David Baldacci Books in Order

David Baldacci is an American crime thriller author who practiced law in Washington, D.C. for nine years before publishing his debut novel, Absolute Power, in 1996. That book became an international bestseller almost immediately and was adapted into a film starring Clint Eastwood, a launch that set the tone for a career built on fast-paced, politically charged thrillers. He has since sold over 130 million copies worldwide across more than 50 novels, with books published in over 45 languages.

He is best known for the Amos Decker series, which centers on an FBI consultant with a perfect photographic memory, and the Camel Club series, a Washington-set political thriller series that ran for five books. He has also won the ITW Best Series Novel award (2025) and the Nero Award (2020), and has been recognized as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion for his literacy work.

This page lists all David Baldacci books in order, including his twelve series, from the Camel Club and Will Robie to the newer Travis Devine and Walter Nash books, along with standalone novels, the Vega Jane young adult series, and children’s books.

Latest David Baldacci Books

Hope Rises
Hope Rises (Walter Nash #2), April 2026

More upcoming releases:

  • Untitled Travis Devine book 4 (November 5)

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Sean King Michelle Maxwell Series (Books in Order)

The Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series follows Former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell who team up as private investigators to take on cases involving political conspiracy, corruption, and high-risk crime. The series is set in Washington, D.C., and and focuses on the access and insider knowledge that both characters gained while protecting the President.

Reading Order

  1. Split Second, 2003
  2. Hour Game, 2004
  3. Simple Genius, 2007
  4. First Family, 2009
  5. The Sixth Man, 2011
  6. King and Maxwell, 2013

Camel Club Series (Books in Order)

The Camel Club series follows a group of four eccentric Washington outsiders called the Camel Club, led by a mysterious man who calls himself Oliver Stone. They love to dig into government conspiracies that powerful people will do anything to bury. Together, the team has quite a lot of skills, ranging from intelligence expertise, computer hacking, to research, and the D.C. setting allows David Baldacci to explore the difference between what people see and what really happens.

Reading Order

  1. The Camel Club, 2005
  2. The Collectors, 2006
  3. Stone Cold, 2007
  4. Divine Justice, 2008
  5. Hell’s Corner, 2010
  6. Bullseye, 2014 (novella)

Shaw Series (Books in Order)

The Shaw series follows government assassin Shaw who operates without a first name, as he begins to question the missions he’s given and the people giving them. The short two-book spy-thriller series has morally ambiguous protagonist.

Reading Order

  1. The Whole Truth, 2008
  2. Deliver Us From Evil, 2010

John Puller Series (Books in Order)

The John Puller series follows combat veteran and U.S. Army criminal investigator John Puller working cases for the military’s Criminal Investigation Division. He is a methodical, physically capable investigator. Some of the themes are military corruption, government cover-ups, and crimes close to home. In one book, John Puller even investigates the suspicious death of his own aunt, Betsy.

Reading Order

  1. Zero Day, 2011
  2. The Forgotten, 2012
  3. The Escape, 2014
  4. No Man’s Land, 2016
  5. Daylight, 2020

Will Robie Series (Books in Order)

The Will Robie series follows a government assassin who becomes a target of his own handlers after refusing to kill a target. He operates in the grey zone between state-sanctioned violence and personal conscience.

Reading Order

  1. The Innocent, 2012
  2. The Hit, 2013
  3.  Bullseye, 2014 (novella)
  4. The Target, 2014
  5. The Guilty, 2015
  6. End Game, 2017

Reading notes:

  • Walk the Wire in the Amos Decker series features prominent Will Robie characters and is best read after End Game.

Amos Decker Series (Books in Order)

The Amos Decker series follows former NFL player turned FBI consultant Amos Decker who, after a collision on the field, develops hyperthymesia, a total, perfect recall of everything he has ever experienced. He cannot forget anything, least the night he came home to find his family murdered. The series uses his condition as both a solving tool and his own burden.

Reading notes:

  • Walk the Wire in the Amos Decker series features prominent Will Robie characters and is best read after End Game.

Reading Order

  1. Memory Man, 2015
  2. The Last Mile, 2016
  3. The Fix, 2017
  4. The Fallen, 2018
  5. Redemption, 2019
  6. Walk the Wire, 2020
  7. Long Shadows, 2022

Atlee Pine Series (Books in Order)

The Atlee Pine series follows FBI agent Atlee Pine, who is assigned to a remote field office protecting the Grand Canyon, as she investigates violent crimes in the American Southwest while simultaneously pursuing the decades-old disappearance of her twin sister. The sister’s abduction what drives the whole series and becomes more important with each book.

