Below is the complete list of Teddy Fay books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series by Stuart Woods.
Teddy Fay Series
- Smooth Operator (2016)
(With: Parnell Hall)
Book details - The Money Shot (2018)
(With: Parnell Hall)
Book details - Skin Game (2019)
(With: Parnell Hall)
Book details - Bombshell (2020)
(With: Parnell Hall)
Book details - Jackpot (2021)
(With: Bryon Quertermous)
Book details - Obsession (2023)
(With: Brett Battles)
Book details - Golden Hour (2024)
(With: Brett Battles)
Book details - Blown Away (2025)
(By: Brett Battles)
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About Teddy Fay Series
The Teddy Fay books occupy a slightly unusual place in Stuart Woods’s fiction because Teddy is both a long-established recurring character and the star of his own later series. Official series and author pages describe him as an ex-CIA operative and master of disguise, a man whose methods are far less bound by rules than those of many of Woods’s other protagonists. That makes the series feel different from the start. These books are thrillers, but they are also capers of identity, performance, and controlled chaos, built around a lead character who can slip in and out of danger by becoming someone else entirely.
That disguise-driven element is what gives Teddy Fay his distinct identity within the larger Stuart Woods universe. Stone Barrington often moves through privilege, access, and polished social networks; Teddy operates through deception, improvisation, and nerve. Even when the two worlds overlap, Teddy changes the tone of the book. He brings a more theatrical energy, one rooted in espionage-adjacent trickery rather than straightforward legal or investigative pressure. The result is a series that feels lighter on its feet than some of Woods’s other recurring lines, even when the stakes involve extortion, hostile takeovers, or international danger.
Publication order matters here because the Teddy Fay novels are not just a random set of adventures built around a familiar name. They form a defined later series, beginning with Smooth Operator and continuing through subsequent entries such as The Money Shot, Skin Game, Bombshell, Jackpot, Obsession, and Golden Hour. Official and catalog sources also make clear that the line continued after Stuart Woods’s death, with Brett Battles taking on the series. That is important context for readers moving through the order, because it means the Teddy Fay books have both an internal progression and a noticeable authorship transition. Read in sequence, that evolution is easier to appreciate.
The series also belongs to the wider Woods ecosystem rather than standing completely apart from it. Teddy first appeared before he had his own dedicated line, and later books retain that sense of crossover potential. That can make the reading order look more confusing than it really is, because Teddy exists both as a character in the larger Stuart Woods world and as the center of a separate branded run. For practical purposes, though, the dedicated Teddy Fay novels are best understood as their own sequence. The broader crossover history adds context, but the series itself has a clear spine once those books are separated out from the wider bibliography.
What makes the Teddy Fay books work is that Woods found in Teddy a character who could sustain suspense without becoming predictable. A master of disguise can alter not just the mechanics of a plot but the mood of an entire series. These novels can move toward Hollywood, espionage, con artistry, or corporate intrigue without losing their center, because Teddy himself is the mechanism that makes those shifts plausible. He is not a conventional series detective or lawyer or policeman. He is a performer with intelligence-training instincts, and that opens up a broader range of thriller situations.
Taken as a whole, the Teddy Fay series is best understood as one of Stuart Woods’s most character-driven branches: a later-form thriller sequence built around disguise, nerve, and elastic identity. It connects to the larger Woods world, but it has its own tone and rhythm, and publication order remains the best way to watch that distinctive setup develop from one book to the next.