The books

The Books

Two series, two genres, two very different readers. Start wherever you like. Each book has its own page, with excerpts, reviews, and everything you need to dive in.

The Delta 7 Series · Military thrillers

A two-book arc.

A retired Air Force pilot and attaché learns the drug wars he flew through never really ended for him. Delta 7 is the book that started it all. Delta Redux is the sequel.

Delta 7 by John Cathcart, cover art by Nicole Cathcart

Book One · Available now

Delta 7

Winner · MWSA President's Award · Branson Stars & Flags, First Place Thriller

For twenty years he served his country as a fighter pilot and Air Force attaché. Today John Carter captains commercial airliners and is supposed to be enjoying a quiet retirement. A casual conversation during a layover in Grenada puts a target on his back. Former comrades start turning up dead, and Carter is pulled back into the violent world he thought he had left behind: Colombia, Panama, the drug wars, and a powerful enemy from his past who wants him gone.

Delta Redux by John Cathcart

Book Two · Expected 2027

Delta Redux

The sequel to Delta 7

John Carter is older, slower, and supposed to be done. He is not done. Delta Redux picks up the threads Delta 7 left dangling: the people who got away, the debts that were never settled, and the corner of the war on drugs that nobody wanted to look at too closely. New characters, the same hard country, and a Carter who knows exactly what the cost is this time.

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A different world

YA science fiction

Something completely separate from the Delta 7 world. Written for the next generation, and for anyone who remembers what it felt like to be seventeen and suddenly responsible for more than you ever signed up for.

Kailas Dreamer by John Cathcart

YA science fiction · coming of age

Kailas Dreamer

Coming soon

John wrote Kailas Dreamer for his granddaughter. It follows a teenage girl as the timeline around her starts to come apart, and she realizes she may be the only one who can hold it together. Time fractures. Reality breaks. The stakes are the whole world.

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