Reading Order

  1. Long Road to Mercy, 2018
  2. A Minute to Midnight, 2019
  3. Daylight, 2020
  4. Mercy, 2021

Aloysius Archer Series (Books in Order)

The Aloysius Archer series follows World War II veteran Aloysius Archer, released from prison in 1949 after a wrongful conviction, who works as a private investigator through small-town and big-city America. One Good Deed won the 2020 Nero Award.

Reading Order

  1. One Good Deed, 2019
  2. A Gambling Man, 2021
  3. Dream Town, 2022

The 6:20 Man Series (Travis Devine – Books in Order)

The 6:20 Man series follows Travis Devine, a former Army Ranger who has traded military life for an analyst job at a Manhattan investment bank, where he boards the 6:20 commuter train each morning until a murder at his firm pulls him into a conspiracy that reaches into the upper levels of American power. The series is part financial thriller, part espionage thriller.

  1. The 6:20 Man, 2022
  2. The Edge, 2023
  3. To Die For, 2024

Walter Nash Series (Books in Order)

The Walter Nash series follows successful executive Walter Nash, working at an investment firm who is recruited by the FBI after discovering the company is a front for a global criminal organization.

Reading Order

  1. Nash Falls, 2025
  2. Hope Rises, 2026

Vega Jane Series (Books in Order)

The Vega Jane series is a young adult fantasy adventure following Vega Jane, a teenage girl living in a walled town called Wormwood, who discovers that the world outside, seemingly deadly and impassable, may be, in fact, completely different from what she was told.

Reading Order

  1. The Finisher (aka Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery), 2014
  2. The Keeper (aka Vega Jane and the Maze of Monsters), 2015
  3.  The Width of the World (aka Vega Jane and the Rebels’ Revolt), 2017
  4. The Stars Below (aka Vega Jane and the End of Time), 2019

Freddy and the French Fries Series (Books in Order)

Reading Order

  1. Fries Alive!, 2005
  2. The Mystery of Silas Finklebean, 2006

Novellas and Short Stories

  1. No Time Left, 2012
  2. Bullseye, 2014 (novella)
  3. The Final Play, 2021 (formerly published as The Mighty Johns)

Standalone Novels

  1. Absolute Power, 1996
  2. Total Control, 1997
  3. The Winner, 1998
  4. The Simple Truth, 1999
  5. Saving Faith, 2000
  6. Wish You Well, 2001
  7. Last Man Standing, 2001
  8. The Christmas Train, 2001
  9. True Blue, 2009
  10. One Summer, 2011
  11. No Rest For the Dead, 2011 (with Jeff Abbott, Sandra Brown, Thomas H Cook, Jeff Lindsay, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew F Gulli, Lamia Gulli, Peter James, J A Jance, Faye Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Alexander McCall Smith, Phillip Margolin, Michael Palmer, T Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, R L Stine, and Marcia Talley)
  12. Simply Lies, 2023
  13. A Calamity of Souls, 2024
  14. Strangers in Time, 2025

Series Contributed To

39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Books

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

Non-Fiction Books

David Baldacci Biography

David Baldacci books in order

David Baldacci is a New York Times Bestselling author of adult series, multiple standalones, a young adult fantasy series, children’s books, and a non-fiction book.
Official website: davidbaldacci.com

Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1960, He grew up in a family of readers, which shaped his future direction in life. After he finished high school at Henrico High School, he wrote several shorter stories. However, he could not make a living from these, so he decided to continue his studies. After studying political science at Virginia Commonwealth University and earning a law degree from the University of Virginia, he worked as a lawyer in Washington D.C. for several years.

He spent nine years practicing as a trial and corporate lawyer in Washington, D.C. before his debut novel, Absolute Power, was published in 1996. The book became an almost instant international bestseller and was adapted the following year into a film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Since then, David Baldacci wrote more than 60 novels across multiple genres, including crime thrillers, spy novels, legal mysteries, historical fiction, and young adult novels. His series include Amos Decker, which began with Memory Man in 2015, the Camel Club political thrillers, the Will Robie assassin novels, and the period noir Aloysius Archer books. His more recent works includes the Travis Devine financial thriller series and the Walter Nash series, which launched in 2025. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

Beyond his writing career, David Baldacci founded the Wish You Well Foundation with his wife in 1999, which supports family literacy initiatives across the United States, and has been involved with organizations such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

He has received the International Thriller Writers’ ThrillerMaster Award, the Library of Virginia’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction, and recognition as the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion for his lifelong commitment to literary advocacy.

