Myke Cole Books in Order

Myke Cole has written 15 books, published between 2002 and 2024. The first book is Car Trouble (2002) and the newest is Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2002–2024
Confirmed
1 of 15 titles
Pages on record
3,329 in 11 of 15 books
Reading time
55–83 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,329 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Myke Cole, author

Fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction make up the output of Myke Cole, an American author. The debut novel, Shadow Ops: Control Point, received the 2013 Compton Crook Award. Cole has also worked in television, appearing on the CBS reality show Hunted and the Discovery Channel series Contact. Listed series include Shadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy and Sacred Throne. Fortress Frontier (2013), Gemini Cell (2015), The Armored Saint (2018), The Killing Light (2019) and Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England (2024) appear in the catalogue.

How many Myke Cole books are there?

Myke Cole has 15 books, released between 2002 and 2024. They include 4 series and 4 titles listed outside any series.

Myke Cole Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Myke Cole 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. 1
    Car TroubleWildsidhe Chronicles #12002 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002112
  2. 2
    Control PointShadow Ops #12012 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012400
  3. 3
    Fortress FrontierShadow Ops #22013 · 353 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013353
  4. 4
    Breach ZoneShadow Ops #32014 · 370 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014370
  5. 5
    Gemini CellShadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy #12015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015
  6. 6
    Javelin RainShadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy #22016 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016352
  7. 7
    Siege LineShadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy #32017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017
  8. 8
    The Armored SaintSacred Throne #12018 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018208
  9. 9
    The Queen of CrowsSacred Throne #22018 · 254 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018254
  10. 10
    Legion versus PhalanxGeneral Military #592018 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018288
  11. 11
    The Killing LightSacred Throne #32019 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019240
  12. 12
    Sixteenth Watch2020 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020432
  13. 13
    The Bronze Lie2021 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021320
  14. 142024
  15. 152024

Myke Cole 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.

Shadow Ops in order

3 books
  1. 1. Control Point
  2. 2. Fortress Frontier
  3. 3. Breach Zone

Shadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Gemini Cell
  2. 2. Javelin Rain
  3. 3. Siege Line

Sacred Throne in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Armored Saint
  2. 2. The Queen of Crows
  3. 3. The Killing Light

Wildsidhe Chronicles in order

1 book
  1. 1. Car Trouble

General Military in order

1 book
  1. 59. Legion versus Phalanx

Standalone books

4 books

4 Myke Cole titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Myke Cole books in order?

You only need to read Myke Cole books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Myke Cole

Start with Car Trouble (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Myke Cole book?

Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England (2024) is the newest Myke Cole book released so far.

Is there a new Myke Cole book coming?

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

Myke Cole at a glance

Still publishing
Myke Cole published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Myke Cole books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,329 pages across the 11 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Myke Cole books, 10 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Myke Cole books are about

12 of the 15 Myke Cole books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy is tagged on 8 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.