Steve Berry Books in Order (Cotton Malone, Cassiopeia Vitt and Standalone novels)

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Like John Grisham, Steve Berry was a Southerner lawyer before becoming a writer. Though he wrote his first manuscript in 1990, his first one, the standalone novel The Amber Room, was published 12 years later. Now, Steve Berry’s books have been translated into 41 languages and they appear in multiple bestseller lists. He wrote thriller books with a mix of history, as it is a subject of passion for him and his wife and they created together the foundation History Matters, dedicated to historic preservation.

How to read Steve Berry’s Books in Order?

The Cotton Malone Series

Cotton Malone is a one-time top operative with the Magellan Billet, a division inside the U.S. Justice Department. After leaving the Billet, Cotton Malone moved to Amsterdam and purchased an old and rare bookstore. From time to time, he will be called back by his old boss at the Billet to assist in various investigations. For more details, go to our article about reading the Cotton Malone books in order.

1. “The Admiral’s Mark“ (2012) (short story)
2. The Templar Legacy (2006)
3. The Alexandria Link (2007)
4. The Venetian Betrayal (2007)
5. The Charlemagne Pursuit (2008)
6. The Paris Vendetta (2009)
7. “The Balkan Escape“ (2010) (short story)
8. The Emperor’s Tomb (2010)
9. “The Devil’s Gold“ (2011) (short story)
10. The Jefferson Key (2011)
11. “The Tudor Plot“ (2013) (short story)
12. The King’s Deception (2013)
13. The Lincoln Myth (2014)
14. “The Devil’s Bones” (2014) (short story co-written with James Rollins featuring Gray Pierce from Sigma Force series)
15. The Patriot Threat (2015)
16. The 14th Colony (2016)
17. The Lost Order (2017)
18. “The Devils’ Due” (2017) (short story about one of Cotton Malone’s early missions)
19. The Bishop’s Pawn (2018)
20. The Malta Exchange (2019)
21. The Warsaw Protocol (2020)
22. The Kaiser’s Web (2021)
23. “Extenuating Circumstances” (2011) (short story co-written with M.J. Rose)
24. “Shadow Tag” (2016) (short story co-written with Raymond Khoury, featuring FBI Agent Sean Reilly from the Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin series)
25. “Past Prologue” (2017) short story co-written with Diana Gabaldon, featuring Jamie Fraser from the Outlander book series)
26. The Last Kingdom (2023)
27. The Atlas Maneuver (2024)

The Cassiopeia Vitt Books

A spin-off to the Cotton Malone series, Cassiopeia Vitt Adventures put the wealthy adventurer on center stage. The only heir to a very wealthy father, Cassiopeia Vitt is a woman of many talents, being a businesswoman, philanthropist, student of antiquities, and much more. She works to rebuild a castle using only thirteenth-century techniques.

For more details, go to our article about reading the Cassiopeia Vitt books in order.

1. The Balkan Escape (2010) – also part of the Cotton Malone series.
   
2. The Museum of Mysteries (2018)
3. The Lake of Learning (2019)
4. The House of Long Ago (2020)
5. The End of Forever (2021)

The Luke Daniels Series

1. The 9th Man (2023) – Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke’s help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides—one seeking the truth, the other trying to escape the past—a war that has already claimed one life and is about to claim more. 
2. Red Star Falling (2024) – Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former CIA operation named Sommerhaus — a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed. But Luke is provided with some shocking news. Vince is alive, in failing health, locked behind the walls of Russia’s brutal Solovetsky Island prison, and has a critical message he’ll give to no one but Luke. Needing no further convincing Luke vows to bring Vince home. 

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Steve Berry’s Stand-alone Novels in order of publication

• The Amber Room (2003) – Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind clues to a treasure called the Amber Room, one of the most intriguing mysteries of the last century. Desperate for the truth, Rachel takes off for Germany, with Paul close behind. Before long, they’re in over their heads. Locked into a treacherous game with professional killers, Rachel and Paul find themselves on a collision course with the forces of greed, power, and history itself…
• The Romanov Prophecy (2004) – History is being made and Miles Lord has a ringside seat. The people of Russia have voted to bring back the tsar, a ruler to be selected from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, who was murdered along with the rest of the Romanov family in 1918. Miles has been asked to run a background check on one of the candidates. But excitement turns to terror when Miles is nearly killed by gunmen. Suddenly, he is racing across continents with only a cryptic utterance by Rasputin, made at the time of the Romanov massacre, as his guide. The implications of this prophecy are earth-shattering — not only for the future tsar and mother Russia, but for Miles himself.
• The Third Secret (2005) – Third Secret is rumored to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after sleepless night? When Father Colin Michener is sent on a secret mission to the highlands of Romania, he is pitched into a vortex of suspicion, deceit, murder and forbidden passion. Suddenly, he is forced to face the very thing that has so distressed the Pope – and to unravel a mystery that will shake the world.

• The Columbus Affair (2012) – Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, and his reputation. What hurts most is that he knows his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a journalist was sabotaged. He was set up, but he can’t prove it. They – whoever they are – have beaten him. So he decides to end his life. But before he can pull the trigger, an enigmatic stranger appears. Zachariah Simon has Tom’s estranged daughter at his mercy. What he wants is something only Tom can supply. It’s the key to a five-hundred-year-old mystery, one with explosive consequences in the modern world.
• The Omega Factor (2022) – When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours-the Vultures-a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick, the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy-a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit by utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own.

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