Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Debt to Pay | 2025 | Scott Medbury | Buy |
| 2 | The Savage Art | 2026 | Scott Medbury | Buy |
The Max Havok series marks a departure from Scott Medbury’s post-apocalyptic fiction into straight action-thriller territory. Max Havok spent twenty years burying a violent past, building a quiet life far from the world he once inhabited. A home invasion shatters that peace and sends him back into the violence he thought he had left behind.
A Debt to Pay (2025) opens the series with the inciting attack and Max’s decision to pursue the people responsible, regardless of cost. The Savage Art (2026) continues his path deeper into danger. The series is pitched at readers who enjoy characters like Jack Reacher, John Wick, and The Equalizer — capable men with particular skill sets who are pushed past the point where walking away is an option.
This is Medbury’s first series set in the present day without any speculative or apocalyptic elements, relying instead on the tension between a man trying to stay civilized and the violence he is very good at.