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Jack Coughlin Books in Order

Jack Coughlin has written 13 books, published between 2005 and 2017. The first book is Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper (2005) and the newest is In the Crosshairs (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2005–2017
Confirmed
13 of 13 titles
Pages on record
3,517 in 11 of 13 books
Reading time
59–88 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,517 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Jack Coughlin is a retired United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who writes military thrillers and nonfiction. The catalogue opens with his autobiography, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper (2005), and runs to 13 books ending with In the Crosshairs (2017). The Kyle Swanson Sniper novels carry the fiction. Subjects across the catalogue include snipers, special operations, terrorism and the Iraq War.

How many Jack Coughlin books are there?

Jack Coughlin has 13 books, released between 2005 and 2017. 10 of them belong to the Kyle Swanson Sniper series.

Jack Coughlin Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Jack Coughlin books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper by Jack Coughlin (2005)
  2. Cover of Kill Zone by Jack Coughlin, book 1 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2007)
  3. Cover of Dead Shot by Jack Coughlin, book 2 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2009)
  4. Cover of Clean Kill by Jack Coughlin, book 3 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2010)
  5. Cover of An Act of Treason by Jack Coughlin, book 4 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2012)
  6. Cover of Running the Maze by Jack Coughlin, book 5 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2012)
  7. Cover of Time to Kill by Jack Coughlin, book 6 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2013)
  8. Cover of Shock Factor by Jack Coughlin, book 3 of the Jack Coughlin Non-Fiction series (2014)
  9. Cover of On Scope by Jack Coughlin, book 7 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2014)
  10. Cover of Night of the Cobra / One Hit by Jack Coughlin, book 8 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2015)
  11. Cover of Long Shot by Jack Coughlin, book 9 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2016)
  12. Cover of In the Crosshairs by Jack Coughlin, book 10 of the Kyle Swanson Sniper series (2017)
  1. 1
    Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine SniperJack Coughlin Non-Fiction #12005 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005320
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  2. 2
    Kill ZoneKyle Swanson Sniper #12007 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007320
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  3. 3
    Trigger MenJack Coughlin Non-Fiction #22008 · confirmed 3/4
    2008–
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  4. 4
    Dead ShotKyle Swanson Sniper #22009 · 309 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009309
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  5. 5
    Clean KillKyle Swanson Sniper #32010 · 315 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010315
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  6. 6
    An Act of TreasonKyle Swanson Sniper #42012 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012416
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  7. 7
    Running the MazeKyle Swanson Sniper #52012 · confirmed 3/4
    2012–
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  8. 8
    Time to KillKyle Swanson Sniper #62013 · 299 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013299
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  9. 9
    Shock FactorJack Coughlin Non-Fiction #32014 · 326 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014326
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  10. 10
    On ScopeKyle Swanson Sniper #72014 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014320
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  11. 11
    Night of the Cobra / One HitKyle Swanson Sniper #82015 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015304
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  12. 12
    Long ShotKyle Swanson Sniper #92016 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016294
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  13. 13
    In the CrosshairsKyle Swanson Sniper #102017 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017294
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Jack Coughlin characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Jack Coughlin books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Kyle Swanson Sniper in order

10 books
  1. 1. Kill Zone
  2. 2. Dead Shot
  3. 3. Clean Kill
  4. 4. An Act of Treason
  5. 5. Running the Maze
  6. 6. Time to Kill
  7. 7. On Scope
  8. 8. Night of the Cobra / One Hit
  9. 9. Long Shot
  10. 10. In the Crosshairs

Jack Coughlin Non-Fiction

3 books

3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Jack Coughlin books in order?

You only need to read Jack Coughlin books in order within the Kyle Swanson Sniper series, which holds 10 of the 13 Jack Coughlin books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jack Coughlin

Start with Kill Zone (2007), the first Kyle Swanson book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper (2005).

What is the newest Jack Coughlin book?

In the Crosshairs (2017) is the newest Jack Coughlin book released so far.

Is there a new Jack Coughlin book coming?

No next Jack Coughlin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Jack Coughlin at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Jack Coughlin title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Jack Coughlin books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,517 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 315 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jack Coughlin books, 9 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jack Coughlin books are about

11 of the 13 Jack Coughlin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: snipers is tagged on 9 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.