David Hagberg Books

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David Hagberg is an American author that has written a number of popular titles, from Flash Gordon to a Novelization of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Though, most of David’s hardcore fans will tell you that the true manifestation of his skills is all the techno-thrillers he has written.

Order of Nick Carter: Killmaster Series

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1 Run, Spy, Run 1964 Description / Buy
2 The China Doll 1964 Description / Buy
3 Checkmate in Rio 1964 Description / Buy
4 Safari for Spies 1964 Description / Buy
5 Fraulein Spy 1964 Description / Buy
6 Saigon 1964 Description / Buy
7 A Bullet for Fidel 1965 Description / Buy
8 The 13th Spy 1965 Description / Buy
9 Eyes of the Tiger 1965 Description / Buy
10 Istanbul 1965 Description / Buy
11 Web of Spies 1966 Description / Buy
12 Spy Castle 1966 Description / Buy
13 Terrible Ones (Short Story) 1966 Description / Buy
14 Dragon Flame 1966 Description / Buy
15 Hanoi 1966 Description / Buy
16 Danger Key 1966 Description / Buy
17 Operation Starvation 1966 Description / Buy
18 Mind Poisoners 1966 Description / Buy
19 The Weapon Of Night (Short Story) 1967 Description / Buy
20 Golden Serpent 1967 Description / Buy
21 Mission to Venice 1967 Description / Buy
22 Double Identity 1967 Description / Buy
23 The Devil's Cockpit 1967 Description / Buy
24 The Chinese Paymaster 1967 Description / Buy
25 Seven Against Greece 1967 Description / Buy
26 A Korean Tiger 1967 Description / Buy
27 Assignment Israel 1967 Description / Buy
28 Red Guard 1967 Description / Buy
29 The Filthy Five 1967 Description / Buy
30 The Bright Blue Death 1967 Description / Buy
31 Macao 1968 Description / Buy
32 Operation Moon Rocket 1968 Description / Buy
33 The Judas Spy 1968 Description / Buy
34 Hood of Death 1968 Description / Buy
35 Amsterdam 1968 Description / Buy
36 Temple of Fear 1968 Description / Buy
37 Fourteen Seconds to Hell 1968 Description / Buy
38 The Defector 1969 Description / Buy
39 Carnival for Killing 1969 Description / Buy
40 Rhodesia 1969 Description / Buy
41 The Red Rays 1969 Description / Buy
42 Peking: The Tulip affair 1969 Description / Buy
43 The Amazon 1969 Description / Buy
44 The Sea Trap 1969 Description / Buy
45 Berlin 1969 Description / Buy
46 Human Time Bomb 1969 Description / Buy
47 The Cobra Kill 1969 Description / Buy
48 Living Death 1969 Description / Buy
49 Operation Che Guevara 1969 Description / Buy
50 The Doomsday Formula 1969 Description / Buy
51 Operation Snake 1969 Description / Buy
52 The Casbah Killers 1969 Description / Buy
53 The Red Rebellion 1970 Description / Buy
54 The Executioners 1970 Description / Buy
55 Black Death 1970 Description / Buy
56 The Mind Killers 1970 Description / Buy
57 Time Clock of Death 1970 Description / Buy
58 Cambodia 1970 Description / Buy
59 The Death Strain 1970 Description / Buy
60 Jewel of Doom 1970 Description / Buy
61 Moscow 1970 Description / Buy
62 The Arab Plague / Slavemaster 1970 Description / Buy
63 Ice Bomb Zero 1971 Description / Buy
64 Mark of Cosa Nostra 1972 Description / Buy
65 The Cairo Mafia / Cairo 1972 Description / Buy
66 The Inca Death Squad 1972 Description / Buy
67 Assault on England 1973 Description / Buy
68 The Omega Terror 1973 Description / Buy
69 Code Name: Werewolf 1973 Description / Buy
70 Strike Force Terror 1973 Description / Buy
71 Agent Counter-agent 1973 Description / Buy
72 Hour of the Wolf 1973 Description / Buy
73 Our Agent in Rome Is Missing 1973 Description / Buy
74 Kremlin File 1973 Description / Buy
75 Spanish Connection 1973 Description / Buy
76 The Death's Head Conspiracy 1973 Description / Buy
77 The Peking Dossier 1973 Description / Buy
78 The Devil's Dozen 1973 Description / Buy
79 Target: Doomsday Island 1974 Description / Buy
80 Night of the Avenger 1974 Description / Buy
81 Butcher of Belgrade 1974 Description / Buy
82 Assassination Brigade 1974 Description / Buy
