There are 18 books in the Expeditionary Force series. The newest book is Gateway which came out in 2025.

1
Columbus Day

Book cover of Columbus Day
We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships…
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2
SpecOps

Book cover of SpecOps
The sequel to 'Columbus Day'. Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots and scientists with him; the mission is…

6
Mavericks

Book cover of Mavericks
The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry…

11
Brushfire

Book cover of Brushfire
Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.Especially when aliens don't get the memo that the shooting is over.

12
Breakaway

Book cover of Breakaway
The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won't mess with them, if they don't mess with us. Easy, right? NO. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The…

14
Match Game

Book cover of Match Game

For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don't forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It's simple: 100 percent Grade-A Extreme Awesomeness. And, also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power.…

16
Aftermath

Book cover of Aftermath
What happens in the wake of FAILURE MODE?
The AFTERMATH of a stunning victory, especially an unexpected, complete and final victory, should be High-Fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the galaxy is still a freakin'…

17
Task Force Hammer

Book cover of Task Force Hammer

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren't the Pirates planning a victory party?

The enemy was not what they thought it was.

It was much, much worse.

They had not a single clue how to defeat that…

18
Gateway

Book cover of Gateway
Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph, to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.