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Christopher Reich Books in Order

Explore Christopher Reich books in order with summaries and background on his financial and spy thrillers, plus guidance on the best place to start reading.

Last updated: January 12, 2026

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17 books

The Tourists

by Christopher Reich

2025

Mac Dekker travels to Paris to propose to Ava Attal, once one of Mossad’s deadliest operatives, but she disappears after taking a phone call. His frantic search pulls him through bright boulevards and dark corners of the city as he races to stop a prince’s catastrophic terror plot.

Matterhorn

by Christopher Reich

2024

Living quietly in a Swiss village under a new name, retired CIA officer Mac Dekker learns his son has died on the Matterhorn. Discovering the death is tied to a secret operation and a stolen data drive, he returns to the field to confront an old nemesis and stop a chemical attack.

Once a Thief

by Christopher Reich

2022

Celebrating a record sale of a rare Ferrari in Napa Valley, Simon Riske is accused of fraud when a Russian bodyguard claims the car is a forgery. To prove the truth, Riske chases clues across Europe and into the orbit of a mysterious investor with dangerous plans.

The Palace

by Christopher Reich

2020

Rafael de Bourbon is arrested at his new island hotel in Thailand on charges that make no sense, so he calls the one man he trusts, Simon Riske. Flying in to help, Riske is quickly framed himself and must outrun powerful enemies while uncovering a conspiracy that spans continents.

Crown Jewel

by Christopher Reich

2019

When Monte Carlo casinos are hit by ruthless gamblers, luxury cars vanish, and a young prince is kidnapped, Simon Riske is called in. Drawing on his own criminal past on the Riviera, he pieces together a single daring scheme that stretches from gaming tables to secluded alpine hideouts.

The Take

by Christopher Reich

2018

Simon Riske, a freelance industrial spy and ex thief living above his London garage, is hired after a spectacular Paris street heist. A stolen briefcase holds a secret letter that could shift global power, forcing Riske into a high speed hunt against a former partner turned enemy.

Assassins

by Christopher Reich

2017

In this short thriller, former banker Nick Neumann has become a professional assassin and returns to Switzerland on a new assignment. A chance encounter with his old nemesis, known as the Greek, turns a quiet dinner into a deadly contest where only one of them will walk away.

Invasion of Privacy

by Christopher Reich

2015

After her FBI agent husband is killed during a remote meeting with an informant, Mary Grant refuses to accept the official story. Following the trail of a vanished voicemail, she challenges a tech billionaire and a powerful surveillance system that can watch nearly every move she makes.

The Prince of Risk

by Christopher Reich

2013

Hedge fund manager Bobby Astor watches his father, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, die in a brazen attack on the White House lawn. Chasing a cryptic clue, Bobby uncovers a foreign plot aimed at collapsing financial markets and destroying everything his family built.

Rules of Betrayal

by Christopher Reich

2010

Jonathan Ransom is drawn into a mission linked to a long lost American bomber that crashed near the Pakistan Afghanistan border. As he fights to rescue Emma from warlords and arms dealers, he becomes entangled in a deadly game over a missing nuclear weapon and divided loyalties.

Rules of Vengeance

by Christopher Reich

2009

Months after foiling a terror plot, Jonathan Ransom slips into London for a secret weekend with Emma, now a fugitive spy. A devastating car bombing turns him from hero to suspect, and he must track Emma across Europe to clear his name and uncover who is really pulling the strings.

Rules of Deception

by Christopher Reich

2008

Doctors Without Borders surgeon Jonathan Ransom loses his wife Emma in a climbing accident in the Swiss Alps. A day later, mysterious baggage claim checks in her name draw him into an attack, an international manhunt, and the shocking discovery that Emma led a double life.

The Patriots Club

by Christopher Reich

2005

Wall Street success Thomas Bolden is abducted off a Manhattan street and framed for crimes he did not commit. On the run with only a few dollars, he uncovers a secret society with roots in early American history and a modern plan that could reshape the nation.

The Devil's Banker

by Christopher Reich

2003

Forensic accountant Adam Chapel is recruited to follow a vanished half million dollars tied to a Paris bombing. Tracking the money from Europe to the Middle East, he and an intelligence operative must expose a financier who is turning global banking into a weapon of terror.

