Stephen Mertz

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1990
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cody's War

1 - Dragonfire! (Oct-2019)
2 - Camp David Has Fallen! (Oct-2019)
3 - The Fires of Allah (Nov-2019)
4 - Day of Reckoning (Nov-2019)
5 - The Last Refuge (Dec-2019)
6 - Cody's Return (Mar-2022)
7 - Lethal Assault (Mar-2022)

A McShan Thriller

1 - Say It Was Murder (May-2018)

Night Wind

1 - Night Wind (Sep-2002)
2 - Devil Creek (2004)

A Steve Madison Mystery

1 - Fade to Tomorrow (Feb-2004)
2 - The Vampire Chase (Nov-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Blaze! (Western)

1 - Blaze! (Jan-2015)
6 - Zombies Over Yonder (Jul-2015)
9 - A Son of the Gun (Jan-2016)
14 - The Christmas Journey (Nov-2016)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Living Legend

    in Dick Tracy: The Secret Files

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Night Wind

    Night Wind - 1

    Robin Curtis and her son Paul have come to Devil Creek to start over after her bitter divorce. Also new to the area is Mike Landware-a writer haunted by the death of his wife. Neither of them are looking for love or trouble, but in Devil Creek, it's ...

  • Devil Creek

    Night Wind - 2

    After two years, Robin, her son, Paul, and her new husband, Mike, have healed emotionally from their terrifying ordeal when a serial killer, suicide and the supernatural ravaged their lives and the isolated Southwestern mountain town of Devil Creek. ...

  • Fade to Tomorrow

    A Steve Madison Mystery - 1

    "A surprising and generously clued whodunnit!"--ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE

    As an Army Ranger, Steve Madison saw action from Iraq to Central America, from Somalia to Kosovo. But with his discharge from military service, he thought he'd...

  • The Korean Intercept

    The U.S. space shuttle Liberty becomes the catalyst in escalating the tensions between the U.S. and North Korea when it crashes into the frontier between North Korea and China and an American search-and-rescue mission is forbidden--and consid...

  • Dragon Games

    Beijing, China, August 2008. The world, and hundreds of thousands of attendees, are riveted by the epic grandeur of the Summer Olympics. But just beneath the surface of the pageantry and athletic competition pulsates a drama of terror in this lates...

  • Hank & Muddy

    In steamy Shreveport, Louisiana, two musical legends-in-the-making come together: a whiskey-soaked country singer named Hank Williams and blues artist Muddy Waters. What they've got in common over several hectic days of drinking, singing and whoring ...

  • Cambodian Hellhole

    After escaping a CIA team sent to capture him in Bangcock, Stone finds himself on a brand new mission. One of his buddies who saved his life in the Vietnam war has been captured in Cambodia and needs to be rescued. Mark Stone, again joined by his fel...

  • The Castro Directive

    Cuba. 1961. An armed force of 1500 Cubans-trained, equipped and supported covertly by the CIA under direct White House sanction-is about to launch a massive military strike with the objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro. In Vietnam, Sergeant Graveya...



  • Escape From Nicaragua

    Blood and fury -- from 'Nam to Nicaragua!Mark Stone is the kind of man who'd challenge the fires of hell with an M-16 -- and come out on top. His M.I.A. rescues in Vietnam are legendary. And now the U.S. government -- the government that once...

  • Blood Red Sun

    Japan is at the brink of surrender. It is the eve of the Emperor's announcement of his country's acceptance of the Allied terms of surrender. But a core of fanatical extremists in the Emperor's military, descended from the legendary Samurai warriors ...

  • China Strike

    INTO THE RED ZONE!Dr. Yu Bin isn't like any other M.I.A. Stone's tried to extract from the nightmare of a Communist prison. Dr. Yu stayed behind at his own request, a heroic volunteer in the undercover war against brutal oppression. Frail in body, Dr...

  • L.A. Gang War

    THE ULTIMATE STREET FIGHTLou Conte was one M.I.A. Stone had given up on finding. A treacherous deserter and traitor, Conte had once staged a bloody ambush on Stone's team in 'Nam - earning a kingpin position in the murky world of Asia's drug trade.N...

  • Heavy Fire

    A TAINTED ALLIANCEIt would be a meeting of the most savage men on the planet. In the blood-soaked fields of Vietnam, a new army holds its first congress. Here, the world's top drug traders aim to consolidate their power under a sadistic heroin king...

