Russell Blake

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Assassin

0.5 - Night of the Assassin (Dec-2011)
1 - King of Swords (Dec-2011)
2 - Revenge of the Assassin (Jul-2012)
3 - Return of the Assassin (May-2012)
4 - Blood of the Assassin (Feb-2013)
5 - Rage of the Assassin (Nov-2015)

Black

1 - Black (Aug-2013)
2 - Black Is Back (Nov-2013)
3 - Black Is the New Black (Jan-2014)
4 - Black to Reality (Nov-2014)
5 - Black in the Box (Nov-2015)

The Day After Never

1 - Blood Honor (Apr-2016)
2 - Purgatory Road (Jun-2016)
3 - Covenant (Jul-2016)
4 - Retribution (Oct-2016)
6 - Perdition (Oct-2018)

A Drake Ramsey Adventure

1 - Ramsey's Gold (Jun-2015)
2 - Emerald Buddha (Oct-2015)
3 - The Goddess Legacy (Aug-2016)

Fatal

1 - Fatal Exchange (Jul-2011)
2 - Fatal Deception (Apr-2016)

Jet

1 - Jet (Nov-2012)
2 - Betrayal (Oct-2012)
3 - Vengeance (Nov-2012)
4 - Reckoning (Dec-2012)
5 - Legacy (Apr-2013)
6 - Justice (Dec-2013)
7 - Sanctuary (Nov-2014)
8 - Survival (Mar-2015)
9 - Escape (Jul-2015)
10 - Incarceration (Dec-2015)
11 - Forsaken (Nov-2016)
Ops Files (Apr-2014)

Jet: Ops Files

1 - Ops Files (Apr-2014)
2 - Terror Alert (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Fatal Exchange

    Fatal - 1

    Fatal Exchange chronicles the story of Tess Gideon, a female Manhattan bike messenger with an appetite for the wild side who becomes embroiled in a rogue nation's Byzantine scheme to destabilize the U.S. financial system. From the sweltering streets ...

  • Zero Sum

    Present Day Wall Street. Where intelligence agencies and the financial industry are strange bedfellows, and the two worlds are often intertwined in disturbing ways. In this chillingly plausible, controversial scenario of a military/industrial/financi...

  • The Geronimo Breach

    The Geronimo Breach is a breakneck-paced thrill ride that pits the world's most unlikely protagonist against the deadliest adversaries on the planet. From the corridors of Langley to the sweltering jungles of Panama, from the hills of Pakistan to the...

  • King of Swords

    Assassin - 1

    King of Swords is an epic assassination thriller framed against a gritty backdrop of brutal drug cartel violence in modern Mexico. The G-20 Financial Summit is planned for San Jose Del Cabo. The world's pre-eminent finance ministers will attend, alon...

  • Night of the Assassin

    Assassin - 0.5

    Night of the Assassin is the gritty, edge-of-your seat prequel to King of Swords. A no-holds-barred, breakneck-paced thriller, Night charts the early years of El Rey - known as the King of Swords - a super-assassin responsible for some of the world's...

  • The Voynich Cypher

    When a sacred relic is stolen from its subterranean guarded vault, Dr. Steven Cross, amateur cryptographer, becomes embroiled in a deadly quest to decipher one of history's most enigmatic documents - a 15th century parchment written entirely in unbre...

  • Return of the Assassin

    Assassin - 3

    Return of the Assassin is the shocking continuation of the saga of El Rey, the notorious Mexican cartel super-assassin whose legacy of impossible kills has earned him the reputation as the most lethally effective hit man in the world. Faced with impo...

  • Revenge of the Assassin

    Assassin - 2

    Revenge of the Assassin is the breakneck-paced sequel to the bestselling international thriller King of Swords. When El Rey, the super assassin responsible for Latin America's most spectacular hits, returns to Mexico for one final sanction, the race ...

  • Silver Justice

    Manhattan. A ruthless serial killer is butchering financial industry high rollers. FBI Special Agent Silver Cassidy, the head of a task force that's on a collision course with disaster, finds herself fighting impossible odds to stop the murderer befo...



  • Betrayal

    Jet - 2

    Twenty-eight year old Jet, the former Mossad operative from the eponymous novel JET, must battle insurmountable odds to protect those she loves in a deadly race that stretches from the heartland of Nebraska to the corridors of power in Washington, D....

