Don Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1993
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Navy Justice

1 - Treason (Apr-2005)
2 - Hostage (Nov-2005)
3 - Defiance (Feb-2007)
4 - The Black Sea Affair (Apr-2008)
5 - The Malacca Conspiracy (Jun-2010)
6 - Detained (Apr-2015)
7 - Code 13 (Apr-2016)

Pacific Rim

1 - Thunder in the Morning Calm (Aug-2011)
2 - Fire of the Raging Dragon (Nov-2012)
3 - Storming the Black Ice (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

    In 1916 a young woman named Ruth Law attempted to fly from Chicago to New York City in one day--something no one else had ever done. This is the story of that daring attempt. Beautifully detailed watercolors dramatize a dangerous journey made by the ...

  • Across a Dark and Wild Sea

    Columcille was born in a remote corner of Ireland in the year 521. Legend has it that as a child, he was fed a cake filled with the letters of the alphabet, and so learned to love writing. He grew up to become a monk and a scribe a thousand years bef...

  • Our Time on the River

    1968. Steve’s older brother has just broken the news that he’s quit college to enlist in the army. Before David departs for Vietnam in September, their father decides to send the brothers on a canoe trip down the Susquehanna River. Steve knows th...

  • Treason

    Navy Justice - 1

    The stakes are high . . . and the entire world is waiting for the verdict. The Navy has uncovered a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps, inciting sailors and marines to acts of terrorism. And Lieutenant Zack ...

  • Hostage

    Navy Justice - 2

    Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most. JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century”...

  • Defiance

    Navy Justice - 3

    JAG Officer Zack Brewster faces another high-profile case... and a mission he hopes will rescue the best part of his past. From a murder in Paris to a courtroom in California to a terrorist camp in the Gobi Desert, Don Brown's follow-up to Treaso...

  • Jessie is Her Name

  • The Train Jumper

    OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. In Don Brown's The Train Jumper Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great Depression.Collie leaves home in search of his older brother, who has r...

  • The Black Sea Affair

    Navy Justice - 4

    It’s a mission that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Now time is running out. It starts with a high-stakes theft: weapons-grade plutonium is stolen from Russia. The Russian army is about to attack Chechnya to get it back. But U....



  • Mack Made Movies

  • Odd Boy Out

    When he was born, Albert was a peculiar, fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, bothered his teachers, and didn’t have many friends. But in the midst of all of this, Albert was fascinated with solvi...

  • A Wizard from the Start

    A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discovery -- but his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: "The More to do, the more to...

  • The Malacca Conspiracy

    Navy Justice - 5

    Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane---your favorite JAG characters fro...

  • Thunder in the Morning Calm

    Pacific Rim - 1

    Lieutenant Commander 'Gunner' McCormick is assigned as an intelligence officer to Carrier Strike Force 10, being deployed to the Yellow Sea at the invitation of South Korea for joint exercises with the US Navy. During his pre-deployment briefing, he ...

  • Denali

    Karl Cain is many things, but he is no idle dreamer. His stubborn attitude has gotten him into trouble on more than one occasion, but this time, something is different. The night before he departs for Alaska to work in the family business, he meets a...

  • Fire of the Raging Dragon

    Pacific Rim - 2

    In the very near future, China, now the world's largest industrial producer and consumer of Mideast Oil, passes a law that all new cars manufactured in that nation will be operated on natural gas. Beneath the floor of the South China Sea, around the ...

  • Henry and the Cannons

    Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter -- with 59 cannons in tow. In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston -- 225 miles of lakes, fo...

  • Storming the Black Ice

    Pacific Rim - 3

    When British geologists discover the world's largest oil reserves under the desolate, icy tundra of Antarctica, Britain and Chile form a top-secret alliance for control of petroleum resources that will rival the economic power of OPEC. But when their...

  • Destiny

    Three men. Three armies. One letter. One destiny.

    When World War II hits Walter Brewer's family in the worst possible way, he is torn between his love for two women, his family, and his country. A rural postal carrier in his hometown of Jamesvi...



  • Detained

    Navy Justice - 6

    A dream-trip to America becomes a tortuous nightmare at the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp. When a Navy Petty Officer is arrested and accused of terrorism, Navy JAG Officer Matt Davis is called on to right a wrong. Davis’ clients are incarc...

  • The Notorious Izzy Fink

    Sam Glodsky lives among the rough-and-tumble gangs on the streets of New York's Lower East Side. When 13-year-old Sam falls in with fearsome gangster Monk Eastman, he joins an outrageous scheme to rescue Eastman's prize racing-pigeon from a cholera-r...

  • Code 13

    Navy Justice - 7

    THE U.S. NAVY’S BILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF DRONES LANDS TWO NAVY JAG OFFICERS IN THE GUN SIGHTS OF A KILLER.   Caroline is just getting her feet wet at the prestigious Code 13, but is thankful for at least one familiar face -- her o...

  • Older Than Dirt

    Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a BIG BANG and what began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgl...

  • Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918

  • Travesty of Justice

  • We the People!

    Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of democracy in the United States in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series The Greek word democracy comes from demos (people) and kratos (rule) -- meaning “the people ho...

  • 83 Days in Mariupol

  • Run and Hide

    A gripping nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. From the Sibert Honor and YALSA Award"winning creator behind The Unwanted, Drown...

  • All Charged Up!

    Award-winning author-illustrator Don Brown explores the history of electricity in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series. In 600 BCE, the Greek mathematician Thales observed a seemingly strange phenomenon: amber, when ru...



  • Rocket to the Moon!

    Award-winning author/illustrator Don Brown explores the history of rocket building in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. On July 20, 1969, Neil Ar...

  • It's About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #6 (A Nonfiction Graphic Novel)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Don Brown has published 31 books.

The next book by Don Brown, It's About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #6 (A Nonfiction Graphic Novel), will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Don Brown, Ruth Law Thrills a Nation, was published in August 1993.

Yes. Don Brown has 2 series.
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