The First Billion

by Christopher Reich

2002

Former fighter pilot Jett Gavallan now runs Black Jet Securities and is betting everything on taking a Russian internet company public. When rumors of fraud surface and his partner vanishes in Moscow, Jett races across continents to uncover the truth and save his firm.

The Runner

by Christopher Reich

2000

In occupied Germany in 1945, American lawyer Devlin Judge joins a war crimes tribunal while secretly hunting Erich Seyss, the SS officer who murdered his brother. Seyss escapes from a POW camp, and the chase across a shattered country reveals a last desperate Nazi plot.

Numbered Account

by Christopher Reich

1998

Nick Neumann leaves a glittering Wall Street career to work at a powerful Swiss bank and secretly investigate his father’s long unsolved murder. As he digs into numbered accounts and hidden deals, he uncovers a conspiracy that reaches far beyond one killing.

Where should I start?

If you want financial and Wall Street intrigue: Numbered AccountThe First BillionThe Devil's BankerThe Prince of Risk
If you like medical espionage and spy drama: Rules of DeceptionRules of VengeanceRules of Betrayal
If you enjoy political and tech driven standalones: The Patriots ClubInvasion of Privacy
If you prefer stylish international capers: The TakeCrown JewelThe PalaceOnce a Thief
If you want his newest spy cycle: MatterhornThe Tourists

Author bio

Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo in 1961 to a Swiss father who was running a travel business connecting Japan and the United States. When he was still a small child, his family moved back to Los Angeles, where he grew up surrounded by stories about different countries, currencies, and cultures.

He attended Carl Curtis School and then Harvard School for Boys in Los Angeles, graduating in 1979. A formative experience came when he spent a summer with an Outward Bound program in East Africa and climbed Mt. Kenya, discovering both a love of demanding landscapes and the discipline needed to get through them. Years later, you can feel that same mix of danger and awe in his mountain scenes, especially those set in the Alps.

Reich went on to study at Georgetown University, focusing on history and international affairs. He was drawn to how power moves around the globe, through both politics and money. After college he took a detour into the markets, working briefly as a stockbroker before deciding he needed more training and enrolling in business school at the University of Texas at Austin.

Armed with an MBA, he headed not to Wall Street but to Switzerland. Reich joined the Union Bank of Switzerland in Geneva and later worked in Zurich and Hong Kong. For years he lived inside the world of numbered accounts, cross border deals, and discreet private banking. He even started a small watch company in Neuchatel, learning how precision and craftsmanship matter in another high stakes business.

In his early thirties he walked away from corporate life to try something much less certain, writing a novel. Settling in Austin, he began turning his Swiss banking experience into fiction. The result was Numbered Account, a financial thriller about a young banker digging into his father’s murder and the secretive institution that may have been involved. The book became a New York Times bestseller, sold widely overseas, and showed there was a huge audience for stories that treated money as a source of suspense.

Reich followed it with The Runner, a manhunt set in shattered postwar Germany, then with global finance driven novels like The First Billion and The Devil’s Banker. With The Patriots Club, about a Wall Street executive caught in a political conspiracy, he won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Novel, confirming that his blend of meticulous research and page turning plots had struck a chord.

Over time he moved deeper into espionage. The Jonathan Ransom trilogy beginning with Rules of Deception links a humanitarian surgeon and his secretive wife to covert operations, drone technology, and nuclear threats. His Simon Riske books, starting with The Take, spin a former thief into a globe trotting “private spy” who moves easily between garages, casinos, and embassies. More recently, the Mac Dekker novels Matterhorn and The Tourists follow a retired CIA officer pulled back into the field by family tragedy and new terror plots.

Across these different series, certain themes repeat. Reich likes to place ordinary or reluctant professionals inside systems that usually stay hidden, whether that is Swiss banking, hedge funds, intelligence agencies, or cutting edge surveillance firms. His characters wrestle with secrecy, loyalty, and the cost of doing the right thing when careers, countries, or their families are on the line.

Today he lives in Southern California and keeps a work schedule that looks a lot like his old banking life, with long hours at the desk spent outlining, researching, and revising. The difference is that now the deals and conspiracies stay safely on the page, even if the questions they raise about power and accountability feel very close to the real world.

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