Books in Order: A Comprehensive Guide to Rick Campbell's Novels

Before he wrote a single thriller, Rick Campbell served thirty years in the Navy, four of them aboard nuclear-powered submarines, with additional postings at the Pentagon and the Undersea Weapons Program Office. At one point in his career, he was one of only two people whose sign-off was required to launch a nuclear warhead — the kind of access that shows up in how convincingly his fiction handles underwater warfare.

Reviewers reached for The Hunt for Red October as a comparison when his debut, The Trident Deception, arrived in 2014, and the book went on to hit both the Barnes & Noble Top 20 and Amazon's bestseller charts. This guide lists all seven Trident Deception novels in order, ending with 2021's Deep Strike.