Andrew Grant Books in Order (Updated September 10, 2026)

Andrew Grant writes espionage, police thrillers, conspiracy fiction, and crime novels. Under his own name he created three distinct recurring protagonists: Royal Navy intelligence operative David Trevellyan, Birmingham detective Cooper Devereaux, and former military intelligence officer Paul McGrath. He also wrote the standalone Run.

Since 2020, Grant has also written as Andrew Child, collaborating with his brother Lee Child on the Jack Reacher series. That work belongs to the established Reacher franchise rather than the David Trevellyan, Cooper Devereaux, or Paul McGrath continuities.

Choose the Andrew Grant hero before choosing the book

• David Trevellyan: International espionage featuring a Royal Navy intelligence operative who works best when official systems stop helping him.
• Cooper Devereaux: Birmingham, Alabama homicide investigations led by a damaged detective with a difficult personal history.
• Paul McGrath: A former military intelligence specialist who becomes a courthouse janitor because being ignored gives him unusual access to corruption and injustice.
• Run: A standalone conspiracy thriller about a technology consultant whose job, marriage, and identity collapse almost simultaneously.
• Jack Reacher: Written under the name Andrew Child with Lee Child from The Sentinel onward.

David Trevellyan books begin with a corpse in a New York alley

David Trevellyan works for Royal Navy Intelligence and has spent much of his career operating undercover. He is comfortable outside conventional rules, suspicious of organizations, and willing to act alone when official channels become obstacles.

1. Even (2009): Trevellyan finds a murdered homeless man in a New York alley and is immediately framed, leaving him abandoned by his own service and forced to uncover an international conspiracy before the FBI can make the murder charge stick.
2. Die Twice (2010): Sent from New York to the British Consulate in Chicago, Trevellyan is ordered to find a rogue Royal Navy intelligence officer who has attacked his handler and obtained a deadly gas intended for sale abroad.
3. More Harm Than Good (2012): A mandatory hospital examination after a head injury turns into an investigation when Trevellyan’s boots are stolen, and his search for the thief exposes a conspiracy capable of inflicting enormous diplomatic damage.

Read the trilogy in publication order. Die Twice follows directly from the trouble Trevellyan creates in New York, while More Harm Than Good brings him back to Britain after years of operating elsewhere.

Even frames Trevellyan for the one murder he did not commit

Trevellyan notices the dead man while walking back to his hotel. He could keep moving, but stopping long enough to help is exactly what the people behind the murder need him to do.

Police arrive at almost the same moment. The case is quickly handed to the FBI, and Trevellyan realizes the corpse is part of a deliberate setup rather than random street violence.

His greatest problem is not only clearing his name. His superiors in Britain refuse to protect him, forcing an intelligence operative accustomed to having institutional backing to work completely alone.

Die Twice begins before the New York heat has cooled

Trevellyan cannot remain comfortably in New York after the first novel, so Chicago becomes the setting for his next assignment.

A Royal Navy operative named Tony McIntyre has apparently gone rogue, attacked Trevellyan’s new handler, and become involved with a secret chemical weapon. Trevellyan’s orders sound direct: locate the operative, recover the threat, and end the betrayal.

His difficulty is deciding who has actually betrayed whom before the missing gas reaches people willing to use it.

More Harm Than Good turns stolen boots into national-security trouble

Trevellyan undergoes a required medical check after suffering a head injury. Someone steals his boots while he is in hospital.

Most people would replace them and leave. Trevellyan sees the theft as something to investigate, and his insistence on identifying the culprit leads to a far more serious conspiracy.

The book is also unusual because he must operate in Britain. A man accustomed to covert work abroad discovers that returning home does not make the rules or bureaucracy any easier to tolerate.

Run is the one Andrew Grant novel with no recurring detective

• Run (2014): Computer consultant Marc Bowman is abruptly fired by communications giant AmeriTel, his executive wife Carolyn sides with the company, strangers begin following him, the FBI questions him about old work, and then Carolyn disappears.

Marc begins with the ordinary assumption that he has lost a job. That explanation becomes impossible once objects disappear from his house, surveillance follows him, federal agents start asking questions, and the woman he trusts most vanishes.

