Terry Harknett Reading Order

49 books (1974–1989)

Start with Bounty Hunter, the first of 49 books in the Adam Steele series.

#	Title
1	Bounty Hunter 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hell's Junction 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Violent Peace 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Gun Run 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Killing Art 1975Buy 🇺🇸
6	Valley of Blood 1975Buy 🇺🇸
7	Badge in the Dust 1976Buy 🇺🇸
8	Comanche Carnage 1976Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cross-Fire 1976Buy 🇺🇸
10	Lynch Town 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Losers 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	Bloody Border 1977Buy 🇺🇸
13	Death Trail 1977Buy 🇺🇸
14	Delta Duel 1977Buy 🇺🇸
15	River of Death 1977Buy 🇺🇸
16	Nightmare at Noon 1978Buy 🇺🇸
17	Satan's Daughters 1978Buy 🇺🇸
18	Fort Despair 1979Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Big Game 1979Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Hard Way 1979Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Tarnished Star 1979Buy 🇺🇸
22	Wagons East 1979Buy 🇺🇸
23	Wanted for Murder 1979Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhunt 1980Buy 🇺🇸
25	Steele's War: The Preacher 1980Buy 🇺🇸
26	Steele's War: The Woman 1980Buy 🇺🇸
27	Steele's War: The Storekeeper 1981Buy 🇺🇸
28	Steele's War: The Stranger 1981Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Big Prize 1981Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Cheaters 1982Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Killer Mountains 1982Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Wrong Man 1982Buy 🇺🇸
33	Stranger in a Strange Town 1983Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Runaway 1983Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Valley of the Shadow 1983Buy 🇺🇸
36	Hell Raisers 1984Buy 🇺🇸
37	Canyon of Death 1985Buy 🇺🇸
38	High Stakes 1985Buy 🇺🇸
39	Rough Justice 1985Buy 🇺🇸
40	Sunset Ride 1986Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Killing Strain 1986Buy 🇺🇸
42	Code of the West 1987Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Big Gunfight 1987Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Hunted 1987Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Outcasts 1987Buy 🇺🇸
46	Going Back 1988Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Return 1988Buy 🇺🇸
48	Trouble in Paradise 1988Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Long Shadow 1989Buy 🇺🇸

27 books (1974–1984)

Start with Knife in the Night, the first of 27 books in the Apache series.

#	Title
1	Knife in the Night 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The First Death 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death Train 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Duel to the Death 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fort Treachery 1975Buy 🇺🇸
6	Blood Line 1976Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sonora Slaughter 1976Buy 🇺🇸
8	All Blood is Red 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Blood on the Tracks 1977Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Naked and the Savage 1977Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fool's Gold 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Cruel Trail 1978Buy 🇺🇸
13	Blood Rising 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	Born to Die 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Man 1979Buy 🇺🇸
16	Blood Brother 1980Buy 🇺🇸
17	Slow Dying 1980Buy 🇺🇸
18	Texas Killing 1980Buy 🇺🇸
19	Blood Wedding 1981Buy 🇺🇸
20	Death Dragon 1981Buy 🇺🇸
21	Fast Living 1981Buy 🇺🇸
22	Border Killing 1982Buy 🇺🇸
23	Death Valley 1982Buy 🇺🇸
24	Death Ride 1983Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Hanging 1983Buy 🇺🇸
26	Times Past 1983Buy 🇺🇸
27	Debt of Blood 1984Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1974–1975)

Start with Macao Mayhem and read in order.

#	Title
1	Macao Mayhem 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sweet And Sour Kill 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bamboo Shoot-Out 1975Buy 🇺🇸

61 books (1972–1989)

Start with Apache Death, the first of 61 books in the Edge series.

#	Title
1	Apache Death 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood on Silver 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Killer's Breed 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ten Grand 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Loner 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	Black Vengeance 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bloody Summer 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	California Killing 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	Seven Out of Hell 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Blue, the Grey and the Red 1973Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Town Called Hate 1974Buy 🇺🇸
12	Big Gold 1974Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sioux Uprising 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Biggest Bounty 1974Buy 🇺🇸
15	Blood Run 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Final Shot 1975Buy 🇺🇸
17	Vengeance Valley 1975Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ashes and Dust 1976Buy 🇺🇸
19	Sullivan's Law 1976Buy 🇺🇸
20	Ten Tombstones to Texas 1976Buy 🇺🇸
21	Echoes of War 1977Buy 🇺🇸
22	Rhapsody in Red 1977Buy 🇺🇸
23	Slaughter Road 1977Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Day Democracy Died 1977Buy 🇺🇸
25	Death Drive 1978Buy 🇺🇸
26	Eve of Evil 1978Buy 🇺🇸
27	Savage Dawn 1978Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Living, the Dying and the Dead 1978Buy 🇺🇸
29	Violence Trail 1978Buy 🇺🇸
30	Red Fury 1979Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Frightened Gun 1979Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Guilty Ones 1979Buy 🇺🇸
33	Waiting for a Train 1979Buy 🇺🇸
34	A Ride in the Sun 1980Buy 🇺🇸
35	Death Deal 1980Buy 🇺🇸
36	Massacre Mission 1981Buy 🇺🇸
37	Town on Trial 1981Buy 🇺🇸
38	Vengeance at Ventura 1981Buy 🇺🇸
39	Montana Melodrama 1982Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Killing Claim 1982Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Prisoners 1982Buy 🇺🇸
42	Arapaho Revenge 1983Buy 🇺🇸
43	Bloody Sunrise 1983Buy 🇺🇸
44	House on the Range 1983Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Blind Side 1983Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Godforsaken 1984Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Moving Cage 1984Buy 🇺🇸
48	Revenge Ride 1985Buy 🇺🇸
49	School For Slaughter 1985Buy 🇺🇸
50	Shadow of the Gallows 1985Buy 🇺🇸
51	A Time For Killing 1986Buy 🇺🇸
52	Brutal Border 1986Buy 🇺🇸
53	Backshot 1987Buy 🇺🇸
54	Doom Town 1987Buy 🇺🇸
55	Hitting Paydirt 1987Buy 🇺🇸
56	Uneasy Riders 1987Buy 🇺🇸
57	Dying is for Ever 1988Buy 🇺🇸
58	Terror Town 1988Buy 🇺🇸
59	The Desperadoes 1988Buy 🇺🇸
60	The Breed Woman 1989Buy 🇺🇸
61	The Rifle 1989Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1980–1982)

Start with Two of a Kind and read in order.

6 books (2011–2012)

Start with Killing Time In Eternity, the first of 6 books in the Edge: The Return series.

4 books (1970–1973)

Start with Stopover for Murder, the first of 4 books in the Fortune series.

#	Title
1	Stopover for Murder 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dead Set 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	One Horse Race 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	Black Death 1973Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1972–1975)

Start with The Balearic Islands and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Balearic Islands 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Caribbean 1975Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1965–1974)

Start with Once a Copper, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Once a Copper 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Protectors 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	W. I. T. C. H(As: Jane Harman) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	Promotion Tour 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	Squeeze play 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hero(With: Peter Haining) 1974Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1962–1973)

Start with The Scratch on the Surface, the first of 7 books in the Steve Wayne series.

#	Title
1	The Scratch on the Surface 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dead Little Rich Girl 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Invitation to a Funeral 1963Buy 🇺🇸
4	Death of an aunt 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Two-Way Frame 1967Buy 🇺🇸
6	Softcover Kill 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	Upmarket Affair 1973Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1981–2015)

Start with Black as Death, the first of 6 books in the Undertaker series.