Craig Martelle

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2016
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Cygnus

1 - Cygnus Rising: Humanity Returns to Space (Sep-2016)
2 - Cygnus Expanding: Humanity Fights for Freedom (Nov-2016)
3 - Cygnus Arrives: Humanity Returns Home (May-2017)

End Times Alaska

1 - Endure (Jun-2016)
2 - Run (Jul-2016)
3 - Return (Aug-2016)
4 - Fury (Jan-2017)

Free Trader

1 - The Free Trader of Warren Deep (Feb-2016)
2 - The Free Trader of Planet VII (Mar-2016)
3 - Adventures on RV Traveler (Apr-2016)
4 - Battle for the Amazon (Jul-2016)
5 - Free the North! (Aug-2016)
6 - Free Trader on the High Seas (Oct-2016)

An Ian Bragg Thriller

1 - The Operator (Nov-2020)
2 - A Clean Kill (Dec-2020)
3 - The Replacement (Mar-2021)
4 - A Fatal Bragg (Nov-2021)
5 - The Tower (Sep-2023)
6 - The Spider and the Scorpion (May-2024)
7 - Live Fire (Nov-2024)
8 - Contract on a Billionaire (Jul-2025)

Judge, Jury, & Executioner

1 - You Have Been Judged (Aug-2018)
2 - Destroy The Corrupt (Aug-2018)
3 - Serial Killer (Sep-2019)
4 - Your Life Is Forfeit (Sep-2019)
5 - Slave Trade (Sep-2019)
6 - Fratricide (Sep-2019)
7 - The Art of Smuggling (Feb-2020)
8 - Dispute (Feb-2020)
9 - Rise of the AI (May-2020)
10 - Adverse Possession (Sep-2020)
11 - Deception (Feb-2021)

Rick Banik Thrillers

1 - People Raged And the Sky Was on Fire (May-2016)

Multi-Author Series List

The Kurtherian Gambit Universe

World's Worst Day Ever (May-2017)

Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • It's Not Enough to Just Exist

    One family struggles to survive Alaska in a time of conflict. While trying to make each day a little bit better, they meet other survivors. They form a community, building a new world, but end up in a race against the wilderness, the weather, and a f...

  • The Free Trader of Warren Deep

    Free Trader - 1

    Following the civil war on the human colonized world of Cygnus VII, humanity and its creations rise again. Free Trader Braden and his mindlinked Hillcat are plying the trade routes of Warren Deep when things start to get hot. Giving events time to be...

  • The Free Trader of Planet VII

    Free Trader - 2

    Braden, Micah, and their animal companions have to decide what to do with the Old Tech from the ancient’s outpost. Can they introduce it back to the world without bringing every fortune hunter after them? Maybe they should expand the trade routes n...

  • Adventures on RV Traveler

    Free Trader - 3

    Can the remaining ancients on Cygnus VI be saved? The computer on planet Vii has a plan, but it takes Free Trader Braden and his companions to travel to the long-abandoned Earth colony ship first, establish the computer links and functional systems t...

  • People Raged And the Sky Was on Fire

    Rick Banik Thrillers - 1

    This version combines People Raged! Kindle version Parts One and Two into a single paperback. Rick Banik is a new patriot for a new age. He leads a Joint Intelligence Tiger Team in pursuit of a terrorist plotting an attack on Washington DC. Da'esh's ...

  • Endure

    End Times Alaska - 1

    Civilization falls in a blast of nuclear fire. Now one Alaskan family must learn to survive in the harsh new world of the End Times.What would you do if you lost power, water, and the protection of law enforcement, all in an instant . . . and...

  • Battle for the Amazon

    Free Trader - 4

    Martelle’s writing has been compared to the works of Andre Norton, David Gemmell, and Larry Niven. Join the fun as a Cat and his human minions fight for peace.The fragile trade route is expanding, until the attacks come. Trade grinds to a halt. Peo...

  • Run

    End Times Alaska - 2

    In book two of Craig Martelle's End Times Alaska series, the Nagy family will be tested like never before. After enduring the holocaust that destroyed Fairbanks, Chuck and his family did more than simply endure. They thrived. Together with other surv...

  • Free the North!

    Free Trader - 5

    Peace in the south. People settling in. Intelligent creatures moving to Vii from the RV Traveler. Soon, meat will be in short supply. Hungry people will fight for what they need. Braden knows that livestock abounds in the north. It’s time to go get...



