistake cost him his job. Now he's a desperate man, living on past glories and struggling to make ends meet. Until he makes a discovery that has the power to bring d...

  • Head Hunters

    Danny Black - 6

    The attack dog had its jaws clamped round the target's forearm and had sunk its teeth into his flesh. Danny could see the dark stain of blood through his night-vision goggles. The screaming had stopped. The target was staring blindly into the darknes...

  • Siege

    Special Forces Cadets - 1

    From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series. Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet... A top-secret government programme needs a cr...

  • Missing

    Special Forces Cadets - 2

    From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with the second in his new action-packed series.Tough enough? Smart enough? Jack will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet . . .In this second book, the cad...

  • Black Ops

    Danny Black - 7

    To murder an SAS man is no easy task. So when three former Regiment guys turn up dead, brutally butchered in different corners of the globe, the hunt is on for a pro.

    But sometimes it takes a killer to catch a killer.

    Enter Danny Black...

  • Justice

    Special Forces Cadets - 3

    An SAS team has been captured by a war lord who forces children to become soldiers. The Special Forces Cadets are parachuted into the Congo rainforest to help the team escape. But the operation starts to go wrong right away. Can the SPECIAL FORCES ...

  • Red Strike

    Strikeback - 4


    The Kremlin does not forget.

    Six years ago, high-ranking Russian foreign intelligence officer Nikolai Volkov fled the country, accused of selling state secrets to MI6. Defecting to the UK, Volkov went into hiding.

    The Kremlin does...

  • Ruthless

    Special Forces Cadets - 4

  • Circle of Death

    Strikeback - 5


    Ex-SAS heroes Bald and Porter take on the Deep State in the nail-shredding new Strike Back thriller

    In a world run by rich and powerful men, Julian Cantwell is more powerful than most. A ruthless political consultant, Cantwell ha...

  • Hijack

    Special Forces Cadets - 5

    From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series. Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet... The Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean. ...

  • Zero 22

    Danny Black - 8


    An SAS unit codenamed Zero 22, operating covertly in the war-torn badlands of northern Syria, is ambushed and massacred by a small army of mercenaries dressed like Hell''s Angels

    Danny Black survives the massacre and back in Lond...

  • Assassin

    Special Forces Cadets - 6

  • Manhunter

  • Working Cape Race

    Rory O'Ryan and Butch Hynes, from Cappahayden on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland, have neither family life or guidance and have depended on each other since they were children. Rory is the smarter of the two; Butch is not so bright. They start sel...

  • Endgame

  • Tenth Man Down

  • Justice

  • Siege

  • Still Waters

    It's 1993 in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the people of Canada's tenth province are suffering from the closure of the cod fishery the year before. Overfishing has decimated the plentiful cod stocks which had sustained the people and the economy of ...

  • Outcast

  • Working the Trail

    The RCMP have learned the hard way to expect the unexpected from Rory O'Ryan and Butch Hynes.In May 1982, the two nineteen-year-olds lead the RCMP on a merry chase following a brazen armed robbery on Newfoundland's Southern Shore. They eluded capture...

  • Cold Red

  • Ladies in the Lane

    There hasn't been a murder in the small, rural community of Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, since the British fought the French in the seventeenth century, but now there have been four in just two years. And the killer is getting bolder with each new victim...

  • Traitor

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris Ryan has published 77 books.

Chris Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Traitor, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Chris Ryan, Stand By, Stand By, was published in July 1997.

Yes. Chris Ryan has 9 series.
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