Jon Land

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1985
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea

1 - The Walls of Jericho (Apr-1997)
2 - The Pillars of Solomon (Mar-1999)
3 - A Walk in the Darkness (Apr-2000)
4 - Keepers of the Gate (Mar-2001)
5 - Blood Diamonds (Apr-2002)
6 - The Blue Widows (Mar-2003)
7 - The Last Prophecy (Apr-2004)

Blaine McCracken

1 - The Omega Command (Sep-1986)
2 - The Alpha Deception (Dec-1987)
3 - The Gamma Option (Nov-1989)
4 - The Omicron Legion (Jun-1991)
5 - The Vengeance of the Tau (Sep-1993)
6 - Day of the Delphi (Nov-1993)
7 - Kingdom of the Seven (Dec-1994)
8 - The Fires of Midnight (Dec-1995)
9 - Dead Simple (Mar-1998)
10 - The Tenth Circle (Dec-2013)

A Caitlin Strong Novel

1 - Strong Enough to Die (May-2009)
2 - Strong Justice (Jul-2010)
3 - Strong at the Break (Jul-2011)
4 - Strong Vengeance (Jul-2012)
5 - Strong Rain Falling (Aug-2013)
6 - Strong Darkness (Oct-2014)
7 - Strong Light of Day (Oct-2015)
8 - Strong Cold Dead (Oct-2016)
9 - Strong to the Bone (Dec-2017)
10 - Strong As Steel (Apr-2019)
11 - Strong from the Heart (Aug-2020)

Jared Kimberlain

1 - The Eighth Trumpet (Feb-1989)
2 - The Ninth Dominion (Jan-1992)

The Maximillian Chronicles

1 - Dark Light (Aug-2017)

Michael Tiranno, the Tyrant

1 - The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending (Jun-2008)
2 - Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Labyrinth

    "The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, h...

  • The Omega Command

    Blaine McCracken - 1

    A space shuttle is destroyed during flight, and the CIA recalls disgraced agent Blaine McCracken to uncover the people responsible. A space shuttle disappears during a routine repair mission, 180 miles above Earth’s surface. An intelligence ...

  • The Council of Ten

    THE COURIERS In Miami, four seemingly harmless grandmothers are professionally terminated. Then the shocking news is revealed: The victims are key links in a global cocaine operation. THE JOURNALIST Drew Jordan has a very personal stake in this...

  • The Alpha Deception

    Blaine McCracken - 2

    An Oregon town is destroyed by a laser-like weapon, a Wyoming town is occupied by a mysterious army, and a deadly war is waged over a powerful gemstone, which renegade agent Blaine McCracken must recover...

  • The Eighth Trumpet

    Jared Kimberlain - 1

    THE MURDER In spite of the tightest high-tech security ever conceived, billionaire Jordan Lime is savagely killed by a weapon that tears him apart limb by limb with grim, laserlike efficiency. THE CONSPIRACY An army unlike any other has fired it...

  • The Gamma Option

    Blaine McCracken - 3

    When his estranged son is kidnapped, Blaine McCracken goes to work for a group of Arab militants to recover the child he never knew Since he first went behind enemy lines in Vietnam, Blaine McCracken has faced death on every continent. In the line...

  • The Valhalla Testament

    THREAT In Nicaragua, a devious conspiracy is gathering its forces. The deaths of a few are merely the prelude to the annihilation of millions. Into the middle of this maelstrom walks an unsuspecting American named Jamie Skylar. TOTAL DESTRUCTION ...

  • The Omicron Legion

    Blaine McCracken - 4

    ATTACK Deep in the Amazon jungle a terrifying army ravages a top-secret research compound. Then it embarks upon a chilling mission of murder. ASSASSINATION In the United States, the world's most highly skilled killers have been assembled. No one...

  • The Ninth Dominion

    Jared Kimberlain - 2

    DISAPPEARANCE. At a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, eighty-four of the most dangerous psycopaths alive have vanished from their cells without a trace. Leading their ranks: the Candy Man -- the most ruthlessly brilliant serial kille...