The novel is a standalone. No David Trevellyan knowledge is required before reading it, and Marc Bowman does not become the protagonist of Grant’s later Birmingham series.

Cooper Devereaux arrives in Birmingham with a reputation already damaged

Cooper Devereaux is a Birmingham, Alabama detective whose instincts are often excellent and whose methods can make colleagues deeply uncomfortable. His past is complicated enough that each new case threatens both the investigation and the personal life he is trying to rebuild.

1. False Positive (2015): Seven-year-old foster child Ethan Crane disappears from suburban Birmingham, and Devereaux’s search exposes disturbing connections among missing children, family history, mass murder, obsession, and his own past.
2. False Friend (2017): An arsonist begins burning Birmingham schools, but a grisly discovery inside one ruined building transforms the case into an investigation involving disappearances, ritualistic violence, old crimes, and allegations reaching toward city officials.
3. False Witness (2018): Women are murdered on their twenty-first birthdays and left wrapped like gifts, forcing Devereaux to hunt the Birthday Killer while his unstable home life and mysterious personal history threaten to distract him.

The three Devereaux novels should be read in publication order. Each murder investigation is different, but Cooper’s relationship with his partner, daughter, girlfriend, and his own troubled history develops continuously.

False Positive makes a missing child part of Cooper’s own history

Ethan Crane is one of a series of missing children, but investigators quickly discover that the seven-year-old is more complicated than the idealized victim described publicly.

Cooper works with Detective Jan Loflin while the search turns toward bloodlines and buried crimes. The investigation eventually forces both detectives to confront connections between the victim and things they would rather leave in the past.

False Friend starts as arson and becomes something much worse

Someone is targeting Birmingham schools. The obvious priority is identifying the arsonist before a building burns with children inside.

A horrifying discovery at one fire scene changes the nature of the investigation. Missing residents, ritualistic violence, old allegations, and possible official involvement suggest that the fires may be exposing crimes rather than representing the entire crime.

False Witness gives the killer a birthday ritual

The first victim disappears on her twenty-first birthday and is found dead the next day, carefully wrapped like a present.

When another woman of the same age is murdered in the same symbolic manner, coincidence becomes impossible. By the third death, the press has named the murderer the Birthday Killer and Cooper is under intense pressure to identify the pattern before another birthday becomes a death sentence.

Paul McGrath becomes dangerous because nobody notices the janitor

Paul McGrath was an outstanding Army recruit and military intelligence operative. He returns home hoping to repair his relationship with his pacifist father only to learn that his father is dead and that the man suspected of defrauding and murdering him escaped conviction after crucial evidence disappeared.

Paul’s response is deliberately unconventional. He takes a job as a janitor in the federal courthouse.

1. Invisible (2019): McGrath uses his courthouse job to investigate corruption and search for the truth about his father’s death while quietly helping people who are being crushed by a legal system they cannot fight alone.
2. Too Close to Home (2020): Paul uncovers the missing file connected with Alex Pardew, the man he believes destroyed his father, while also investigating a businessman accused of burning a predatory venture capitalist’s mansion.

Read these two together. The corruption surrounding Paul’s father and Alex Pardew continues directly into Too Close to Home.

Invisible gives Paul the perfect cover by lowering his status

Military intelligence taught Paul to observe environments, understand security, and notice behavior other people overlook.

Working as a janitor gives him something just as valuable: invisibility. Lawyers, witnesses, jurors, and courthouse employees speak and behave differently around someone they barely register.

Paul notices witnesses changing stories, jurors behaving strangely, and powerful attorneys using money to overwhelm weaker opponents. His private campaign for justice grows alongside the investigation into his father.

Too Close to Home finally puts the missing evidence in Paul’s hands

The first novel establishes that a key file disappeared during the case against Alex Pardew. In Book 2, Paul discovers that file.

Its disappearance points toward corruption worse than he expected. At the same time, he becomes interested in Len Hendrie, who admits setting fire to a venture capitalist’s mansion after being financially exploited by the wealthy man.

Paul’s problem is that understanding why someone broke the law does not automatically make the act legal, which places his personal sense of justice against the boundaries of the system he is investigating.

