Rick Partlow

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2013
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Birthright

1 - Birthright (Jan-2013)
2 - Northwest Passage (Sep-2015)
3 - Enemy of My Enemy (Aug-2016)

Drop Trooper

1 - Contact Front (Apr-2020)
2 - Kinetic Strike (May-2020)

Duty, Honor, Planet

1 - Duty, Honor, Planet (Jan-2013)
2 - Honor Bound (Jan-2013)
3 - The Line of Duty (Jun-2014)

Earth at War

1 - 1st to Fight (Nov-2020)

Holy War

1 - Genesis (Aug-2021)

Star Bounty

1 - Star BountyAbsolution (Jun-2022)
2 - Star BountyRetribution (Jul-2022)
3 - Star BountyRevolution (Jul-2022)

Tales of the Acheron

1 - Prodigal (Nov-2017)
2 - Hybrid (Jan-2018)
3 - Exile (Feb-2018)
4 - Last Flight of the Acheron (Sep-2018)

Wholesale Slaughter

1 - Wholesale Slaughter (May-2019)
2 - Terminus Cut (Jun-2019)
3 - Revelation Run (Jul-2019)
4 - Maelstrom Strand (Aug-2019)
5 - Judas Kiss (Sep-2019)
6 - Redemption's Shadow (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Birthright

    Birthright - 1

    Caleb Mitchell is a human weapon, engineered into a biologically enhanced killing machine in the war with the alien Tahni. The war is long over and now he just wants to live a normal life as a constable on his homeworld of Canaan...but his life is to...

  • Duty, Honor, Planet

    Duty, Honor, Planet - 1

    Former Marine Jason McKay thinks his first assignment as a Military Intelligence officer---as the head of a protection detail for a Republic Senator's daughter on her humanitarian mission to the star colonies---will be a boring waste of time. Until A...

  • Honor Bound

    Duty, Honor, Planet - 2

    Honor Bound returns to the star-spanning human Republic of Duty, Honor, Planet five years after the attempted invasion of Earth by General Antonov's Protectorate and their biomech army. The invasion was defeated, but in the aftermath, the Republic ec...

  • The Line of Duty

    Duty, Honor, Planet - 3

    It's four years since the events of Honor Bound, and everything has changed. The jumpgates have opened the stars to everyone and independent colonies are springing up everywhere, but they are being preyed upon by ruthless raiders who seem to kill and...

  • Northwest Passage

    Birthright - 2

    Caleb Mitchell and his friends return in the sequel to the thrilling cyberpunk space opera Birthright!Former military super-commando Cal Mitchell is enjoying the pastoral life on his remote star colony home of Canaan, having put the fight against the...

  • Enemy of My Enemy

    Birthright - 3

    Caleb Mitchell, Deke Conner and Kara McIntire return in the latest novel in the star-spanning Birthright series. Travelling back from their mission to the Northwest Passage, having closed off that corridor into our part of space to alien invasion, Ca...

  • Prodigal

    Tales of the Acheron - 1

  • Hybrid

    Tales of the Acheron - 2

  • Exile

    Tales of the Acheron - 3

    Sandi. The prodigal, the outlaw, the rebel.Ash. The straight-arrow, the hero, the leader.Korri. The cyborg, the mercenary, the relic of an older time.Kan-Ten. The alien, the exile, the outsider.Together, they’ve worked openly as hired guns thro...



  • Atonement

  • Gate of Dreams

  • Judgement Call

  • Last Flight of the Acheron

    Tales of the Acheron - 4

    Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes.She joined the the Fleet to please her mother. He signed up to escape the grinding poverty of the Housing Blocks, and the unlikely friends envisioned boring, peacetime careers as shuttle pilots.The Tahni Impe...

  • Seeds of Gaia

    Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light…The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe.Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited...The aliens watched their world die t...

  • Wholesale Slaughter

    Wholesale Slaughter - 1

    A king can't defeat an army of lawless pirates...

    ...but a mercenary can.

    Logan Conner is the son of a king, the heir to the largest of the five star-dominions, and the best mech pilot in the galaxy. His people are plagued by pirates ...

  • Terminus Cut

    Wholesale Slaughter - 2

    Mercenaries with a mission. Logan Conner has given up the life of a warrior prince to become Jonathan Slaughter, a mercenary captain of a rough-and-ready band of mech-jocks for hire.  Already legendary throughout the Periphery, their next job b...

  • Revelation Run

    Wholesale Slaughter - 3

    Mission accomplished…until the enemy finds out. 

    Logan Conner thinks his days pretending to be mercenary captain Jonathan Slaughter are behind him now that the ancient Imperial outpost of Terminus Cut has been uncovered. He's returned to ...

  • Maelstrom Strand

    Wholesale Slaughter - 4

    Some enemies don’t get mad. They get even. Logan Conner and Wholesale Slaughter won the day on Revelation, but the Starkad Supremacy doesn’t like failure. If they can’t beat Sparta on the battlefield, they’ll make them fold from within. ...

