David Hagberg

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1980
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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About the Author

David Hagberg has written more than a dozen novels of suspense, which now have over three million copies in print worldwide. He has been nominated for three Edgars and the American Book Award, and won the American Award for Countdown -"a red-hot suspense thriller that will curl your hair" - Stephen Coonts. He has travelled extensively in Europe, the Caribbean, and the Arctic, and makes his home in Duluth, Minnesota.

Full Series List in Order

Flash Gordon

2 - War of the Citadels (Oct-1980)
3 - Crisis on Citadel II (Dec-1980)
4 - Forces from the Federation (Jan-1981)
6 - Citadels on Earth (Jul-1981)

Kirk McGarvey

1 - Without Honor (Jun-1997)
2 - Countdown (May-1990)
3 - Crossfire (May-1991)
4 - Critical Mass (Jun-1992)
5 - High Flight (Aug-1995)
6 - Assassin (May-1997)
7 - White House (Aug-1999)
8 - Joshua's Hammer (Jun-2000)
9 - The Kill Zone (Oct-2002)
10 - Soldier of God (Nov-2005)
11 - Allah's Scorpion (Feb-2007)
12 - Dance with the Dragon (Sep-2007)
13 - The Expediter (Mar-2009)
14 - The Cabal (Jul-2010)
15 - Abyss (Jul-2011)
16 - Castro's Daughter (Jul-2012)
16.5 - Breaking Point: A Novella (Jul-2013)
17 - Blood Pact (Mar-2014)
18 - Retribution (Jan-2015)
18.5 - The Shadowmen: A Novella (Jan-2016)
19 - The Fourth Horseman (Feb-2016)
19.5 - 24 Hours: A Novella (Jul-2016)
20 - End Game (Sep-2016)
21 - Tower Down (May-2017)
22 - Flash Points (Apr-2018)
23 - Face Off (Oct-2018)
24 - First Kill (May-2019)
25 - McGarvey: The World's Most Dangerous Assassin (Nov-2020)
26 - Gambit (May-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

Flash Gordon

War of the Citadels (Oct-1980)
Crisis on Citadel II (Dec-1980)
Forces from the Federation (Jan-1981)
Citadels on Earth (Jul-1981)

Terminator 3

Rise of the Machines (Jul-2003)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • War of the Citadels

    Flash Gordon - 2
    Flash Gordon

  • Crisis on Citadel II

    Flash Gordon - 3
    Flash Gordon

  • Forces from the Federation

    Flash Gordon - 4
    Flash Gordon

  • Citadels on Earth

    Flash Gordon - 6
    Flash Gordon

  • Heartland

    One Country--One Crop--Feeds The World.American grain.The Soviet Union means to change that.The Russians understand,as America does not,that control of the world's grain meanscontrol of the world.Only young, fast-rising tycoon,Kenneth Newman,stands b...

  • Heroes

    Three men came to Berlin, pounded from the air by Allied bombers, under siege by Russian armies.Three men, with loyalties enmeshed in a web of fear and deception.Three men whose courage would be tempered in the harsh forge of duty, as each would risk...

  • Last Come the Children

    Frank Rader was dead. But suddenly, he recovered. It was time to celebrate. A Halloween party in the Rader's rec room would be just right -- cheerful, harmless fun with a group of good friends. Of course, the party had nothing to do with the gr...

  • Countdown

    Kirk McGarvey - 2

    A high-tension espionage thriller as gripping as Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal, or Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October.A Soviet Agent is found dead inside an Israeli nuclear weapons stockpile so secret the United States doesn't know it ...

  • Crossfire

    Kirk McGarvey - 3

    Russia is in turmoil. As liberals struggle to hold power, the hard-liners in the KGB decide to fund themselves. They will hijack a vital US gold shipment. The first step will be to frame Kirk McGarvey for the bombing of the CIA's Paris headquarters.....



  • Critical Mass

    Kirk McGarvey - 4

    Kirk McGarvey--one-time CIA assassin--dreams of a peaceful life and marital bliss. One man will change all that. In 1945, Isawa Nakaruma lost his mother and father at Hiroshima, his wife and child at Nagasaki, and has been planning years to wreak his...

