Conrad Voort Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Broken Hearts Club | 1999 | Buy |
| Irresistible | 2000 | Buy |
| All the Dead Were Strangers | 2001 | Buy |
| Dead for Life | 2003 | Buy |
| At Hell’s Gate | 2004 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Summer Fires | 1979 | Buy |
| The Casco Deception | 1983 | Buy |
| Divine Assassin | 1985 | Buy |
| Saltmaker | 1988 | Buy |
| Flamingo | 1990 | Buy |
| The Last Spy | 1993 | Buy |
| Purgatory Road | 1996 | Buy |
| Black Monday | 2005 | Buy |
| The Side Effect | 2006 | Buy |
| Still Hungry | 2022 | Buy |
| The Impossible Detective | 2026 | Buy |
Bob Reiss / Ethan Black has been writing thrillers for more than four decades. His debut novel, Summer Fires, appeared in 1979, and he followed it with a steady run of standalone thrillers through the 1980s and 1990s. The Casco Deception (1983) and Divine Assassin (1985) established his ability to write fast-paced plots, while The Last Spy (1993) is often considered one of his strongest books, a Cold War espionage novel about a deep-cover Soviet agent living in Washington, D.C.
Under the pen name Ethan Black, Reiss launched the Conrad Voort series in 1999 with The Broken Hearts Club. Voort is an unusual detective, a wealthy NYPD investigator from an old New York family, and the series ran for five books through At Hell’s Gate (2004). Meanwhile, Reiss continued publishing standalones under his own name, including the pandemic thriller Black Monday (2005) and The Side Effect (2006). After a long gap, he returned with Still Hungry (2022) and has a new book, The Impossible Detective, scheduled for 2026. His career spans nearly 50 years of genre fiction, with 16 books across spy novels, procedural mysteries, and contemporary thrillers.