83 The Liquidator 1974 Description / Buy
84 Ice-Trap Terror 1974 Description / Buy
85 Assassin Code Name Vulture 1974 Description / Buy
86 The Stolen Pay Train (Short Story) 1974 Description / Buy
87 Massacre in Milan 1974 Description / Buy
88 Vatican Vendetta 1974 Description / Buy
89 Sign of the Cobra 1974 Description / Buy
90 Man Who Sold Death 1974 Description / Buy
91 The N3 Conspiracy 1974 Description / Buy
92 Beirut Incident 1974 Description / Buy
93 Death of the Falcon 1974 Description / Buy
94 The Aztec Avenger 1974 Description / Buy
95 The Code 1975 Description / Buy
96 The Jerusalem File 1975 Description / Buy
97 Counterfeit Agent 1975 Description / Buy
98 Six Bloody Summer Days 1975 Description / Buy
99 The Katmandu Contract 1975 Description / Buy
100 The Z Document 1975 Description / Buy
101 Dr. Death 1975 Description / Buy
102 Ultimate Code 1975 Description / Buy
103 Assignment Intercept 1976 Description / Buy
104 Green Wolf Connection 1976 Description / Buy
105 The Fanatics of Al Asad 1976 Description / Buy
106 The Snake Flag Conspiracy 1976 Description / Buy
107 The Turncoat 1976 Description / Buy
108 The Sign of the Prayer Shawl 1976 Description / Buy
109 Vulcan Disaster 1976 Description / Buy
110 A High Yield In Death 1976 Description / Buy
111 The Nichovev Plot 1976 Description / Buy
112 Triple Cross 1976 Description / Buy
113 The Gallagher Plot 1976 Description / Buy
114 Plot for the Fourth Reich 1977 Description / Buy
115 Death Message 1978 Description / Buy
116 The List 1978 Description / Buy
117 Under the Wall 1978 Description / Buy
118 The Ebony Cross 1978 Description / Buy
119 Deadly Doubles 1978 Description / Buy
120 Race of Death 1978 Description / Buy
121 Trouble in Paradise 1978 Description / Buy
122 The Pamplona Affair 1978 Description / Buy
123 The Doomsday Spore 1978 Description / Buy
124 Revenge of the Generals 1979 Description / Buy
125 The Asian Mantrap 1979 Description / Buy
126 Thunderstrike In Syria 1979 Description / Buy
127 The Redolmo Affair 1979 Description / Buy
128 The Jamaican Exchange 1979 Description / Buy
129 Tropical Deathpact 1979 Description / Buy
130 The Pemex Chart 1979 Description / Buy
131 Hawaii 1979 Description / Buy
132 The Satan Trap 1979 Description / Buy
133 Reich Four 1979 Description / Buy
134 The Nowhere Weapon 1979 Description / Buy
135 Strike of the Hawk 1980 Description / Buy
136 Day of the Dingo 1980 Description / Buy
137 Tarantula Strike 1980 Description / Buy
138 Ten Times Dynamite 1980 Description / Buy
139 Eighth Card Stud 1980 Description / Buy
140 The Suicide Seat 1980 Description / Buy
141 Death Mission: Havana 1980 Description / Buy
142 War From The Clouds 1980 Description / Buy
143 The Coyote Connection 1981 Description / Buy
144 The Q Man 1981 Description / Buy
145 The Society of Nine 1981 Description / Buy
146 The Ouster Conspiracy 1981 Description / Buy
147 The Golden Bull 1981 Description / Buy
148 The Dubrovnik Massacre 1981 Description / Buy
149 The Solar Menace 1981 Description / Buy
150 The Strontium Code 1981 Description / Buy
151 Pleasure Island 1981 Description / Buy
152 Cauldron of Hell 1981 Description / Buy
153 The Parisian Affair 1981 Description / Buy
154 Turkish Bloodbath 1982 Description / Buy
155 Chessmaster 1982 Description / Buy
156 The Last Samurai 1982 Description / Buy
157 The Puppet Master 1982 Description / Buy
158 The Dominican Affair 1982 Description / Buy
159 The Damocles Threat 1982 Description / Buy
160 Earth Shaker 1982 Description / Buy
161 The Treason Game 1982 Description / Buy
162 Deathlight 1982 Description / Buy
163 The Israeli Connection 1982 Description / Buy
164 Norwegian Typhoon 1982 Description / Buy
165 The Hunter 1982 Description / Buy
166 Operation McMurdo Sound 1982 Description / Buy
167 Appointment in Haiphong 1982 Description / Buy
168 Retreat for Death 1982 Description / Buy
169 The Mendoza Manuscript 1982 Description / Buy
170 The Death Star Affair 1982 Description / Buy
171 Doctor DNA 1982 Description / Buy
