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Start with Weapons and continue through all 13 books in the listed reading order.

13 books
Published 2019 to 2022
Status: Likely complete

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Weapons

Start with Weapons

Book 1 by Matt Rogers • Published 2019

Trying to build new lives in New York, Jason King and Will Slater reunite and start taking aim at the city’s worst predators. Their vigilante campaign soon collides with old government contacts, forcing them to decide...

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King Slater reading order

Ends with Heroes

  1. 1
    Weapons

    Book 1:Weapons

    Matt Rogers • 2019

    Trying to build new lives in New York, Jason King and Will Slater reunite and start taking aim at the city’s worst predators. Their vigilante campaign soon collides with old government contacts, forcing them to decide...

  2. 2
    Contracts

    Book 2:Contracts

    Matt Rogers • 2019

    Their first official job as a team sends King and Slater to Nepal to find a missing black ops official’s teenage daughter on the trail to Everest. What looks like a simple kidnap case turns into a high altitude nightm...

  3. 3
    Ciphers

    Book 3:Ciphers

    Matt Rogers • 2019

    A devastating cyberattack knocks out New York City’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity, water or order. Tracing the malicious code to Manhattan, King and Slater race through a darkened city to restore t...

  4. 4
    Outlaws

    Book 4:Outlaws

    Matt Rogers • 2019

    Burned out by endless covert missions, Will Slater considers walking away from government service. His desire to leave collides with the fact that men like him are not allowed to retire, and soon he and Jason King are...

  5. 5
    Ghosts

    Book 5:Ghosts

    Matt Rogers • 2020

    Operating as outlaw vigilantes in Las Vegas, King and Slater take a case for a woman facing a decade in prison for a crime she did not commit. What starts as a Chinatown club infiltration spirals into open war with cr...

  6. 6
    Sharks

    Book 6:Sharks

    Matt Rogers • 2020

    Hunting the remnants of a trafficking ring, King and Slater follow dirty money to Freeport in the Bahamas. There they clash with Dylan Walcott, a predatory financier who preys on hurricane survivors, and must decide h...

  7. 7
    Messiahs

    Book 7:Messiahs

    Matt Rogers • 2020

    An unsettling act in Nassau leads King and Slater to rural Wyoming, where a commune called Mother Libertas worships a charismatic leader and a mind bending drug known as Bodhi. To dismantle the cult, they and their pa...

  8. 8
    Hunters

    Book 8:Hunters

    Matt Rogers • 2020

    After a compromised asset nearly seizes the US presidency, the shadow world decides King and Slater have to be made examples. Black ops killers with similar training are unleashed across America, turning the country i...

  9. 9
    Fathers

    Book 9:Fathers

    Matt Rogers • 2021

    On the day Jason King is about to become a father, Will Slater intervenes when a twelve year old boy is threatened on a Boston street corner. His violent response ignites a turf war that drags King out of the hospital...

  10. 10
    Tyrants

    Book 10:Tyrants

    Matt Rogers • 2021

    Working through a revenge list tied to a gangster’s blackmail trove, Will Slater tracks an ex televangelist who flees to Durango, Mexico. Knowing cartel muscle waits across the border, Slater pulls in Jason King, and...

  11. 11
    Monsters

    Book 11:Monsters

    Matt Rogers • 2021

    Silicon Valley darling Heidi Waters claims her company has a neurochemical cure for caffeine anxiety, but the miracle drug is a sham. When Alexis follows a tip about the fraud, King and Slater join her, uncovering a w...

  12. 12
    Daggers

    Book 12:Daggers

    Matt Rogers • 2022

    After a rare year of peace, a mysterious assassin begins killing people close to Jason King and Will Slater in the small town of Millinocket. Forced to abandon any illusion of normal life, the two men confront an enem...

  13. 13
    Heroes

    Book 13:Heroes

    Stephen Fry

    Use the reading order above to move through the series in the intended sequence.

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What is the best order to read the King Slater series?

The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Weapons.

How many books are in the King Slater series?

There are 13 books currently listed in the King Slater series on GurusReads.

Where should I start with the King Slater series?

New readers should start with Weapons, the first book in the reading order.

Is the King Slater series complete?

Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2019 to 2022.