Steve Berry Books in Order

Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and her ex‑husband follow cryptic clues left by her father, a World War II survivor, that point toward the fate of the fabled Amber Room. As rival treasure hunters close in, they race through Germany and the Czech Republic to uncover both treasure and truth.

Corporate lawyer Miles Lord is in Moscow to vet a candidate for a restored Russian monarchy. After surviving an assassination attempt, he discovers Rasputin’s prophecy and evidence that a Romanov heir may still exist, sending him on a frantic search for the rightful tsar.

As the pope grows increasingly agitated over the Fatima apparitions, his private secretary, Father Colin Michener, is sent to investigate. What he uncovers in Eastern Europe and the Vatican archives raises questions about the Virgin’s third secret that could upend official Catholic teaching.

Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is pulled out of his quiet Copenhagen bookshop when his ex‑boss is attacked while chasing a clue to the Knights Templar’s lost treasure, sending them across Europe after secrets that could shake the church.

When kidnappers target Cotton Malone’s teenage son, they demand the one thing only Malone knows—the route to the lost Library of Alexandria. To save his child, he races from Denmark to the Middle East through a conspiracy that could ignite the modern Holy Land.

After a brazen arson attack in Copenhagen, Cotton Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt chase stolen medallions tied to Alexander the Great. Their hunt uncovers a Central Asian dictator with a cache of designer plagues and a ruthless plot that could trigger a new world war.

Searching for the truth about his father’s death on a secret submarine mission, Cotton Malone joins forces with two German sisters whose own parent vanished on the same boat. Clues from Charlemagne’s tomb and Nazi expeditions lead them toward Antarctica and a deadly naval cover‑up.

A terrorist bombing pulls Cotton Malone into billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen’s private vendetta against the man he blames for his son’s death. As they follow Napoléon’s hidden fortune through London and Paris, Cotton must choose between friendship and stopping a financial plot that could rock Europe.

On a covert dig in Bulgaria’s Rila Mountains, Cassiopeia Vitt searches for a Thracian king’s tomb at the request of Henrik Thorvaldsen. When a clandestine Russian mining operation discovers her, she must outwit mercenaries in the high mountains to escape with her life—and the artifacts.

A chilling video of Cassiopeia Vitt being waterboarded drags Cotton Malone into a race that stretches from European cathedrals to China’s underground tombs. The key is an artifact linked to ancient Chinese oil technology, and whoever controls it could reshape the world’s energy future.

Jonathan Wyatt, a former agent known as the Sphinx, has spent years plotting revenge on Cotton Malone. Chasing a rumor of Nazi gold in a remote South American village, he uncovers a secret tied to Martin Bormann, Eva Braun, and a child whose existence could rewrite a dark chapter of history.

After thwarting an assassination attempt on the U.S. president in Manhattan, Cotton Malone tangles with the Commonwealth, a secret brotherhood of modern pirates. To stop them, he must crack a cipher tied to Thomas Jefferson and expose a hidden constitutional clause with explosive power.

After his brother‑in‑law dies in a suspicious diving accident off Haiti, Cotton Malone goes to investigate. He discovers the wreck of Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, and finds himself caught between Israeli intelligence and deadly rivals obsessed with the treasure that went down with the ship.

Disgraced journalist Tom Sagan is living in exile when a stranger forces him into one last story: a search tied to Christopher Columbus, the Temple Mount, and a hidden cache in Jamaica. To clear his name and protect his daughter, he has to rewrite what he believes about Columbus.

Escorting a teenage fugitive to London as a favor to his old boss, Cotton Malone sees both the boy and his own son vanish. The disappearance leads into a CIA game built around a shocking theory about Queen Elizabeth I, Irish independence, and modern-day blackmail.

Asked to courier a simple package to London, Cotton Malone stumbles onto a scheme that links present‑day British politics with an old lie about the Tudor line. This novella bridges adventures, hinting at the deadly secrets waiting in The King’s Deception.

On an Amazon river cruise, Cotton Malone teams up with Sigma Force commander Gray Pierce to stop a rogue botanist. Their target wants to sell a rare orchid that produces a deadly neurotoxin, and the buyers aren’t worried about mass casualties.

A missing Justice Department agent and a secretive Utah sect draw Cotton Malone into a struggle over Abraham Lincoln’s legacy. Hidden documents about secession could be used to justify tearing the United States apart, and Cotton must decide how far he’ll go to defend the union.

Tax records from the 1930s, a mysterious painting, and clues hidden on the dollar bill send Cotton Malone chasing a renegade North Korean agent. If the evidence he carries reaches the public, it could prove the federal income tax illegal and crash the American economy.

FBI agent Sean Reilly and Cotton Malone are sent to London after American specialists vanish and chatter hints at a looming terrorist attack. The short adventure plays with both men’s histories as they uncover a plot that turns out to be far more personal than expected.