  • Jet

    Jet - 1

    She faked her death......to save her life.The plan almost worked.Her code name: Jet. A lethal operative for the Mossad. Many wanted her eliminated. Spoofing her own death was the only way to ...

  • Vengeance

    Jet - 3

    Jet III - Vengeance finds Jet settled down, trying to return to a somewhat normal life of stability and safety. But fate has other plans for her when she becomes embroiled in a terrifying terrorism plot involving figures from her past, whose thirst f...

  • Reckoning

    Jet - 4

    JET IV â€" Reckoning pits Jet against the deadliest threat yet â€" an enemy with endless resources who will stop at nothing to destroy her. From the mountains of Indonesia to the streets of Washington, Jet discovers in a breakneck-paced roller-coaste...

  • Blood of the Assassin

    Assassin - 4

    A German hit man has targeted a world leader for execution. In a high octane race against the clock, an unlikely alliance must track and stop the assassin before he can carry out his unthinkable scheme. The fifth of the bestselling Assassin novels, B...

  • Legacy

    Jet - 5

    JET V â€" Legacy is the fifth installment in the bestselling JET series, which follows the saga of the Mossad’s deadliest ex-operative, who faked her own death to escape her past. In this novel, JET is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice in ...

  • Upon a Pale Horse

    A controversial, frightening bio-thriller that blurs the line between truth and fiction, Upon A Pale Horse raises disturbing questions about the man-made origin of nightmare epidemics, and posits a conspiracy so plausible that it will linger long aft...

  • Black

    Black - 1

    Artemus Black. Perennially down-on-his-luck Hollywood PI whose Bogie fixation is as dated as his wardrobe. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, n...

  • Black Is Back

    Black - 2

    In this second installment in the acclaimed BLACK series, Artemus Black, Hollywood PI to the stars, dives into the rap music scene to stop a killer - with often disastrous and humorous results. Fans of hard-boiled detective fiction from Elmore Leonar...

  • Justice

    Jet - 6

    JET VI - Justice continues the saga of the former Mossad operative as she battles to survive in a world intent on destroying her. From the streets of Argentina to the corridors of power in Moscow, her past continues to haunt her even as she flees it ...



  • Black Is the New Black

    Black - 3

    When Artemus Black is hired to investigate a series of suspicious accidents at LA's most prestigious modeling agency, he quickly discovers that brooding pouts and mascara can be as dangerous as guns or bombs. From LA to Mexico to Tahoe to NY, the sto...

  • Ops Files

    Jet
    Jet: Ops Files - 1

    JET - Ops Files chronicles the early years of Maya, who would go on to become the Mossad's deadliest operative: the assassin known as Jet. From the West Bank to Tel Aviv to Jordan to Singapore to Indonesia, Ops Files is a breakneck adrenaline rush th...

  • Requiem For The Assassin

    In Requiem for the Assassin, El Rey, the world's deadliest assassin, is called into the field to terminate a list of seemingly unrelated targets on behalf of CISEN, the Mexican Intelligence Agency. But things are never as they seem in the murky world...

  • Black to Reality

    Black - 4

    BLACK To Reality is the fourth in the acclaimed BLACK series of noir detective fiction featuring Artemus Black, the world's losingest Hollywood Private Investigator. In this installment he is saved from financial calamity when he takes a case that re...

  • Sanctuary

    Jet - 7

    JET - Sanctuary picks up where JET Justice left off, with Jet, Matt and Hannah on the run in South America, trying to evade enemies from their past who are determined to exterminate them. From Chile to Rio to Argentina to Moscow, the action never let...

  • Survival

    Jet - 8

    JET - Survival is the eighth installment in the JET series, continuing from JET - Sanctuary. From the squalid ports of Panama to the cartel enclaves of Colombia, Jet and Matt must battle the deadliest threats they've yet faced if they are to survive....

  • Terror Alert

    Jet: Ops Files - 2

    JET - Ops Files, Terror Alert picks up the story of Maya, the operative who would become Jet, on her first mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she must race the clock to stop a terror attack that would change the world order. Spanning the globe, from...

  • Ramsey's Gold

    A Drake Ramsey Adventure - 1

    When a forgotten journal materializes decades after Drake Ramsey's father vanished in the Amazon jungle, Drake decides to follow in his footsteps and search for the legendary treasure of the Inca empire hidden in the lost Inca city of Paititi. Joined...

