Reading order
The Daniel Reade
Novels in order
Three books so far, one soldier, and a valley that keeps calling him back. Start at Book One.
The Daniel Reade Novels are military thrillers by Jaxon Reade, who spent twenty-eight years in uniform. They follow one man from a judge’s courtroom to the Rangers and beyond, and they are written to be read in the order below. Each book tells its own story, but the rewards build as the series goes on.
Here is the complete reading order, with where each book stands today.
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Book 1 of 3
The Second Voice
Every eleven, twelve seconds, they look to him. What if, one day, there is a second voice?
Daniel Reade is seventeen when a judge gives him two choices. He takes the Army, and the 75th Ranger Regiment sends him back to the mountains where his father died. One night over the Korwal orchard a Black Hawk goes down in the trees, and a warlord named Sahm Jadid hears a voice he did not expect.
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Book 2 of 3
Same Valley
Two fires. The first one small. Watch which way he turns.
Ranger School in the dead of winter, a team of his own, and orders back to the province where his father died. Jadid has spent the winter building a lesson for a son who wants revenge, and at last he sends an invitation to the stream bed below the second bend.
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Book 3 of 3
Above the Line
Below the line, loyalty is personal. Above it, loyalty has a price.
The Army wants to make Sergeant Daniel Reade an officer. School in Vermont, then Fort Benning, then Fort Drum, then a rifle platoon of his own at a small outpost in Khoristan, in the valley next to the one where his father died. The Kindle edition releases March 2, 2027.
Kindle edition releases March 2, 2027
Do I have to read them in order?
Same Valley is Book Two of The Daniel Reade Novels. It follows The Second Voice and can be read on its own, though readers will get the most from starting with Book One. Starting with The Second Voice also means you meet the warlord Sahm Jadid and the stream bed called Dar-i-Sang the way the author intended.
Where Pattern Drift fits
Pattern Drift is Book One of The Read Standard, a separate series from The Daniel Reade Novels. It does not connect to the reading order above, so you can pick it up before, between or after the Daniel Reade books. Its tagline: He flies the line. Or he doesn’t fly at all.
Content
Contains combat violence and military language.
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