Andrew Grant’s nine original thrillers in publication order

1. Even (2009): David Trevellyan is framed for murder in New York.
2. Die Twice (2010): Trevellyan hunts a rogue intelligence operative in Chicago.
3. More Harm Than Good (2012): Stolen boots lead Trevellyan into a conspiracy in Britain.
4. Run (2014): Marc Bowman’s firing from AmeriTel triggers surveillance, FBI interest, and his wife’s disappearance.
5. False Positive (2015): Cooper Devereaux searches for seven-year-old Ethan Crane.
6. False Friend (2017): School fires expose crimes far more disturbing than arson.
7. False Witness (2018): Cooper hunts a serial killer targeting women on their twenty-first birthdays.
8. Invisible (2019): Paul McGrath becomes a courthouse janitor to investigate corruption and his father’s death.
9. Too Close to Home (2020): Paul finds the missing evidence file tied to the man he believes murdered his father.

Then Andrew Grant became Andrew Child for Jack Reacher

Andrew Grant is the brother of Lee Child, creator of Jack Reacher. Beginning in 2020, Grant adopted the publishing name Andrew Child for his work on the Reacher novels.

These books are not sequels to Paul McGrath or David Trevellyan. They belong to the much larger Jack Reacher series and follow more than two dozen earlier Reacher novels by Lee Child.

Andrew Child’s Jack Reacher novels with Lee Child

1. The Sentinel (2020, with Lee Child): Reacher intervenes when an IT manager in a Tennessee town is targeted after a cyberattack and becomes caught between local corruption, foreign interests, and secrets surrounding the town’s computer systems.
2. Better Off Dead (2021, with Lee Child): Reacher meets Army veteran Michaela Fenton while she searches for her missing twin brother and becomes involved with the dangerous criminal organization she believes took him.
3. No Plan B (2022, with Lee Child): Reacher witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a bus even though authorities classify the death as suicide, setting him against people determined to protect the organization behind the killing.
4. The Secret (2023, with Lee Child): A government task force investigates deaths connected with a secret research project from decades earlier, and Reacher’s military past places him inside a story that reaches back to 1992.
5. In Too Deep (2024, with Lee Child): Reacher wakes injured and restrained with no memory of how he arrived there, forcing him to reconstruct the events that put him in the hands of dangerous captors.
6. Exit Strategy (2025, with Lee Child): Reacher becomes involved in another violent conspiracy where identifying the people manipulating events matters as much as surviving their attempt to remove him.
7. Chain Reaction (expected October 20, 2026, with Lee Child): General Susan Turner asks Reacher to investigate the murder of a member of her covert team, sending him to remote Summertown, Colorado, where massive data centers and solar farms hide a threat reaching high into the chain of command.

Chain Reaction is not yet released as of September 10, 2026. Its current publication date is October 20, 2026.

The Sentinel is not Andrew Grant Book 10 in an ordinary series

Chronologically by Andrew Grant’s career, The Sentinel follows Too Close to Home. Bibliographically, however, it belongs to Jack Reacher.

Readers who have never read Reacher can follow the immediate plot, but anyone wanting the complete character history should begin much earlier with Lee Child’s original novels rather than treating The Sentinel as Reacher Book 1.

The Secret jumps backward inside Reacher’s own chronology

The Secret is a later-published Reacher book but uses an earlier period of his military career.

This does not require moving it ahead of The Sentinel for a first read. Reacher has always had novels set at different points in his life, and publication order remains the simplest route through the Andrew Child collaboration period.

In Too Deep starts with Reacher missing part of his own story

Reacher normally enters a town understanding exactly where he is and why he stopped there.

In Too Deep reverses that certainty. He wakes injured and restrained without a complete memory of the events that put him there, making the early problem as much reconstruction as escape.

Chain Reaction brings Susan Turner back into Reacher’s orbit

General Susan Turner needs someone outside her immediate chain of command because one of her people has been murdered during covert work and she no longer knows whom inside the system she can trust.

Reacher is almost designed for that problem. He is difficult to find, has no permanent organization to compromise, and can investigate without leaving an ordinary institutional trail.

