David S. Khara Books in Order
David S. Khara is a French thriller author best known in English for the Consortium series, beginning with The Bleiberg Project. The first three books bring Mossad agent Eytan Morgenstern, Wall Street trader Jeremy Novacek, and CIA agent Jacqueline Walls into a continuing fight against an organization created from unethical human experiments done by Germany and Japan during WWII. The original trilogy was translated into English by Le French Book, and Le Projet Bleiberg was later adapted as a three-volume graphic novel. Publishers Weekly named David S. Khara an author to watch.
His other French-language novels include the New York vampire mysteries Les Vestiges de l’aube and the young adult Thunder series. In 2026, he returned to writing books for adults after an eight-year gap with Le Laboratoire des ombres, a historical spy series set in 1840s London, where Michael Faraday’s experiments with electricity become part of an international plot.
This page lists all David S. Khara books in order, including the Consortium, Les Vestiges de l’aube, Thunder, and Le Laboratoire des ombres series, plus his standalone novel, short fiction, and graphic novel adaptations. English translation notes are included where needed.
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Where to Start with David S. Khara
→ Reading in English? Start with The Bleiberg Project. It introduces Jeremy Novacek, Eytan Morg, and the organization that is main group behind the Consortium trilogy. Also it begins the only series currently available in English.
→ Read French and prefer Victorian espionage? Start with Embraser le monde. The second Ashton and Michael Faraday novel follows in September 2026.
→ Prefer a supernatural police story? Begin with Les Vestiges de l’aube, about a New York police officer whose closest ally is a vampire. For a younger cast with unusual abilities and secret missions, try Thunder: Quand la menace gronde.
How the Series Connect
The first three Consortium novels form one continuing trilogy. Le Programme D-X is a later sequel that brings Eytan Morgenstern out of retirement four years after the events of the trilogy. English readers currently have access to the original three books, while Le Programme D-X is untranslated.
The Thunder books share some elements with the Bleiberg trilogy and some of its ideas about human experimentation, but they follow Ilya Volochin and a separate group of younger people with unusual abilities, so it can be read separately starting wtih Thunder without reading the Consortium novels first.
The Consortium Thriller Series (Books in Order)
The Consortium series begins when Wall Street trader Jeremy Novacek learns that his estranged father has died and left behind information powerful people are willing to kill for. CIA agent Jacqueline Walls is assigned to protect him, while Mossad agent Eytan Morgenstern has his own reasons for following the same trail. The Shiro Project follows the organization’s connection to Japanese wartime experiments and a modern biological weapon, and The Morgenstern Project ends the original trilogy and reveals more of Eytan’s past. Le Programme D-X returns to him four years later, when the head of the Consortium asks for a meeting.
The Bleiberg, Shiro, and Morgenstern books form one connected trilogy and should be read in order. Le Programme D-X returns to Eytan after the trilogy. Only the first three novels have confirmed English editions.
- The Bleiberg Project, 2010
- The Shiro Project, 2011
- The Morgenstern Project, 2013
- Le programme D-X, 2018
Les Vestiges de l’aube Series (Books in Order)
The Les Vestiges de l’aube series follows New York police officer Barry Donovan, who meets Werner von Lowinsky, an aristocratic vampire, in an online chatroom while investigating a series of murders. Barry is still living with the loss of his wife in the September 11 attacks when the two men become friends and begin working together. Their cases combine police investigations with Werner’s long and violent history. The series was planned as a trilogy, although only two novels have been published. They should be read in order and neither has an English translation.
- Les Vestiges de l’aube, 2010
- Une nuit éternelle, 2014
Thunder Series (Books in Order)
The Thunder series follows Ilya Volochin, a Russian wealthy teenager whose father is killed in a Siberian refinery explosion. Ilya is sent to England to live with a grandmother he has never met and is enrolled at the Excelsior school, where he meets several other students with unusual abilities. By the second book, Ilya and his friends have become the Thunder unit and are being trained for confidential missions. The series is set in the same Bleiberg universe, but it’s not a direct spin-off. Neither book has been translated into English.
Le Laboratoire des ombres Series (Books in Order)
The Le Laboratoire des ombres series follows Ashton, a British secret agent working under several identities and scientist Michael Faraday, in London in 1841. In the first book, Faraday’s work with electricity attracts people who believe his discoveries can be turned into a weapon. The second novel begins later that year, after two French warships disappear without a battle or explosion and Faraday finds a forgotten discovery connected to Isaac Newton.
The Victorian spy thriller series has not been translated into English.
- Embraser le monde, 2026
- Faire hurler la matière, 2026
Standalone Novels
The novel has not been translated into English.
- Atomes Crochus, 2016
Graphic Novels
The Bleiberg Project Graphic Novels
This three-volume adaptation covers the story of the first Consortium novel. All three volumes were released digitally in English by Europe Comics.
- Ghosts of the Past, 2017
- Deep Zone, 2017
- Patient 302, 2019
Les Vestiges de l’aube Graphic Novels
The first Les Vestiges de l’aube novel was adapted as a two-volume French graphic novel.
- Morts en série, 2014
- Le Prix du sang, 2015
Short Stories and Novellas
- Nuit de braise – in Rennes, ici Rennes, 2013
- Les Vapeurs du succès – in À peine entré dans la librairie… La Griffe noire, 30 ans, 2018
- You’ll Never Walk Alone – in the digital project La Nouvelle du lendemain, 2020
- Noël dans le cosmos – in Le Pire des Noëls, 2024
David Khara Biography
David S. Khara is a French author and screenwriter. He published the Consortium thrillers in English, while his other books include a New York police-and-vampire series, young adult adventure novels, and Victorian spy fiction, all published only in French. He writes under the name David S. Khara.
David Khara was born on 28 July 1969 in Bourges, France, and grew up in Brittany, where he has lived since the 1980s. He studied law and worked for a time in a notarial office before becoming a journalist with Agence France-Presse (AFP). He later worked as an advertising copywriter and in 1993 he founded a communications company that he ran for sixteen years. He left the company in 2009 to write full-time.
His first novel, Les Vestiges de l’aube, a vampire thriller, was published in 2010. His follow-up, Le Projet Bleiberg (The Bleiberg Project), became an immediate success in France, selling over 150,000 copies and launched what would become the Consortium trilogy.The initial trilogy was translated into English by Le French Book and published between 2013 and 2015. A fourth Consortium novel, Le Programme D-X, was published in 2018 but has not been translated yet.
Both Le Projet Bleiberg and Les Vestiges de l’aube were later adapted as graphic novels by writer Serge Le Tendre and artist Frédéric Peynet. The three Bleiberg graphic novels were also released in English by Europe Comics.
He later picked up the Consortium series and Eytan Morgenstern with Le Programme D-X, which was not yet translated into English, wrote the young adult Thunder series, and published the standalone thriller Atomes crochus. After several years away from novels, he returned in 2026 with Le Laboratoire des ombres: Embraser le monde, the first book in a Victorian series following Ashton and Michael Faraday.
David Khara is an amateur astronomer and and astrophotographer, and has been a member of the Ligue de l’Imaginaire since 2013. During his time away from adult thriller publishing, he spent much of his time observing and photographing deep-space objects. He was invited by the FBI to New York in 2016, where as a member of the International Thriller Writers association, he could meet and consult with real FBI special agents, which helped the background and characters of his standalone novel Atomes crochus.
David S. Khara Awards and Honors
- Thunder: Quand la menace gronde – Prix Rablog des Ados, Saint-Maur en Poche (2014)
- Named an “author to watch” by Publishers Weekly in the United States