Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone Knows But You | 2024 | Thomas E. Ricks | Buy |
| 2 | We Can’t Save You | 2025 | Thomas E. Ricks | Buy |
The Ryan Tapia series marks Thomas E. Ricks’ move into fiction after decades of acclaimed military non-fiction. Everyone Knows But You and We Can’t Save You follow an intelligence operative through thriller plots informed by Ricks’ deep knowledge of the military and intelligence communities.
Published in 2024 and 2025, the two books bring the authority of Ricks’ journalism to the thriller genre, creating fiction grounded in how the defense and intelligence worlds actually work.