Allen Manning

Allen Manning is a young adult fantasy and thriller author that is best known for the “John Stone Action Thriller” series of novels. The author was brought up in Las Vegas, Nevada where he spent much of his time playing video games, watching Saturday morning cartoons and action movies and playing pretend professional wrestling with his friends and brothers in the yard. Manning would then become a voracious reader of fiction works as he read all manner of fantasy and science fiction stories.

The best place to start is the Two Percent Power series, the earliest of Allen Manning's multi-book series: it opens with Delivering Justice (2013) and runs to 3 books across 2013–2019, ending with Expiration Date (2019). Allen Manning's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Allen Manning has 24 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2013 and 2024. 21 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the John Stone series with 9 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Allen Manning's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Two Percent Power (2013–2019, 3 books), John Stone (2017–2020, 9 books) and Hard Core Origin (2017, 2 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Allen Manning's 24 books into 5 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: John Stone (9 books, 2017–2020); Daniel Lee (5 books, 2023); Two Percent Power (3 books, 2013–2019); Hard Core Origin (2 books, 2017); Scott Maverick Thriller (2 books, 2017–2021).