Cotton Malone’s Siberian mission uncovers a Cold War weapon long thought mythical and a secret American plan to turn Canada into the fourteenth colony. As a Russian hardliner moves to exploit both, Cotton races toward Washington to prevent a decapitation strike on the U.S. government.

In one of Cotton Malone’s earliest missions, he’s sent to a repressive Central Asian nation whose ruler burns books yet secretly aids the United States. There he’s asked to manage the surrender of the world’s most notorious terrorist, only to realize almost nothing about the deal is what it seems.

An assignment for the Smithsonian draws Cotton Malone into the buried caches of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society that stole and hid vast quantities of gold. Modern heirs are fighting over the treasure while a ruthless politician plots to use it for power.

Looking back on his first mission, Cotton Malone recalls being a young Navy lawyer roped into an off‑the‑books investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. A rare coin and a cache of files reveal that the truth behind the killing is far murkier than the official story.

While visiting a friend’s quirky Museum of Mysteries in the village of Èze, Cassiopeia witnesses a robbery that spirals into something stranger. A stolen object, old alchemical recipes, and a looming French presidential election intertwine, forcing her to navigate both political intrigue and unsettling slips in time.

At a Scottish castle hosting a rare book sale, Cotton Malone chases a stolen grimoire and touches a ring of ancient stones. He wakes in the eighteenth century Highlands, face to face with Jamie Fraser, and must survive long enough to find his way back—or decide not to.

During construction of her medieval-style castle in France, Cassiopeia Vitt uncovers an ancient book of hours tied to the persecuted Cathars. Treasure hunters and a vengeful billionaire race her through Carcassonne, Montségur, and hidden caves, each determined to claim the sect’s most sacred relic.

Working a quiet job for British intelligence, Cotton Malone finds a murdered dealer and rumors of long-lost letters between Winston Churchill, Mussolini, and the Vatican. His search collides with rival factions inside the Knights of Malta and a struggle over the choosing of the next pope.

Preparing to sell her clifftop family estate in Spain, Cassiopeia Vitt plans to donate her father’s prized art collection to museums. When experts declare every painting a fake, she chases the forgeries’ origins through Andorra, the Mediterranean, and Paris to uncover what really happened in her father’s past.

After witnessing the theft of a holy relic in Bruges, Cotton Malone is sent to steal the Holy Lance from a Polish shrine as entrance fee to a secret auction. There, compromising files on Poland’s president are for sale to the highest bidder, including Russia and the U.S.

After the brutal murder of her friend Esmerelda Fontana and a violent attack on her castle project, Cassiopeia Vitt follows a trail of revenge from Spain to France and Italy. At its end waits a man obsessed with destroying her—and willing to use Cotton Malone as leverage.

Competing candidates for Germany’s chancellorship send Cotton Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt digging into the last hours of Hitler’s regime. From Chile to South Africa to Swiss vaults, they chase evidence about Nazi escapes, hidden wealth, and a secret that could tilt European politics toward extremism.

UNESCO investigator Nick Lee visits Ghent to reconnect with an old love restoring the famed Ghent Altarpiece. A fire and assault in her studio plunge him into a centuries‑old battle between a secretive order of nuns and Vatican power brokers over a heretical truth hidden in the painting.

Between assignments for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels rushes to help an old friend and lands in the middle of a struggle over secret evidence from November 22, 1963. On the run across continents, he chases the truth about a mysterious ninth participant in JFK’s assassination.

Luke Daniels infiltrates a Bavarian separatist group while Cotton Malone tracks a prince plotting to unseat his brother. Their paths converge around King Ludwig II’s rumored search for a new kingdom and a nineteenth‑century deed that could give modern powers a legal claim to contested land.

Haunted by a failed Ukraine operation, Luke Daniels learns that a CIA colleague long thought dead is imprisoned on Russia’s Solovetsky Island. The rescue yields only fragmentary last words that send Luke hunting for Ivan the Terrible’s lost library and a dormant Soviet space weapon called Red Star.

Doing a favor for a CIA friend, Cotton Malone quietly watches a young banker in Luxembourg connected to the shadowy Black Eagle Trust, a Cold War stash of looted gold. When assassins strike, he’s drawn into a battle over who will control that secret fortune and the leverage it brings.

Returning to his Georgia hometown as assistant counsel for a paper mill, Brent Walker hopes for a quieter life caring for his mother. Instead he and a union leader uncover a coded list tied to a secret program that quietly murders employees whose medical bills cost the company too much.

Called in to help the Swiss Guard quietly investigate a German cardinal, Cotton Malone uncovers hidden cash and hints of a sixteenth‑century document called the Pledge of Christ. His search through Germany, Siena, and Florence collides with a modern fight over Italy’s leadership and the future of the papacy.

When the sister of Sweden’s king is kidnapped, the ransom demand targets an unlikely object: the Codex Gigas, an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript nicknamed the Devil’s Bible. Cotton Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt must rescue the princess and protect the book as rival nations and old enemies close in.