Simon Gervais Books in Order
Simon Gervais is a Canadian spy and action thriller author best known for the Mike Walton, Pierce Hunt, Clayton White, Caspian Anderson, and Chase Burke series. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked in the Canadian military, federal law enforcement, counterterrorism, and close protection, and that background influenced his next thrillers.
His books usually follow people who are familiar with the dangers their work brings. Some of them are assassins, federal agents, bodyguards, former soldiers, covert operators, and intelligence people who have already paid a price for doing their job. The stories are about the characters facing danger from terrorists and drug cartels, handle huge threats and go on secret missions, but they also show their personal lives, with their families, friendships, and their struggle to simply stay alive.
This page lists all Simon Gervais books in order, including the Mike Walton, Pierce Hunt, Clayton White, Caspian Anderson, Chase Burke, and Robert Ludlum’s Blackbriar books.
Latest Simon Gervais Books
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- The Marked Son (Chase Burke #2, November 2026)
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Where to Start with Simon Gervais
→ New to Simon Gervais and want his current main series? Start with The Elias Network, the first Caspian Anderson book, about a United Nations translator who is secretly an assassin.
→ Want a completed Gervais series with a strong bodyguard / political-thriller setup? Start with The Last Protector, the first Clayton White book.
→ Prefer cartel, DEA, and former Army Ranger books? Start with Hunt Them Down, the first Pierce Hunt book.
→ Want to read the author’s first books? Start with The Thin Black Line, the first Mike Walton thriller. Read A Long Gray Line after it as it is a novella set between the first two books.
→ Enjoy reading collaborations? Start with The Second Son, written with Ryan Steck, the first in the Chase Burke series.
Mike Walton Thriller Series (Books in Order)
The Mike Walton series follows covert counterterrorism officer Mike Walton and his wife Lisa, a medical doctor and counterterrorism expert, who after terrorism hits them directly at home, are recruited by the International Market Stabilization Institute, a private group working outside normal government channels to protect North American financial interests. This series is the closest to the author’s early background in counterterrorism and federal security work. The short series deals with plots that involve terrorism, economic threats, Russia, Iran, biological warfare, and the covert teams that are trying to stop these attacks before they even pop up on official radars.
- The Thin Black Line, 2015
- A Long Gray Line, 2016
- A Red Dotted Line, 2016
- A Thick Crimson Line, 2018
Pierce Hunt Thriller Series (Books in Order)
The Pierce Hunt series follows former Army Ranger and DEA agent Pierce Hunt, who, while working undercover against the Vicente Garcia crime syndicate, gets him involved with Anna Garcia, the cartel boss’s daughter. In the first book, when Hunt’s daughter and Anna’s niece are kidnapped, that old operation comes back to haunt him.
- Hunt Them Down, 2019
- Trained to Hunt, 2019
- Time to Hunt, 2020
Clayton White Series (Books in Order)
The Clayton White series follows former Air Force combat rescue officer and Secret Service agent Clayton White who, at first, is doing political escort work and trying to keep some kind of normal life with Veronica Hammond, an archaeologist who is also tied to one of the most powerful political families in the country. But things change soon when Clayton is pulled into dangerous situations involving mercenaries, assassinations, the vice president, the FBI, drug cartels, and the Red Dragon Triad. The books keep the national-security pressure close to Clayton’s personal life, especially through Veronica and the Hammond family.
- The Last Protector, 2021
- The Last Sentinel, 2022
- The Last Guardian, 2023
Robert Ludlum’s Blackbriar Series (Books in Order)
The Blackbriar Genesis is Simon Gervais’s contribution to Robert Ludlum’s Bourne / Treadstone world. It follows Blackbriar operatives Helen Jouvert and Donovan Wade after a Treadstone agent is killed in Prague and no one in command seems to know why he was there. See more on the Robert Ludlum Books in Order page.
- The Blackbriar Genesis, 2022
Caspian Anderson Series (Books in Order)
The Caspian Anderson series follows United Nations translator Caspian Anderson, who in private is an elite government assassin. For years, he works under the code name Elias for Onyx, a black program inside the Department of Homeland Security. At the same time, his girlfriend, Liesel Bergmann, also has her own secret life as a German spy, which puts the spy work right into the middle of Caspian and Liesel’s relationship. Both of them are trained to lie for a living, and now they have to decide what and how much they can tell each other.
- The Elias Network, 2024
- The Elias Enigma, 2025
- The Elias Conspiracy, 2026
Chase Burke Series (Books in Order)
The Chase Burke series follows former soldier Chase Burke, who has left military life behind and now lives a content life working as a sommelier. Things go wrong when his intelligence-analyst brother is killed during a covert operation and is branded a traitor. Soon after, a brutal attack at the restaurant where Chase works leaves the woman he is involved with, a congresswoman, fighting for her life. Now Chase has to team up with NYPD Detective Alice Doyle to try to clear his brother’s name and fight for keeping his secret lover safe.
Co-authored with Ryan Steck.
- The Second Son, 2025
- The Marked Son, 2026
Simon Gervais Biography
Simon Gervais is a Canadian thriller author who had his debut novel published in 2015.
Official website: simongervaisbooks.com.
He was born in Montreal, Québec. After leaving school, he joined the Canadian military as an infantry officer and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1997. He trained at the Infantry School in Gagetown, New Brunswick, where his work included advanced reconnaissance and small-unit tactics.
A few years later, in 2001, Simon became a federal agent after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) recruited him. He started his first job in Toronto, where he became a drug investigator, often working in collaboration with the DEA, his American counterpart. As such, he worked on several drug-related cases for the next three years, until in 2004, he began working in a counterterrorism group based in Ottawa.
Having spent nearly twenty years in the military and in law enforcement, Simon Gervais often traveled to European and Middle Eastern countries as part of his work-related deployment. He also worked as an air marshall, traveling to various parts of the world. During his time, he always had a cover story that anyone asking about his job was told. He would be a gambler, a writer, reporter, or anything else but what he actually was in his day job.
He again switched careers in 2009, when he took on an assignment to protect and guard foreign heads of state visiting Canada. Some of the leaders he worked with were Barack Obama, the Chinese president Hu Jintao, and Queen Elizabeth II. In 2012, he moved into counter-surveillance work, then returned to protection duties before retiring from law enforcement in September 2014.
His debut novel, The Thin Black Line, was published in 2015 and launched the Mike Walton series. He later moved to Thomas & Mercer to write the Pierce Hunt books, starting with Hunt Them Down in 2019, which was inspired by his work in Toronto as a drug investigation in conjunction with the DEA in the US. That series made him known to a wider audience. The series was followed by the Clayton White trilogy, the Caspian Anderson series, and the Chase Burke series, co-written with Ryan Steck.
Gervais was also chosen by G.P. Putnam’s Sons and the Robert Ludlum estate to write The Blackbriar Genesis, a thriller set inside the larger Ludlum / Bourne universe. His own series remain separate from each other, but they are all inspired by similar real-world cases in counterterrorism, protection work, covert operations, drug investigations, and the messy line between official duty and personal loyalty.
Simon Gervais is now a full-time writer and a member of International Thriller Writers. He divides his time between Ottawa, Miami, and The Bahamas with his wife and children. He is also a SCUBA diver, skier, and boating enthusiast.
Simon Gervais Book Adaptations
- Clayton White series – TV rights optioned by CBS Studios for development, with Jerry Bruckheimer as producer (2023)
- Pierce Hunt series – optioned by Sobini Films for development as a TV series (2024)