  • Blood Storm

    HIGH ROAD TO HELL The slave camps of Laos are the worst rotting pits of imprisonment yet devised. Their American prisoners have been listed as M.I.A.'s or given up for dead. But these broken men are very much alive-and ex-P.O.W. Mark Stone is hell...

  • Invasion U.S.S.R.

  • M.I.A. Hunter

    A new kind of courage. A new kind of war. Mark Stone has a score to settle. A former Green Beret, he has only one activity that gives meaning to his lifefinding American's forgotten fighting men, the P.O.W.'s the government has conveniently labeled M...

  • Miami War Zone

    Ex-Vietnam vet Jack Wofford was fighting a new kind of war. The battlefield was Miami. The army was the D.E.A. And the enemy was the lowest form of drug-dealing scum ever to profit from human suffering.
Now, Jack Wofford is missing. M.I.A. hunter M...

  • Some Die Hard

    Dead man flying! Ex-stuntman and private detective Rock Dugan faces the toughest challenge of his career. How was his wealthy client murdered while flying alone in a sailplane, in full view of all the suspects in the case? How will Rock survive when ...



  • Exodus From Hell

    BLOODY BAPTISM UNDER FIRE The Marines taught former Green Beret Mark Stone how to kill, and a Viet Cong prison camp taught him how to hate. Now, a free man, Stone willingly walks back into the steaming hell of the Far East jungles to free captive P....

  • Back to 'Nam

    For men like John Jenner, the nightmare of 'Nam never ended. Captured by the Vietcong, he has spent the past seventeen years in brutal captivity -- sentenced to backbreaking labor on a poppy farm. After seventeen years of living hell, John Jenner ha...

  • Blaze!

    Blaze! (Western) - 1

    J.D. and Kate Blaze are two of the deadliest gunfighters the Old West has ever seen. They also happen to be husband and wife, as passionate in their love for each other as they are in their quest for justice on the violent frontier! BLAZE! is the fir...

  • Desert Death Raid

    BLOODâ€"SANDâ€"SLAUGHTER! It looked like an easy job for Mark Stone and his men. The presidential party of a small African nation was being held hostage by a savage band of cutthroat rebelsâ€"and all Stone had to do was go in and get 'em out. A pie...

  • Stone

    Former Green Beret Mark Stone discovers that his long-lost love in Vietnam-an army nurse presumed dead-is still alive and is being captive by a sadistic North Vietnamese warlord. UNCHAINED FURY! The rack was lit by a weak bulb. Lying on the stone pla...

  • Crossfire Kill

    Europe Held Hostage! In Paris, a German government official is shot and killed in the streets. In Frankfurt, an American general is kidnapped from a U.S. army base. Both jobs are carried out by skilled professionals, experts in the field of internati...

  • Zombies Over Yonder

    Blaze! (Western) - 6

    It's the wildest BLAZE! adventure yet, as J.D. and Kate investigate the mysterious death of a mine owner and find themselves facing a danger unlike any they've ever encountered. From bloodthirsty outlaws to cold-blooded killers to marauding Indians, ...

  • Sherlock Holmes: Zombies Over London

    Sherlock Holmes faces perhaps the greatest challenge yet in his long-running war with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty -- the living dead walk, hungry for flesh and doing the bidding of the evil professor! From a dirigible carrying a deadly cargo hi...

  • The King of Horror & Other Stories

    "One of my favorite writers...a born storyteller...Enjoy " - Max Allan Collins "Stephen Mertz writes a hard-edged, fast-paced thriller for those who like their tales straight and sharp." - Joe R. Lansdale For the past forty years, Stephen Mertz has b...

  • A Son of the Gun

    Blaze! (Western) - 9

    When Kate and J.D. Blaze set off in pursuit of the Ludlow brothers, as crazed and vicious a trio of owlhoots as they've ever encountered, J.D. never expected to run into the biggest surprise of his adventurous career: a fast-on-the-draw young man who...



  • Hostage Town

    When an M.I.A. mission goes terribly wrong, Mark Stone and his team are thrust into a showdown with terrorists who have seized control of an isolated Texas border town. But the invaders have not counted on the fury of Mark Stone, Terrance Loughlin an...

  • The Christmas Journey

    Blaze! (Western) - 14

    Husband-and-wife gunfighters J.D. and Kate Blaze are just about the unlikeliest Santa Claus and Santa’s helper that the Old West has ever seen. But when a bank is robbed in Arizona Territory and a frantic mother has to embark on a desperate journey...

