Allen Drury Books in Order

A controversial nominee for Secretary of State goes before the Senate, and every hearing exposes another layer of ambition, fear, and compromise. Drury turns procedure into suspense as Washington edges toward crisis.

Drury widens his Washington canvas to the United Nations, where Cold War maneuvering collides with newly independent nations and America's own racial tensions. It is a sequel that makes global diplomacy feel personal and volatile.

Major Bill Steele arrives at an exclusive Sierra vacation colony hoping to recover from divorce. Instead he is pulled into the private politics of wealthy Greenmont, where loneliness, pressure, and desire turn a summer romance dangerous.

President Harley Hudson runs for a term of his own while foreign crises and a ruthless media battle reshape the campaign. Party convention politics, public image, and ambition make this one of Drury's sharpest election novels.

Drury travels through South Africa and uses reporting, interviews, and official documents to examine the country's politics and social order. It is a searching portrait of a society built on deep contradictions.

After President Harley Hudson dies in a suspicious crash, a bruising fight breaks out over who should lead his party and the country. The book drives toward a shocking burst of gunfire that splits the series in two.

An American plan to reach Mars turns urgent when the Soviets appear ready to get there first. Astronaut training, media battles, sabotage, and politics all crowd into a tense space-race thriller.

Drawn from interviews and paired with Fred J. Maroon's photographs, this book offers a mid-first-term portrait of Richard Nixon and his White House. It is part political study, part visual record of an administration in motion.

In Drury's other continuation of Preserve and Protect, Ted Jason enters the White House promising peace and reconciliation. Idealism quickly meets violence, unrest, and hard power at home and abroad.

In this alternate sequel to Preserve and Protect, Orrin Knox reaches the presidency after an assassin reshapes American politics. Even as he takes office, a dangerous contest between the Soviet Union and China threatens to box him in.

Akhenaten tries to break the power of Egypt's old religion and build a new order around the Aten. Drury tells the story through many voices, turning a distant dynasty into a vivid struggle over faith and power.

Anna arrives on Capitol Hill as a young reporter on the day America enters World War II, then fights her way into the center of Washington media. The novel follows her climb from outsider to powerful publisher and commentator.

After Akhenaten's revolution, Egypt is left divided, frightened, and ripe for a struggle over who will rule next. The young Tutankhamun inherits a kingdom where priests, courtiers, and old loyalties all want their turn.

Thirty-year-old Mark Coffin wins a surprise Senate seat and arrives in Washington full of ideals. Committee fights, powerful in-laws, and a personal scandal quickly teach him how rough public life can be.

Part travel book and part historical reflection, this volume follows Drury's journey from Abu Simbel to Alexandria. He mixes personal impressions with clear, enthusiastic writing about ancient Egyptian history, religion, and culture.

A new American president confronts an aggressive Soviet leader and a world sliding toward confrontation. Drury builds the tension through diplomats, politicians, and insiders who know one bad move could change everything.

New Supreme Court Justice Tay Barbour is hit by personal disaster just as a terrorist case rises toward the Court. His principles on life, death, and justice suddenly become painfully personal.

President Hamilton Delbacher faces Soviet pressure across several flashpoints, with the superpowers edging toward nuclear catastrophe. This sequel widens Drury's Washington world into a global showdown of strategy, nerve, and miscalculation.

A remote Pacific occupation by the Soviets should demand a clear American response. Instead, Drury turns the crisis into a grim study of bureaucracy, rivalry, and paralysis inside the military and government.

A Soviet seizure of a remote Pacific atoll exposes how slowly Washington can move in a real emergency. As the invaders dig in, Pentagon infighting and political delay threaten to become the real disaster.

On a California campus modeled on Stanford, fraternity brothers face senior year with Europe sliding toward war. College politics, friendship, romance, and ambition suddenly feel less private when history is closing in.

The men of Alpha Zeta return from World War II expecting peace and find a harder world waiting. As careers, marriages, children, and later wars reshape their lives, survival turns out to be only the beginning.

When two oil kingdoms go to war and a nuclear armed ruler raises the stakes, Washington is forced into a Middle East crisis. Drury follows the State Department, the White House, and the United Nations as every choice grows more dangerous.

The surviving Alpha Zetas gather for a last reunion as aging Senator Willie Wilson looks back on family losses, old friendships, and a long political life. The past keeps colliding with the public battles that shaped him.