  • Judas Kiss

    Wholesale Slaughter - 5

    The battle for Sparta has begun.Logan Brannigan has taken back his father’s name and now he and Wholesale Slaughter fight to reclaim his father’s throne. But deposing the traitor, Rhianna Hale, without bringing all of Sparta into a bloody and div...



  • Redemption's Shadow

    Wholesale Slaughter - 6

    The throne of Sparta is in Logan's grasp, but victory tastes like ashes. The Jeuta commander, Alvar, has ravaged Wholesale Slaughter’s base on Revelation and taken Katy prisoner. He's holding her hostage to force Logan, the new appointed Guardi...

  • Contact Front

    Drop Trooper - 1

    Go to war or go to jail.For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines ...

  • Kinetic Strike

    Drop Trooper - 2

    The war made him a hero. Now the Marines need him to be a leader.Cam Alvarez is a Drop-Trooper. A warrior-knight wrapped in the futuristic armor of a high-tech battlesuit, and he's one of the best. When he's promoted to sergeant and asked to become a...

  • Direct Fire

    From street criminal to war hero.From outcast to Marine officer.The journey has been a long one, but now it's reaching the end.Cam Alvarez leads his platoon of Drop-Troopers into the Tahni Imperium, into the final days of the war and the bloodiest ba...

  • 1st to Fight

    Earth at War - 1

    I retired from the USMC, and now I write about space marines.I never thought I'd actually become one.As a sci-fi author with a hit TV show, I have a few ideas about what alien invaders are supposed to look like. In my stories, they're technologically...

  • Genesis

    Holy War - 1

    First contact gone wrong …It was every starship captain’s nightmare, and for Travis Miller, it was his own personal hell.He’d done everything by the book, but when the Tahni had attacked him and his crew, there was no choice but to...

  • Judgment Day

    We’ve won a battle … but we’re losing the war.Travis Miller, his image reformed from the moron who screwed up our first contact with aliens to one of the heroes of the Battle for Eden, is given a new assignment: retake the occup...

  • Kill Box

    Cam Alvarez is lost in the depths of the galaxy...and the only way home is through a horde of alien monsters.Cam and the others in the task force have followed Zan Thint through the Predecessor Gateway to another spiral arm of the galaxy. There, they...

  • Star BountyAbsolution

    Star Bounty - 1

    Grant Masterson is a man with nothing left to lose...A disgraced ex-cop, framed by a crooked politician, abandoned by his family, he's forced into the life of a bounty hunter just to survive.Tracking down a traitor who stole military grade weapons to...

  • Star BountyRetribution

    Star Bounty - 2

    His enemies are legion, his allies are few, and his only true friend is his robot Dog.Forced out of the Marshals and into the life of a freelance bounty hunter, Grant Masterson skirts the edges of the law, hunting down the ones responsible for framin...



  • Star BountyRevolution

    Star Bounty - 3

    All's fair in love and war.Grant Masterson is used to working alone.For years, it's been him and his robot Dog against the universe, hunting down wanted fugitives for the bounty on their heads.But things have changed. He's working undercover for the ...

  • Gates of Victory

    No enemy is so dangerous as when you think they're defeated.The Hive Mind has deceived the Americans and the Thacians into believing they had the strategy that would destroy it once and for all...and instead, they opened the gates through to Thacia a...

  • Tango Down

    The end is near...Cameron Alvarez and the crew of the Orion are hot on the trail of the Seekers, following the Predecessor faction on their quest to find the source of the Skrela infestation. But the crew is close to the breaking point, and their com...

  • Blue Force

    The war is over...or that's what everyone thinks. Cam knows better. The Skrela are wiped out, but only Cam and Vicky know the truth, that Dwight and the other AI like him created the monstrous enemy to destroy the Predecessors. Burdened with this ter...

  • The Operative

    It can really suck to work for relatives. Particularly when your uncle's an egomaniacal, power-hungry narcissist who wants to take over the galaxy.Former Recon Marine Randall Munroe has been working as a hired gun for the Corporate Council for years,...

  • Weapons Free

    New systems...new allies...new enemies. Cam Alvarez and the crew of the Orion spent five years in hibernation, putting old enemies behind them, searching for the pathway home. When they find another network of wormhole jumpgates created by the Predec...

  • Imperium

    They thought the war was over...the enemy had other ideas.Two years after the end of the Psi War, Caleb Mitchell is Emperor in all but name, leading his armies on a crusade to cleanse the colony worlds and Earth itself of the last of the psionic madm...

  • Conflagration

    It's the end of everything . . . The greatest heroes of the Commonwealth are gathered in the breach for one last fight. The Transformation Virus rages through human space like a wildfire, changing ordinary men and women into psionic demi-gods, b...

  • Homecoming

    You can't outrun your past . . . Korri Fontenot left family behind on Earth a century ago to fight in a war that broke her body and her mind. Now, her great-granddaughter, Jackie, has followed in her footsteps. First as a Marine and then as a me...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rick Partlow has published 38 books.

Rick Partlow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Homecoming, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Rick Partlow, Birthright, was published in January 2013.

Yes. Rick Partlow has 8 series.
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