Perry is one of America's premier thriller writers and among the Mysterious Press's bestselling authors. Perry's 2018 novel, The Bomb Maker was an Amazon best book of the month in the Mysteries & Thrillers category. The Old Man is a finalist for the 2018 Macavity Awards. Forty Thieves was a finalist for the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was named one of Booklist's Top 10 Crime Novels of the Year. A String of Beads was a national bestseller. In a New York Times Book Review "By the Book" interview, Stephen King named Perry among a list of "unheralded writers" we should be reading. Perry co-wrote two books in a #1 New York Times bestselling series with Clive Cussler. Poison Flower was named one of the 101 Best Crime Novels of the Past Decade by Booklist ; Vanishing Act was named one of the 100 best mysteries of the twentieth century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers' Association; and Metzger's Dog was voted one of the best 100 thrillers ever by NPR listeners.

Perry's action-packed thrillers are all fit for screen adaptation, and there are a couple of series based on his prior novels in the making. The Bomb Maker is being developed into a FOX series by Carol Mendelsohn, the producer being three of the CSI spin offs. will also become a series, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Perry is a Goodreads author with over 48,000 ratings and 5,000 reviews.