The case leads him to Summertown, Colorado, a tiny settlement dominated by enormous data centers and solar infrastructure. The book remains forthcoming until October 20, 2026.

You Shook Me All Night Long is a shorter Reacher story

• You Shook Me All Night Long: A Jack Reacher short story by Andrew Child in which Reacher becomes caught between U.S. Military Intelligence and the KGB during an espionage confrontation.

The story originally appeared in an anthology and was later published separately. It is optional material rather than one of the numbered full-length Reacher novels.

Three complete Andrew Grant series can be read without touching Reacher

1. David Trevellyan: Even, Die Twice, More Harm Than Good.
2. Cooper Devereaux: False Positive, False Friend, False Witness.
3. Paul McGrath: Invisible, Too Close to Home.

Each group is independent. Reading Trevellyan first provides publication history but is not necessary for understanding Cooper or Paul.

A four-book sampler shows how different Grant’s heroes are

1. Even: Start with espionage and a Royal Navy operative framed for murder.
2. Run: Move to a civilian technology consultant whose entire life suddenly becomes unreliable.
3. False Positive: Try a Southern police thriller and meet Cooper Devereaux.
4. Invisible: Finish with Paul McGrath using a courthouse janitor’s job as an intelligence operation.

Grant’s protagonists solve problems in completely different ways

• Trevellyan: Survives through intelligence training, improvisation, violence, and a willingness to ignore official procedure.
• Marc Bowman: Has to understand a conspiracy while lacking the professional spy infrastructure possessed by Trevellyan.
• Cooper Devereaux: Works inside municipal policing and must deal with partners, evidence, supervisors, local politics, and his own reputation.
• Paul McGrath: Uses surveillance skills and anonymity to manipulate access rather than operating openly as a detective.
• Jack Reacher: Belongs to Lee Child’s established universe and relies on observation, military experience, physical capability, and independence.

The current Andrew Grant and Andrew Child release picture

As of September 10, 2026, Andrew Grant’s own-name bibliography remains at nine principal thrillers: three David Trevellyan novels, the standalone Run, three Cooper Devereaux novels, and two Paul McGrath novels.

Under the Andrew Child name, six co-written Jack Reacher novels have been released from The Sentinel through Exit Strategy. Chain Reaction is scheduled for October 20, 2026 and remains forthcoming on this update date.

Questions readers ask when one author uses two names

What Andrew Grant book should I read first?

Start with Even for publication order, False Positive for Cooper Devereaux, or Invisible for Paul McGrath.

How many David Trevellyan books are there?

There are three: Even, Die Twice, and More Harm Than Good.

How many Cooper Devereaux books are there?

There are three: False Positive, False Friend, and False Witness.

How many Paul McGrath books are there?

There are two principal novels: Invisible and Too Close to Home.

Is Run part of the David Trevellyan series?

No. Run is a standalone thriller featuring technology consultant Marc Bowman.

Are Andrew Grant and Andrew Child the same writer?

Yes. Andrew Grant uses the Andrew Child name for his work on the Jack Reacher series.

Is Andrew Child related to Lee Child?

Yes. Andrew Grant is Lee Child’s younger brother and has collaborated with him on the Jack Reacher novels since 2020.

Is The Sentinel the first Jack Reacher book?

No. It is the first Reacher novel co-written by Lee Child and Andrew Child, but Jack Reacher had already appeared in a long series of novels beginning decades earlier.

What is the latest released Andrew Child Reacher novel?

Exit Strategy, published in 2025, is the latest released collaboration as of September 10, 2026.

When is Chain Reaction released?

The current publication date is October 20, 2026.

The Andrew Grant shelf works best with Reacher set to one side

Keep David Trevellyan together from Even through More Harm Than Good. Place Run separately, then read Cooper Devereaux from False Positive through False Witness and Paul McGrath from Invisible through Too Close to Home.

Then create a separate Andrew Child section for the Jack Reacher collaborations. Begin that author phase with The Sentinel, continue through Exit Strategy, and add Chain Reaction after its October 20, 2026 release.

This preserves Grant’s own three thriller worlds while recognizing the major second phase of his career without pretending that David Trevellyan, Cooper Devereaux, Paul McGrath, and Jack Reacher share one continuity.