Jim DeFelice Books in Order
Jim DeFelice has written 33 books, published between 1992 and 2022. The first book is Coyote Bird (1992) and the newest is Swords of Lightning: Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11 (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 33
- Published
- 1992–2022
- Pages on record
- 7,241 in 20 of 33 books
- Reading time
- 121–181 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,241 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 33 titles with a page count on record.
Jim DeFelice writes military thrillers and military non-fiction. The HOGS series covers air combat in the first Gulf War, Jake Gibbs: Patriot Spy works in the American Revolution, and FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher carries the contemporary espionage line. Coyote Bird (1992) opens a catalogue of 33 titles that reaches Swords of Lightning: Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11 in 2022. Navy SEALs, the Iraq War and biography appear among the listed subjects, at a median of 354 pages.
How many Jim DeFelice books are there?
Jim DeFelice has 33 books, released between 1992 and 2022. They include 3 series and 20 titles listed outside any series.
Jim DeFelice Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 33 Jim DeFelice 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.
- 1Coyote Bird1992 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/419923522/4
- 2War Breaker1993 · 389 pages · confirmed 2/419933892/4
- 319953062/4
- 419953142/4
- 519963422/4
- 6Havana Strike1997 · 392 pages · confirmed 2/419973922/4
- 7Kill Grandma For Me1998 · 302 pages · confirmed 2/419983022/4
- 8The Sixth Sense1999 · confirmed 2/41999–2/4
- 9Brother's Keeper2000 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/420003902/4
- 1020033712/4
- 11Negotiate and Win2004 · 185 pages · confirmed 2/420041852/4
- 1220053732/4
- 13Leopards Kill2007 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420073842/4
- 14Rangers at Dieppe2008 · confirmed 2/42008–2/4
- 15Omar Bradley: General at War2011 · 451 pages · confirmed 2/420114512/4
- 16American Sniper2012 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/420124482/4
- 172012–2/4
- 18Wolf Flight2012 · confirmed 2/42012–2/4
- 192012–2/4
- 2020125782/4
- 212013–2/4
- 222013–2/4
- 232013–2/4
- 242013–2/4
- 252014–2/4
- 26Code Name: Johnny Walker2014 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/420142852/4
- 27American Wife2015 · 334 pages · confirmed 2/420153342/4
- 28West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express2018 · 357 pages · confirmed 2/420183572/4
- 29American Spirit2019 · confirmed 2/42019–2/4
- 30Every Man a Hero2019 · confirmed 2/42019–2/4
- 31Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper's Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
- 32They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit2021 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420213362/4
- 33Swords of Lightning: Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/112022 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420223522/4
Jim DeFelice 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.
HOGS: First Gulf War Air Combat in order
5 books- 1. Going Deep
- 2. Hog Down
- 3. Fort Apache
- 4. Snake Eaters
- 5. Death Wish
Jake Gibbs: Patriot Spy in order
3 booksFBI Special Agent Andy Fisher in order
3 booksHOGS Short Stories
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
20 books20 Jim DeFelice titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jim DeFelice books in order?
You only need to read Jim DeFelice books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Jim DeFelice
Start with Coyote Bird (1992), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jim DeFelice book?
Swords of Lightning: Green Beret Horse Soldiers and America's Response to 9/11 (2022) is the newest Jim DeFelice book released so far.
Is there a new Jim DeFelice book coming?
No next Jim DeFelice book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jim DeFelice at a glance
- Paused
- No new Jim DeFelice title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Jim DeFelice books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 7,241 pages across the 20 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 354 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jim DeFelice books, 16 of 33, were published in the 2010s.
What the Jim DeFelice books are about
20 of the 33 Jim DeFelice books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 5 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 5 of 20 books
- Historical fiction 3 of 20 books
- Espionage 3 of 20 books
- United States 3 of 20 books
- United States. Navy. SEALs 3 of 20 books
- Biography 2 of 20 books
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 2 of 20 books
- Thrillers 2 of 20 books
- United states, navy, biography 2 of 20 books