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

  2. I love his books the Amos Decker series is my favorite so far. Can’t wait for the new one.

  3. Are you finished with JohnPuller. Will Robbie. King and Maxwell…..

  4. I have read everything he has written except the kids books. The books are great and can be read by pretty much anyone. I have really enjoyed the Amos Decker series.

    1. I agree. Especially Baldacci’s Will Robbie series is a must-read! Once you start, you won’t be able to stop.

  5. Am a big fan first started reading the will Robbie series then got into the respective john puller an Amos decker series an I could not put them down really addictive page turner just really great books

  6. Absolute Power was the best, it grabbed you and held on to the very end. You can’t help but wait anxiously for his next book, and the best part is that his books are all different, there’s no monotony and lots of surprises!
    Keep up the good work David, we love your books.

  7. As with many others my first Baldacci book was “Absolute Power”, a really great read, I couldn’t put it down. I spent every spare minute reading it and have been hooked ever since.

    Keep on writing David, we love your books!

  8. I have read all of David’s books up to Memory Man, which I thought was the best book written by him, and will read the rest. The Escape was long awaited and overdue, was also a great book. There has NOT been a book by David that has not held my interest from beginning to end. Thank You David Baldacci and keep up the good work.

    1. Thank you so very much. This has been extremely helpful.

  10. I have read 17 of Mr. Baldacci’s books. I loved each and every one. I’m starting on Simple Genius and look forward to my time reading. I do agree that if possible to read them in order. I just finished No Man’s Land in the John Puller series. This was a great book, well worth your time.

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