David Baldacci Books in Order

David Baldacci is a New York Times bestselling 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 started his career with 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, the Camel Club series, King & Maxwell, Will Robie, John Puller, Travis Devine, Atlee Pine, Aloysius Archer, and Walter Nash. 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

More upcoming releases:

• All In – 6:20 Man / Travis Devine #4 (November 2026)

How the Series Connect

Most of the series are independent of each other so they can be read each book within their own series, as David Baldacci creates his series with different jobs in mind:Secret Service agents, Army CID investigators, FBI agents, assassins, private investigators, finance workers, and Washington outsiders.

However, there are a few crossovers that are worth noting. Daylight is an Atlee Pine novel that brings in John Puller, so it should be read after Long Road to Mercy and A Minute to Midnight, with bonus context if you already know Puller. Walk the Wire is an Amos Decker novel that includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel, but it is still part of the Amos Decker / Memory Man series, not the Will Robie series. Bullseye is a short Will Robie / Camel Club crossover story involving Robie, Oliver Stone, and the Camel Club. It is optional and does not change the main order of either series.

Sean King Michelle Maxwell Series (Books in Order)

The King and Maxwell series follows former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell who team up as private investigators after both have failed in their previous protection detail. They work cases involving political conspiracy, corruption, and high-risk crime, and these cases are a test for both of them in how well two damaged people can work together. 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.

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 Oliver Stone, whose real name is John Carr, a former government assassin who is now hiding under a new identity in Washington, D.C. He leads and works with a small group of eccentric Washington outsiders called The Camel Club, who watch the government more closely than the government would like. They are not official investigators, which is part of the danger as they love to dig into government conspiracies that powerful people will do anything to bury. Together, the team has quite a lot of skills that helps them with their cases, ranging from intelligence expertise, computer hacking, to research.

Bullseye is a short crossover story with Will Robie.

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

Shaw Series (Books in Order)

The Shaw series follows government assassin Shaw who operates without a first name. He is connected to a secret group that tracks criminals across borders. Over time, he begins to question the missions he’s given and the people giving them. The short two-book spy-thriller series has morally ambiguous character.

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 who is working cases for the military’s Criminal Investigation Division. He is a methodical, physically capable investigator. Some of the cases he takes on are related to 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. In addition, Puller’s family history is relevant in the books as his father is a respected Army figure, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason.

John Puller also appears in Daylight, an Atlee Pine crossover.

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 U.S. government assassin Will Robbie who is sent after people that official agencies can’t get to. He becomes a target of his own handlers after refusing to kill a target as he is not sure the system is telling him the truth. He is often found in the grey zone between state-sanctioned violence and his personal conscience that gets in the way of him harming innocent people.

Bullseye is a crossover short story with Oliver Stone / the Camel Club series, and Walk the Wire is an Amos Decker novel where Robie and Reel appear.

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

Amos Decker Series (Books in Order)

The Amos Decker series follows former NFL player turned FBI consultant and police detective Amos Decker who, after a collision on the field has brain injury that leaves him with hyperthymesia, where he can fully recall everything he has ever experienced. His perfect recall is both a blessing and a curse as he can’t forget the night he came home to find his family murdered. The series uses his condition as both a solving tool and his own private hell, and David Baldacci doesn’t use this gift as a superpower. Walk the Wire is an Amos Decker novel, but it includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel as well.

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 to protect the Grand Canyon, while she she investigates violent crimes in the American Southwest and at the same time she is trying to find answers about the the decades-old disappearance of her twin sister, Mercy. The sister’s abduction is part of the background arc of the whole series and becomes more important with each book.

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 is trying to rebuild his life in the years after the war. He now works as a private investigator through small-town and big-city America. One Good Deed won the 2020 Nero Award.

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

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

The Travis Devine / 6:20 Man series follows Travis Devine, a former Army Ranger trying to rebuild his life by taking an entry-level job at a Manhattan investment firm as a financial analyst. The first book begins with that routine, then breaks it open when a murder at the firm pulls Devine into the money, secrets, and corruption behind the polished Wall Street surface. In later books, the series moves him away from the daily commuter-train into cases involving the CIA, the FBI, private power, and international money.

1. The 6:20 Man, 2022
2. The Edge, 2023
3. To Die For, 2024
4. All In, 2026

Walter Nash Series (Books in Order)

The Walter Nash series follows successful investment executive Walter Nash, whose life changes when he is pressured by the FBI to help expose a criminal network after discovering the company is a front for a global criminal organization. Nash starts as a businessman with a family and ends up as a completely different man.

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.

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

Freddy and the French Fries Series (Books in Order)

The Freddy and the French Fries series is the author’s children series in the form of comic adventure stories built for young readers.

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

Series Contributed To

39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Books

• Day of Doom, 2013

Novellas and Short Stories

• No Time Left, 2012
• Bullseye, 2014 (novella)
• The Final Play, 2021 (formerly published as The Mighty Johns)

Standalone Novels

• Absolute Power, 1996
• Total Control, 1997
• The Winner, 1998
• The Simple Truth, 1999
• Saving Faith, 2000
• Wish You Well, 2001
• Last Man Standing, 2001
• The Christmas Train, 2001
• True Blue, 2009
• One Summer, 2011
• No Rest For the Dead, 2011 (with Jeff Abbott, Sandra Brown, Jeff Lindsay, Tess Gerritsen, Peter James, J A Jance, Raymond Khoury, John Lescroart, Kathy Reichs, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline)
• Simply Lies, 2023
• A Calamity of Souls, 2024
• Strangers in Time, 2025

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

• In Good Company, 2001
• Their World is Law, 2002
• The Mighty Johns, 2002
• FaceOff, 2014
• Suspense Magazine June 2014, 2014

Non-Fiction Books

• Origins of Wish You Well, 2000

David Baldacci Biography

David Baldacci is an American author who wrote legal thrillers, political thrillers, crime series, action thrillers, and young adult and children books.
Official website: davidbaldacci.com

Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1960, David Baldacci grew up in a family of readers, which helped 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. His years as a lawyer in Washington show up in his fiction. He often starts with a place that seems controlled and respectable, such as a law office, a courtroom, a government agency, the Army, Wall Street, or a security firm, and then he shows how quickly that world can turn dangerous when money, fear, politics, or secrets get involved.

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 in multiple genres, including crime thrillers, spy novels, legal mysteries, historical fiction, and young adult novels. The characters in his series work in very different fields, all in thriller fields: Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are former Secret Service agents turned investigators. Oliver Stone leads the Camel Club from the margins of Washington. John Puller does military investigations. Will Robie is a government assassin. Amos Decker solves cases with his unique gift, a perfect recall. Atlee Pine is an FBI agent with a family mystery at the center of her life. Aloysius Archer brings the readers into postwar private-eye crime. Travis Devine moves from finance into federal danger. Walter Nash begins as a businessman who is forced to work with the FBI.

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. His books have been translated in over 45 languages, and with more than 200 million copies around the world.

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

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)

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