Chess Team

Chess Team is a series of 20 military science-fiction fantasy novels written by American author Jeremy Robinson, featuring the ex-Delta Force operator Jack Sigler.

Chess Team
First edition cover of Pulse
AuthorJeremy Robinson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, military science fiction
PublisherSt. Martin's Press / Breakneck Media / Seven Realms Publishing
Published2009 – 2016
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback), audiobook

Premise

Formed under special order from the President of the United States (Thomas Duncan), the Chess Team faces off against the world's most dangerous threats. Jack Sigler, callsign King, leads a team of operators hand-picked from the best of the best from within the United States Special Forces. Tasked with anti-terrorism missions that take them around the world against any threat, ancient, modern and, at times, inhuman. America's most elite soldiers are about to uncover one of history's deadliest secrets.

Characters

Chess Team members

The core Chess Team consist of King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight and their handler Deep Blue. Occasionally team members are added to operations and are given the designation Pawn with a number moniker (Pawn 1, Pawn 2, etc.)

Main series

The main series consists of eight novels, starting with Pulse and ending with Empire, and an origins title, Prime.

OrderTitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
0PrimeJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media2860988672537
1PulseJeremy RobinsonSt. Martin's Press3360312540280
2InstinctJeremy RobinsonSt. Martin's Press3680312540299
3ThresholdJeremy RobinsonSt. Martin's Press3520312540302
4RagnarokJeremy Robinson, Kane GilmourSeven Realms Publishing3390983735093
5OmegaJeremy Robinson, Kane GilmourBreakneck Media3160988672545
6SavageJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media3391941539009
7CannibalJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media3861941539033
8EmpireJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media3661941539130

Prime (origins novel)

Prime is an origins novel published between Threshold and Ragnarok. It is now considered Book 0 in the series.

Pulse

When George Pierce finds the decapitated remains of the mythical Lernaean Hydra in a tomb beneath the Nazca plains surrounded by Greek texts he calls on Jack Sigler for help. Shortly after Jacks arrival a Gen-Y security team arrive from Manifold Genetics, killing archaeologist Dr McCabe and taking the remains.

Richard Ridley and Manifold have plans for the Hydra: a serum capable of regenerating tissue with horrific consequences.

Pulse is the Chess Team's first adventure.

Instinct

The second book in the series sees the Chess Team operating in the jungles of Vietnam with Dr Sara Fogg (Callsign: Pawn) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While being perused by the Vietnamese People's Liberation Army Death Volunteers they must uncover the mystery of the Nguoi Rung.

Acting on information from George Pierce, King and Dr Fogg travel to Siletz in Oregon and find it completely destroyed but for an eleven-year-old girl, she only survivor left behind by the legendary Hercules.

Deep Blue's true identity is revealed to the team.

Threshold

Jack Sigler and Alexander Diotrephes, the mythical Hercules, team up to rescue Fiona, the last known speaker of many of the world's ancient languages, from Richard Ridley.

Jack learns about his parents' past. Tom Duncan makes plans to exit his presidency.

The novel explores the concept of the universal language.

Novellas

Chesspocalypse

The Chesspocalypse series of novellas occurs between the events of Threshold and Ragnarok while the members of Chess Team are scattered around the world.

OrderTitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
3.1Callsign: KingJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media1880983601771
3.2Callsign: QueenJeremy Robinson, David WoodBreakneck Media1120983601798
3.3Callsign: RookJeremy Robinson, Edward G. TalbotBreakneck Media110098404230X
3.4Callsign: King, UnderworldJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media1860984042318
3.5Callsign: BishopJeremy Robinson, David McAfeeBreakneck Media1220984042326
3.6Callsign: KnightJeremy Robinson, Ethan CrossBreakneck Media1360984042342
3.7Callsign: Deep BlueJeremy Robinson, Kane GilmourBreakneck Media1440984042350
3.8Callsign: King, BlackoutJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media2360984042377

Continuum

The Continuum series of novella follows Jack Siglers progression through the pages of history as an immortal after being transported back in time during the events of Omega. For 2,814 years, King travels the globe, righting wrongs and generally attempting to stay out of the history books.

OrderTitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
5.1GuardianJeremy Robinson, J. Kent HollowayBreakneck Media1820988672596
5.2PatriotJeremy Robinson, J. Kent HollowayBreakneck Media1881941539106
5.3CenturionJeremy Robinson, J. Kent HollowayBreakneck Media1431941539238

Guardian

Guardian is set during the time of the Babylonian Empire. The immortal Jack Sigler battles the ancient Tiamat for the life of a small boy.

Centurion

Centurion is set during the fall of Constantinople. Sigler, now a Roman Legionnaire, must battle an ancient curse.

Patriot

Patriot is set during the American Revolution. Sigler has assumed the mantle of the legendary pirate Lanme Wa. An expedition commissioned by George Washington himself raises him and seeks his help on a threat to the fledgling Americas.

Universe novels

Cerberus Group

The Cerberus Groups series follows the ongoing exploits of George Pierce and the Herculean Society.

OrderTitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
1HerculeanJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media3621941539068
2HeliosJeremy Robinson, Sean EllisBreakneck Media3391941539262

Guides and compendiums
TitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
Endgame: A Jack Sigler & Chess Team Universe GuidebookJeremy Robinson, Kane GilmourBreakneck Media2341941539041

Endgame

Jeremy Robinson and Kane Gilmour, the international bestselling duo behind Ragnarok and Omega, bring this comprehensive guidebook and a short story framing sequence for die-hard Chess Team fans wanting the next book in the series.

The book contains twenty original illustrations of the main characters by Christian Guldager, as well as a section of "eyewitness sketches" of creatures and events by Jeremy Robinson and fans of the series. The book is also wrapped in a short story about the team's handler, Deep Blue, which reveals the aftermath of the new novel 'Cannibal.[1]

Chess Team make an appearance in several other novels either as direct appearances or referenced by name.

TitleAuthor(s)PublisherPagesISBN
The DivideJeremy RobinsonBreakneck Media3701941539351
UNITYJeremy RobinsonBreakneck Media4301941539181
Project LegionJeremy RobinsonBreakneck Media3941941539165
Dogs of WarJonathan MaberryGriffin Press5441250098483
Joe Ledger: UnstoppableJonathan MaberrySt. Martin's Press4161250090806
SNAFU: Survival of the FittestAnthologyCohesion Press3340994302932

The Divide

This novel is set in a possible future timeline in the Chess Team universe.

Unity

This novel is set in a possible future timeline in the Chess Team universe.

Project Legion

This novel, the last in the Nemesis Saga, dances across the rift between parallel Earths bringing together many of Robinson's characters including members of Chess Team.

Dogs of War

Jack Sigler and the Chess Team are discussed in the ninth Joe Ledger series book Dogs of War by Jonathan Maberry.[2]

Joe Ledger: Unstoppable

Jeremy Robinson contributed the short story "Prince of Peace" to the Joe Ledger anthology work Unstoppable by Jonathan Maberry, which sees Joe Ledger and Jack Sigler from Chess Team working together.[3]

"SNAFU: Survival of the Fittest"

In this anthology short story, Chess Team battle giant mutant worms.[4]

Film and television

As of 2015, the Chess Team novels, starting with Pulse, are in development as a feature film series with Emmy Award-winning director Jabbar Raisani.

References
  1. "The Jack Sigler Thrillers (aka Chess Team) | Beware of Monsters". Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  2. "Jonathan Maberry - LP - book - Dogs of War". www.jonathanmaberry.com. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  3. "Jonathan Maberry - Joe Ledger Series". www.jonathanmaberry.com. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  4. "ANTHOLOGIES | Beware of Monsters". Retrieved 2019-09-13.
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