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ⓘ About Adam Lebor
Adam Lebor is a British journalist and author mystery and thriller novels from London. He was brought up in 1970s London and went to college at Leeds where he was the editor of the student’s newspaper. He had a peripatetic career in several Fleet Street newspapers as he worked in a variety of stories from Nazi criminals that had escaped to London and the best Martini that London could offer. By 1991 he had graduated to become a foreign correspondent and in his new role shifted base to Budapest, where he started by reporting on the collapse of Communism. He also worked in Yugoslavia where he covered the wars in Bosnia and Croatia before he eventually decided to make a home in Paris from where he wrote his debut novel “The Budapest Protocol” in 2009.
All Book Series by Adam Lebor
Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust
Series opener · book 1 of 10 · published 1997
Surviving Hitler: Corruption and Compromise in the Third Reich
Book 3 of 10 · published 2000
Seduced by Hitler: The Choices of a Nation and the Ethics of Survival
Book 4 of 10 · published 2000
City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
Book 6 of 10 · published 2006
"Complicity with Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
Book 7 of 10 · published 2006
The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff's $65 Billion Investment Scam
Book 8 of 10 · published 2009
Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
Book 9 of 10 · published 2013
The Last Days of Budapest
Latest in the series · book 10 of 10 · published 2025
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Adam Lebor?
Adam Lebor is a British journalist and author mystery and thriller novels from London. He was brought up in 1970s London and went to college at Leeds where he was the editor of the student’s newspaper. He had a peripatetic career in several Fleet Street newspapers as he worked in a variety of stories from Nazi criminals that had escaped to London and the best Martini that London could offer.
Which Adam Lebor series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Yael Azoulay series, the earliest of Adam Lebor's multi-book series: it opens with The Budapest Protocol (2009) and runs to 5 books across 2009–2016, ending with The Reykjavik Assignment (2016). Adam Lebor's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Adam Lebor written?
Adam Lebor has 18 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1997 and 2025. 8 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Yael Azoulay series with 5 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Adam Lebor's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Adam Lebor's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Yael Azoulay (2009–2016, 5 books) and Detective Balthazar Kovacs Danube Blues (2017–2021, 3 books).
How are Adam Lebor's books organised into series?
This guide splits Adam Lebor's 18 books into 2 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Yael Azoulay (5 books, 2009–2016); Detective Balthazar Kovacs Danube Blues (3 books, 2017–2021).