The Outside Man
- Published
- 2 March 2021
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781984805140
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Outside Man, published in 2021 at 400 pages, is the second Matt Drake novel, sending the DIA operative through the Middle East against an escalating cast of state and non-state threats. It continues the ongoing storyline and cast Don Bentley established in Without Sanction the year before.
Key facts about The Outside Man
Don Bentley wrote The Outside Man, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2 March 2021. The book has 400 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781984805140 to find the main one.
The Outside Man is book 2 of 4 in the Matt Drake series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Without Sanction (2020). Forgotten War is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 2 May 2023.
Additionally, Don Bentley writes Jack Ryan and Mitch Rapp as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and military thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Denied Access is the latest published Don Bentley book on file, from 30 September 2025.
About Don Bentley
Don Bentley is an American thriller writer and former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot and FBI special agent whose military and law-enforcement background directly informs his fiction. See every Don Bentley book in order.
Its place in Matt Drake
The Outside Man is book 2 in the Matt Drake series. It follows Without Sanction. It is followed by Hostile Intent. See the full Matt Drake reading order.
Before Don Bentley took over Mitch Rapp and started co-writing Jack Ryan, he launched his own hero: Matt Drake, a Defense Intelligence Agency operative and former Army pilot whose missions read with the technical precision you'd expect from an author who actually flew Apache helicopters and worked FBI counterintelligence before writing fiction. Without Sanction (2020) drops Drake into a hostage rescue in Afghanistan that spirals into a much larger conspiracy; The Outside Man (2021), Hostile Intent (2022) and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781984805140