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Covert-One Books in Order

Covert-One contains 12 books, published between 2000 and 2016. The first book is The Hades Factor (2000) and the newest is The Patriot Attack (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2000–2016
Confirmed
12 of 12 titles
Pages on record
4,665 in 10 of 12 books
Reading time
78–117 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,665 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Covert-One is a thriller series that Robert Ludlum began and several other writers continued after Ludlum's death. The novels follow political and technical specialists in Covert-One, a secret U.S. agency, as they confront corruption, conspiracies and biological weapons. The listing holds 12 books from The Hades Factor (2000) to The Patriot Attack (2016). Gayle Lynds is credited on The Hades Factor, The Paris Option (2002) and The Altman Code (2003), Patrick Larkin on The Lazarus Vendetta (2004) and The Moscow Vector (2005), and Kyle Mills on The Ares Decision (2011), The Utopia Experiment (2013) and The Patriot Attack. Subjects include Jon Smith and bioterrorism.

How many Covert-One books are there?

Covert-One has 12 books, released between 2000 and 2016.

Covert-One Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Covert-One 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.

  1. Cover of The Hades Factor by Gayle Lynds, book 1 of the Covert-One series (2000)
  2. Cover of The Cassandra Compact, book 2 of the Covert-One series (2001)
  3. Cover of The Paris Option by Gayle Lynds, book 3 of the Covert-One series (2002)
  4. Cover of The Altman Code by Gayle Lynds, book 4 of the Covert-One series (2003)
  5. Cover of The Lazarus Vendetta by Patrick Larkin, book 5 of the Covert-One series (2004)
  6. Cover of Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event by James H. Cobb, book 7 of the Covert-One series (2007)
  7. Cover of The Ares Decision by Kyle Mills, book 8 of the Covert-One series (2011)
  8. Cover of The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti, book 9 of the Covert-One series (2012)
  9. Cover of The Utopia Experiment by Kyle Mills, book 10 of the Covert-One series (2013)
  1. 1
    The Hades Factor2000 · 576 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000576
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  2. 2
    The Cassandra Compact2001 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001304
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  3. 3
    The Paris Option2002 · 624 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2002624
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  4. 4
    The Altman Code2003 · confirmed 3/4
    2003–
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  5. 5
    The Lazarus Vendetta2004 · 409 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004409
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  6. 6
    The Moscow Vector2005 · 672 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005672
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  7. 7
    Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event2007 · 390 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007390
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  8. 8
    The Ares Decision2011 · 426 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2011426
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  9. 9
    The Janus Reprisal2012 · 480 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012480
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  10. 10
    The Utopia Experiment2013 · confirmed 4/4
    2013–
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  11. 11
    The Geneva Strategy2015 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015384
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  12. 12
    The Patriot Attack2016 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016400
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Covert-One Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Covert-One books run from The Hades Factor (2000) to The Patriot Attack (2016), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Covert-One in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Where to start with Covert-One

Start with The Hades Factor (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Covert-One book?

The Patriot Attack (2016) is the newest Covert-One book released so far.

Is there a new Covert-One book coming?

No next Covert-One book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Covert-One at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Covert-One title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Covert-One books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
4,665 pages across the 10 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 418 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Covert-One books, 7 of 12, were published in the 2000s.
Corroboration
3 of the 12 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
Attribution
Of the 12 titles, 3 are credited to Gayle Lynds, 3 to Kyle Mills, 2 to Patrick Larkin and 2 to Jamie Freveletti. A further 3 writers are credited.

What the Covert-One books are about

All 12 Covert-One books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: intelligence officers is tagged on 6 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.