Below is the complete list of Simon Gervais’ Pierce Hunt books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Pierce Hunt Books
About Pierce Hunt
Simon Gervais’s Pierce Hunt trilogy follows a former Army Ranger and DEA agent whose professional war against organized crime becomes inseparable from his responsibilities as a father. The novels combine cartel violence, covert intelligence operations, political betrayal, and international pursuit, but their most persistent tension comes from Hunt’s divided loyalties. He is trained to act decisively against dangerous people, yet the people closest to him are repeatedly entangled with the criminal world he has sworn to fight.
Before the series begins, Hunt infiltrated the Vicente Garcia crime syndicate. The operation succeeded professionally but left lasting personal damage: he fell in love with Vicente’s daughter, Anna Garcia, then broke her trust by helping bring her father to justice. Anna understands the cartel from within and later assumes a position of considerable authority, making her both an invaluable ally and a source of moral uncertainty. Hunt knows that she is capable of operating beyond the law, but he also recognizes qualities in her that cannot be reconciled with the simplistic image of a cartel leader.
Hunt Them Down forces the former lovers back together after a rival Mexican cartel murders Vicente Garcia and kidnaps Anna’s niece along with Hunt’s teenage daughter, Leila. The rescue becomes more than a law-enforcement operation. Hunt must work outside official restrictions, cooperate with the woman he betrayed, and recover the violent instincts he attempted to leave behind after his military service. Family, vengeance, and professional duty collide as the mission moves from Miami into Mexico and exposes conflict within the Garcia organization itself.
Leila gives the series a strong emotional continuity. Hunt’s choices are shaped by his desire to protect her, but the danger surrounding his career makes ordinary fatherhood nearly impossible. She is not untouched once an immediate crisis ends; fear, grief, and the consequences of violence remain part of the family’s life. Hunt’s difficulty lies in accepting that eliminating an enemy cannot automatically restore what that enemy damaged.
In Trained to Hunt, he considers joining a CIA hunter-killer team, a decision that would return him to covert service while taking him away from Leila. A lethal performance-enhancing drug kills four football players, including her boyfriend, and Anna becomes the leading suspect. Hunt refuses to accept the evidence at face value, placing his faith in a woman whose criminal position makes her difficult to defend. The investigation expands the series beyond conventional cartel warfare into pharmaceutical manipulation, trafficking networks, and enemies able to exploit both legitimate institutions and organized crime.
Time to Hunt moves the action into Europe and places greater pressure on Hunt’s relationship with the intelligence community. The CIA asks him to locate a missing operative and friend, leading him to Switzerland in pursuit of Jorge Ramirez, a man believed to possess information threatening American national security. When Hunt’s team is attacked, evidence of betrayal inside the operation leaves him uncertain whether the mission itself has been constructed around a lie.
The trilogy is best read in publication order because Hunt’s personal and professional position changes across the books. He moves from suspended DEA agent to a man drawn toward deniable intelligence work, while his relationships with Leila and Anna carry the consequences of earlier violence. Each novel presents a distinct threat, but trust remains the connecting problem: trust between parent and child, former lovers, field operatives, and agencies that demand obedience while withholding essential truths.
Gervais writes Hunt as a formidable operator without making competence a solution to every conflict. He can track criminals, survive ambushes, and dismantle violent organizations, but he cannot control what his work does to the people around him. That tension gives the series its identity, turning three fast-moving international thrillers into a compact story about a man whose instinct to protect his family repeatedly draws danger back to their door.