Richard Condon Books in Order

James Bourne, son of a millionaire, heads to Spain and plans an audacious art theft using master copies and hidden Old Masters. It is a stylish caper with wit, risk, and a marriage caught in the middle.

After a Korean War patrol is captured and brainwashed, decorated Sergeant Raymond Shaw returns home as an unwitting weapon in a political plot. It is a cold, furious thriller about family control, paranoia, and manufactured patriotism.

Set on a vast Texas ranch in 1844, this comic Western follows Evalina Patten, whose family curse turns desire into chaos. Condon plays the frontier for laughs while still keeping the emotions messy and risky.

Dan Tiamat claws his way from poverty to fame as a powerful newspaper columnist, only to find success hollowing him out. Condon turns his rise and fall into a sharp, sad satire about ambition and self-invention.

A wealthy French Jewish woman and her Prussian husband marry just as Hitler comes to power. Their love story turns into a dark, deeply unsettling portrait of Europe sliding into terror.

Francis Vollmer, a respectable New York banker, becomes consumed by the fantasy that he is meant for aristocratic greatness. His reinvention takes him through Paris, London, and Geneva in a biting novel about snobbery and self-delusion.

Movie idol Tynan Bryson is shooting another oversized film when enemies start circling across Europe and beyond. Condon turns celebrity, ego, and attempted murder into a fast, globe-hopping farce.

Retired naval officer Colin Huntington has charm, money, and a gambling habit he cannot control. After pledging the same collateral twice, he faces ruin, prison, and a scramble across the world of the very rich.

Edward Courance West builds wealth and power on Prohibition, and his family's story becomes a secret history of American corruption. Big, restless, and satirical, the novel tracks money and influence across generations.

A Wall Street lawyer named Duncan Mulligan is pushed toward the White House, but private appetites and public ambition make a wrecking combination. It is political satire with sex, vanity, and family pressure driving the plot.

Years after President Timothy Kegan's assassination, a deathbed confession convinces his family there was a conspiracy after all. Nick Kegan follows the trail through money, myth, and power in one of Condon's darkest political thrillers.

A comic inquiry into America's real religion, money, sends angels, sinners, and opportunists through inflation, markets, and moral collapse. It is one of Condon's strangest satires, funny and acidic at the same time.

A wild cast of billionaires, spies, diplomats, and fixers sets out to take control of the world by smoother, more respectable means. Condon treats global power like a farce, but the joke has sharp teeth.

Agatha Teel, a brilliant lawyer, stands at the center of a planned urban guerrilla revolt timed for July 4, 1976. Intelligence agencies, drugs, and revolutionary theater make this one tense and feverish.

Caroline of Brunswick marries the future George IV and walks straight into one of history's ugliest royal marriages. Condon turns scandal, sex, and party politics into a bawdy historical satire.

Colin Huntington returns, this time chasing offshore oil and bigger salvation on the Great Barrier Reef. Soon governments, spies, soldiers, and hired killers are all on his trail.

When national power broker Walter Bodmor Slurrie is murdered, parallel investigations peel back the fraud, greed, and anti-Red posturing that built his career. Condon uses the mystery to skewer postwar American politics.

Jean Spano grows into a powerful figure in the women's movement, carrying her dead mother's ambitions into national politics. Murder, desire, and the hunger for control twist together all the way through.

Charley Partanna, a loyal Prizzi hit man, falls for Irene Walker, a glamorous Los Angeles tax consultant with deadly secrets of her own. Love and mob duty collide fast, and in this family that usually ends badly.

Set during the era when rival popes fought for power, this historical novel follows Baldassare Cossa from pirate bloodline to Pope John XXIII. Church politics, banking, lust, and survival keep the stakes high.

This prequel drops back into Charley Partanna's earlier years as the Prizzis juggle rackets, local politics, and family rivalries in Brooklyn. Charley is caught between ambition, romance, and the dangerous people who want both.

After Washington is destroyed in a nuclear disaster, Colonel Caesare Appleton steps into the vacuum and discovers power is mostly performance. Media spin, family scheming, and imperial fantasy drive the satire.

The Prizzis decide crime is not enough and start chasing something even bigger, respectability. As Charley and Maerose move deeper into business and politics, the family's black-comic reach grows far beyond Brooklyn.

Owney Hazman, a successful frankfurter salesman with a movie-star smile, gets pulled into cocaine money, oil deals, and presidential games. He is badly out of his depth, which is exactly how Condon likes it.

Iraqi American lawyer Leila Aluja becomes an undercover film star to catch spies, then spends years moving through lobbying, PR, and corporate power. It is part spy story, part love story, and part savage political joke.

A vanished husband, ransom plans, and millions waiting to be stolen pull the Prizzis into one more elaborate scheme. Julia Asbury proves just as hungry and inventive as the mobsters circling her.