Marc Cameron Books in Order (Updated September 9, 2026)

Marc Cameron is an American thriller writer and retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal whose law-enforcement background shapes two major original series: the Jericho Quinn international thrillers and the Alaska-set Arliss Cutter novels. He also wrote seven authorized Jack Ryan novels for the Tom Clancy estate and published earlier Westerns under the name Mark Henry.

The easiest way to read Cameron is to keep those bodies of work separate. Jericho Quinn follows an elite federal operative through terrorism and national-security crises, while Arliss Cutter is a Deputy U.S. Marshal whose investigations are deeply tied to Alaska, fugitive work, wilderness survival, and the continuing mystery surrounding his brother’s death.

Choose your Marc Cameron starting point

• For international action: Start Jericho Quinn with National Security.
• For Alaska crime and wilderness suspense: Begin Arliss Cutter with Open Carry.
• For Jack Ryan: Cameron’s contribution starts with Power and Empire, but readers new to Ryan should begin with Tom Clancy’s earlier novels.
• For Cameron’s earliest fiction: His Mark Henry Westerns predate both Quinn and Cutter.

Jericho Quinn books in order

Jericho Quinn is an Air Force veteran, former combat rescue officer, Office of Special Investigations agent, boxer, motorcyclist, and highly trained operative who is repeatedly assigned to threats too sensitive for normal government channels. His work eventually places him in direct service to senior national-security officials and the president.

1. National Security (2011): Three terrorists carrying a deadly biological weapon enter the United States as human delivery systems, forcing Quinn into a covert task force trying to stop an outbreak before millions are exposed.
2. Act of Terror (2012): Apparently ordinary Americans begin carrying out suicide attacks and mass violence, revealing a deeply embedded terrorist network while Quinn himself becomes a target of the investigation.
3. State of Emergency (2013): Dirty bombs in San Francisco and St. Petersburg signal that a black-market arms dealer has acquired a Soviet-era nuclear device, sending Quinn into South America and the Dakar Rally in pursuit of the weapon.
4. Time of Attack (2014): Quinn and his team confront another conspiracy with national consequences as violence against his family and allies makes the mission increasingly personal.
5. Day Zero (2015): Framed for murder and hiding in Alaska, Quinn boards an Anchorage-to-Vladivostok flight with his daughter, only to become trapped aboard an Airbus A380 when murder and bombing turn the journey into another deadly operation.
6. Brute Force (2015): Quinn remains a fugitive while Vice President Lee McKeon and allies inside the government move toward a surveillance state and political takeover, forcing Quinn to clear his name and expose the conspiracy.
7. Field of Fire (2016): A nerve agent called New Archangel is unleashed in America, and Quinn is sent into rural Alaska to find the aging Russian scientist who created it before Russian operatives reach him first.
8. Active Measures (2019): A rogue Cuban general obtains a Cold War nuclear weapon and plans to destroy Miami as the United States and Cuba move toward normalization, leaving Quinn and his team trapped on the island during a major hurricane.

The eight published full-length Jericho Quinn novels are best read in order. Personal injuries, family relationships, political conspiracies, and recurring allies carry directly from one book into the next.

Jericho Quinn shorter missions

1. Dead Drop (2017): This shorter Quinn adventure provides an additional covert mission between the major novels without replacing any numbered installment.
2. The Triple Frontier (2018): Quinn operates in the lawless border region where Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil meet, giving readers another international assignment before Active Measures.

Both stories are optional. Readers following publication chronology can place them after Field of Fire and before Active Measures.

Fail Safe brings Jericho Quinn back in 2027

Cameron’s official site confirms that Fail Safe will be released in April 2027. It marks the return of Jericho Quinn after the long gap following Active Measures.

Because the novel is still forthcoming as of September 2026, it should not yet be counted among the eight released full-length Quinn adventures. Readers can complete the currently available sequence with Active Measures and then continue with Fail Safe when it is published.

Arliss Cutter novels in order

Arliss Cutter is a Deputy U.S. Marshal whose work ranges from fugitive operations and witness protection to judicial security and wilderness searches. Cameron sets the series firmly in Alaska, using his own long career with the Marshals Service and his years living in the state to give the cases a different texture from the Jericho Quinn books.

