Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs of Warr | 2020 | T.R. Gabriel | Buy |
| 2 | By Executive Request | 2021 | T.R. Gabriel | Buy |
| 3 | Chasing the Ghost | 2023 | T.R. Gabriel | Buy |
Dogs of Warr is T.R. Gabriel’s main series, three books of military action thriller fiction built around Colonel Nathan Warr and a team whose diversity of skills — brain, sniper, heavy weapons, infiltration, explosives, pilot — reflects the ensemble thriller model of writers like Tom Clancy and Jack Silkstone. The Area 51 setting, complete with its real-world association with classified military operations, adds a layer of speculative detail to the operational realism.
The first book, Dogs of Warr (2020), sets up the team against a former Spetsnaz operative — “The Devil’s Ghost” — contracted to carry out an attack on American soil, establishing the series’ pattern of real-world geopolitical threats handled by a unit that operates outside normal military channels. By Executive Request (2021) and Chasing the Ghost (2023) develop the team further, with a fourth book in progress.
The series is most directly comparable to the military thriller tradition of Jack Silkstone’s PRIMAL series and the covert operations branch of the Clancy-adjacent genre.