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Steve Berry
  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1992
  • Latest Book:
    February 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: 30 titles



  • 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.

    ...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • "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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...






  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 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...



  • 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 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...



  • 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 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 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’ ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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 and Tuscany to solve a five hundred year old mystery.   Cotton Mal...


Award-Winning Books by Steve Berry

The Lost Order
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Thriller


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steve Berry has published 30 books.

The next book by Steve Berry, The Medici Return, will be published in February 2025.

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

Yes. Steve Berry has 3 series.