  • Return

    End Times Alaska - 3

    The outside world was different than they remembered. Impersonal. Harsh. But that world was the same. It was the survivors who had changed.When the Treaty between the United States and Russia offered the opportunity for Chuck, Madison and the others ...

  • Cygnus Rising: Humanity Returns to Space

    Cygnus - 1

    From space they came, to space they returned, better than before. The people of the Cygnus system were determined to find other life, maybe even return to Earth as they explored the known galaxy. Humanity would not be denied. And they had the company...

  • Free Trader on the High Seas

    Free Trader - 6

    An island where experiments on people yield horrific results. An undersea city populated by humans dragged from their beach homes by unrelenting Bots. The Western Ocean, an untapped source of food and power. The freedom of the open seas. When the AI ...

  • Cygnus Expanding: Humanity Fights for Freedom

    Cygnus - 2

    Space is a dangerous place, but human-populated worlds are the most dangerous of all.The ship is life! Save the ship.The Cygnus-12 crew did just that, losing a quarter of their number repelling boarders. They returned home with news that they'd found...

  • The Expanding Universe: An Exploration of the Science Fiction Genre (SCIFI Anthology) (Volume 1)

    Lives submerged in cosmic war… civilizations standing on the brink of destruction… Technologies that far surpass our own and ethereal beings of untold power… Immerse yourself in The Expanding Universe. Worlds collide as eighteen talented author...

  • Fury

    End Times Alaska - 4

    The new post-apocalypse nation of Alaska has been abandoned by the United States again. Can Chuck and his followers rebuild a new world from the ashes?It's been ten years since the triumphant return of Chuck, his family, and his fellow settler...

  • Cygnus Arrives

    Snarky Hillcats and the Cygnus Marines on a harrowing mission to earth... The unknowns. The challenges. Making a difference for Cygnus. Making a difference for all sentient creatures.From space they came to space they returned, different, driven...

  • World's Worst Day Ever

    The Kurtherian Gambit Universe

    A resource for fans of The Kurtherian Gambit. End of the world as we know it. Plausible. Scary in its simplicity. Horrible in its effect. Set in the Kurtherian Gambit Universe, this story explains how a few mistakes can have grave consequences. Unfor...

  • Cygnus Arrives: Humanity Returns Home

    Cygnus - 3

    Snarky Hillcats and the Cygnus Marines on a harrowing mission to earth…what could go wrong? What do others have to say about the Cygnus Space Opera? • “Most authors can't make an animal character believable. This one does. Craig Martelle has a ...

  • Cruiseliner Hades 7

    Technology made people afraid. Their future uncertain and their past fading, they struggled, some to embrace their new world, but others fought the changes. Join this story of eight adventurers who come to the Ruins of Juneau to set things right. A R...



  • The Free Trader

    The exciting final three volumes of the Free Trader in one package! New enemies abound from the southern tip to the northernmost settlement and onward into space. Braden, Micah, the Golden Warrior, and Fealona lead the charge against those who would ...

  • Beyond the Stars: Unimagined Realms: a space opera anthology

    A blisteringly good collection.Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on.These stories are full of great, complex characters (not all of them human), twists and turns, and fantastic world-building.BEYOND THE STARS: Unimagined Realms i...

  • Destroy The Corrupt

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 2

    No one runs a racket and gets away with it.

    Not in the Federation and not when it steals business from The Bad Company. Punish the interlopers! But justice must be served. Is it a racket? Or are they just better at business?

    Sen...

  • You Have Been Judged

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 1

    Rivka Anoa has a gift and a galactic mandate.

    She's a lawyer accused of a murder she did commit. She stands ready to accept her fate, even though her victim was a murderer. A second chance appears. Become more than a lawyer. Be one who ju...

  • Superdreadnought 2

    The superdreadnought takes the fight to Grindlevik 3. Battles in space, battles of wits, battles of ideologies â€" Reynolds in cyberspace, the crew on the ground. Everyone is engaged.

    The crew of the superdreadnought deploys on foot to win t...

  • Blue Apocalypse

    A father and his son. 2500 miles apart. A blue ribbon crosses the sky. The world starts to unravel.

