Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Red Cobra | 2017 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 2 | The Black Hornet | 2017 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 3 | The Silver Wolf | 2017 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 4 | The Green Viper | 2018 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 5 | The White Scorpion | 2019 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 6 | The Renegade / Renegade | 2021 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 7 | The Assassins / Assassins | 2021 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 8 | The Outsider / Outsider | 2021 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 9 | The Vigilante / Vigilante | 2022 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 10 | The Protector / Protector | 2022 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 11 | The Deception / Deception | 2023 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 12 | Angel of Death | 2024 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 13 | The Enemy Within | 2025 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 14 | Burning State | 2025 | Rob Sinclair | Buy |
| 15 | Originally broken into two series, “James Ryker” and “Ryker Returns”. | - | Rob Sinclair | N/A |
The James Ryker series by Rob Sinclair is a fifteen-book espionage thriller sequence following a former intelligence agent who keeps getting drawn back into dangerous work. Starting with The Red Cobra (2017), the series has grown rapidly, with color-coded animal titles (The Black Hornet, The Silver Wolf, The Green Viper, The White Scorpion) giving way to more direct titles in later entries like Angel of Death and The Enemy Within.
Ryker is a capable but reluctant hero, and the books take him across the globe dealing with assassination plots, betrayals, and threats to national security. The series originally split into “James Ryker” and “Ryker Returns” but has been consolidated into a single reading order.