172 Typhoon Ray 1982 Description / Buy
173 The Christmas Kill 1982 Description / Buy
174 The Greek Summit 1982 Description / Buy
175 Hide and Go Die 1983 Description / Buy
176 The Kali Death Cult 1983 Description / Buy
177 Operation Vendetta 1983 Description / Buy
178 The Yukon Target 1983 Description / Buy
179 The Death Dealer 1983 Description / Buy
180 The Istanbul Decision 1983 Description / Buy
181 The Decoy Hit 1983 Description / Buy
182 The Outback Ghosts 1983 Description / Buy
183 Earthfire North 1983 Description / Buy
184 The Budapest Run 1983 Description / Buy
185 Caribbean Coup 1984 Description / Buy
186 The Algarve Affair 1984 Description / Buy
187 Zero-Hour Strike Force 1984 Description / Buy
188 Operation Sharkbite 1984 Description / Buy
189 Death Island 1984 Description / Buy
190 Night of the Warheads 1984 Description / Buy
191 Day of the Mahdi 1984 Description / Buy
192 Assignment: Rio 1984 Description / Buy
193 Death Hand Play 1984 Description / Buy
194 The Kremlin Kill 1984 Description / Buy
195 The Mayan Connection 1984 Description / Buy
196 San Juan Inferno 1984 Description / Buy
197 Circle of Scorpions 1985 Description / Buy
198 The Blue Ice Affair 1985 Description / Buy
199 The Macao Massacre 1985 Description / Buy
200 Pursuit of the Eagle 1985 Description / Buy
201 The Vengeance Game 1985 Description / Buy
202 Last Flight to Moscow 1985 Description / Buy
203 The Normandy Code 1985 Description / Buy
204 White Death 1985 Description / Buy
205 The Assassin Convention 1985 Description / Buy
206 Blood of the Scimitar 1985 Description / Buy
207 The Execution Exchange 1985 Description / Buy
208 The Tarlov Cipher 1985 Description / Buy
209 Target Red Star 1986 Description / Buy
210 The Killing Ground 1986 Description / Buy
211 The Berlin Target 1986 Description / Buy
212 Mercenary Mountain 1986 Description / Buy
213 Blood Ultimatum 1986 Description / Buy
214 The Cyclops Conspiracy 1986 Description / Buy
215 Tunnel for Traitors 1986 Description / Buy
216 The Samurai Kill 1986 Description / Buy
217 Terror Times Two 1986 Description / Buy
218 Death Orbit 1986 Description / Buy
219 Slaughter Day 1986 Description / Buy
220 The Master Assassin 1986 Description / Buy
221 Operation Petrograd 1986 Description / Buy
222 Crossfire Red 1987 Description / Buy
223 Blood of the Falcon 1987 Description / Buy
224 Death Squad 1987 Description / Buy
225 The Terror Code 1987 Description / Buy
226 Holy War 1987 Description / Buy
227 Blood Raid 1987 Description / Buy
228 East of Hell 1987 Description / Buy
229 Killing Games 1987 Description / Buy
230 Terms of Vengeance 1987 Description / Buy
231 Pressure Point 1987 Description / Buy
232 Night of the Condor 1987 Description / Buy
233 The Poseidon Target 1987 Description / Buy
234 The Andropov File 1988 Description / Buy
235 Dragonfire 1988 Description / Buy
236 Bloodtrail to Mecca 1988 Description / Buy
237 Deathstrike 1988 Description / Buy
238 Lethal Prey 1988 Description / Buy
239 Spykiller 1988 Description / Buy
240 Bolivian Heat 1988 Description / Buy
241 The Rangoon Man 1988 Description / Buy
242 Code Name Cobra 1988 Description / Buy
243 Afghan Intercept 1988 Description / Buy
244 Countdown to Armageddon 1988 Description / Buy
245 Black Sea Bloodbath 1988 Description / Buy
246 The Deadly Diva 1989 Description / Buy
247 Invitation to Death 1989 Description / Buy
248 Day of the Assassin 1989 Description / Buy
249 The Korean Kill 1989 Description / Buy
250 Middle East Massacre 1989 Description / Buy
251 Sanction to Slaughter 1989 Description / Buy
252 Holiday in Hell 1989 Description / Buy
253 Law of the Lion 1989 Description / Buy
254 Hong Kong Hit 1989 Description / Buy
255 Deep Sea Death 1989 Description / Buy
256 Arms of Vengeance 1989 Description / Buy
257 Hell-Bound Express 1989 Description / Buy
258 Isle of Blood 1989 Description / Buy
259 Singapore Sling 1990 Description / Buy
260 Ruby Red Death 1990 Description / Buy
261 Arctic Abduction 1990 Description / Buy
262 Dragon Slay 1990 Description / Buy

