Steve Berry

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Steve Berry
  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1992
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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About the Author

Steve Berry is the author of the N.Y. Times Bestselling Cotton Malone series featuring The Jefferson Key among others. He has also written stand alone thrillers including The Amber Room. His books have been translated into 40 languages in over 50 countries with over 12 million books in print.

Berry is also an instructor, teaching writing around the world. He lives in Florida with his wife.

Full Series List in Order

A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure

1 - The Balkan Escape (Sep-2010)
2 - The Museum of Mysteries (Jun-2018)
3 - The Lake of Learning (Aug-2019)
4 - The House of Long Ago (Jun-2020)
5 - The End of Forever (Jul-2021)

Cotton Malone

0.5 - The Devils' Due (Jun-2006)
1 - The Templar Legacy (Feb-2006)
2 - The Alexandria Link (Feb-2007)
3 - The Venetian Betrayal (Dec-2007)
4 - The Charlemagne Pursuit (Dec-2008)
5 - The Paris Vendetta (Dec-2009)
6 - The Emperor's Tomb (Dec-2010)
7 - The Jefferson Key (May-2011)
7.5 - The Tudor Plot (May-2013)
8 - The King's Deception (Jun-2013)
9 - The Lincoln Myth (May-2014)
10 - The Patriot Threat (Apr-2015)
11 - The 14th Colony (Apr-2016)
12 - The Lost Order (Apr-2017)
13 - The Bishop's Pawn (Mar-2018)
14 - The Malta Exchange (Mar-2019)
15 - The Warsaw Protocol (Feb-2020)
16 - The Kaiser's Web (Mar-2021)
17 - The Last Kingdom (Feb-2023)
18 - The Atlas Maneuver (Feb-2024)

Luke Daniels

0.1 - The Lincoln Myth (May-2014)
0.2 - The Patriot Threat (Apr-2015)
0.3 - The Malta Exchange (Mar-2019)
0.4 - The Last Kingdom (Feb-2023)
1.4 - The 9th Man (Jan-2023)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Boy Who Wouldn't Speak

    Owen grows to be five years old without speaking. "Never mind," says Mom, "he'll talk when he's ready." When Owen befriends two kindly giants down the block, he finally must speak to defend them against the biased neighbors.

    ...

  • The Amber Room

    Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man - and the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies started th...

  • The Romanov Prophecy

    After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the tsar, who will be chosen from among the distant relatives of Nicholas II. Asked to perform a background check on one of the candidates, ...

  • The Third Secret

    Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, something coaxes Pope Clement XV to the Vatican's private archive--something concerning the revelations of Fatima. When the Pope sends Michener on a mysterio...

  • The Templar Legacy

    Cotton Malone - 1

    Onetime U.S. operative Cotton Malone teams up with his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, to find the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the Knights Templar were exterminated in the fourteenth ce...

  • The Devils' Due

    in Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
    Cotton Malone - 0.5

    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • The Alexandria Link

    Cotton Malone - 2

    "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don't hear from you, you will be childless." Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those...

  • The Venetian Betrayal

    Cotton Malone - 3

    After narrowly escaping incineration in, a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone -- former Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer -- learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze wa...

  • The Charlemagne Pursuit

    Cotton Malone - 4

    As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told that his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic. But what he now learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission ...



  • The Paris Vendetta

    Cotton Malone - 5

    Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American Secret Service agent with assassins on his heels. Narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight, the two journey to the secluded estate of ...

  • The Balkan Escape

    A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure - 1

    Steve Berry's first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm's way." As a favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks ...

  • The Emperor's Tomb

    Cotton Malone - 6

    Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he's shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who's saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a myster...

  • The Jefferson Key

    Cotton Malone - 7

    Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated -- in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963 -- each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same shocking reason: a clause contained in the United States Con...

  • The Columbus Affair

    He was called by many names -- Columb, Colom, Colon -- but we know him as Christopher Columbus. Many questions about him exist: Where was he born, raised, and educated? Where did he die? How did he discover the New World? None have ever been prop...

  • The Tudor Plot

    Cotton Malone - 7.5

    In this original eBook novella by the New York Times bestselling author of The King’s Deception, globetrotting intelligence agent Cotton Malone is lured into dangerous intrigue surrounding the world’s most famous royals -- and uncovers a murderou...

  • The King's Deception

    Cotton Malone - 8

    New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Steve Berry returns with another Cotton Malone thrill ride, which takes readers to the heart of England, uncovering a secret that threatens to rock Great Britain to its royal foundations. Wh...

  • The Lincoln Myth

    Cotton Malone - 9
    Luke Daniels - 0.1

    Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely -- not only in Malone’s world, ...

  • The Patriot Threat

    Cotton Malone - 10
    Luke Daniels - 0.2

    The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden p...

  • The 14th Colony

    Cotton Malone - 11

    What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain―in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department...



  • The Lost Order

    Cotton Malone - 12

    The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have se...

  • The Bishop's Pawn

    Cotton Malone - 13

    History recalls that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr. ― marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files ― ended on April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that...

  • The Malta Exchange

    Cotton Malone - 14
    Luke Daniels - 0.3

    The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret fuels New York Times bests...

  • The Warsaw Protocol

    Cotton Malone - 15

    In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent...

  • The Kaiser's Web

    Cotton Malone - 16

    In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history -- it could impact Germany&#...

  • The Omega Factor

    The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ ...

  • The 9th Man

    Luke Daniels - 1.4

    From New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series comes a thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President John Kennedy. Lu...

  • The Last Kingdom

    Cotton Malone - 17
    Luke Daniels - 0.4

    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigm...

  • The Atlas Maneuver

    Cotton Malone - 18

    From a celebrated New York Times bestselling author comes a Cotton Malone adventure in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure known as Yamashita’s Gold. 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japa...

  • Red Star Falling

    From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible -- the unl...



  • The Medici Return

    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series -- an adventure that takes Cotton to Italy to solve a five hundred year-old mystery.   Cotton Malone is on the...

  • The List

    Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice, said goodbye to his parents, and moved three hundred mi...

Award-Winning Books by Steve Berry

The Lost Order
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Thriller


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steve Berry has published 31 books.

The next book by Steve Berry, The List, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Steve Berry, The Boy Who Wouldn't Speak, was published in March 1992.

Yes. Steve Berry has 3 series.
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