John Maddox Roberts Books in Order

A tough Jesuit is sent to the lost planet Charun before rival faiths can claim it. Roberts mixes space opera, religious politics, and frontier violence in his first published novel.

Kelly signs on as ship's boy aboard the freighter Space Angel and gets more adventure than he bargained for. An ancient being takes over the voyage, sending the crew toward the center of the galaxy.

Falcon keeps following the trail behind his father's death and finds larger powers waiting behind it. Church politics, dangerous alliances, and old hatreds make this a harder fight than simple revenge.

Draco Falcon's search for justice grows bloodier as enemies multiply and loyalties keep shifting. Roberts writes the series as straight-ahead historical adventure, fast, violent, and full of pursuit.

Back from the First Crusade, Draco Falcon finds his father dead and his home changed. He sets out on a revenge hunt that turns into a long run through medieval violence and intrigue.

In a far-future universe shaped by revived religions, Rome sends a hard-edged Jesuit mission to bring the lost world of Charun back into the fold. Faith, politics, and force are tangled from the start.

Exiled Norseman Hring Kristjanson crosses into an alternate North America full of rival peoples and hard choices. It reads like a lean adventure novel built from history, myth, and survival.

Draco Falcon's revenge trail leads him into a fight over wealth, power, and the kind of prize that attracts ruthless men. The series keeps its medieval action tight and personal.

A crisis from space collides with Cold War politics on Earth. Roberts and Eric Kotani build a near-future adventure where science, fear, and international rivalry all matter at the same time.

The Cingulum books love misdirection, and this one leans into it. The crew of the Eurynome faces shifting appearances, divided loyalties, and another mission where a bad guess can get people killed.

A Stygian sorceress tricks Conan into stealing sacred relics from his own homeland. The quest sends him through war, sorcery, and a fight for Cimmeria itself.

A shabby, capable starship crew heads into the one region still resisting a conquering tyranny. What looks like another job soon becomes a bizarre space-opera struggle with stakes far bigger than the crew expected.

This boxed set gathers several Conan paperbacks into one package, making it an easy way to drop into the Hyborian Age. Expect swords, sorcery, rough travel, and the roaming energy that defines the Tor-era Conan books.

Shipwrecked on the Vilayet Sea, Conan becomes a champion in a struggle between rival rulers. What starts as local politics turns stranger and more dangerous when he and a queen are trapped in an otherworldly realm.

The outer-system frontier is no empty backdrop here. Roberts and Eric Kotani turn space settlement into a story of power, commerce, and conflict, where human expansion brings both opportunity and war.

A new discovery in space forces old rivals to look past narrow interests, at least for a while. Roberts and Eric Kotani balance political tension with the sense that humanity is standing on the edge of something much bigger.

Conan is caught between a conqueror trying to unite the eastern tribes and a scheming wizard with plans of his own. As armies gather, he has to fight his way out of slavery and into the middle of a war for empire.

Kelly is deeper into the life of interstellar traders now, but that hardly makes space safer. Another strange mission pulls him toward alien intelligence, rough company, and the kind of danger that teaches fast.

The Eurynome's unruly crew is back in trouble, this time around dangerous objects and dangerous people. Roberts keeps the Cingulum series fast, strange, and happily unpredictable.

When outlaws destroy the life he might have had, a young Conan swears revenge. He and the fierce Mad Kalya chase their enemy across kingdoms in a long, brutal hunt that will end only with a final reckoning.

An amnesiac wakes inside a future shaped by corporate power and hidden agendas. To survive, he has to figure out who he is, why he is being hunted, and what game he has already been forced to play.

Humanity pushes farther outward with an expedition tied to the Delta Pavonis system. Roberts and Eric Kotani mix exploration, frontier tension, and big scientific stakes in a novel that opens space even wider.

Banished after killing a taboo beast, the young herder Hael leaves his island home for a harsher world. In the Stormlands, where steel is precious and mercy is scarce, he has to become something tougher just to stay alive.

When two seemingly unimportant murders are ignored by everyone else, Decius keeps digging. What he finds is a thick knot of corruption, blackmail, and political danger in the heart of the Roman Republic.

Hired to recover a mysterious relic, Conan heads to the corrupt mining city of Sicas. Gangs, officials, cultists, and betrayals collide in a fast-moving caper that lets Conan fight dirty and think fast.

Hael's life beyond the islands becomes even more dangerous as he meets tougher powers and learns the mainland's rules by force. Roberts keeps the focus on travel, warfare, and the making of a reluctant leader.

Rome is celebrating military success abroad while fear and bloodshed spread at home. Convinced a conspiracy is forming, Decius goes inside the plot and risks his life to stop the Republic from being torn apart.