  • Desert Fire

    Joseph Assad-Sherif is one of the world's most dangerous assassins. Known as Saddam Hussein's "Jackal," his bloody hit list includes the 1972 Israeli Olympic athletes, the South Yemen cabinet, and the 20,000 slaughtered citizens of Hamma, Syria. Now ...

  • High Flight

    Kirk McGarvey - 5

    David Hagberg's High Flight is an espionage thriller featuring secret agents and high-stakes international political intrigue First electronics. Then automobiles. Now the Japanese are ready to strike at our largest industrial export--airplanes. Intri...

  • Assassin

    Kirk McGarvey - 6

    Yevgenni Anatolevich Tarankov, known as the tarantula, is out to turn back the clock in the new Russia and return to the good old days of communism. Ex-CIA officer Kirk McGarvey knows that any chance for Russian democracy rests on his sholders--and o...

  • Without Honor

    Kirk McGarvey - 1

    Former CIA agent Kirk McGarvey is living in Lausanne with his girlfriend when a couple of top operatives from "the Company" show up. They desperately need his help as the Russians are up to something and it seems there may be a mole in the upper lev...

  • White House

    Kirk McGarvey - 7

    On American soil, a terrorist bomb explodes at a Georgetown restaurant, killing CIA operative Kirk MGarvey's girlfriend and wounding his daughter. Now Mcgarvey seeks vengeance while at the same time struggling with the growing crisis in the Far East ...

  • Joshua's Hammer

    Kirk McGarvey - 8

    When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolitions bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's bas...

  • Eden's Gate

    A wall has gone up and come down since the end of the Second World War, and Germany is once again united. As Berlin rebuilds, the German authorities ask the U.S. for help. Ex-Stasi Captain Helmut Speyer is wanted in his homeland for crimes committed ...

  • The Kill Zone

    Kirk McGarvey - 9

    From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua's HammerThe President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmin...

  • Rise of the Machines

    Terminator 3

    A novel by David HagbergBased on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael FerrisThe novel of the blockbuster hit filmFor two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starr...



  • By Dawn's Early Light

    From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua's Hammer and High FlightOn the Bay of Bengal a civilian research vessel witnesses a submarine fire a laser into the sky. Before they can process what they see, the sub blasts them out of the water and c...

  • Call to Arms

    Stephen Coonts asks what happens when you load a Catalina flying boat with five tons of bombs, a half dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a line between valor and suicide. In the Pacific Theater of war, the Japanese Navy is about to discover th...

  • Soldier of God

    Kirk McGarvey - 10

    INCLUDES A SNEAK PEAK OF DAVID HAGBERG'S TIMELY AND TERRIFYING NEW KIRK MCGARVEY THRILLER, THE ABYSS, AVAILABLE IN JUNE!"My dearest mother," the letter from the young Saudi Arabian suicide bomber begins, as have so many before it. "The day of joy wil...

  • Allah's Scorpion

    Kirk McGarvey - 11

    A swarm of terrorist activity has put the United States on its most heightened alert level since September 11, 2001 Investigations into each of these seemingly unrelated acts uncover the same cryptic codeword: Allah's Scorpion. Former CIA Director K...

  • Dance with the Dragon

    Kirk McGarvey - 12

    The CIA is on edge. All signs indicate that something is coming at the United States. Perhaps another 9/11, maybe bigger. The body of CIA agent Louis Updegraf ends up on the steps of the US Embassy in Mexico. His last operation was to tap into the c...

  • The Expediter

    Kirk McGarvey - 13

    A Chinese general has been murdered by assassins wearing the uniforms of North Korean police officers. Though Kim Jong II denies any knowledge of the shooting, the Chinese prepare to attack. In response, the Korean dictator vows to plunge the entire...

  • Burned

    Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal which has gone bad--when it suddenly turns nightmarish. Shooting David and kidnapping Patty, their Russian business partners drive her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Mo...

