Jack Carr is a critically renowned American novelist known for his thriller novels. He is a former Navy SEAL who draws on his battle expertise to create his fiction.
Carr also led special operations teams in his previous job. He has held the positions of Troop Commander, Task Unit Commander, and Team Leader in the military.
Carr spent 20 years in Naval Special Warfare, rising through the ranks from SEAL sniper to a junior officer and Task Unit commander.
Carr served as an intelligence and communications expert and led teams in Afghanistan. He also conducted counterinsurgency actions in the Philippines and fought in Iraq.
Carr began a new career in the world of novel writing after retiring from the military in 2016. He works full-time as a writer and is immersed in the creation of stories and characters, including his popular series titled The Terminal List.
He has completed the first five books in the series, the first of which was published in 2018.
The Terminal List series focuses on James Reece, a former Navy SEAL whose platoon got ambushed on their last mission. He keeps himself safe by using his military training as he uncovers secrets that leave the whole world startled.
Carr has a wife and three children. They reside in Park City, Utah.
Jack Carr Books in order
The Terminal List
- The Terminal List (2018)
- True Believer (2019)
- Savage Son (2020)
- The Devil’s Hand (2021)
- In the Blood (2022)
- Seaside Danger (2015)
Similar authors
- Gray Man by Mark Greaney follows Court Gentry, He is a former CIA operative, now an internationally hired assassin. See Gray Man Books in Order.
- Christopher Reich’s Simon Riske follows a spy on different missions. When a gangster orchestrated the greatest heist in the history of Paris, he had to take action.
See also: Dewey Andreas’s Books in Order.
Most recommended books:
- Savage Son (Terminal List #3) (4.49 Goodreads score)
- The Devil’s Hand (Terminal List, #4) (4.44 Goodreads score)
- True Believer (Terminal List, #2) (4.35 Goodreads score)
- The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1) (4.25 Goodreads score)
Latest releases
James Reece, the hero who originally appeared in The Terminal List, returns to lead the series in The Blood, released on April 12th, 2022.
Movies based on the books
The Amazon series “The Terminal List” is based on the novel by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr. Navy SEAL James Reece is played by Chris Pratt. The show follows Reece’s pursuit of revenge after his whole unit gets ambushed on a mission.
Book summaries
The Terminal List (2018)
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.Now, with no family and free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he’s learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.
True Believer (2019)
When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe’s underground. The United States government has an asset who can turn the Iraqi against his masters: James Reece, the most-wanted domestic terrorist alive.After avenging the deaths of his family and team members, Reece emerges deep in the wilds of Mozambique, protected by the family of his estranged best friend and former SEAL Team member. When a series of events uncovers his whereabouts, the CIA recruits him, using a Presidential pardon for Reece and immunity for the friends who helped him in his mission of vengeance.Now a reluctant tool of the United States government, Reece travels the globe, targeting terrorist leaders, unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy that exposes a traitorous CIA officer, and uncovering a sinister assassination plot with worldwide repercussions.
Savage Son (2020)
Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets—a man intent on killing her.A traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground.Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings. Unbeknownst to them, the Russian mafia has set their sights on Reece in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The Devil’s Hand (2021)
A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary…but he’s also a man with a secret.Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth.Meanwhile, a young PhD student has gained access to a bioweapon thought to be confined to a classified military laboratory known only to a select number of officials. A second-generation agent, he has been assigned a mission that will bring his adopted homeland to its knees.
In the Blood (2022)
A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky.Over 6,000 miles away, former Navy SEAL James Reece watches the names and pictures of the victims on cable news. One face triggers a distant memory of a Mossad operative attached to the CIA years earlier in Iraq—a woman with ties to the intelligence services of two nations…a woman Reece thought he would never see again.
Seaside Danger (2015)
Mental illness is difficult to diagnose and it is even more difficult to predict: who, what, or where, it will strike next. In this story Michael is driven by ‘the voices’ that tell him what to do; with tragic consequences. He selects Brightlingsea at random and it becomes the place where story unfolds. He meets Lucy in the mental home and she unwittingly becomes his accomplice.The author has been involved with mental health for 20 years seeing friends suffering, and later after training as an advocate, making judgments as to whether a person is ready to re-join society. This same society that locked these patients up for life in years gone by, despite the fact that one in four of the population will suffer some form of mental distress in their lifetime. It is a fact that some extreme cases must be confined for life in places like Broadmoor.Brains are not like bones they cannot always be healed. Michael is such a man, rare, but it happens and the story explores the consequences.
