Max Overton

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Amarnan Kings

1 - Scarab - Akhenaten (Jan-2010)
2 - Scarab - Smenkhkare (Aug-2011)
3 - Scarab - Tutankhamen (Nov-2011)
4 - Scarab - Ay (Apr-2012)
5 - Scarab - Horemheb (Jun-2012)
6 - Scarab - Descendant (May-2013)

Ascension

1 - Ascension (Aug-2013)
2 - Maelstrom, A Novel of Nazi Germany (Oct-2016)
3 - Dammerung, A Novel of Nazi Germany (Sep-2021)

Fall of the House of Ramesses

1 - Merenptah (Dec-2014)
2 - Seti (Feb-2015)
3 - Tausret (May-2016)

Glass House Trilogy

1 - Glass House (Jul-2004)
2 - A Glass Darkly (May-2004)
3 - Looking Glass (May-2014)

Hyksos

1 - Avaris (Jan-2020)
2 - Conquest (Mar-2020)
3 - Two Cities (Jun-2020)
4 - Possessor of All (Jul-2020)
5 - War in the South (Oct-2020)
6 - Between the Wars (Mar-2021)
7 - Sons of Tao (May-2021)

Scythian Trilogy

1 - Lion of Scythia (Jan-2004)
2 - The Golden King (Feb-2013)
3 - Funeral in Babylon (Feb-2013)

Strong is the Ma'at of Re

1 - The King (Apr-2012)
2 - The Heirs (Apr-2018)
3 - Taweret (Aug-2018)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Lion of Scythia

    Scythian Trilogy - 1

    Alexander the Great has conquered the Persian Empire and is marching eastward to India. In his wake he leaves small groups of Macedonian soldiers to wield military power over great tracts of land and diverse peoples. Nikometros, son of Leonnatus, is ...

  • A Glass Darkly

    Glass House Trilogy - 2

    A dead volcano called Glass Mountain in Northern California seems harmless - or is it? This is the fascinating setting of this mesmerising epic, the second book of the Glass Trilogy. Andromeda Jones, a physicist, knows her missing sister Samantha is ...

  • Glass House

    Glass House Trilogy - 1

    The mysteries of Australia may just hold the answers mankind has been searching for millennium to find. When Doctor James Hay, a university scientist who studies the paranormal mysteries in Australia, finds an obelisk of carved volcanic rock on sacre...

  • A Cry of Shadows

    Australian Professor Ian Delaney is single-minded in his determination to prove his theory that one can discover the moment that the life force leaves the body. After succumbing to the temptation to kill a girl under scientifically controlled conditi...

  • Scarab - Akhenaten

    The Amarnan Kings - 1

    A chance discovery in Syria reveals answers to the mystery of the ancient Egyptian sun-king, the heretic Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti. Inscriptions in the tomb of his sister Beketaten, otherwise known as Scarab, tell a story of life and...

  • Rakshasa

    Rakshasa is a demon. He doesn’t know where he came from or how he came to be in the first place. All he knows is that he feeds on the dying thoughts of men and that he is hungry. Engendered in ancient times in the north of India, he wanders, doing ...

  • Scarab - Smenkhkare

    The Amarnan Kings - 2

    An archaeological dig in Syria has revealed the presence of the tomb of a royal princess - Beketaten, also known as Scarab. The narrative on its walls reveals hitherto unknown events surrounding the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his successors.

  • Scarab - Tutankhamen

    The Amarnan Kings - 3

    Scarab and her brother Smenkhkare are in exile in Nubia, but are gathering an army to wrest control of Egypt from the boy king Tutankhamen and his controlling uncle, Ay. Meanwhile, the kingdoms are beset by internal troubles and the Amorites are pres...

  • Sequestered

    Storing carbon dioxide underground as a means of removing a greenhouse gas responsible for global warming has made James Matternicht a fabulously wealthy man. For 15 years, the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Facility at Rushing River in Oregon's hi...



  • The King

    Strong is the Ma'at of Re - 1

    In Ancient Egypt, C1200 BCE, bitter contention and resentment, secret coups and assassination attempts may decide the fate of those who would become legends...by any means necessary.That he is descended from Ramesses the Great fills Ramesses III with...

