Adam Lebor Books in Order

LeBor travels through Muslim communities in Bosnia, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, and the United States to ask how faith and identity change in the West. It is part reportage, part portrait of a world in transition.

Using newly opened archives and survivor testimony, LeBor investigates Switzerland's financial ties to Nazi Germany. He shows how banks handled looted assets, powered the war economy, and profited from a system built on mass murder.

LeBor and Roger Boyes explore how ordinary people were drawn into, adapted to, or pushed back against Nazi rule. The book focuses less on top leaders than on the compromises and pressures of everyday life in the Third Reich.

Co-written with Roger Boyes, this book looks at daily life and moral choice inside the Third Reich. Rather than treating Germans as one block, it shows the compromises, resistance, fear, and self-interest that shaped survival.

This biography follows Slobodan Milosevic from his early life to the wars that tore apart Yugoslavia. LeBor combines political history, personal detail, and reporting on the criminal networks and diplomacy around his rule.

Through the stories of Arab and Jewish families in Jaffa, LeBor tells a human-scale history of a city remade by the twentieth century. It is intimate, political, and full of everyday lives caught inside a larger conflict.

LeBor examines how the United Nations failed to confront genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. Drawing on interviews and internal records, he follows the gap between moral language and institutional action.

This book traces how Bernard Madoff built trust, loyalty, and silence around the biggest investment fraud of its time. LeBor follows the social world around the scam and the devastating human cost when belief finally broke.

When a journalist in Budapest investigates his grandfather's killing, he stumbles onto a conspiracy rooted in Nazi wartime plans. Past and present collide in a thriller about power, corruption, and Europe's unfinished history.

Sent to eastern Congo to bargain with a genocidal warlord, UN negotiator Yael Azoulay discovers that stability has a brutal price. As business interests close in, she must choose between the deal and her conscience.

On a mission to persuade an Afghan warlord to surrender, Yael Azoulay is pulled into a murky world of rendition, torture, and arms dealing. The job turns personal fast, and one wrong move could get her killed.

LeBor digs into the history of the Bank for International Settlements, the discreet institution at the center of global central banking. It's a story of money, secrecy, wartime compromise, and the quiet power of technocrats.

Back in New York after Geneva, Yael Azoulay is asked to look into a powerful lobbying and asset management firm with Pentagon ties. Her quiet inquiry uncovers a plan for a catastrophic, profitable Middle East war.

UN fixer Yael Azoulay heads to Reykjavik to broker a secret meeting between the US and Iranian presidents. But as unseen players profit from conflict, she finds that peace can be just as dangerous as war.

A mysterious text sends Roma detective Balthazar Kovacs to Republic Square, where a photographed corpse has vanished. His search leads through Budapest's back alleys and power centers, forcing him to choose between the law and family loyalty.

Called to a brothel owned by his brother, Kovacs finds a dead Arab financier and erased CCTV footage. What looks like a discreet scandal opens into a murder case tied to government power, organized crime, and his own family's past.

In wintry Budapest, Detective Balthazar Kovacs investigates the disappearance of Israeli historian Elad Harrari, whose Holocaust-era research has rattled powerful interests. The search pulls him toward buried crimes, corporate muscle, and some of the city's darkest memories.

Using diaries, archival records, and survivor testimony, LeBor reconstructs Budapest's wartime collapse from 1940 to 1945. He tells the story through people on every side, from rescuers and resisters to collaborators and ordinary civilians.