  • The Cabal

    Kirk McGarvey - 14

    In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking m...

  • Abyss

    Kirk McGarvey - 15

    It's a pleasant summer afternoon in the Gulf Stream, twenty-five miles off Hutchinson Island on Florida's east coast. NOAA scientist Dr. Eve Larsen is about to prove she has the answers to global warming, and the solution to stopping killer storms ac...

  • Castro's Daughter

    Kirk McGarvey - 16

    Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Direc...



  • Breaking Point: A Novella

    Kirk McGarvey - 16.5

    David Hagberg brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the CIA director becomes entangled in the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. When a revolutionary leader is rescued from a Chinese prison, the Chinese government pushes the Unit...

  • The Capsule

    An investigative reporter, a beautiful young journalist, and United States and Soviet intelligence forces must race to find a dangerous secret weapon -- a mysterious capsule with the power to change the course of world history. ...

  • V5

    An original, thrilling tale of World War II. ...

  • Blood Pact

    Kirk McGarvey - 17

    David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues with a deadly mission to find a long-lost treasure map in Blood Pact. A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century w...

  • Retribution

    Kirk McGarvey - 18

    David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues in Retribution, with a deadly mission to take down a monstrous serial killer On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound ...

  • The Shadowmen: A Novella

    Kirk McGarvey - 18.5

    Former director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey is no stranger to dangerous encounters. Early in his career, he came up against the Soviet Union's deadliest agent three times, finally killing the man in a flooded tunnel beneath the ruins of a castle in Port...

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Kirk McGarvey - 19

    Pakistan is torn apart by riots in the streets. The CIA sends Pakistan expert David Haaris to meet with leaders of the military intelligence apparatus which all but controls the country, to try to head off what appears to be the disintegration of the...

  • 24 Hours: A Novella

    Kirk McGarvey - 19.5

    Only Kirk McGarvey can save the President's daughter from execution at the hands of terrorists in David Hagberg's breathless thriller novella, 24 Hours. Featuring a special sneak peak at the new McGarvey novel, End Game!The seventeen-year-old daughte...

  • End Game

    Kirk McGarvey - 20

    Retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey faces the most formidable adversary of his long and storied career in End Game by David Hagberg. Langley is experiencing a series of gruesome murders. The CIA’s own headquarters should be the safest spot on the...

  • Tower Down

    Kirk McGarvey - 21

    New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg continues his successful Kirk McGarvey series in Tower Down, a searing thriller about terrorist attacks on NYC's pencil towers. A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, “the Eagle,” topples a Ne...



  • Flash Points

    Kirk McGarvey - 22

    David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues in Flash Points, the action-packed thriller about a plot to lead a president towards impeachment Retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is taking a much needed break. Then a bom...

  • Face Off

    Kirk McGarvey - 23

    New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg's acclaimed Kirk McGarvey series continues with another compelling and timely thriller in Face Off. Kirk McGarvey is lunching in the Eiffel Tower when terrorists attempt to bring the Paris icon down...

  • First Kill

    Kirk McGarvey - 24

    Renowned thriller writer David Hagberg continues his New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series with this riveting origin story for the CIA assassin in First Kill.

    It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer...

  • McGarvey: The World's Most Dangerous Assassin

    Kirk McGarvey - 25

    “The grand master of the contemporary thriller.” -- Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author When Kirk McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents so many years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head t...

  • Gambit

    Kirk McGarvey - 26

    The next Kirk McGarvey novel, Gambit, is an international thriller with non-stop action, perfect for fans of Jason Bourne.“If you like thrillers full of international intrigue, Hagberg is a major find.” -- Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling...

  • Traitor

    Traitor is the final, explosive adventure in the thrilling Kirk McGarvey series from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg--perfect for fans of Jason Bourne!When McGarvey’s best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Pet...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Hagberg has published 45 books.

David Hagberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Traitor, was published in May 2022.

The first book by David Hagberg, War of the Citadels, was published in October 1980.

Yes. David Hagberg has 2 series.
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