    No one knows what is happening, but everyone is trying to find out. Buck is running his big rig from the west coast. Garth is trapped in Ne...

  • Nightwalker

    Darkness is his friend.A world destroyed by nuclear war. Civilization rebuilt with iron fists. Jim Wolfe emerges from his hiding place years afterward, stronger, able to see in the dark, hampered by the daylight.He is the Nightwalker. One man alone. ...

  • Nightwalker 2

    The darkness is his friend.The Alstons have a beef with Jim Wolfe and they want to settle it in the only way they know.The Nightwalker only wants to get home. He is alone and running for his life. He tries to avoid humanity, but strangers stand out i...

  • Nightwalker 3

    The darkness is his friend.Paradise. Everyone has a different definition. Jim Wolfe stumbles across a town of that name. They have electricity, music, hot running water, and all the comforts of a home from the before time.He feels something is off de...

  • Nightwalker 4

    The darkness is his friend.Wolfe's trials get harder. A broken leg. A heavy snowfall. Alone in the mountains.The Nightwalker keeps his perspective and his focus. His family is waiting for him. At least the answer of whether they are alive or dead is ...



  • Fratricide

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 6

    Safety takes a back seat to profit. Until it crosses the line.

    Shipyard deaths. Labor complaints. Fear. Intimidation. Rivka gets called in to sort things out, investigate the safety issues, mediate the dispute.

    What she finds isn’t ...

  • Serial Killer

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 3

    Alien ambassadors are dying.

    The locals are in over their heads. Or are they turning a blind eye?

    The Magistrates band together to learn about the law, each other, and even themselves. They still need outside help to solve the case....

  • Slave Trade

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 5

    No respect for life. Or the law.

    It’s the trade. In sentience. Run by the Corranites, creatures that have always traded in intelligent alien life.

    Bought and sold. Nothing more than property.

    Rivka is having none of it. With an...

  • Your Life Is Forfeit

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 4

    Red has a price on his head. Rivka is determined to find those who put it there.

    Criminals commit crimes. Career criminals do it in secret. They are good at hiding.

    Rivka’s latest case has her hunting fugitives. Red is on a mission...

  • Hellfire

    The Brick was an inhospitable planet in Finjou space. Humans settled there anyway, and now the aliens want them gone. Captain Xi Bao, your orders are to conduct Operation Red Rock. Evacuate the human colonists from the Brick before the Finjou find th...

  • Superdreadnought 3

    Krokus 4. The system’s nexus of intelligent life. Who are the Krokans? Who are the Orau? Are there any good guys to protect? It’s a dog’s breakfast from the word go. Reynolds is positioned to keep the sides from killing each other while he and ...

  • Superdreadnought 5

    The end is near, but whose end?Superdreadnought Reynolds has cornered his enemy and believes that Gulg technology will help him defeat the Kurtherian-armed Phraim-'Eh.What if it doesn't?With all guns blazing, the battle is joined, but the crew learns...

  • Superdreadnought 6

    A misstep, a miscue, a misfortune, and a billion light years later, the superdreadnought is lost. The Gate drive is trashed, the locals are hostile, and the crew has run out of beer.The galaxy has chewed up the Reynolds and spit it out. The search is...

  • The Art of Smuggling

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 7

    Why would anyone steal art? Who can you sell it to?The High Chancellor puts Rivka on the trail of serial art thieves. Dismantle the ring. Recover the art. Put the thieves behind bars, thieves who stay one step ahead.Insiders? Or maybe outsiders with ...

  • Dispute

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 8

    Two races. One war. Perpetual hatred. And the Magistrate crash lands right in the middle of it.Rivka and her crew take a much-deserved vacation, but find themselves on a jungle planet, cut off from the rest of the galaxy. Part by design, but mostly n...



  • End of War

    The Jemmin have interfered with humanity for the last time. The Metal Legion is going to fix that.Or die trying. To the stars once more in Operation End of War. Join Major Xi Bao, Colonel Lee Roy Jenkins, and Captain Andrew Podsednik for intrigue and...

  • Nightwalker 5

    Wolfe can no longer abide by the Federal Command.With a change of attitude and reliance on his strengths, he takes the fight to them. He owns the night. He is stronger and faster than the soldiers. He has a sense of honor, the likes of which they'll ...