  • Escape

    Jet - 9

  • Emerald Buddha

    A Drake Ramsey Adventure - 2

    Drake, Allie, and Spencer reunite in Emerald Buddha, the second Drake Ramsey adventure - a quest to locate the lost treasure of the Khmer Empire, secreted away in a hidden temple somewhere in Myanmar. But nothing is as it seems, and their archaeologi...



  • Black in the Box

    Black - 5

    Featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and The Chicago Tribune, Russell Blake is The NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of dozens of action/adventure and mystery novels, including Fatal Exchange, The Geronimo Breach, Zero Sum, the Ass...

  • Rage of the Assassin

    Assassin - 5

    In the final installment in the bestselling Assassin series, El Rey and Captain Romero Cruz race the clock to stop a terrorist threat to Mexico City and save thousands of lives. Gritty, unflinching, with a plot drawn from today's headlines, Rage of t...

  • Incarceration

    Jet - 10

    Jet's peaceful existence in Kosovo is shattered when unexpected enemies surface to settle old scores and make her pay in blood. Spanning the globe from Russia to Syria to Romania to Washington, nothing is as it seems, and her adversaries will scour t...

  • Blood Honor

    The Day After Never - 1

    They said it could never happen - that the day would never come. They were wrong. Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with ...

  • Fatal Deception

    Fatal - 2

    New York. A serial killer is releasing snuff films to the media, drawing Detective Ron Stanford into a game of cat and mouse while he grapples with Tess Gideon's return from Europe, and the unfinished emotional business between them. As the investiga...

  • Purgatory Road

    The Day After Never - 2

    In the second volume of The Day After Never trilogy, Lucas must make an impossible choice and risk everything in order to save those closest to him. As he crosses a wasteland in search of a phantom, Lucas discovers that his adversary will stop at not...

  • Covenant

    The Day After Never - 3

    In the third installment of the bestselling Day After Never series, Lucas and Sierra must prepare themselves for the ultimate showdown with a ruthlessly brutal enemy. In a winner-takes-all climax, the forces of light face off against those of darknes...

  • The Goddess Legacy

    A Drake Ramsey Adventure - 3

    When Drake Ramsey gets an invitation he can''t refuse to embark on a treasure hunt in India, little does he know that it will be a headlong rush into danger that will require all his wits to survive.

    A breakout novel in the tradition of Rai...

  • Retribution

    The Day After Never - 4

    In the fourth volume of the Day After Never series, Lucas and Sierra embark on a cross-country journey that takes them into the belly of the beast, where they must battle a ruthless adversary while the fate of their world hangs in the balance....

  • Forsaken

    Jet - 11

    After months on the run, JET settles down, only to be delivered an unthinkable ultimatum she can't refuse: risk her life, or her family's. Spanning the globe, from Hungary to Israel to Azerbaijan, Jet must use every ounce of her skill if she is to su...



  • The Day After Never - Insurrection

    Lucas embarks on a cross-country journey for what's supposed to be a simple vaccine delivery mission, but which quickly devolves into a battle to survive when he and his team become embroiled in a conspiracy so massive it will change the fate of Amer...

  • A Girl Apart

    Investigative journalist Leah Mason has returned home to El Paso with her career in flames and her romantic life in tatters. Despondent over life's body blows, her prospects and her future change overnight with a phone call from a stranger that immer...

  • Rogue State

    From Israel to China to Jakarta to North Korea, Jet tackles her most demanding assignment yet, pitted against a terrorist with a master plan to destroy her country, and hunted by a triad killer bent on revenge....

  • Renegade

  • The Day After Never - Havoc

  • A Girl Betrayed

    A college friend in trouble......a sinister plot where betrayal is the rule.Can Leah Mason untangle a Byzantine mystery in time to save her friend...and herself?In the follow-up to the critically acclaimed...

  • Quantum Synapse

  • Perdition

    The Day After Never - 6

    In this second volume of the two book arc that began with Insurrection (book 5), Lucas braves all odds to free his friends and in the process spawns the only hope for the nation's future: a new resistance movement that will take the battle to its ene...

  • The Day After Never - Legion

  • Jet - Dark Web



  • JET - Ignition

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Russell Blake has published 50 books.

Russell Blake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, JET - Ignition, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Russell Blake, Fatal Exchange, was published in July 2011.

Yes. Russell Blake has 7 series.
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