Jericho Quinn

About the Jericho Quinn series

Jericho Quinn is an Air Force OSI special agent, decorated pararescueman, and occasional off-the-books operative for a shadow unit inside the U.S. government, introduced by Marc Cameron in National Security (2011). Cameron, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service and former SWAT team leader, writes Quinn's world with the procedural specificity of someone who has actually worked the job — extraction routes, tradecraft, and weapons handling described with a technical confidence that sets the series apart from more generic thriller heroes. Quinn operates for a secretive presidential unit, called on for missions too politically sensitive for conventional forces, which frees the plots to range from domestic terror plots to global conspiracies involving Russia, North Korea, and beyond.

The series escalates steadily across ten entries — eight novels plus two shorter novellas, Dead Drop and The Triple Frontier — tracking Quinn from a lone-wolf field agent into a recurring cast that includes his half-sister, Air Force pilot Bo Quinn, and his frequent partner, Secret Service agent Jacques Thibodaux. Cameron kept the pace to roughly one book a year through the mid-2010s before shifting his primary attention to writing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan continuation novels starting in 2017; Field of Fire (2017) marked the point where the two series began running in parallel, and Active Measures (2019) is the most recent Quinn entry, with no further installment announced since.