Order of Flash Gordon Novels Series

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1 Massacre in the 22nd Century 1980 Description / Buy
2 War of the Citadels 1980 Description / Buy
3 Crisis on Citadel II 1980 Description / Buy
4 Forces from the Federation 1981 Description / Buy
5 Citadels Under Attack 1981 Description / Buy
6 Citadels on Earth 1981 Description / Buy

Order of The Magic Man Series

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1 The Magic Man 1983 Description / Buy
2 The Gamov Factor 1983 Description / Buy
3 Pipeline from Hell 1984 Description / Buy
4 Call of Honor 1985 Description / Buy

Order of Kirk McGarvey Series

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1 Without Honor 1989 Description / Buy
2 Countdown 1990 Description / Buy
3 Crossfire 1991 Description / Buy
4 Critical Mass 1992 Description / Buy
5 High Flight 1995 Description / Buy
6 Assassin 1997 Description / Buy
7 White House 1999 Description / Buy
8 Joshua's Hammer 2000 Description / Buy
9 The Kill Zone 2002 Description / Buy
10 Soldier of God 2005 Description / Buy
11 Allah's Scorpion 2006 Description / Buy
12 Dance with the Dragon 2007 Description / Buy
13 The Expediter 2009 Description / Buy
14 The Cabal 2010 Description / Buy
15 Abyss 2011 Description / Buy
16 Castro's Daughter 2012 Description / Buy
17 Blood Pact 2014 Description / Buy
18 Retribution 2015 Description / Buy
19 The Shadowmen 2016 Description / Buy
20 The Fourth Horseman 2016 Description / Buy
21 24 Hours (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
22 End Game 2016 Description / Buy
23 Tower Down 2018 Description / Buy
24 Flash Points 2018 Description / Buy
25 Face Off 2018 Description / Buy
26 First Kill 2019 Description / Buy
27 McGarvey 2020 Description / Buy
28 Gambit 2021 Description / Buy
29 Traitor 2022 Description / Buy

Order of David Hagberg Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Breaking Point (Short Story) 2003 Description / Buy
2 V5 (Short Story) 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden Series

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1 Blowout 2012 Description / Buy
2 Gridlock 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Bill Lane Series

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1 Winner Take All (As: Sean Flannery) 1994 Description / Buy
2 Kilo Option (As: Sean Flannery) 1996 Description / Buy
3 Achilles' Heel (As: Sean Flannery) 1998 Description / Buy
4 Eden's Gate 2001 Description / Buy

Order of Wallace Mahoney Series

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1 The Kremlin Conspiracy 1979 Description / Buy
2 Eagles Fly 1980 Description / Buy
3 Hollow Men 1982 Description / Buy
4 Broken Idols 1985 Description / Buy
5 Moscow Crossing 1988 Description / Buy
6 Crossed Swords 1989 Description / Buy
7 False Prophets 1996 Description / Buy

