David Morrell is a Canadian-American author of thriller novels. He is best known for his First Blood novels featuring Rambo, which were adapted into the film series starring Sylvester Stallone. Morrell has been trained in firearms, hostage negotiation, assuming identities and several other skills that are often written about in his fiction. His novels have been translated into nearly 30 languages.

David Morrell made his debut as a novelist in 1972 with First Blood, which was adapted into the film of the same name. Below is a list of David Morrell’s books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of Rambo: First Blood Books

First Blood (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rambo III (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Mortalis Books

The Brotherhood of the Rose (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fraternity Of The Stone (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The League of Night and Fog (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Cavanaugh Books

The Protector (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Naked Edge (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Attitude Adjuster (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Frank Balenger Books

Publication Order of Thomas De Quincey Books

Murder as a Fine Art (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Opium-Eater (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inspector of the Dead (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ruler of the Night (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Testament (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last Reveille (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Totem (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood Oath (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fifth Profession (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Covenant of the Flame (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Assumed Identity (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Desperate Measures (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Extreme Denial (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Double Image (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burnt Sienna (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Long Lost (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Spy Who Came for Christmas (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shimmer (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Hundred-Year Christmas (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Image (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nothing Will Hurt You (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shrine (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
They (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Name is Legion (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Architecture of Snow (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Interrogator (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Hundred Year Christmas (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Captain America Graphic Novels

Publication Order of Cultural-Icon Non-Fiction Books

John Wayne: The Westerns (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marilyn Monroe: Legend and Tragedy (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rambo and Me: The Story Behind the Story (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frank Sinatra: The Artist and His Music (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nelson Riddle: The Man behind the Music (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

John Barth (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fireflies (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Successful Novelist (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads (With: Hank Wagner) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The MatchUp Collection Books

Honor & ... (By: C.J. Box,Sandra Brown) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deserves to Be Dead (By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Getaway (By: Lisa Scottoline,Nelson DeMille) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Midnight Flame (By: Christopher Rice,Lara Adrian) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Short Story (By: Karin Slaughter,Michael Koryta) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Past Prologue (By: Diana Gabaldon,Steve Berry) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faking a Murderer (By: Lee Child,Kathy Reichs) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dig Here (By: Charlaine Harris,Andrew Gross) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Taking the Veil (By: J.A. Jance,Eric Van Lustbader) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rambo on Their Minds (With: Gayle Lynds) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Footloose (By: Val McDermid,Peter James) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Dark at Heart(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fifth Annual Collection(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark Crimes 2(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Millenium(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder for Revenge(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best New Horror 17(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
These Guns for Hire(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best New Horror 18(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark Delicacies: Fear(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crucified Dreams(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rich and the Dead(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warriors 3(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All-American Horror of the 21st Century: The First Decade(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Suspense Magazine May 2013(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chiral Mad 2(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Eulogies III(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Detours(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
MatchUp(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alive in Shape and Color(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The anthology Tesseracts Thirteen was co-edited with Nancy Kilpatrick. The non-fiction book Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads was co-authored with Hank Wagner.

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One Response to “Order of David Morrell Books”

  1. Dinesh S Nair: 4 years ago

    First blood was so emotional for me as a school kid and to know that it is from David Morrel basic first novel that last 6 Rambo series was conceptualized shows the power of written word ! All the best to Mr D Morrel

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