  • Jimi After Dark

    Somebody is out to murder rock star Jimi Hendrix, but Jimi's old army buddy who calls himself Soldier is on hand to help. The 1970 London rock scene comes alive in a violent, fast-paced thriller that mixes fact and myth about one of rock's greatest ...

  • The Moses Deception

    Archeologists Adam Chase and Lara Newton head an archeological dig in the mountainous, arid no-man's-land on the border of Turkey and Syria, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire recluse, Buckeye Calhoun, whose obsession is Biblical inerrancy. A hill...

  • Say It Was Murder

    A McShan Thriller - 1

    McShan is tough and smart, one of the top operatives for the detective agency Honeycutt Personal Services. But he has his hands full when he’s sent to the picturesque desert landscape of southeastern Arizona to check on the well-being of a former O...

  • The Dark of Midnight & Other Stories

    Legendary thriller writer Stephen Mertz delivers a stunning new collection of his best short fiction, including a pair of stories, "Chez Erotique" and "Eagle Park Slim," appearing here for the first time! A five-star collection by a master storytelle...

  • The Vampire Chase

    A Steve Madison Mystery - 2

    Steve Madison set out to catch a killer -- and barely escaped with this life.For the past three years a series of brutal vampire-style slayings have scandalized the world of rock music. Each of the killings has followed the appearance of a top band c...

  • Camp David Has Fallen!

    Cody's War - 2

    THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES TAKES YOU TO CAMP DAVID!

    Camp David ranks with the White House and Air Force One as the most secure military site in America. Located in the rugged hills of Maryland 6o miles northw...

  • Dragonfire!

    Cody's War - 1

    FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY’S WAR!

    BIG TROUBLE IN CHINA!

    Cody’s mission: locate and extract a defecting physicist, Dr. Kwan, creator of the ghastly mega-weapon, Dragonfire. But the mi...

  • Day of Reckoning

    Cody's War - 4

    FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY’S WAR!

    This time it’s personal!

    Sara Durell is missing. Sara was the best friend of Carol, Jack Cody’s late wife who died with their children at the hand...



  • The Fires of Allah

    Cody's War - 3

    FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES CODY’S MOST DANGEROUS MISSION YET…

    Jack Cody is on a healing path, recovering from the personal trauma of loss that left this top American agent with the nickname “...

  • The Last Refuge

    Cody's War - 5

    FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES A NEW KIND OF MISSION…

    Domestic terrorism. The worst kind.

    A tiny US town on the Mexican border. Remote. A big day for this minuscule rural community. The Preside...

  • Homicide: Saigon

    FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION-ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES HOMICIDE: SAIGON!SAIGON, 1970.Meet Cord McGavin, lone wolf investigator assigned to a special operations unit of the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division. McGavin's beat: ...

  • Cody's Return

    Cody's War - 6

    RETURN TO CHAOS! When Cody's plane touches down at Reagan International, he's a burnt-out case, worn to the bone after a brutal mission into Russia. A runaway high-speed train loaded with stolen nukes and killer commandos came close to ending the lif...

  • Lethal Assault

    Cody's War - 7

    A Match Made in Hell!Cody's missions as top American agent, the President's man, have seen him tackle terrorists, drug lords and international assassins. But nothing-nothing-could prepare him for the potent alliance of evil created when General Greb ...

  • Final Strike

    Time Has Run Out!The fuse can't burn any shorter. An insane media megastar, Thelma Justice, and her power-hungry lover, a Russian nuclear arms dealer, are close to unleashing hell on earth.CIA field agents Jack Cody and Sara Durrell have gone...

  • Afghanistan Payback

    PAYBACK!America's disorganized military evacuation from the Hell on Earth called Afghanistan left ace CIA field agent Jack Cody with a bitter, dissatisfied fire in his gut. Maybe it was strategically viable, but too much good was being left undone in...

  • Hellfire in Syria

    STRAIGHT TO HELL!CIA field agents Jack Suicide Cody and Sara Durell are handed a simple but dangerous as hell mission to locate and rescue an American woman and her son who have been kidnapped by terrorists, whose goal is to prevent a ranking Syrian ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Mertz has published 47 books.

Stephen Mertz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hellfire in Syria, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Stephen Mertz, Living Legend, was published in June 1990.

Yes. Stephen Mertz has 4 series.
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