Tyler Locke

About the Tyler Locke series

Tyler Locke is a structural engineer and former Army combat engineer whose technical expertise — reading blueprints, understanding how buildings and machines actually fail — drives the puzzle-solving at the center of Boyd Morrison's adventure series, introduced in The Ark (2010, published in the UK as The Noah's Ark Quest). Morrison, who holds a real doctorate in industrial engineering, built the character and the series' set pieces around genuine engineering problems rather than generic action-hero competence, giving the books a Clive Cussler-adjacent flavor that made Morrison a natural fit for the Oregon Files collaboration he later joined.

Each novel pairs a historical mystery — Noah's Ark, the lost treasure behind an ancient legend, the Roswell UFO incident, the Loch Ness monster — with a present-day conspiracy that Locke and his team, including engineer Grant Westfield and Gordian Engineering colleague Stacy Benedict, have to unravel before a well-funded villain gets there first. The four novels ran from 2010 to 2013, after which Morrison's attention shifted toward the Cussler-adjacent Oregon Files series (from 2015) and, later, his own Tales of the Lawless Land historical fiction with his sister Beth Morrison. No fifth Tyler Locke novel has followed since The Loch Ness Legacy (2013).