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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1991
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Area 51: The Nightstalkers

1 - Nightstalkers (Dec-2012)
2 - The Book of Truths (Aug-2013)
3 - The Rift (Feb-2014)
4 - Time Patrol (Feb-2015)

Duty, Honor, Country

1 - West Point to Mexico // Duty (May-2014)
2 - Mexico to Sumter // Honor (May-2014)
3 - Sumter to Shiloh // Country (May-2014)

Green Berets

1 - Eyes of the Hammer (Jul-1991)
2 - Operation Dragon-Sim // Dragon Sim-13 (1992)
3 - Operation Synbat (Jan-1995)
4 - Cut Out (Jun-1995)
5 - Z (May-2011)
6 - Eternity Base (Apr-2012)

The Organization

1 - Shane and the Hitwoman (Jan-2021)

Shadow Warriors

1 - The Line (Nov-2013)
2 - The Gate (Jan-2014)
3 - Omega Missile (Oct-2011)
4 - Omega Sanction (Jan-2014)
5 - Section Eight (Mar-2012)

Will Kane

1 - New York Minute (Jun-2019)
2 - Lawyers, Guns and Money (Sep-2019)
3 - Walk on the Wild Side (Dec-2019)

Book List in Order: 41 titles



  • Exciting and authentic! Author Mayer, a Green Beret himself, gave me a vivid look at the world of the Army's Special Forces. His portrayal of Green Beret operations and techniques takes you deep into the world of Special Operations. W.E.B. Griffin. A...



  • IN THE HEART OF COMMUNIST CHINA...IN THE FIRE OF THE DRAGON ...U.S. SPECIAL FORCES ARE THERE...AND THEY'LL BREAK EVERY RULE TO BRING THEIR BROTHERS OUT ALIVE! SERGEANT DAVE RILEY: The wiry Green Beret team leader has the body of a middleweight pri...



  • When a top-secret Pentagon research program explodes in the hills of Tennessee and a team of mutant soldiers--the SYNBATS--is unleashed, Dave Riley and his special forces must hunt them down in a deadly game of ambushes. Reprint....



  • Green Beret Dave Riley returns in this taut thriller set in the shadowy world of the federal witness protection program.
    Riley and police detective Donna Giannini, are asked to protect a friend whose life is in danger, and find themselves ensnared...



  • Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life.
    First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Po...



  • Two West Point cadets are caught up in the historical events of the most significant era in United States history when the nation was torn apart by a Civil War.
    Lucius Rumble and Elijah Cord encounter war, political intrigue, personal tragedies a...



  • Another great military thriller from NY Times Best-Selling Author Bob Mayer. Reference Mayer’s Thrillers “Mayer had me hooked from the very first page.” Stephen Coonts “Exciting and authentic. Don’t miss this one!” W.E.B. Griffen “Fasci...



  • # 2 Nationally Bestselling eBook.
    The 4th of July 1826. As Thomas Jefferson lies dying, he gives his part of his Jefferson Cipher to Edgar Allen Poe, with instructions to take the disks to West Point. In Massachusetts, John Adams entrusts his part...



  • A nuclear holocaust is just a button away -- and someone’s about to push it.The secret -- the ultimate weapon, a missile that carries no warhead, just a doomsday system that can will launch every nuclear device in the US arsenal. No overrides. No c...






  • A present day Dirty Dozen.Captain Jim Vaughn is an officer in disgrace. Commanding a Special Forces mission to rescue hostages in the Philippines, Vaughn's team is destroyed, and when the smoke clears, he is made the scapegoat. Forced into the shadow...



  • Maverick federal employee Sammy Pintella, obsessed with uncovering the fate of her MIA father, makes a startling discovery while rifling through some inactive government files. A dozen, faded black and white photos seem to point to the existence of a...



  • What if the Apocalypse is something no one can imagine?As a massive object appears in space heading directly toward Earth, the Brotherhood heralds it as Wormwood, one of the signs of the Rapture and it’s just three days away. They have been prepari...



  • Assigned to escort SNN’s ace reporter Conner Young, who’s accompanying a US Army Special Forces A-team as part of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Angola, former Green Beret Dave Riley finds himself undertaking his most dangerous and thrilling ...



  • A different type of survival guide (one you can actually use): a practical step-by-step handbook for the average person, full of valuable information. It’s written using humor, personal experience and training, film & book examples, and real world ...



  • Staff Sergeant Winthrop Carter has just been drafted into the Nightstalkers -- an elite group of soldiers that... Actually, he’s not quite sure what they do. Born from the Area 51 initiative, the Nightstalkers defy sanity and decorum and in...



  • A Kidnapped boy. Extortion. The Russian Mob. And two former Green Berets. Nothing is ever as it appears.

    Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mother’s ashes were spr...



