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Start with Florida Firefight and continue through all 11 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Florida Firefight
Book 1 by Randy Wayne White • Published 1984
After disobeying orders during a school hostage crisis, Chicago cop James Hawker kills the gunman but loses his badge and career. Hired by a grieving father and given an unlimited budget, he launches a private war on...
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Ends with Operation Norfolk
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Book 1:Florida Firefight
Randy Wayne White • 1984
After disobeying orders during a school hostage crisis, Chicago cop James Hawker kills the gunman but loses his badge and career. Hired by a grieving father and given an unlimited budget, he launches a private war on...
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Book 2:L.A. Wars
Randy Wayne White • 1984
Hawker heads to a battered Los Angeles neighborhood where two brutal gangs, the Panthers and the Santanas, are waging open war in the streets. Working without a badge, he plays the rivals against each other, aiming to...
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Book 3:Chicago Assault
Randy Wayne White • 1984
Back in the city that cast him out, Hawker comes home to see an old friend who has become one of Chicago's richest power brokers. When that friend is gunned down on his own balcony, Hawker follows the money and the bo...
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Book 4:Deadly in New York
Randy Wayne White • 1984
A failed hit on Hawker sends him to New York City to strike back at the Fister Corporation, a development empire that backs its real estate projects with murder. In the twisting streets of Greenwich Village, he fights...
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Book 5:Houston Attack
Randy Wayne White • 1985
To shut down a modern slave ring, Hawker deliberately lets himself be captured at the Mexican border and shipped north in chains. Inside the operation he finds land barons using kidnapped migrants as disposable labor,...
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Book 6:Vegas Vengeance
Randy Wayne White • 1985
In Las Vegas, Hawker teams up with Barbara Blaine, a savvy madam whose upscale brothel is under siege from a crime syndicate. As her lover vanishes and pressure turns violent, Hawker takes on mobsters who think Sin Ci...
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Book 7:Detroit Combat
Randy Wayne White • 1985
A young lawyer is kidnapped from her Detroit home by thugs who run a porn empire built on abducted women. Hawker follows the trail into the crumbling core of the city, infiltrating an industry of filth and fear to pul...
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Book 8:Terror in D.C.
Randy Wayne White • 1986
A string of predawn bombings is wiping out entire families around Washington, leaving the capital paralyzed. The culprits are a radical student group with a grand plan, but when Hawker steps onto their battlefield he...
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Book 9:Atlanta Extreme
Randy Wayne White • 2015
Hiding in Latin America after the CIA marks him for death, Hawker is drawn back toward the United States by an anticommunist colonel fighting a dirty war. From the jungles of Belize to the streets of Atlanta, he battl...
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Book 10:Denver Strike
Randy Wayne White • 2015
A young mother flees with her children to a remote Rocky Mountain cabin, hoping distance will keep them safe from men who want something from her father. Hawker intervenes just in time to stop a sniper's bolt, then tu...
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Book 11:Operation Norfolk
Randy Wayne White • 2015
Hawker targets Con Ye Cwong, a former North Vietnamese secret police chief who has reinvented himself as a global drug lord and arms dealer. To stop the flow of weapons and heroin, Hawker must destroy a man who treats...
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Hawker FAQ
What is the best order to read the Hawker series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Florida Firefight.
How many books are in the Hawker series?
There are 11 books currently listed in the Hawker series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Hawker series?
New readers should start with Florida Firefight, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Hawker series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1984 to 2015.