  • The Vengeance of the Tau

    Blaine McCracken - 5

    TERROR An epidemic of violent death is sweeping the globe. From the Middle East to the Midwest, from South America to the Deep South, a mysterious power is forging a trail of butchery. TREACHERY Blaine McCracken--former government agent turned i...

  • Day of the Delphi

    Blaine McCracken - 6

    The right wing lost the last election, but its most radical elements aren't about to give up the next one. Seizing on the frustration of the American people, charismatic billionaire Samuel Jackson Dodd uses all his charm - and power - to win his upco...

  • Kingdom of the Seven

    Blaine McCracken - 7

    Dr. Karen Raymond has made the medical breakthrough of the century, a vaccine that could halt the spread of our most devastating modern plague, AIDS. But when her laboratory is destroyed and her colleagues murdered, she realized she's in danger: a co...

  • The Fires of Midnight

    Blaine McCracken - 8

    Who killed nearly 2,000 innocent people, and more importantly, how? And can they be stopped from striking again? Infectious disease expert Dr. Susan Lyle teams up with Blaine McCracken, ex-CIA operative, in the search for answers. Soon they realize t...

  • The Walls of Jericho

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 1

    American Ben Kamal is a Detroit police detective whose police training makes him valuable to the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank. He's glad to help--but hooking up with the Israelis to find a serial killer was not part of the deal. Dan...

  • Dead Simple

    Blaine McCracken - 9

    April 1998: A tanker hauling a deadly new explosive vanishes without a trace in a raging storm. . . . That explosive falls into the hands of Jack "Terror" Tyrell. Now, he's more determined than ever to realize his deadly vision: to lead a radical und...

  • Hope Mountain

    Jamie Brooks, attempting to straighten out his corkscrewed life after a harrowing ski accident left him near crippled eight years earlier, ends up back in his old New Hampshire stomping grounds by coincidence. He even meets his former ski coach at th...

  • The Pillars of Solomon

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 2

    Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli police inspector Danielle Barnea return to confront a world-wide criminal plague: white slavery. Ben Kamal hasn’t investigated a case since his last assignment with Danielle until he learns abou...

  • Dolphin Key

    Dolphins are magical creatures: they comfort the heartbroken, rescue the lost, even heal the sick. At the Hope Key Dolphin Assisted Therapy center in Florida dolphins use their healing powers to help autistic children communicate and to soothe other ...

  • A Walk in the Darkness

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 3

    1948: An archaeological team in Turkey is slaughtered after making an earth-shattering discovery. More than fifty years later, a group of American archaeologists is murdered in the Judean desert. Chief Inspector Danielle Barnea of Israel's Nationa...



  • Keepers of the Gate

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 4

    How are the shocking murders of elderly Holocaust survivors connected to the deaths of innocent high school students in Israel and the West Bank? Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea soon discover that the...

  • Blood Diamonds

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 5

    A warlord with a weapon... An Israeli and a Palestinian on her trail... The race to save America is on!...

  • The Blue Widows

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 6

    The End of America Begins Today! In today's terrifying world, in which terrorists can wreak incredible havoc, Palestinian Detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart Danielle Barnea face an obsessed fanatic plotting nothing less than the total...

  • The Last Prophecy

    Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea - 7

    In this seventh installment in Land's action series featuring U.N. investigators Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea, the two must unlock the mysteries of a sixteenth-century prophecy in order to stop the destruction of the U.S. Barnea, trained as an assas...

  • The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending

    Michael Tiranno, the Tyrant - 1

    The Godfather meets the TV series Las Vegas in this collision of money and power. The owner of a newly built casino and hotel, The Seven Sins, Michael Tiranno uncovers a plot to destroy Sin City. The mastermind behind an attack on his property and ot...

  • Strong Enough to Die

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 1

    Caitlin Strong is a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, proud to wear the badge of her father and grandfather--until a deadly shoot-out along the Mexican border causes her to question her calling. Five years later, Caitlin is still trying to purge hers...

  • Killing Time

    in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Jon Land brings his trademark suspense to ...

  • Strong Justice

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 2

    Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is back, pursuing justice the Ranger way. She takes on the case of a Mexican girl on the run from white slavers. For Caitlin, the case evokes memories of her legendary grandfather's run with the Rangers, e...

