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USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller Books in Order

12 books from Operation: Snare Drum (2021) to Shadows of Ice (2026). Rated 4.7 across 942 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Operation: Snare Drum

    Book 1 2021 4.2 (173)

    December 7, 1941. America reels from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Battleships burn... Thousands dead... The United States Navy prepares for vengeance in the Pacific. But while the nation turns its eyes west…Germany strikes from the east

  2. Leviathan Rising: A WWII Submarine Adventure Novel

    Book 2 2021 4.6 (122)

    USS Bull Shark is running for Pearl Harbor after leaving New London and her victory over the Nazi Q-ship, but all is not well aboard the boat. The Japanese are planning a major offensive and the clock is rapidly ticking....

  3. The Cactus Navy

    Book 3 2022 4.8 (106)

    Whoever controls the Solomon Islands controls the vital sea lanes between the United States and Australia. When Imperial Japan seizes Tulagi and begins constructing a strategic airfield on Guadalcanal, the balance of the Pacific War hangs…

  4. Tokyo Express

    Book 4 2022 by Scott W. Cook 4.9 (102)

    The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night....

  5. Behavior Reports

    Book 5 2022 4.7 (65)

    After enjoying two weeks of well-deserved R and R at Pearl Harbor, Art Turner, his crew, and his boat are once again asked to go out and do the impossible…and to make it snappy, already....

  6. Seas of Flame

    Book 6 2023 4.9 (72)

    After a series of failed assaults on Guadalcanal and Henderson Field, Japan is rallying for a major offensive. Ground troops, surface bombardment, and a carrier-supported invasion of the island looms darkly on the horizon....

  7. Outta the Frying Pan

    Book 7 2023 4.9 (58)

    Bull Shark and S-52 have just attacked a large bombardment fleet off the coast of Guadalcanal. And although they didn’t stop Henderson from being shelled, they might have at least curtailed it....

  8. Blood Warm Waters

    Book 8 2024 4.6 (50)

    Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark are about to become the spearhead in a new offensive in the Pacific. As an island nation, the Empire of Japan depends on the sea to maintain its vital supply chain… and it’s into this jugular that…

  9. Dig Two Graves

    Book 9 2024 4.9 (50)

    After a devastating attack by a downed Japanese aircraft, Art Turner and the men of Bull Shark try to forget and relax in the rustic Western Australian port of Fremantle.

  10. Tropical Storm

    Book 10 2025 4.7 (48)

    While Art Turner and the men of USS Bull Shark struggle in the Pacific against the Japanese and against their own inner demons, Captain Pat Jarvis and the men of USs Megalodon have a German tiger by the tail in the Caribbean… and it’s only…

  11. Beard the Dragon

    Book 11 2025 by Scott W. Cook 4.9 (76)

    After recovering from a mission near Timor, Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark have healed their wounds and are ready to face Japan once more.

  12. Shadows of Ice

    Book 12 2026 5.0 (20)

    Biting cold, thick fog and frigid, torrential rain…The perfect recipe for misery. The perfect cocktail for a deadly battle of wits.

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for USS Bull Shark Naval Thriller is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.