Dead Man Switch
- Published
- 21 March 2017
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780316259231
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Man Switch followed almost exactly a year later, in March 2017, at a shorter 312 pages, sending Hayes into a deep-cover mission gone wrong as he hunts a mole inside his own former special-operations community.
Key facts about Dead Man Switch
Dead Man Switch is a novel by Matthew Quirk. Readers have had it since 21 March 2017. It runs to 312 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Dead Man Switch. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316259231 to find the main one.
Dead Man Switch is book 2 of 2 in the John Hayes series. The series has 2 published books. However, the series starts with Cold Barrel Zero (2016). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
Additionally, Matthew Quirk writes Mike Ford as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Method is the latest published Matthew Quirk book on file, from 20 January 2026.
About Matthew Quirk
Matthew Quirk is an American thriller writer who studied history and literature at Harvard College before spending five years as a staff writer for The Atlantic, reporting on crime, private military contractors, the opium trade, terrorism prosecutions and international gangs -- reporting that gave him the institutional and security-world detail he has drawn on across his fiction since. See every Matthew Quirk book in order.
Its place in John Hayes
Dead Man Switch is book 2 in the John Hayes series. It follows Cold Barrel Zero. See the full John Hayes reading order.
John Hayes is a former Marine Special Operations officer whose skills at extraction and evasion put him at the center of Quirk's second series. Cold Barrel Zero opens with Hayes framed for a domestic terror attack he didn't commit, forcing him to go on the run to clear his name while uncovering the real conspiracy behind the attack; Dead Man Switch follows him into a deep-cover mission gone wrong, hunting a mole inside his own former special-operations community. As in Quirk's other work, the series is built on…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316259231
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316259224