  • Strong at the Break

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 3

    Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in an adventure with roots in a gunfight where her father shot down the cult-like leader of a separatist church. Two decades later, that man's son, Malcolm Arno, has become head of a militia mov...

  • Strong Vengeance

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 4

    1820: In the Gulf waters off the Texas coast, the pirate Jean Lefitte and his partner Jim Bowie launch an attack on the Mother Mary, a slave ship carrying an invaluable treasure. The Present: Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds he...



  • Last Shot

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    In this chilling Thriller Short, USA TODAY bestseller author Jon Land and Jeff Ayers write about the incongruity between a dying town in Middle America and the golden dreams its inhabitants once possessed. Molly Wagner once lived a life out of the al...

  • Pandora's Temple

    What if Pandora’s Box were real? Blaine McCracken finds himself facing this very question -- and the greatest threat to mankind -- in his long-awaited return to the page Rogue special-operations agent McCracken has never been shy about answering...

  • Strong Rain Falling

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 5

    Mexico, 1919: The birth of the Mexican drug trade begins with opium being smuggled across the U.S. border, igniting an all-out battle with American law enforcement in general and the Texas Rangers in particular. The Present: Fifth Generation Tex...

  • The Tenth Circle

    Blaine McCracken - 10

    Blaine McCracken races to stop terrorists from unleashing an ancient weapon of unimaginable power at the president’s State of the Union speech Blaine McCracken pulled off the impossible on a mission in Iran, but his work has just begun. Returnin...

  • Strong Darkness

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 6

    1883: Texas Ranger William Ray Strong teams up with Judge Roy Bean to track down the Old West's first serial killer, who's stitching a trail of death along the railroad lines slicing their way through Texas. The Present: Texas Ranger Caitlin Stron...

  • Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn

    Michael Tiranno, the Tyrant - 2

    Five years have passed since Michael Tiranno saved the city of Las Vegas from a terrorist attack. And now a new enemy has surfaced in Eastern Europe in the form of an all-powerful organization called Black Scorpion. Once a victim of human trafficking...

  • Strong Light of Day

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 7

    Texas ranger Caitlin Strong is involved in an international plot rooted in secrets from the Cold War in Strong Light of Day, the seventh installment of Jon Land's New York Times bestselling Caitlin Strong series Caitlin Strong is a fifth generatio...

  • Strong Cold Dead

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 8

    Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destructio...

  • Dark Light

    The Maximillian Chronicles - 1

    From author Jon Land and creator Fabrizio Boccardi comes Dark Light: Dawn, a heart-pounding supernatural thriller about a deadly, global epidemic and the man who holds the power to either save the world or destroy it. Since the dawn of time good ...

  • Strong to the Bone

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 9

    Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong takes on a gang of neo-Nazis in Strong to the Bone, an action-packed novel of the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series by Jon Land 1944: Texas Ranger Jim Strong investigates a triple murder inside a Nazi POW camp ...



  • Strong As Steel

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 10

    Tough-as-nails Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in this electrifying ninth installment of the series, by USA Today bestselling author Jon Land1994: Texas Ranger Jim Strong investigates a mass murder on a dusty freight train linked to a mysterious,...

  • Strong from the Heart

    A Caitlin Strong Novel - 11

    Caitlin Strong wages her own personal war on drugs against the true power behind the illicit opioid trade in Strong from the Heart, the blistering and relentless 11th installment in Jon Land's award-winning series. The drug crisis hits home fo...

  • Cold Burn

    Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster.National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he’s di...

  • The Doomsday Spiral

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    He called himself alabaster. All anyone knew about him was that he was a deadly lone-wolf agent. He always seemed to know when he was needed, and his involvement guaranteed that someone would die! He was not surprised, then, when work went out throug...

  • The Lucifer Directive

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    Years after hijackers killed his father, an ordinary college student gets a chance to fight terrorists who have hatched a plan to destroy the United States A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the c...

  • Vortex

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    Nuclear missles capable of destroying the dimensions of time and space are rocketing toward their first target and the only three men who can stop them have yet to settle a bitter score among themselves...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jon Land has published 45 books.

The next book by Jon Land, Cold Burn, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Jon Land, Labyrinth, was published in December 1985.

Yes. Jon Land has 6 series.
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