  • Scarab - Ay

    The Amarnan Kings - 4

    Tutankhamen is dead and his grieving widow tries to rule alone, but her grandfather Ay has not destroyed the former kings just so he can be pushed aside. Presenting the Queen and General Horemheb with a fait accompli, the old Vizier assumes the thron...

  • Scarab - Horemheb

    The Amarnan Kings - 5

    General Horemheb has taken control after the death of Ay and Nakhtmin. Forcing Scarab to marry him, he ascends the throne of Egypt. The Two Kingdoms settle into an uneasy peace as Horemheb proceeds to stamp out all traces of the former kings. He also...

  • Djinn

    Born of the smokeless flame in the wilderness of prehistoric Arabia, a djinni comes into being. A creature of pure energy, he takes the form of a green-tinged blue flame that feeds off the life forces of human kind, taking pleasure in death and terro...

  • Funeral in Babylon

    Scythian Trilogy - 3

    Alexander the Great has returned from India and set up his court in Babylon. Nikometros and a band of loyal Scythians journey deep into the heart of Persia to join the Royal court. Nikometros finds himself embroiled in the intrigues and wars of kings...

  • The Golden King

    Scythian Trilogy - 2

    The chief of the tribe is dead, killed by his son's treachery; and the priestess, the lover of the young cavalry officer, Nikometros, is carried off into the mountains. Nikometros and his friends set off in pursuit. Death rides with them and by the t...

  • Scarab - Descendant

    The Amarnan Kings - 6

    Three thousand years after the reigns of the Amarnan Kings, the archaeologists who discovered the inscriptions in Syria, journey to Egypt to find the tomb of Smenkhkare and his sister Scarab, and the fabulous treasure they think is there. Unscrupulou...

  • We Came from Konigsberg

    January 1945, and the Soviet Army is poised for the final push through East Prussia and Poland to Berlin. Elisabet Daeker and her five young sons are in Königsberg, East Prussia, and have heard the stories of Russian atrocities. They seek to escape ...

  • Ascension

    Ascension - 1

    A small boy discovers that being a Jew in Germany can be a dangerous thing. Fear prompts Konrad Wengler to put his faith aside and he tries desperately to forget his heritage. He fights in the Great War and is wounded, becomes a policeman in his tiny...

  • Haunted Trail

    Ned Abernathy is a hot-tempered young cowboy in the small town of Hammond's Bluff in the Dakota Territories in 1876. In a drunken argument with his best friend Billy over a girl, he guns him down. He flees, and wanders the plains, forests and hills o...



  • Looking Glass

    Glass House Trilogy - 3

    Samantha and James Hay have been advised that their missing daughter Gaia and Yowie nursemaid Cindy have been located in ancient Australia. Dr. Xanatuo, an alien scientist who, along with a lost tribe of Neanderthals and other beings who are working ...

  • Merenptah

    Fall of the House of Ramesses - 1

    Egypt was at the height of its powers in the days of Ramesses the Great and the young king confidently predicted that his House would last for a Thousand Years. Sixty years later he was still on the throne and one by one his heirs had died and the su...

  • Seti

    Fall of the House of Ramesses - 2

    Merenptah is dead after only nine years on the throne and his son Seti is king in his place. He rules from the northern city of Men-nefer, while his elder brother Messuwy, convinced the throne is his by right, plots rebellion in the south. The kingdo...

  • Tulpa

    From the rainforests of tropical Australia to the cane fields and communities of the North Queensland coastal strip, a horror is unleashed by those foolishly playing with unknown forces...

    A fairy story to amuse small children leads four bored teen...

  • Tausret

    Fall of the House of Ramesses - 3

    The House of Ramesses falters as Tausret relinquishes the throne upon the death of her husband, King Seti. Amenmesse's young son Siptah will become king until her infant son is old enough to rule. Tausret, as Regent, and the king's uncle, Chancellor ...

  • Maelstrom, A Novel of Nazi Germany

    Ascension - 2

    Never underestimate the enemy...Konrad Wengler survived his brush with the death camps of Nazi Germany. Now, reinstated as a police officer in his Bavarian hometown despite being a Jew, he throws himself back into his work, seeking to uncover evidenc...

  • The Heirs

    Strong is the Ma'at of Re - 2

    Tiye, the first wife of Ramesses III, has grown so used to being the mother of the Heir she can no longer bear to see that prized title pass to the son of a rival wife. Her eldest sons have died and the one left wants to step down and devote his life...

