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Kick Lannigan

by Chelsea Cain

The Kick Lannigan series by Chelsea Cain has 2 known books (2 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with One Kick (2014).

Books
2 known books (2 novels)
Published
2
First published
2014
Status
unknown
Shelved under
Thriller
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Start here: One Kick (2014) — then read straight through in publication order.

Book one

Cover of One Kick

One Kick (2014)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. One Kick

    Novel

    Chelsea Cain's One Kick (August 2014, published in the UK as Gone) runs 385 pages, introducing Kick Lannigan -- kidnapped at age six and held captive for five years -- as a wealthy, ethically murky former arms dealer recruits her adult self to help track down other missing children.

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  2. Kick Back

    Novel

    Kick Back continued the partnership the following year, in 2015, closing out a series Chelsea Cain cut short at two novels as she shifted toward comics work.

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About the Kick Lannigan series

Kick Lannigan was kidnapped at age six and held captive for five years before being rescued -- a childhood that left her a self-taught expert in fighting, weapons, and escape, and unable to settle into anything resembling a normal adult life. Chelsea Cain's second series opens with One Kick (2014, published in the UK as Gone), in which a wealthy, ethically murky former arms dealer named John Bishop recruits the adult Kick to help him track down other missing children, using the very expertise her own abduction forced her to develop. Kick Back (2015) continued the partnership.

Where Cain's earlier Archie Sheridan books were built around a police detective and the serial killer who once held him, this series inverts the relationship: Kick is the survivor turned pursuer, and Bishop's own motives and past remain genuinely uncertain across both books. The series was cut short at two novels; Cain shifted her energy toward comics work (Marvel's Mockingbird, Image's Man-Eaters) not long after Kick Back's release, and no third Kick Lannigan novel followed.

Frequently asked questions

How many Kick Lannigan books are there?

Two: One Kick (2014) and Kick Back (2015).

Is Gone the same book as One Kick?

Yes -- Gone is the UK title for the same 2014 novel published in the US as One Kick.

Is the Kick Lannigan series finished?

It appears to be -- no third book followed Kick Back (2015), and Chelsea Cain moved into comics work (Mockingbird, Man-Eaters) shortly after.

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