There are 4 books in the The Thunder and Lightning series. The newest book is Dark Lightning which came out in 2014.

“The heart-pounding space race is on . . . in this riveting SF thriller” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Red Lightning and Rolling Thunder (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin,…
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Red Lightning

Book cover of Red Lightning
The son of one of the pioneering explorers of Mars, a disgruntled Ray Garcia-Strickland is bored with life on the Red Planet and tired of the overdevelopment and tourist Earthies, but when Earth is struck by a mysterious object, causing a massive tsunami, he is forced to return to Earth…

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Rolling Thunder

Book cover of Rolling Thunder
A third generation Martian, Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--also known as Podkayne--joins the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy and is sent to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, as an entertainer, but she soon discovers that hidden dangers lurk everywhere, in the conclusion of a trilogy that…

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Dark Lightning

Book cover of Dark Lightning
Known for “superior science fiction” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s epic plunge into a future where human survival is just a theory…

On a voyage to New Earth, the…