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The order I would recommend is as follows…

• Planning Vengeance
• Dig Two Graves
• You Don’t Know Jack
• Who, What, When, Why?
• Grafton
• Unknown Caller
• Triple Cross
• Lies and Omissions
• Second Chance

That is slightly different that the order in which they were released, but that loads all of the main-line Dixon-Prince books at the front, and then sneaks in the others… which also have Dixon-Prince references. Really, though, you could read Lies and Omissions before or any time during the series. Triple Cross and Second Chance could also be read any time, but there would be minor spoilers.

“Punch some holes for the locals, then, Bobby.  Do whatever you need to do to help out the civilians.  But be quick, we still have to get to the pinned down UN forces.”

Gunny backed the APC right up to the doors of the building with the UN Peacekeepers on the roof. 

“Hold ‘em down, Bobby.  Ronny and I are gonna see what we have up there.”

Gunny Grafton and Ronny Torres exited the back of the APC and headed up to the roof of the building.  As they went up the stairs, they started finding evidence of the fight that had taken place in the stairwell.  The first casualties they ran across were the hostile fighters that had been attacking the UN group.  Then they started running across UN casualties. 

“This isn’t good, Ronny.  Any of these guys alive?” Gunny stated.

“Not that I’ve found yet, Gunny.  This was brutal,” the medic said as he knelt next to another fallen UN soldier.  “If they had anyone that was injured, they likely dragged them up the stairs.” 

In the background he could hear the machine gun firing from the APC outside.  There were short bursts followed by the tinkling sound of the casings bouncing off the side of the armored vehicle.  Obviously, Bobby was getting some hostile activity.  He was holding off the attacking force, pinning them down with sporadic fire from the turret.  Hopefully, some of the civilians that were pinned down in the square would be able to get away from the area.

As they got to the top of the stairwell, Gunny radioed back to the American Colonel that had called him in to rescue these soldiers.  “Colonel Bryce, pass along that we’re here and don’t want to get shot coming through the door, Sir,” he said.  A moment later a woman carrying an HK MP5N opened the door and ushered Gunny and Ronny inside. 

“You in charge?” Gunny asked.  She didn’t understand, so he repeated the question in German.  Then she took him to Gefreiter Richter.  As he looked at the injured German soldier, recognition flooded into him, “Rolf?  Is that you?” Gunny said, kneeling beside the man on the ground.  “Ronny, get over here,” he yelled. 

“These guys are all in rough shape, Gunny, what’s up?”

“This is Rolf Richter.  He’s a friend, a Scout.  I haven’t seen him in over six years.  He used to date Nicole and he’s a friend of Jack’s.”

Ronny started checking the man over to see what injuries he had.  He immediately saw that he would be losing his left leg, if Ronny could even keep him alive.  And he wasn’t sure he’d be able to do that. 

Gunny looked around on the roof.  There were dozens of civilians, mostly women and children.  A few were injured, but the real damage had been done to the soldiers.  There were only a handful that were even able to stand. 

“One,” Bobby said over the earpiece radio, “it’s getting hot down here.  How much longer are you going to be?”

“It’s bad up here, too.  We’ve got maybe a hundred civilians to try to evac, as well as eight UN soldiers that are still alive.  When we get them down there, can we get these people away from the heat down there?”

“I guess we have to, Boss,” he replied.

Gunny turned around and looked out at the civilians gathered on the roof.  Then he looked over the side of the roof at the square below.  The protestors were gone, and it was nothing but the counter-protestors, the ones they were pretty sure were Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps or some similar force.  Bobby was doing a good job pinning them down, but it was going to take more than that to get the civilians out. 

Soon after lunch, while he and Melody were on deck, they got a shout-out from Duke. 

“Hey, guys, couple of things.  First, I had a blip on radar for a while this morning, but it seems to have disappeared.  Second, our boys seem to be outside.  Murphy the Younger has set himself up on the flying bridge, while Murphy the Elder is trolling off the back of the boat.  We’re set to come up on their port stern in a few minutes, which will give you a nice clear shot.  We’re currently about eight hundred meters out. 

Gunny and Melody took up positions on the starboard side, near the stern of the boat.  When it was time to make the shot, Duke would turn to port, so they would have a clear shot. 

“Five hundred meters, all still clear,” Duke called down to the rear deck. 

Gunny and Melody both lifted their rifles into position to get a look at the targets through the scopes. 

“Miss Tree is coming about to port.  I still have good sight lines, but now we are coming straight in.  I’ll be turning to port in a moment.  They don’t seem to be taking notice of us… Paul’s attention is glued to starboard.  Sean seems to be looking that way as well.

