Adam Hamdy Books in Order
Explore Adam Hamdy books in order, with quick plot summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start with his thrillers and standalones.
Last updated: June 6, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Private Dublin
by Adam Hamdy
2025
A mass shooting at a movie premiere leaves Justine badly wounded and sends Jack Morgan after the gunman to Dublin. There he learns the attack was personal, and someone wants to bring him down for good.
Private Monaco
by Adam Hamdy
2024
Jack Morgan heads to Monaco expecting business and glamour, then his partner Justine is kidnapped. With the Grand Prix looming, he faces a brutal mix of abduction, betrayal, and political conspiracy.
Deadbeat
by Adam Hamdy
2024
Peyton Collard, a broken single father with a criminal record and too many debts, is paid to kill a man he is told deserves it. Soon he is chasing the truth about who has been using him, and why.
Private Rome
by Adam Hamdy
2023
Jack Morgan arrives in Rome to open a new Private office, only to find his new lead agent standing over a murdered priest. Proving Matteo Ricci's innocence pulls Jack toward a conspiracy at the heart of the Vatican.
The Other Side of Night
by Adam Hamdy
2022
Disgraced former police officer Harriet Kealty finds a plea for help in a secondhand book and follows it to a man believed dead. Her search pulls her toward grief, old love, and a mystery that keeps changing shape.
Private Beijing
by Adam Hamdy
2022
After a deadly attack tears through the Beijing branch of Private, Jack Morgan rushes to China to steady the agency. Then another office is hit, and he realizes the whole organization may be under siege.
Red Wolves
by Adam Hamdy
2021
A Cairo prison break, a killer who strikes with a touch, and a brutal American drug war seem unrelated until Scott Pearce connects them. He and his team race to stop a terrifying new toxin before it is unleashed.
Private Rogue / Private: Missing Persons
by Adam Hamdy
2021
A rich father hires Jack Morgan to find his missing daughter and grandchildren, but the case is anything but simple. The trail leads toward trained operatives, buried secrets, and Afghanistan.
Private Moscow
by Adam Hamdy
2020
When an old friend is murdered just before a stock market debut, Jack Morgan starts digging for the killer. The trail leads from New York to Moscow and into a conspiracy with global stakes.
Black 13
by Adam Hamdy
2020
Off-grid ex-MI6 officer Scott Pearce is pulled back into the fight after an old friend is murdered. What starts as revenge opens into a modern espionage war shaped by extremism, technology, and collapsing trust.
Aftershock
by Adam Hamdy
2019
Wallace, Bailey, and Christine Ash think the worst is behind them, but masked attacks and a new investigation prove otherwise. As old wounds reopen, they face a fresh enemy with reach, patience, and terrifying ambition.
Freefall
by Adam Hamdy
2017
After exposing the Pendulum conspiracy, John Wallace goes off-grid, only to learn he is still marked for death. A journalist's death reunites him with Patrick Bailey and Christine Ash for another desperate chase.
Run
by Adam Hamdy
2016
Embedded with the British Army in Afghanistan, photojournalist John Wallace watches a planned assault go disastrously wrong. To get justice for the people caught in it, he has to expose the truth and keep moving.
Pendulum
by Adam Hamdy
2016
John Wallace wakes bound in his own home, with a noose around his neck and a masked killer ready to finish the job. If he survives, he still has to work out who wants him dead and why.
Phase
by Adam Hamdy
2014
A dark standalone thriller from Hamdy's early career, built around crime, fear, and a tightening sense of unease. It is a short, tense read that shows his taste for pressure and hidden danger.
Out of Reach
by Adam Hamdy
2014
Ten years after his daughter Amber was kidnapped, Thomas Schaefer has turned obsession into a career finding the missing. When a new case echoes Amber's abduction, he follows it into cults, danger, and the wreckage of his own life.
Battalion
by Adam Hamdy
2010
In a near-future world hit by energy shortages and unrest, agent Scott Pierce hunts the terrorist known as the Spider. The mission is personal, and the plot he uncovers reaches straight for the foundations of American democracy.
Where should I start?
If you want the full John Wallace story: Run → Pendulum → Freefall → Aftershock
If you prefer globe-trotting espionage: Black 13 → Red Wolves
If you want a twisty standalone mystery: The Other Side of Night
If you want darker crime fiction: Deadbeat → Out of Reach
Author bio
Adam Hamdy was born in London in 1974 and grew up mostly in the city, though part of his childhood was spent in Cairo, where he went to school in Giza near the Pyramids. That early mix of London life and time abroad feels like a neat fit for a writer whose books move so easily across borders.
He likes big questions, and he likes stories that put people under real pressure.
Before fiction became his full-time job, he studied law at Oxford and philosophy at the University of London. Then he built a career in strategy consulting, advising businesses in medical systems, robotics, technology, and finance. It was practical, high-stakes work, and you can feel some of that systems thinking in the way his thrillers are put together.
Eventually he left that world to chase storytelling more directly. Alongside the novels, he worked as a screenwriter and filmmaker, developing projects with studios and production companies in the UK and the US. That screen sense shows up on the page too. His books tend to move quickly, think visually, and arrive in short bursts of tension rather than long scenic detours.
His early novel Battalion imagined a near-future world strained by energy shortages and political violence. Out of Reach turned inward, following a father still consumed by the disappearance of his daughter. Then came Pendulum, the book that put many readers on notice, a conspiracy thriller that begins with a man waking up bound and seconds from death. It was picked for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, was a finalist for the Glass Bell Award, and set up the rest of the Pendulum trilogy.
Pressure is Hamdy's natural setting.
In the books that followed, he kept widening the canvas. Black 13 and Red Wolves launched the Scott Pearce spy novels, which take on extremism, fragile institutions, and the way technology can be turned into a weapon. He also joined James Patterson on the Private novels, including Private Moscow, bringing his own global, hard-edged style to Jack Morgan's world. Even when the setups are big, the stories usually stay close to people carrying guilt, grief, or divided loyalties.
The Other Side of Night showed another side of him, folding mystery, loss, philosophy, and emotional risk into a more unusual standalone, and it went on to be named an NPR best book and a New York Times best thriller of 2022. Deadbeat swung back toward crime fiction, with a damaged father being pulled deeper into violence while trying to understand who is using him. Across all these books, readers tend to come for the pace and the twists, then stay for the moral messiness underneath.
Away from the desk, Hamdy has long enjoyed rock climbing, skiing, sailing, and competitive shooting. He also co-founded the Capital Crime festival, which tells you something about how plugged in he is to the thriller world without turning him into a grand public character. These days he lives in Mauritius with his wife, the journalist and author Amy McLellan, and their three children. It sounds like a long way from the boardrooms and city offices where he once worked, but the curiosity that pushed him out of that life seems very much intact.
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