Christopher Reich Books in Order
Christopher Reich has written 17 books, published between 1998 and 2025. The first book is Numbered Account (1998) and the newest is The Tourists (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 1998–2025
- Confirmed
- 17 of 17 titles
- Pages on record
- 6,018 in 13 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 100–150 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,018 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Christopher Reich is an American thriller writer, born in Tokyo in 1961, whose family moved to the United States in 1965. Reich studied at Georgetown University and the University of Texas and worked as an investment banker in Switzerland before writing Numbered Account (1998), a New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies sold. The catalogue lists 17 books to 2025, including the Jonathan Ransom novels, the Simon Riske books and Rules of Deception (2008). Subjects include espionage, international finance and terrorism.
Reich worked as an investment banker before writing fiction, and his financial background informs the novels. He has won the International Thriller Writers Award.
How many Christopher Reich books are there?
Christopher Reich has 17 books, released between 1998 and 2025. They include 3 separate series.
Christopher Reich Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Christopher Reich books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119987534/4
- 220004814/4
- 320025794/4
- 420034654/4
- 520055464/4
- 620083204/4
- 720096084/4
- 82010–4/4
- 920133693/4
- 1020153684/4
- 112017–4/4
- 1220183934/4
- 1320193844/4
- 1420204164/4
- 1520223364/4
- 162024–4/4
- 172025–4/4
Christopher Reich series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Simon Riske books in order 4 books
Christopher Reich books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Christopher Reich Standalone Novels
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Jonathan Ransom in order
3 booksMac Dekker in order
2 books- 1. Matterhorn
- 2. The Tourists
Christopher Reich Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Christopher Reich Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Christopher Reich books run from Numbered Account (1998) to The Tourists (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Christopher Reich in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Christopher Reich books in order?
You only need to read Christopher Reich books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Christopher Reich
Start with The Take (2018), the first Simon Riske book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Numbered Account (1998).
What is the newest Christopher Reich book?
The Tourists (2025) is the newest Christopher Reich book released so far.
Is there a new Christopher Reich book coming?
No next Christopher Reich book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Christopher Reich at a glance
- Still publishing
- Christopher Reich published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Christopher Reich books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 6,018 pages across the 13 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 416 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Christopher Reich books, 6 of 17, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 16 of the 17 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Christopher Reich books are about
13 of the 17 Christopher Reich books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 5 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Thrillers 5 of 13 books
- Espionage 3 of 13 books
- International finance 3 of 13 books
- Physicians 3 of 13 books
- Terrorism 3 of 13 books
- Conspiracies 2 of 13 books
- Crimes against 2 of 13 books
- Emma Ransom (Fictitious character) 2 of 13 books
- Government investigators 2 of 13 books
- Jonathan Ransom (Fictitious character) 2 of 13 books
- United States 2 of 13 books