The Terminal List: Books vs. Series
The Terminal List is David DiGilio's 2022 series, adapted from books by Jack Carr. It stars Chris Pratt as James Reece and has run for 2 seasons and 16 episodes on Prime Video.
From Books Adapted
Which books each season covers
Each season so far adapts one book, in order
Season one follows The Terminal List, Jack Carr's first James Reece book. Season two moves on to the second, True Believer, which picks up with Reece in hiding after his revenge.
| Season | Book |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Terminal List, book one |
| 2 | True Believer, book two |
| A guide, not an exact match: shows move scenes and storylines between books and seasons. | |
That leaves five James Reece books the series hasn't reached: Savage Son, The Devil's Hand, In the Blood, Only the Dead and Red Sky Mourning. Cry Havoc, a prequel about Reece's father, Tom, in Vietnam in 1968, hasn't been adapted either. Prime Video hasn't announced a third season.
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025) is a separate prequel series about Ben Edwards, a character from the first book. It tells his story from before The Terminal List rather than adapting any one book, and Jack Carr created it with showrunner David DiGilio.
What changed from the book
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Steve Horn dies much earlier in the series
In the book, Steve Horn, the story's main villain, lasts until the end. The series kills him in episode five. Showrunner David DiGilio said the change was there to surprise readers: they would still recognize the book's scenes, but they wouldn't know everything that was coming.
Katie Buranek has a bigger part in the series
Katie Buranek, the journalist played by Constance Wu, comes from the book, but the series gives her a much bigger part. DiGilio grew up around newsrooms, where his mother worked for years as a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. He said he kept Katie the journalist of integrity Carr wrote and gave her more to do.
The books, in order
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2018
- Pages
- 432
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 3 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 1
Navy SEAL James Reece survives an ambush in Afghanistan that kills most of his team, then comes home to find his wife and daughter murdered. He learns that both trace back to a conspiracy reaching high into the government, and with nothing left to lose he goes after everyone responsible.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2019
- Pages
- 496
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 56 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 2
James Reece is hiding at a safari camp in Mozambique after avenging his family, expecting the tumor in his brain to kill him. When terrorist attacks start hitting Europe, a former teammate arrives with an offer: a pardon if Reece helps find the man coordinating them.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2020
- Pages
- 432
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 56 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 3
James Reece is recovering from brain surgery on a friend's ranch in Montana when a Russian crime boss sends killers to America to finish him. The boss's son, Aleksandr Zharkov, hunts people for sport on a remote island off the Russian coast.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2021
- Pages
- 560
- Audiobook length
- 14 hr 37 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 4
The president hands James Reece a list of people inside the United States to kill. Meanwhile an Iranian agent is growing a weaponized strain of the Marburg virus in Denver, getting ready to spread it.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2022
- Pages
- 496
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 8 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 5
A plane leaving Burkina Faso is blown up minutes after takeoff. Watching the news from the other side of the world, James Reece recognizes one of the dead as a Mossad officer he knew in Iraq, and he calls on friends old and new to find whoever killed her.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2023
- Pages
- 608
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 29 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 6
In 1980 a freshman congressman is shot dead in Rhode Island, a killing that still shapes Washington decades later. James Reece takes on a global conspiracy built on secrets that have stayed buried since.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2024
- Pages
- 592
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 43 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List, book 7
A rogue Chinese submarine is closing on the West Coast, a tech executive with uncertain loyalties is building quantum computers, and a politician is under foreign influence. The best hope against the threat is Alice, an artificial intelligence that has disappeared into the deep web, and James Reece is her only contact with the outside world.
Details
- Author
- Jack Carr
- Year
- 2025
- Pages
- 576
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 25 min
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Series
- The Terminal List
In 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece, James Reece's father, runs covert missions in Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam with a team in the classified MACV-SOG unit. His team keeps taking losses, he comes to suspect a mole at headquarters, and the KGB sends an assassin after them.
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