James Rollins Books in Order (SIGMA Force, Tucker Wayne, Moonfall)

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All of James Rollins’s Books in Order!

Who is James Rollins?

James Rolling is the most famous pen name used by American veterinarian, amateur spelunker, certified scuba diver, and now full-time writer James Paul Czajkowski (he is no longer a practicing veterinarian).

Rollins is writing action-adventure/thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels but has also published fantasy novels under the pen name James Clemens.

He is mostly known for his SIGMA Force Series, but he also wrote the Tucker Wayne Series, the Sanguines Trilogy, and multiple stand-alone adventure novels.

As you can read on James Rollins’s website: The New York Times says, “Rollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together.”

How to read James Rollins’ Books in Order?

The SIGMA Force Series in Order

The SIGMA Force is a fictional division of the U.S. DARPA program whose purpose is to investigate and secure sensitive information that could be a threat to the United States. Based in the sub-basement of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Sigma Force is leading counterterrorism, research, and covert operations.

To know more about it, take a look at our guide to the SIGMA Force Books in Order.

Note: Most of the short stories are also available with some of the novels (the one following), but not in every edition.

  1. Sandstorm (2004)
  2. Map of Bones (2005)
  3. Black Order (2006)
  4. Kowalski’s in Love (Short Story, 2006) – Now collected in Unrestricted Access: New and Classic Short Fiction.
  5. The Judas Strain (2007)
  6. The Last Oracle (2008)
  7. The Doomsday Key (2009)
  8. The Skeleton Key (Short Story, 2011) – Also collected in Unrestricted Access: New and Classic Short Fiction.
  9. The Devil Colony (2011)
  10. Tracker (Short Story, 2012)
  11. Bloodline (2012)
  12. The Eye of God (2013)
  13. The Devil’s Bones: Cotton Malone vs. Grey Pierce (Short Story, 2014) -written with Steve Berry and collected in FaceOff.
  14. The 6th Extinction (2014)
  15. The Midnight Watch (Short Story, 2015) – Also collected in Unrestricted Access: New and Classic Short Fiction.
  16. The Bone Labyrinth (2015)
  17. Crash and Burn (Short Story, 2016)
  18. The Seventh Plague (2016)
  19. Ghost Ship (Short Story, 2017)
  20. The Demon Crown (2017)
  21. Crucible (2019)
  22. The Last Odyssey (2020)
  23. Kingdom of Bones (2022)
  24. Tides of Fire (2023)

The Jake Ransom series in order

  1. Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow (2009) – When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents-on the expedition from which they never returned-leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents’ disappearance.
  2. Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx (2010) – Using his father’s watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead, he’s thrust into a strange desert land where he’s joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach’uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what to do next, a surprise attack by the beautiful young Princess Nefertiti takes them all captive.

Tucker Wayne Series in order

Written in collaboration with Grant Blackwood. Set in the Sigma Force universe, the series follows former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities.

  1. The Kill Switch (2014) – The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies.
  2. War Hawk (2016) – Tucker Wayne’s past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She’s on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist-a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government.

The Moonfall Series in Order

An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world.

  1. The Starless Crown (2021) – A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact – one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation. But with each passing moment, doom draws closer.
  2. The Cradle of Ice (2023) – To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost―in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they’ve only known in stories. Time is running out and only the truth will save us all.

The Order of the Sanguines Trilogy in Order

Written in collaboration with Rebecca Cantrell. In a mix of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell tell a story set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very gates of Hell must be shattered to discover the true fate of humankind.

  1. City of Screams (Short Story, 2012)
  2. The Blood Gospel (2013) – An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators–Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Erin Granger, a brilliant but disillusioned archaeologist–are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl.
  3. Blood Brothers (Short Story, 2013)
  4. Innocent Blood (2013) – A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the folds of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the Blood Gospel–a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries–Erin must join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh.
  5. Blood Infernal (2015) – As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries: The shackles of Lucifer have been loosened, and his Chalice remains lost. It will take the light of all three to forge the Chalice anew and banish him again to his eternal darkness. With the Apocalypse looming, Erin must again join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for a treasure lost for millennia. But the prize has already fallen into the hands of their enemy, a demon named Legion, before whom even the walls of the Vatican will fall.

Stand-alone adventure novels by James Rollins

  • Subterranean (1999) – Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders–and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist Ashley Carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they are not the first to venture here–and those they follow did not return. There are mysteries here older than time, and revelations that could change the world. But there are also things that should not be disturbed–and a devastating truth that could doom Ashley and the expedition: they are not alone.
  • Excavation (2000) – High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin’s nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. But where the perilous journey inward ends–in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis–something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous . . . something terrifying.
  • Deep Fathom (2001) – Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America’s president on board. Now, with the United States on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission, miles below the ocean’s surface. There, devastating secrets await him–and a power an ancient civilization could not contain that has been cast out into modern-day, where it will forever alter a world that’s already racing toward its own destruction.

  • Amazonia (2002) – The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest – a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing…and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed-of perils, to follow the trail of his vanished father…toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost.
  • Ice Hunt (2003) – Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close–and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law. And now, as scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into Grendel’s lethal vortex, the most extreme measures possible will be undertaken to protect its dark mysteries–because the terrible truths locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel could end human life on Earth.
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) – Movie Tie-in! It’s 1957, the atomic age is in full swing, and McCarthy-era paranoia has the nation on edge. But for Indiana Jones, the Cold War really heats up when his latest expedition is crashed by a ruthless squad of Russian soldiers. Commanded by a sword-wielding colonel who’s as sinister as she is stunning, the menacing Reds drag an unwilling Indy along as they brazenly invade American soil, massacre U.S. soldiers, and plunder a top-secret government warehouse. Their objective: a relic even more precious–and powerful–than the mythic Ark, capable of unlocking secrets beyond human comprehension.

  • Altar of Eden (2009) – Baghdad falls . . . and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked–and something horrific is set loose upon the world. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk investigates an abandoned shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying exotic caged animals, part of a black market smuggling ring. But there is something disturbingly wrong with these beasts–each an unsettling mutation of the natural order, all sharing one uncanny trait: incredibly heightened intelligence.
  • Unrestricted Access: New and Classic Short Fiction – In this collection of short fiction, James Rollins brings together twelve stories that dig a little deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. First, the never-before-published novella “Sun Dogs.” Other stories-each with an introduction by James Rollins-are offering broader insight into this acclaimed master’s fictional universes.

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