Sam Capra Books in Order: How to read Jeff Abbott’s series?

Coming from American suspense novelist Jeff Abbott who is known for his work in the traditional detective fiction genre–he is the author of The Whit Mosley series and The Jordan Poteet mysteries. However, the Sam Capra Series is in the spy thriller genre. The story begins when Sam Capra, a brilliant CIA agent with a happy family loses everything that matters to him. After that, he must use his special set of skills to prove his innocence, save his family, and rebuild his life. This led him to help the helpless and protect the innocent.

How to read the Sam Capra Series in Order?

Every entry in the Milo Weaver book series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.

1. Adrenaline (2010) – Sam Capra is a brilliant young CIA agent and his wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he’s at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately. He does…just before it explodes, killing everyone inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell. As the lone survivor of the attack, he is branded by the CIA as a murderer and a traitor. Escaping from the agency, Sam launches into a desperate hunt to save his kidnapped wife and child, and to reveal the unknown enemy who has set him up and stolen his family.
2. “Sam Capra’s Last Chance” (short story, 2012) – Sam Capra’s infant son has been kidnapped. The shadowy, powerful organization responsible for the abduction has thwarted Sam at every turn. But now Sam, an ex-CIA agent, has a potential lead: a picture of the woman who took his child from the clinic where he was born. Finding this mysterious woman could be his last chance to save his son……
3. The Last Minute (2011) – Sam Capra has one reason to live: to rescue his baby son from the people who abducted him. An ex-CIA agent, Sam now owns bars around the world as cover for his real mission-working undercover for a secret network as mysterious as it is powerful, while using his skills to find his child. Now the kidnappers have offered a deadly deal: they’ll surrender Sam’s child…if Sam finds and murders the one man who can expose them.
4. Downfall (2013) – The simplest beginnings can unravel a life. For Sam Capra, it is the moment a beautiful young woman walks into his San Francisco bar. Sam doesn’t want trouble. An ex-CIA agent, his only desire now is to build a quiet, peaceful home for himself and his infant son. But Diana Keene is no ordinary customer. She’s pursued by two gunmen, and when she finds Sam, she whispers an urgent, desperate plea: “Help me.” And without any warning, Sam is thrust into a fight for his life.

5. The Inside Man (2014) – Sam Capra’s friend Steve has been murdered, shot dead in the rain outside of his Miami bar. The only lead: a mysterious, beautiful stranger Steve tried to protect. To avenge his friend, Sam goes undercover into the Varelas, one of Miami’s most prominent and dangerous families. Now on the inside, playing a part where one wrong move means death, Sam faces a powerful, unstable tycoon intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who each may hold murderous secrets of their own.
6. The First Order (2016) – Two brothers. One dead, executed by extremists on a grainy video. The other forged into a top undercover agent. But now, Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive. And if Danny has been living a secret life these past years, where has he been–and what has he become? Sam’s desperate search for his brother leads him into a modern heart of darkness: the Russian elite inner circle, a group of ruthless ex-KGB billionaires who owe fealty to Russia’s corrupt president, Morozov. One of these men wants Morozov dead. And Danny will be the one to kill him–on American soil.
7. Traitor’s Dance (2022) – Sam Capra and his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, are living a quiet life in Austin, Texas. Suddenly, Sam is approached by a fellow spy with an incredible revelation: Markus Bolt is missing. Bolt is the last American traitor, who had turned over allied agent names and military secrets to the Russians. Sam is charged with making contact with Bolt’s abandoned American daughter, Amanda, and determining if she’s had any contact with her father. He must discover the reason behind Bolt’s unexpected run and protect Amanda from the killers hunting her father.

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