Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Honorable Traitors | 2018 | John Lutz | Buy |
| 2 | The Havana Game | 2019 | John Lutz | Buy |
The Thomas Laker series represents John Lutz’s venture into international thriller territory. Published in 2018 and 2019, The Honorable Traitors and The Havana Game follow an intelligence operative through plots involving espionage and global politics. The two books show Lutz expanding beyond the domestic crime fiction that defined most of his career.
The series demonstrates the versatility of a writer who, after decades of private eye and serial killer fiction, could shift to a different thriller subgenre in the later years of his career. The Havana setting of the second book particularly reflects Lutz’s interest in location as a storytelling element, something he also brought to his Florida-set Fred Carver novels.