Reading order · 4 books · 2005 to 2014 · Set in various US locations
Wyman Ford Books in Order
Wyman Ford is a former CIA agent who became a monk and then left the monastery to work as a private investigator, often for the government, on cases where science and danger meet.
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Series facts
- Books
- 4
- Published
- 2005 to 2014
- First book
- Tyrannosaur Canyon
- Latest
- The Kraken Project (2014)
- Setting
- Set in various US locations
The reading order
Every Wyman Ford book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
4 books · Set in various US locations
- 1Tyrannosaur Canyon2005With Tom BroadbentTom Broadbent, a veterinarian riding in the New Mexico desert, finds a dying man with a notebook, and becomes caught up in the hunt for a remarkable fossil.Buy on Amazon
- 2Blasphemy2008With Wyman FordWyman Ford is sent to the Arizona desert to investigate a giant particle accelerator that may have made contact with something, while a television preacher stirs up the local people against it.Buy on Amazon
- 3Impact2010With Wyman Ford and Abbey StrawAbbey Straw, a young woman in Maine, sees a meteorite fall into the sea, and her search for it crosses with Wyman Ford’s investigation into strange gems and a discovery on Mars.Buy on Amazon
- 4The Kraken Project2014With Wyman Ford and Melissa ShepherdAn artificial intelligence designed to explore the seas of Saturn’s moon Titan escapes onto the internet, and Wyman Ford is asked to find it.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
The Wyman Ford books can be read alone, but start with Tyrannosaur Canyon to meet him.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Wyman Ford | Abbey Straw | Tom Broadbent | Melissa Shepherd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Tyrannosaur Canyon | MMajor | LLead | ||
| 2 Blasphemy | LLead | |||
| 3 Impact | LLead | LLead | ||
| 4 The Kraken Project | LLead | ·Minor | LLead |
Characters in the Wyman Ford books
4 characters from Douglas Preston’s chart, with the number of Wyman Ford books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Wyman FordFormer CIA agent and ex-monk turned investigator | 4 | Tyrannosaur Canyon 2005 |
| Abbey StrawYoung astronomer | 2 | Impact 2010 |
| Tom BroadbentVeterinarian who finds a dying man in the desert | 1 | Tyrannosaur Canyon 2005 |
| Melissa ShepherdSoftware engineer whose AI escapes | 1 | The Kraken Project 2014 |