1. Open Carry (2019): Cutter and fellow marshal Lola Teariki travel to Prince of Wales Island after a Tlingit girl is murdered and members of a reality-TV production disappear, turning a search through southeast Alaska into a hunt for killers.
2. Stone Cross (2020): Cutter and Lola quietly protect a federal judge in a remote Alaska Native community while investigating a missing couple, a murdered handyman, and secrets hidden behind a mysterious symbol.
3. Bone Rattle (2021): A Native archaeologist disappears near ancient burial sites, a mutilated body washes ashore in Anchorage, and a high-profile drug trial in Juneau reveals connections among mining interests, politicians, murder, and corruption.
4. Cold Snap (2022): Cutter is transporting dangerous prisoners from Deadhorse when their bush plane crashes, leaving him stranded in the wilderness with violent fugitives while Lola discovers that one prisoner may be a serial killer.
5. Breakneck (2023): Russian criminals and Chechen attackers target a judicial delegation in Alaska, forcing Cutter to survive after jumping from a moving train while Lola remains responsible for a judge’s teenage daughter aboard the seized train.
6. Bad River (2024): A frozen body found in Arctic permafrost carries a clue resembling an object once owned by Cutter’s dead brother, drawing Arliss from South Dakota back to Alaska as he investigates whether the two deaths are connected.
7. Dead Line (2025): Cutter and Lola search the White Mountain wilderness for protected witness Sam Lujan and his mother while a criminal’s vengeful daughter sends a professional hit team into temperatures approaching sixty degrees below zero.
8. Back Track (2026): A 1977 armored-car robbery and five million dollars in missing diamonds return to threaten the Cutter family when ex-convict Ricky Lee Pink leaves prison and heads toward Alaska seeking revenge on Arliss’s late grandfather and everyone carrying the Cutter name.

Back Track, released July 28, 2026, is the eighth and newest Arliss Cutter novel.

The brother mystery makes Arliss Cutter more than a case-of-the-book series

The individual criminal investigations often conclude within one volume, but Cutter’s personal story advances across the books. His late brother, his brother’s widow and children, his relationships within the Marshals Service, and questions about the Cutter family’s past create continuity beneath the separate cases.

Bad River is particularly important because the mystery surrounding Arliss’s brother moves into the foreground. A fossilized tooth found on a frozen murder victim resembles one associated with his brother, making the old death part of the active investigation.

Back Track then reaches even farther into family history by centering part of its story on Arliss’s grandfather D. Wayne Cutter in 1977.

Open Carry establishes the Alaska series properly

Cutter is already an experienced marshal when the series begins, but southeast Alaska is still an environment with its own logistical and cultural demands. Dense forest, isolated communities, marine travel, fog, limited roads, and long distances change how an investigation works.

The book also establishes Lola Teariki as an important continuing partner. Their working relationship grows across later investigations, making Open Carry the best introduction even though the central murder case can stand on its own.

Stone Cross and Bone Rattle expand the kind of work Cutter does

Stone Cross begins as judicial protection. Cutter and Lola are supposed to shadow a federal judge receiving threats, but the disappearance of a young couple and the murder of a lodge handyman pull them into a wider investigation in an isolated community.

Bone Rattle places them around a federal trial rather than a wilderness manhunt. A drug conspiracy, mining interests, Native burial sites, state politicians, and multiple violent crimes reveal how federal marshals can become involved in much more than fugitive tracking.

Cold Snap and Breakneck turn Alaska itself into part of the threat

Cold Snap strands Cutter with violent prisoners after an aircraft crash. Communication disappears, supplies are limited, wildlife is dangerous, and one of the prisoners may be the serial murderer Lola is investigating back in Anchorage.

Breakneck uses another form of transportation. A train carrying judicial personnel is attacked, and Cutter must cross the wilderness after escaping while other hostages remain on board.

These novels illustrate one of the defining differences between Cutter and Jericho Quinn. Quinn travels globally to meet national-security threats, while Cutter’s cases frequently become dangerous because Alaska makes ordinary law-enforcement problems harder to control.

Bad River and Back Track dig into Cutter family history

Bad River connects a young woman’s frozen body with questions Arliss has been asking about his brother’s death. The investigation travels from the Arctic coast to South Dakota and eventually back into remote Alaska.

Back Track reaches to 1977, when D. Wayne Cutter was a Texas deputy sheriff and former Green Beret. An armored-car robbery left two guards dead, one criminal killed, another imprisoned, and five million dollars in diamonds missing.

When surviving robber Ricky Lee Pink is released in 2026, he believes the Cutter family knows where the diamonds were hidden. That turns an old crime into an immediate threat to Arliss’s relatives.

Marc Cameron’s seven Jack Ryan novels

Cameron became one of the authorized writers continuing Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan universe. These books are not part of Jericho Quinn or Arliss Cutter and should be read within the larger Ryanverse rather than as an independent Cameron series.