The Stormlands grow harsher as exile, war, and ruined country push Hael farther from the life he once knew. Survival is no longer enough, because the fate of whole peoples begins to ride on his choices.

A scandal at a sacred women's rite leads Decius into a case of disguise, class tension, and murder. To solve it, he has to work with a notorious criminal and follow the trail from Rome's gutters to its highest circles.

A trip to Alexandria should let Decius escape Rome for a while. Instead he finds philosophers, cultists, a dead courtesan, and a conspiracy with consequences larger than any ordinary provincial murder.

Conan leads an expedition into Kush in search of a vanished explorer and a legendary hoard. The journey brings deserts, betrayal, a hidden kingdom, and a fight to put the rightful ruler back on the throne.

Hael's hard education in the Stormlands keeps widening as war and power draw him toward larger ambitions. In a world where metal, loyalty, and strength all carry a price, every alliance comes with danger.

After escaping prison, Conan aims for a satrap's treasure vault beneath a sinister temple. The heist succeeds, but then elite hunters, old enemies, and a cult with dangerous plans close in behind him.

War in the Stormlands widens across coasts and kingdoms as rival rulers fight for survival and advantage. The series grows even bigger here, adding new powers and fresh danger to an already battered world.

Rome's wildest festival is in full swing when Decius is called home from exile to investigate a politically dangerous poisoning. The case leads him into family pressure, secret cults, and a city where rules have temporarily vanished.

Burned-out ex-cop Gabe Treloar stops in his Ohio hometown on the way to a new life and gets stuck when his landlady is murdered. Soon he is a suspect in a town with more secrets than its cheerful surface admits.

Conan joins Achilea, the former queen of the Amazons, on a hard journey toward the lost city of Jangar. The road is packed with hostile lands, dark bargains, and an ancient menace waiting under the ruins.

Sent to Caesar's army in Gaul, Decius is ordered to solve the murder of a despised centurion. With the wrong suspect already marked for death, he has very little time to find the real killer.

In ruined, landlocked Tarsis, the cursed mercenary Ironwood gets drawn into a murder case with siege armies outside the walls. It is a Dragonlance story built as a mystery, with plenty of danger before the truth comes out.

A Vietnam-era secret comes roaring back when Gabe Treloar is pulled into threats surrounding a film project. The trail runs from Los Angeles to Saigon, forcing him to face old loyalties, old losses, and a past that never stayed buried.

A tribune publicly curses Crassus on the day the army marches east, then is murdered soon after. Decius has to investigate in a Rome where politics, fear, and belief in old magic all point in different directions.

When the daughter of Gabe Treloar's employer disappears, the search sends him across the American roadscape. What begins as a missing-person case turns messy, dangerous, and painfully personal.

As aedile, Decius is supposed to stage games and keep the city running. A deadly tenement collapse puts him on the trail of greed and sabotage, and the deeper he digs, the closer the case gets to Rome's most powerful men.

In a hard-edged future shaped by surveillance, memory, and corporate power, a homicide investigation opens onto something bigger. The case pulls a police team into the uneasy space between what people remember and what they have been made to believe.

A new space race forms around solar power, orbital industry, and the question of who gets to control the future. Roberts and Eric Kotani turn boardroom rivalry and rocketry into a brisk near-future thriller.

Sent to help suppress piracy, Decius heads to Cyprus and meets a young Cleopatra. When the island's ruler is murdered, trade, politics, and sea power tangle into a case far more dangerous than a simple anti-pirate patrol.

Decius expects his rise to higher office to be routine until a stranger publicly accuses him of corruption. When the accuser turns up dead on the courthouse steps, Decius has to clear his name in a murder case designed to ruin him.

Serving as praetor in Campania should be pleasant work for Decius and Julia. Then a priest's daughter is murdered near Vesuvius, a boy faces mob justice, and Decius has to cut through panic before the wrong person dies.

What if Hannibal had beaten Rome for good? More than a century later, Rome's exiled descendants are ready to return, launching a sharp alternate-history novel full of strategy, diplomacy, and revenge.

While visiting a famous southern Italian oracle, Decius stumbles into a feud between rival priesthoods. When the priests are slaughtered, old ethnic grudges and new ambitions threaten to turn one murder case into open violence.

In Roberts's alternate Mediterranean, Rome has fought its way back into Italy and now looks toward Carthage. Victory is possible, but only if rival leaders, fragile alliances, and battlefield ambitions do not tear the reconquest apart.

Caesar's calendar reform brings foreign astronomers to Rome, and then the killings start. Decius must protect the project, untangle fraud and superstition, and find a murderer before politics turns deadly.