  • Nightwalker 6

    The gathering of souls, the Sacred Survivors.Little Rock Arkansas is the home to those who made it through, led by a mystic, a guru, a charismatic soul.Jim Wolfe only wants to pass, but the Survivors want more than he is willing to give.Which sets up...

  • Nightwalker 7

    So close. Did his family survive or not? Only five hundred miles across the Gulf and he would have his answer.Mobile is thriving. But is it right or just another cult?Jim and Jennifer have to decide whether to settle in to recover or continue on. The...

  • Rise of the AI

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 9

    The Singularity enters the Federation. Its citizens are AIs.And no one knows how to treat them. From collaborations to master-slave, every relationship is different, when they shouldn't be. The AIs fight back, but on a level none of the other members...

  • Nightwalker 8

    The Nightwalker is on his last leg. Can he make it to the camp?What will he find when he gets there? He is determined to find out, letting no obstacle stand in his way, from the wilds of an overgrown Florida to the deeds that men do when given too mu...

  • Adverse Possession

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 10

    A planet in dispute. Farmers vs miners, and no one knows the full story.The Federation sends Rivka and her team to resolve a case of settlers squatting on a remote planet when the owners finally came calling.Not what it seems. Three generations of se...

  • The Operator

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 1

    A hitman with a conscience… Ian Bragg is paid to kill people. Only bad people and not many, but for a great deal of money. Case the target. Make the hit. Move on until he meets the woman with sparkling green eyes who changes everything. Is...

  • A Clean Kill

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 2

    Killing a bad man is easy, as long as it’s a clean kill. Ian Bragg is thrust into a world in between. An operator AND a manager. Can he teach morality to professional hit men? Know when a target needs to be taken down and when to walk away. ...

  • Deception

    Judge, Jury, & Executioner - 11

    Lies & deceit leading to a domino of crimes.The Trans-Pacific Task Force is getting ready to deploy but they don't have what they need. Someone's been skimming. A contract won through mistruths. Incomplete payments limiting the army's readiness.Colon...



  • Make Them Pay

    When criminals cross the line, who will make them pay?From police to vigilantes to secret government organizations, the answer awaits those who think they are beyond the reach of the law-abiding world. They make their own rules. For that, we must mak...

  • The Replacement

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 3

    When good men have to do bad things... Ian Bragg returns to his roots while trying to manage from the top. Too much of one and not enough of the other. Change is constant as it trips up those who are trying to move forward. Those with work to d...

  • Blood Trade

    A crime against all - stealing one's life blood.It prolongs life! It gives strength and power. Such exotic luxuries come at a high price. Those who have been drained? Donors but not quite volunteers. That's why they're kidnapped, never to be heard fr...

  • The Interview

  • A Fatal Bragg

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 4

    Marines are being murdered… …and it takes someone outside the government to fix the problem. It’s a race against the clock to dismantle a group that’s been in place for years. They’re well-funded, too and armed with weapons they shoul...

  • Jack the Ripper

  • Say My Name

  • Succession

  • Crime Spree

  • Torch the Sky

  • The Tower

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 5

    A fight for their business… …a fight for their lives. Ian and Jenny Bragg are called to a meeting by those who are paid to deliver justice. Some call them assassins. Others call them hitmen. Ian knows them as operators. Market share is abo...

  • Frenzik

  • Messiah

  • The Spider and the Scorpion

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 6

    The spider hides, a friend to all by removing other bugs. The scorpion is different. Ready to grab. Ready to sting. Ready to kill. Both have landed on United States soil. Both are targeting the negotiators. Neither can succeed. Ian and Jenny Bra...

  • Live Fire

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 7

    Training is key to performance. Train to win. Ian Bragg remembered his first hit when he had little experience. He didn’t wish that on others. It would expose them. It would put the Peace Archive at risk. In the outskirts of Atlanta, Ian and Je...

  • Contract on a Billionaire

    An Ian Bragg Thriller - 8

    Ian and Jenny Bragg are rich, but they’re nothing like those members of the billionaire’s club. They answer to a higher authority. Governments fear them while wanting their influence. Billionaires avoid public scrutiny. They only appear when the...

  • Price of Freedom

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Craig Martelle has published 66 books.

The next book by Craig Martelle, Contract on a Billionaire, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Craig Martelle, It's Not Enough to Just Exist, was published in January 2016.

Yes. Craig Martelle has 6 series.
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