1. Power and Empire (2017): President Jack Ryan confronts instability inside China while Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus become involved in an investigation tied to criminal trafficking and international political pressure.
2. Oath of Office (2018): Multiple crises involving Iran, Africa, and American politics appear unrelated until Ryan’s administration begins seeing evidence of a coordinated strategic threat.
3. Code of Honor (2019): Ryan’s old friend Pat West is imprisoned in Indonesia, forcing the president to decide whether personal loyalty can survive evidence that his friend may have committed a serious crime.
4. Shadow of the Dragon (2020): A missing Chinese scientist, Beijing’s Arctic ambitions, submarines, and secret military research create a confrontation between the United States and China.
5. Chain of Command (2021): A conspiracy targets President Ryan while attacks on people close to the administration raise the possibility that the enemy has penetrated the American system.
6. Red Winter (2022): Cameron moves backward to 1985 and a younger Jack Ryan, who goes behind the Iron Curtain during an East German defection crisis.
7. Command and Control (2023): A coup in Panama traps President Ryan away from Washington and turns control of the Panama Canal into part of an international confrontation.

Command and Control was Cameron’s final Jack Ryan novel. Other authorized writers continue the franchise afterward.

Red Winter is deliberately out of sequence with the other Cameron Ryan novels

The first five Cameron Ryan books continue the modern presidential storyline. Red Winter instead returns to the Cold War and a much earlier stage of Ryan’s CIA career.

Readers following all Jack Ryan books chronologically should move Red Winter near the early Ryan novels rather than leaving it between Chain of Command and Command and Control. Readers following Cameron’s publication history can leave it where it was released.

The Mark Henry Westerns came first

Before the Jericho Quinn series made Marc Cameron a thriller writer, he published Western fiction under the name Mark Henry.

1. Hard Road to Heaven (2005): Cameron’s early Western work uses frontier violence, lawmen, outlaws, and the harsh consequences of survival in the American West.
2. The Hell Riders (2006): The second Mark Henry novel continues Cameron’s Western period before his move into contemporary action thrillers.

These books are separate from both Jericho Quinn and Arliss Cutter and do not need to be read before Cameron’s modern thrillers.

A Marc Cameron route based on what he writes best

1. National Security: Meet Jericho Quinn in Cameron’s original international-action series.
2. State of Emergency: See the motorcycle, international pursuit, and weapons-of-mass-destruction elements pushed to a larger scale.
3. Day Zero: Read one of the most continuity-dependent Quinn books as he becomes a fugitive.
4. Field of Fire: Move Quinn into Alaska and the New Archangel crisis.
5. Open Carry: Reset with Arliss Cutter and Cameron’s more grounded U.S. Marshals series.
6. Cold Snap: Sample Cutter’s wilderness-survival side.
7. Bad River: Enter the deeper Cutter family mystery.
8. Back Track: Finish with the latest Cutter novel and a case reaching back to his grandfather.

What is current for Marc Cameron in September 2026?

Back Track, published July 28, 2026, is Cameron’s newest released novel and the eighth Arliss Cutter book.

Jericho Quinn is also returning. Fail Safe is scheduled for April 2027 and will be the next full-length Quinn adventure after Active Measures.

Cameron’s Jack Ryan period is complete at seven books, ending with Command and Control.

Marc Cameron reading order questions

What is the first Jericho Quinn book?

National Security is the first Jericho Quinn novel and the correct starting point.

How many published Jericho Quinn novels are there?

There are eight released full-length novels through Active Measures, plus shorter Quinn fiction. Fail Safe is scheduled for April 2027.

What is the first Arliss Cutter book?

Open Carry begins the Arliss Cutter series.

How many Arliss Cutter novels are there?

There are eight through Back Track.

Is Back Track already released?

Yes. It was released on July 28, 2026.

Did Marc Cameron create Jack Ryan?

No. Tom Clancy created Jack Ryan. Cameron wrote seven authorized continuation novels for the Clancy estate.

What was Cameron’s final Jack Ryan novel?

Command and Control was Cameron’s seventh and final Jack Ryan novel.

What is Marc Cameron’s newest book?

Back Track is his newest released novel as of September 9, 2026.

How to keep Cameron’s series from getting mixed together

Read Jericho Quinn as one continuous international-thriller sequence from National Security through Active Measures, then continue with Fail Safe after its 2027 release. Read Arliss Cutter independently from Open Carry through Back Track.

Treat Cameron’s seven Jack Ryan novels as part of Tom Clancy’s much larger Ryanverse, not as a third Cameron-created universe. The two Mark Henry Westerns can be read separately. That division preserves the continuity that matters while making Cameron’s varied career much easier to navigate.