Order of David Hagberg Standalone Novels

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1 Twister 1975 Description / Buy
2 The Capsule 1976 Description / Buy
3 Croc 1977 Description / Buy
4 That Winslow Woman 1977 Description / Buy
5 The Kummersdorf Connection 1978 Description / Buy
6 Trinity Factor 1981 Description / Buy
7 Heartland 1983 Description / Buy
8 Heroes 1985 Description / Buy
9 Gulag 1987 Description / Buy
10 Last Come the Children 1987 Description / Buy
11 The Zebra Network 1989 Description / Buy
12 Counterstrike 1990 Description / Buy
13 Moving Targets 1992 Description / Buy
14 Desert Fire 1993 Description / Buy
15 By Dawn's Early Light 2003 Description / Buy
16 Burned 2009 Description / Buy
17 Crash 2020 Description / Buy

Order of David Hagberg Non-Fiction Books

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1 Mutiny 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Terminator 3 Series

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1 Terminator Dreams ( By: Aaron Allston) 2003 Description / Buy
2 Terminator 3: Before the Rise ( By: Ivan Brandon) 2003 Description / Buy
3 Rise of the Machines 2003 Description / Buy
4 Terminator Hunt ( By: Aaron Allston) 2004 Description / Buy

David Hagberg Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Combat 2000 Description / Buy
2 Combat, Vol. 1 2001 Description / Buy
3 Victory 2003 Description / Buy
4 Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary 2009 Description / Buy
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David Hagberg was born in 1942 in Duluth, Minnesota. Upon leaving high school, David immediately went into the army, finding a place in the Air Force as a cryptographer. The author’s experience in this field definitely aided his eventual success as a writer.

David’s contribution to the Air Force, especially during the time he was stationed in Greenland and in Germany was definitely notable, particularly if you take into account the work he did when it came to constructing the world’s most impressive crypto center at the time.

David’s Educational background includes time spent at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin where he gained an understanding of subjects like math, physics and philosophy.

It is difficult to determine when the writing bug first struck David. However, he has admitted that he didn’t really learn to write until he went to the Duluth Herald and News Tribune, working as a Club Reporter. The opportunity gave him the skills to organize his thoughts and craft interesting stories, and it wasn’t long before the Associated Press took him on as a news desk editor.

David Hagberg’s first book was published in 1975 by Dell. He went on to publish several dozen books, with his most popular works revolving around a super spy called Kirk McGarvey.

David’s books are very detailed and manifest the time he injects into researching the techno aspects of his stories. He has also been praised for playing with plots that have proven prophetic over time.

For instance, Joshua’s Hammer which came out in 2000 included a plan by Osama bin Laden to carry out a catastrophic terrorist attack on American home soil; just a year after this book hit the shelves, the attack on the World Trade Center happened.

The author also wrote a book that saw a super spy track Osama bin Laden down and shoot him in the head. Four years after this book was released, Osama was found and killed by the United States government.

Besides his work as a news desk editor, David Hagberg has also credited his efforts on the Nick Carter-Killmaster series as a very formative experience, availing to David the chance to hone his abilities as a spy writer.

Some of David’s fans do not even know that he was a writer-for-hire assigned with producing novels adapted from the Flash Gordon comic strip, a fact that tends to earn him admiration from fans of the cult classic that is Flash Gordon.

David Hagberg awards

David hasn’t won any notable awards for his work as a spy writer or even a mystery novelist. However, he has been nominated for The American Book Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

He can also boast of various American Mystery Awards nominations.

Best David Hagberg Books

David Hagberg might not have that many awards to his name, but he has a loyal fanbase of followers who love his work, with some of the best books in his bibliography including:

Assassin: Nothing will stop Yevgenni Anatolevich Tarankov from bringing back communism, or so he thinks. Kirk McGarvey is an Ex-CIA Officer who knows that the so-called Tarantula must be killed if Russian Democracy is to thrive.

The sixth book in the Kirk McGarvey series is a little cliché at the start, with the protagonist being painted as the perfect assassin, not only handsome despite his age but also very effective at his job. Some of the occurrences in the book also require some suspension of disbelief.

Joshua’s Hammer: The world cannot help but take notice when Osama bin Laden gets his hands on a very powerful yet compact nuclear weapon. The United States’ decision to counter his acquisition of the weapon by bombing his base of operations doesn’t help matters, especially when his daughter is killed in the process.

It is up to Kirk McGarvey to find a man with the power to wreak deadly havoc and who has little to lose.

This book’s biggest strength is its tension. Every page is dripping with it, probably because the stakes are so high and failure is no option for Kirk.

When Does The Next David Hagberg book come out?

David Hagberg doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Traitor and was released on April, 26th 2022. It is the newest book in the Kirk McGarvey Series.

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