Below is the complete list of Nelson DeMille’s Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor books in publication order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor Books in Publication Order
with Alex DeMille
- The Deserter (2019)
- Blood Lines (2023)
- The Tin Men (2025)
About Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor
The Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor books occupy a distinctive place in the Nelson DeMille bibliography because they belong to his late career and also to a direct father-son collaboration with Alex DeMille. Official series listings treat them as a connected thriller line beginning with The Deserter, continuing with Blood Lines, and then The Tin Men. That three-book structure matters, because this is not a loose grouping of military suspense novels with the same names attached. It is a true recurring series built around two Army Criminal Investigation agents whose working partnership, professional friction, and shared cases form the core of the books.
Scott Brodie is the more immediately recognizable DeMille-style lead: confident, sharp-tongued, experienced, and willing to cut across formal niceties when the situation demands it. Maggie Taylor balances that energy in a way that keeps the series from becoming a one-man performance. Together, they create a different kind of rhythm from the older DeMille books. These are still broad, high-stakes commercial thrillers, but the paired structure matters. Brodie brings swagger and irreverence; Taylor brings discipline, intelligence, and a steadier counterweight. The books work because they are not simply military investigations driven by plot. They are also about the interaction between two strong professionals inside dangerous, politically sensitive cases.
Publication order is the best way to read the series because the relationship between Brodie and Taylor develops across the books, and the official descriptions themselves frame each novel as a continuation of their ongoing work together. The Deserter establishes the series in a military-pursuit mode, sending Brodie after a rogue ex–Delta Force operative and introducing the harder-edged, globally mobile tone of the sequence. Blood Lines then reunites Brodie and Taylor in Europe for an investigation that expands the series into counterterrorism territory. The Tin Men continues that progression, placing them in a top-secret Army environment and pushing the books further into military suspense shaped by new technology, secrecy, and institutional risk. Read in sequence, the escalation feels natural. You are not just moving from case to case, but watching the series widen its sense of threat.
What makes these novels especially interesting within the larger DeMille canon is how they combine familiar strengths with a slightly different generational energy. The voice is still recognizably tied to the DeMille thriller tradition: smart dialogue, large-scale settings, military and political tension, and protagonists who do not approach danger quietly. But the collaboration with Alex DeMille gives the series a somewhat newer frame, especially in the way the books engage with contemporary military operations and, by the third novel, more overtly modern technological anxieties. These are not attempts to imitate the John Corey books. They are closer to military-investigative thrillers, with a stronger two-lead structure and a more explicitly collaborative series identity.
For readers who already have the list above, the most useful way to think about Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor is as a compact modern DeMille sequence that rewards reading in order because it is built on continuity of partnership as much as continuity of plot. There are only three books so far, which gives the series a tighter shape than the longer DeMille lines, but that compactness works in its favor. It feels deliberate rather than sprawling. Read from The Deserter forward, the books show a late-career expansion of the DeMille thriller world into a co-authored military-investigative series with its own identity, its own pace, and a central duo strong enough to carry the whole thing.