Blackbriar Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Blackbriar Genesis |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Blackbriar Deceit |
2023 |
N/A |
Caspian Anderson Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Elias Network |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Elias Enigma |
2025 |
Buy |
| The Elias Conspiracy |
2026 |
Buy |
Chase Burke Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Second Son |
2025 |
Buy |
| The Marked Son |
2026 |
Buy |
Clayton White Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Last Protector |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Last Sentinel |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Last Guardian |
2023 |
Buy |
Mike Walton Thriller Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Thin Black Line |
2015 |
Buy |
| A Long Gray Line (Short Story) |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Red Dotted Line |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Thick Crimson Line |
2018 |
Buy |
Pierce Hunt Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hunt Them Down |
2019 |
Buy |
| Trained to Hunt |
2019 |
Buy |
| Time to Hunt |
2020 |
Buy |
Simon Gervais did not have to imagine what it feels like to protect a foreign head of state or run an international drug investigation — he did both. A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Gervais spent more than a decade working counterterrorism operations across Europe and the Middle East, coordinating narcotics cases alongside the DEA in the Caribbean, and serving on close-protection details for Queen Elizabeth II, President Barack Obama, and Chinese President Hu Jintao. When he retired in 2014, he had already spent five years writing his first thriller around the edges of a demanding full-time career.
He has since published more than fifteen novels across six series, and the range of operations he drew on shows in the variety: DEA cartel takedowns (Pierce Hunt), Secret Service protection details (Clayton White), CIA hunter-killer teams, and international espionage in the Robert Ludlum tradition (Blackbriar). The Blackbriar Genesis, written for the Ludlum estate, became a New York Times bestseller in 2022. CBS Studios, with Jerry Bruckheimer TV attached, has acquired the Clayton White series for television development.
Gervais publishes through Thomas & Mercer, Amazon Publishing’s thriller imprint, and has built a substantial readership by staying close to what he knows: elite operatives under pressure, authentic tradecraft, and international stakes. His fiction sits in the tradition of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor — fast, procedurally grounded, unapologetically plot-driven — with the added credibility of a career that took him from an infantry school in New Brunswick to a counterterrorism posting in Ottawa.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Simon Gervais written?
Simon Gervais has written seventeen books across six series.
What was Simon Gervais's first book?
Simon Gervais’s first book is The Thin Black Line, published in 2015.
How does Simon Gervais's law enforcement background shape his thrillers?
Gervais spent more than a decade with the RCMP, working international drug cases alongside the DEA, deploying on counterterrorism operations in Europe and the Middle East, and leading close-protection details for world leaders including Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II. That firsthand experience gives his action sequences and tradecraft a specificity most thriller writers have to research second-hand — his protagonists navigate the bureaucratic friction, split-second decisions, and physical demands of elite operations in ways that feel accurate because they largely are.