  • Taweret

    Strong is the Ma'at of Re - 3

    The reign of Ramesses III is failing and even the gods seem to be turning their eyes away from Egypt. When the sun hides its face, crops suffer, throwing the country into famine. Tomb workers go on strike. To avert further disaster, Crown Prince Rame...

  • Kadesh

    Holding the key to strategic military advantage, Kadesh is a jewel city that distant lands covet. Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Hatti believe they're chosen by the gods to claim ascendancy to Kadesh. When the two meet in the largest chario...

  • Avaris

    Hyksos - 1

    The power of the kings of the Middle Kingdom have been failing for some time, having lost control of the Nile Delta to a series of Canaanite kings who ruled from the northern city of Avaris.Into this mix came the Kings of Amurri, Lebanon and Syria be...



  • Conquest

    Hyksos - 2

    The Hyksos invade the Delta using the new weapons of bronze and chariots, things of which the Egyptians have no knowledge. They rout the Delta forces, and in the south, the unconquered kings ready their armies to defend their lands. Meanwhile in Avar...

  • Two Cities

    Hyksos - 3

    The Hyksos drive south into the Nile Valley, sweeping all resistance aside. Bebi and Sobekhotep, grandsons of Harrubaal, assume command of the loyal Egyptian army and strive to stem the flood of Hyksos conquest. But even the cities of the south are d...

  • Possessor of All

    Hyksos - 4

    The Hyksos, themselves beset by intrigue and division, push down into southern Egypt. The short-lived kingdom of Abdju collapses, leaving Nebiryraw the undisputed king of the south ruling from the city of Waset. An uneasy truce between north and sout...

  • War in the South

    Hyksos - 5

    Intrigue and rebellion rule in Egypt's southern kingdom as the house of King Nebiryraw tears itself apart. King succeeds king, but none of them look capable of defending the south, let alone reclaiming the north. Taking advantage of this, King Khayan...

  • Between the Wars

    Hyksos - 6

    Rahotep leads his Egyptian army to victory, and Apophis withdraws the Hyksos army northward. An uneasy peace settles over the Nile valley. Rebellions in the north keep the Hyksos king from striking back at Rahotep, while internal strife between the H...

  • Sons of Tao

    Hyksos - 7

    War breaks out between the Hyksos invaders and native Egyptians determined to rid themselves of their presence. King Seqenenre Tao launches an attack on King Apophis but the Hyksos strike back savagely. It is only when his sons Kamose and Ahmose carr...

  • Dammerung, A Novel of Nazi Germany

    Ascension - 3

    Before he fully realized the diabolical cruelties of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, Konrad Wengler had committed atrocities against his own people, the Jews, out of fear of both his faith and his heritage. But after he witnesses firsth...

  • Djoser

    The third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt saw an extraordinary development of building techniques, from the simple structures of mud brick at the end of the second dynasty to the towering pyramids of the fourth dynasty. Just how these massive str...

  • Sekhemkhet

    Sekhemkhet faces the daunting prospect of following on from the glories of his father's achievement. He desires an even bigger pyramid than that of Djoser and orders Imhotep and Den to build it. However, the king finds it easier to build a tomb than ...

  • Khaba

    The third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt saw an extraordinary development of building techniques, from the simple structures of mud brick at the end of the second dynasty to the towering pyramids of the fourth dynasty. Just how these massive str...



  • Huni

    The third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt saw an extraordinary development of building techniques, from the simple structures of mud brick at the end of the second dynasty to the towering pyramids of the fourth dynasty. Just how these massive str...

  • Khufu

    The third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt saw an extraordinary development of building techniques, from the simple structures of mud brick at the end of the second dynasty to the towering pyramids of the fourth dynasty. Just how these massive str...

  • Djedefre

    Djedefre becomes king, with his brother Hordjedef his principal adviser. Breaking with tradition, the king appoints Rait as his architect, gambling that she will be up to the task of building a pyramid. An earthquake damages the Sphinx, and is seen a...

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    The third dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt saw an extraordinary development of building techniques, from the simple structures of mud brick at the end of the second dynasty to the towering pyramids of the fourth dynasty. Just how these massive str...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Overton has published 43 books.

Max Overton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Djedefre, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Max Overton, Lion of Scythia, was published in January 2004.

Yes. Max Overton has 7 series.
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