Ben Mezrich Books in Order

Medical student Jeremy Ross helps a former girlfriend investigate her father's suspicious death and stumbles into a covert genetics project. The deeper he digs, the more the case turns into a fight for survival.

A lethal man-made virus moves through modern communications systems, making everyday screens and switches feel deadly. Paramedic Nick Barnes and virologist Samantha Craig race to stop it before the outbreak becomes impossible to contain.

Mulder and Scully investigate a disastrous skin-grafting incident that points to biotech experimentation, hidden agendas, and something monstrous. The case runs from a New York hospital to Thailand and leans hard into medical horror.

A Boston fertility specialist and his ER-doctor wife uncover two frightening crises, rising infertility and unexplained deaths, that may share one source. Their search turns into a medical thriller with conspiracy at its core.

A group of MIT students turns card counting into a disciplined assault on Las Vegas, winning millions before casino security closes in. Mezrich follows the math, the swagger, and the risks that made the blackjack team famous.

John Malcolm lands in Japan with little money and no real footing, then gets swept into the wild world of Asian derivatives trading. The book mixes market chaos, outsized egos, and real danger.

In this variation on Mezrich's casino true-story territory, an MIT blackjack prodigy chases massive wins from Vegas to Monte Carlo using techniques the casinos can barely spot. The glamour is real, but so are the threats once he gets too successful.

A young trader rises from the chaos of the New York Merc to the power games of Dubai, chasing a chance to reshape the oil market. Mezrich makes the business story feel like a street-level thriller.

Semyon Dukach and a crew of brilliant MIT gamblers use advanced advantage play to beat casinos around the world. The wins are huge, but so are the risks once the houses start fighting back.

At Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin build what becomes Facebook, then watch friendship give way to ambition, lawsuits, and money. Mezrich frames the origin story as a sharp, intimate drama about status and power.

NASA intern Thad Roberts decides to steal moon rocks to impress his girlfriend, then finds himself inside one of the strangest heists in recent memory. Mezrich turns the case into a story of brains, ego, and spectacular bad judgment.

A handful of college friends turn a basement poker game into AbsolutePoker, an online empire that seems unstoppable. Mezrich follows the money, the excess, and the legal pressure that eventually sends the whole venture spiraling.

Charlie Lewis is brilliant with numbers, and a team of kids wants his help beating the game system at a huge theme park. The prize is tempting, but the real test is how far Charlie will go.

When a deadly epidemic erupts, police officer Benjamin Grady is thrown onto the front lines of quarantine enforcement. Mezrich uses the crisis to ask what happens when public order starts breaking faster than medicine can keep up.

After his reclusive twin brother is murdered, Jack Grady chases clues across the world's great wonders with scientist Sloane Costa. The hunt points toward an ancient conspiracy, a hidden map, and a secret people buried beneath history.

Mezrich tells the rise-and-fall story of Boris Berezovsky, Roman Abramovich, and the brutal birth of Russia's oligarch era. Money, politics, protection, and betrayal all collide as post-Soviet fortunes are made.

Computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Chuck Zukowski follows UFO reports and animal mutilation cases along the so-called UFO Highway. What starts as obsession grows into a strange investigation that mixes folklore, secrecy, and unsettling real-world mystery.

A mysterious woman recruits Charlie to help trace stolen moon rocks, sending him and the Whiz Kids undercover at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The math is fun, but the stakes are suddenly very real.

This nonfiction thriller follows scientists, investors, and fossil hunters chasing the dream of bringing back the woolly mammoth. From Siberian ice to cutting-edge labs, Mezrich explores both the science and the moral unease behind de-extinction.

After their Facebook battle, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss make a risky bet on bitcoin and plunge into the strange, early days of crypto. Mezrich tracks ambition, reinvention, and the people who helped turn a fringe idea into a fortune.

Charlie and the Whiz Kids uncover a mammoth tusk in the Boston Public Gardens and suspect a billionaire collector is hiding something much uglier. Their investigation turns into a kid-sized thriller about smuggling, science, and courage.

Mezrich reconstructs the GameStop short squeeze through the traders, livestreamers, hedge fund managers, and executives caught inside it. It is a fast-moving look at how online communities and meme energy rattled Wall Street in a matter of days.

When student card counter Hailey Gordon stumbles onto a corpse while dodging casino security, she gets pulled into a hunt tied to the Gardner Museum heist and a buried Revolutionary War secret. With an ex-con and a professor beside her, Boston becomes a maze of clues and danger.

Mezrich looks inside Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, following the spectacle from the executive level to the employees caught in the blast radius. It is a darkly comic story about power, ego, and a platform under siege.

Hailey Gordon and Nick Patterson head to Philadelphia, where clues tied to Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere open into a dangerous hunt for buried alchemical secrets. A ruthless rival known as the Heiress is hunting the same truth.

Mezrich digs into the match that set off the Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen scandal, then widens the lens to the money, suspicion, and pressure reshaping modern chess. It reads like a sports story with real-world stakes.