Gunny and Melody were having a harder time keeping an eye on the targets through their scopes because the boat was in their way.  But standing forward on the boat wasn’t an option… they would be very visible, and they wouldn’t have as sure footing. 

“About three hundred meters out, coming about.  The Murphys still have their attention to the other side of their boat.”

As Duke brought their boat around, Melody and Gunny both picked up their targets.  Melody had Paul and Gunny had Sean.  Sean was looking over the side and kept disappearing.  When he had the shot, Gunny was supposed to let Melody know, she would give a three-count and both would shoot at the same time. 

“Almost, Mel… almost… almost… Ok, ready,” Gunny said quietly as he centered his shot.

“Three, two…”

The was a cracking sound across the water.  Gunny and Melody both watched as their targets wilted in their scopes. 

Now they were going to walk across the stage and get their High School Diplomas.  Amy had narrowly missed being Valedictorian but had been asked to give the Salutatorian Address by Harvey Garrett, the school’s Principal.  She was both excited and scared to death as she looked out upon the gathered parents and friends of the Graduating Class of 1983, filling the Hampton Coliseum. 

As Lori Rose was giving her Valedictory address, Amy went over her speech in her head one last time.  Lori was wrapping up and Amy’s nerves were multiplying.  She glanced over to the beginning of the first row of graduates.  Jonathan gave her a thumbs up and blew her a kiss.  He mouthed ‘I believe in you’ before she looked back out into the audience.  She wasn’t sure where her parents were, but she looked around to see if she could spot them.  She also knew that Gunny, Melody and their whole team were in attendance. 

Lori finished up and Mr. Garrett stepped up to the microphone and introduced her.  Her knees were weak as she made her way to the podium.  She looked out again at the arena.  It sat twelve thousand people, but this evening there were perhaps a quarter of that in the seats, with another four hundred students on the floor, as well as the teachers and other school staff. 

“It was the best of times,” she began, “it was the worst of times. 

“Charles Dickens wrote those words to begin A Tale of Two Cities, in 1859.  It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…

“I think that is an incredibly accurate picture of our high school experience.  Emotional highs and lows, as well as academic triumphs and defeats.”  Amy continued for a few more minutes, recounting the experiences of the Class of ’83.  “In conclusion, this has been the time, and these have been the people that will remain fundamental to shaping our various futures.“

As she finished, from the corner of her eye, she spied Jonathan Dixon walking across the stage.  She turned, not knowing why he was walking toward her.  His stride was purposeful.  The look on his face was both taut and serene. 

Behind him a couple of paces was Principal Garrett.  He was supposed to take over speaking as her speech concluded, but he seemed to be waiting for something. 

As Jonathan got within a couple of steps of her, Amy saw the school’s principal hand him something.  Mrs. Foster, the Cheerleading Coach also walked up behind Jack and handed him something else. 

Jack put the microphone from Principal Garrett up to his mouth.  “Amy Prince, look out into the crowd.”

As she scanned the front row, she saw the message…  AMY PRINCE, WILL YOU MARRY ME?  Then, when she looked up, there was a banner strung across the front of the balcony saying the same thing.  As she looked at the banner, she saw her father at one end, Ed Dixon at the other end, and in the middle were her mom and Jack’s mom, both giving her a thumbs up. 

All of the books have some common characters, however, two of the books are not tied as much to the series as the other current eight books. So, those can be read out of the order in which they were written. So, I’ll start with the written order:

• Planning Vengeance
• Dig Two Graves
• You Don’t Know Jack
• Who, What, When, Why?
• Triple Cross *
• Lies and Omissions *
• Unknown Caller
• Grafton

However, a couple of people have said they wanted to read them chronologically. That is a little tougher because Grafton and Who, What, When, Why? both have multiple stories that take place at different times. Grafton has the origin story on Melody, which is before everything but the flashbacks in the other books. Aside from that story, everything in Grafton is after You Don’t Know Jack and before Unknown Caller. Who, What, When, Why? has stories that are intertwined around the first three books.

So, chronologically by story date:

• Melody (from Grafton)
• Lies and Omissions
• Planning Vengeance
• Dig Two Graves
• Who, What, When, Why?
• You Don’t Know Jack
• Grafton
• Triple Cross
• Unknown Caller

One thing to keep in mind though, is that aside from Planning Vengeance/Dig Two Graves, I tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum. Lies and Omissions and Triple Cross are outside of the regular series anyway… which is why they are asterisked *.