David Baldacci Book Adaptations

  • Absolute Power – adapted into the feature film Absolute Power (1997)
  • Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series – adapted into the television series King and Maxwell (2013)
  • Wish You Well – adapted into the film Wish You Well (2013)
  • The Christmas Train – adapted into the television film The Christmas Train (2017)
  • One Summer – adapted into the television film One Summer (2021),
  • Gray – original television series (2023)

David Baldacci Awards and Honors

Over the years, David Baldacci has received numerous literary honors for both individual novels and his overall contribution to the thriller genre.

Awards

  • Absolute Power – W.H. Smith Thumping Good Read Award, Fiction (1997)
  • Absolute Power – Gold Medal Award, Best Mystery/Thriller, Southern Writer’s Guild
  • ITW Silver Bullet Award, for contributions to literacy (2008)
  • inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame (2011)
  • One Good Deed – Nero Award, Best American Mystery (2020)
  • Hour Game – Virginia Literary Award, Fiction (2005)
  • The Sixth Man – Virginia Literary Award, Fiction (2012)
  • King and Maxwell – Virginia Literary Award, Fiction (2014)
  • Virginia Literary Award, Lifetime Achievement in Fiction (2017)
  • PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion (2024)
  • To Die For – ITW Thriller Award, Best Series Novel (2025)

Nominations and Shortlists

  • The Winner – Kurd Laßwitz Award, Best Foreign Work (1999)
  • Crime Thriller Awards – People’s Bestseller Dagger (2011)
  • FaceOff – Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection (2014)
  • One Good Deed – ITW Award for Best Hardcover Novel (2020)
  • To Die For – Thriller Award for Best Series Novel (2024)

Edited by

Marika

Founder of Mystery Sequels, a reference site focused on listing mystery and thriller books in the correct reading order. I maintain and update the site’s bibliographies as new titles are released, ensuring accuracy and consistency across author and series pages.

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87 Comments

  1. I loved Zero Day. It was fast paced and kept me reading. I finally had to put it away and get some sleep.When I woke up at 5 a.m. was back at it again. Just could not wait to find out what John Puller and the local law would find out. What amazing writing; finished the book today got it yesterday. Now I will read The Winner, hope it turns out to be another great book.

  2. I HAVE READ ALL OF HIS BOOKS EXCEPT THE CHRISTMAS STORY WHICH I UNDERSTAND HE DID NOT WRITE.
    I LOVE ALL OF HIS BOOKS. I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE NEWEST EDIITON TO COME OUT.
    HOW BRILLIANT CAN ONE PERSON BE????
    MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER?: THE WINNER. #2 WAS ABSOLUTE POWER. BUT THERE WERE SOME OTHERS THAT I COULD NOT RESIST. THANK YOU, GOD FOR DAVID BALDACCI!

    1. I TELL EVERYONE YOU ARE THE VERY BEST AUTHOR. I NEED A SIGNED COPY OF YOUR BOOK!

  3. Just finished Memory Man. One of only a few books that I could hardly put down. Awaiting the next Amos.

    I am 80, retired, avid reader, Baldacci a favorite!!!

  4. Cannot find the first Shaw book where he meets Katie James because she followed him to a church where he meets his contact for weapons and it goes bad and he saves her and from there the story goes on. He even helps her with her drinking problem. But I have not been able to find the name of the title anywhere. Can anyone please help me out here?

  5. Also, the next Jack Reacher shoud be Timothy Olyphant…….much TALLER.

  6. I have all of Baldacci’s books, have read them in order of their printing not in character order still wonderful reads, ..it is just like re- visiting an old friends………….love them.

  7. This is perfect. I adore David Baldacci’s books but haven’t read any in the correct order, not that it’s spoiled my enjoyment in anyway. Hell’s Corner was the first one I read, having heard him talking about it on the radio and I’ve been a huge fan ever since. I have so many titles on my shelves still waiting to be read…

  8. I have just finished True Blue and wonder if there is a sequel? Thoroughly enjoyed the book. We are big fans of David BAldacci and have read most of his books.

  9. I too have read all except Jane Vega series. I do though recommend reading the Camel Club in order as the characters get added in the series.
    It would be great to see a Mace Perry sequel but I wonder how it would work, I’m sure that David would be able to make it something to look forward to reading, a True Blue author that he is.

  10. I live in Oz and have collected your books over the last few years. Now reading them in order and enjoying the adventures of the CMel Club (are there more to come) and Sean and Maxwell. Just missing a couple from the other series and looking forward to getting them here.thank you for providing such wonderful stories for me to read.

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