  • A little truth is a dangerous thing. A lot could kill us all. The Nightstalkers are back, and the world needs them now more than ever. When a real-life truth serum, an unauthorized military cabal, and the nuclear football -- which contains ...



  • They killed Patton when he opposed them. They’ve cowered Presidents into going to war. For more than half a century, a secret organization of Army officers known as The Line has been covertly manipulating US Policy. Now, in a political climate rife...



  • In the skies above, the planes were consumed by the fireball. Out at sea, the Russian Admiral in charge of the flotilla steaming for Hungnam at flank speed was left to wonder at the mushroom cloud that rose up over the shore.

    A deadly weapon, ...






  • The most frightening weapon ever invented can be unleashed by a single person. And now, they have chosen her.On the border between Croatia and Bosnia, a killer practices his art on UN Peacekeeping troops, leaving handless bodies displayed on crosses....



  • Ever since the first Rift opened in Area 51 in 1947, exposing the world to deadly beings of pure energy, only the Nightstalkers have stood between humanity and complete annihilation. But as the decades have gone by, whatever power controls the Rifts ...



  • We start with the battle at Palo Alto at the beginning of the Mexican War, percentage-wise, the bloodiest in U.S. History. While Grant and Rumble battle across Mexico, Cord is with Fremont and Kit Carson in the far west, fighting to bring California ...



  • In the vein of HBO’s Rome miniseries, two former West Point cadets, Lucius Rumble and Elijah Cord, are involved in the decisions at many of the major crossroads of our history as the Civil War erupts around them.They go from West Point, to Washingt...



  • Our story starts in 1840, in Benny Havens tavern, just outside post limits of the United States Military Academy. With William Tecumseh Sherman, Rumble, Cord, and Benny Havens’ daughter coming together in a crucible of honor and loyalty. And on pos...



  • Hidden deep beneath the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Time Patrol, a secret agency charged with protecting the world’s timeline from the evil forces who wish to alter it. When the Patrol disappears without a trace, only twelve short hours are l...



  • Place, time and family. Three things that shape individuals. Sometimes with love. Other times with violence.

    Former covert operative, Horace Chase, has just discovered he has a son; a son who fled the Military Institute of South Carolina a y...



  • "Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear Sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment...



  • When a mysterious force known only as the Shadow infiltrates history, it has a suspicious target: the date October 29 in six different years spanning 999 to 1980. The Time Patrol must send its highly skilled members into the past with only twenty-fou...



  • What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date; six different years. 44 BC. Caesar heads to the Senate for his date with death. 1493 AD: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after ‘discovering’ the New World. But mo...






  • 'If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive!' Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 3. What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date, 15 March, six different years. 44 BC. Caesar heads to the Senate for his date with death, desp...



  • 'The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.' Einstein. What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date, 4 July, six different years. The 4th of July, 1776 is one of the ...



  • 'He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the past.' Orwell. 1984.   On Nine-Eleven 9 A.D., three Roman legions are annihilated by an alliance of Germanic tribes; the Romans would never again attempt to ...



  • "We cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of." Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. For fans of Westworld and the possibilities of reality and humanity.Before there was just me now, there was ...



  • Quote: During the Los Angeles Coroner's Inquest, William Mulholland said, "this inquest is a very painful for me to have to attend but it is the occasion of that is painful. The only ones I envy about this whole thing are the ones who are dead." In l...



  • At the edge of the Solar System, beyond the Heliosphere, a massive warship comes out of Faster Than Light Transit. It is the Ancient Enemy spoken of in myths and legends. Do we deserve a Second Chance?Mike Turcotte, the Special Forces officer who led...



  • The last time former Green Beret Will Kane was involved in killing someone it made the cover of LIFE Magazine. First Blood meets the Equalizer Eight years later he’s getting pushed to the edge of that precipice he vowed never to go over again. ...



  • Who protects the sheep from the wolves? Another wolf.New York City. 1977. Ex-Green Beret William Kane has crossed the line he vowed never to: killing. But for every action there is a reaction and there are forces after him for revenge, chief among th...




  • Where did the Swarm come from? Who are the mysterious Tesla's who speak of the Ancients? Devastated by World War III, then an alien invasion coupled with Danse Macabre, a deadly virus attack, Earth is almost completely depopulated. The land is devast...






  • From the New York Times bestselling author of the Atlantis, Area 51, Green Beret and Nightstalker series comes a thrilling ride through history that has been called Quantum Leap on steroids! What does it take to change history and destroy our reality...



  • No one warned Shane or Agnes that it was going to be a red wedding. It’s eight months after the first, bloody, wedding at Two Rivers and things have calmed down and seven weddings have been hosted without a problem. But no longer. Bring on an ec...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bob Mayer has published 41 books.

Bob Mayer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shane and the Hitwoman, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Bob Mayer, Eyes of the Hammer, was published in July 1991.

Yes. Bob Mayer has 6 series.