Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill Zone | 2007 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 2 | Dead Shot | 2009 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 3 | Clean Kill | 2010 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 4 | An Act of Treason | 2012 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 5 | Running the Maze | 2012 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 6 | Time to Kill | 2013 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 7 | On Scope | 2014 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 8 | Night of the Cobra / One Hit | 2015 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 9 | Long Shot | 2016 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
| 10 | In the Crosshairs | 2017 | Kyle Swanson | Buy |
The Kyle Swanson Sniper series by Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis spans ten novels beginning with Kill Zone (2007). The series follows Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson, a Marine Corps sniper recruited into Task Force Trident, a highly classified special operations team that handles missions too sensitive for conventional military channels.
Each book sends Swanson to a different global hotspot. Dead Shot (2009) and Clean Kill (2010) established the series as a reliable entry in the military thriller genre, and later titles like Time to Kill (2013), On Scope (2014), and Long Shot (2016) maintained the pace. Coughlin’s background as one of the Marines’ top snipers gives the books a tactical realism in their depictions of sniper operations, weapons systems, and combat scenarios. The series concluded with In the Crosshairs (2017).