New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 263 p. — ASIN B006ZE1JQ4. A dozen stories tracking the CIA's most adept—and unusual—spy. There are no more spies like Charlie Dark. An old-timer whose experience stretches back to the Second World War, his main distinction is that after decades playing the game he is still alive. He is overweight, clumsy, and afraid of guns--a...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 360 p. — ISBN: 1453237682 (ISBN13: 9781453237687). A Soviet spymaster launches an audacious plan against the American military. The KGB calls it Amergrad. Buried deep in Siberia, just a few hundred miles from the Chinese border, it’s the most tightly guarded secret in the Soviet Union. Away from the frigid tundra, behind wall...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1453237690 (ISBN13: 9781453237694). A mental patient escapes his institution in search of bloody vengeance. When rain falls on the mental hospital, Calvin Duggai knows it’s time to leave. Institutionalized after he abandoned five men to die in the Mojave Desert, he has spent years planning escape and revenge. For...
New York: Forge Books, 2004. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0765309211 (ISBN13: 9780765309211). Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself against the enemy with no holds barred. Despite his...
New York: Macmillan, 1973. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0330245945 (ISBN13: 9780330245944). On the hunt for long-lost gold, a historian attracts murderous attention. Twenty-five million people died during the Russian Civil War. It was a clash between Tsarist loyalists and the new Soviet order, and when the imperialist forces saw defeat in sight, their thoughts turned to their future. Under...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 352 p. — ASIN B006ZE1HUC. Five bombs upend the foundation of the American government. Sturka is an artist with explosives. A sturdy man approaching middle age, he learned his trade on the darkest battlefields of the twentieth century: Indochina, Palestine, Guyana, Biafra, and the fetid jungles of South America, where he fought...
New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. — 412 p. — ISBN: 0892963824 (ISBN13: 9780892963829). A rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore Roosevelt. In 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 244 p. To escape her husband, a wife embarks on a radical adventure. Her name is Jennifer Hartman, or perhaps Dorothy Holder. She has birth certificates that say both. She got the names from old obituary files, and then went to the county clerk to ask for new copies. Her real name doesn't matter, because her former life is gone....
New York: Mysterious Press, 1975. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0449230015; ISBN13: 9780449230015. "You try to walk in this town, you hear footsteps behind you—it's like the sound of grenades. A walk in Chicago after dark is a combat mission." This is the story of Paul Benjamin, a man obsessed with revenge and private justice. Revenge against the criminals—the muggers, the murderers, and...
New York: Mysterious Press, 1975. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0449230015; ISBN13: 9780449230015. "You try to walk in this town, you hear footsteps behind you—it's like the sound of grenades. A walk in Chicago after dark is a combat mission." This is the story of Paul Benjamin, a man obsessed with revenge and private justice. Revenge against the criminals—the muggers, the murderers, and...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 335 p. — ASIN B07B6C8BWR. Frank Pastor, the biggest man in The Organisation, went behind bars for eight years - convicted of briberty and corruption on eye witness evidence. The testimony came from a man called Merle - and The Organisation want him punished. With a different name and a new life hundreds of miles away, the witness...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 244 p. — ISBN: 1453237771 (ISBN13: 9781453237779). A Native American sheriff chases a gang of bloodthirsty bank robbers. Were it not for the copper mine, San Miguel wouldn’t exist. A hardscrabble town hewn out of the Arizona desert, it’s long on sand and short on excitement. For fun its citizens go to Las Vegas twice a month,...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0340201398 (ISBN13: 9780340201398). Nobody knew better than Sam Watchman how to track down a runaway prisoner. Sam was an Arizona State Trooper and hunting escaped murderers was just another day's work. But he didn't like it because the escaped prisoner, Joe Threepersons, was an Apache. And Sam was...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 176 p. An Arizona sheriff takes an impossible job: arresting Wyatt Earp. Wyatt Earp rides the train to Tucson alongside his brother Morgan, who makes the trip in the comfort of a wooden casket. Earp comes from Tombstone, along with his two surviving brothers and Doc Holliday, on a mission of vengeance for his murdered kin. They...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 112 p. — ISBN: 1453237798 (ISBN13: 9781453237793). A taut collection of razor-sharp stories of men at society’s edge. Although best known as an author of westerns and espionage fiction, Brian Garfield is at heart an observer of human behavior. While traveling, he sometimes writes short fiction, usually setting the story in...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1453237801 (ISBN13: 9781453237809). Description A United States Air Force bomber threatens to obliterate New York. The whole city sees the plane circling: an ancient B-17 bomber flying inches above the tops of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. As it nears Midtown, its bomb-bay doors creak open, giving the citizens a...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, 2012. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0786243228 (ISBN13: 9780786243228). Here's a double shot of crime from one of America's best-known authors. The Hit is a full-length novel that ranks with the best of man-on-the-run stories. In this instance, the running man happens to be Simon Crane, who made the mistake of appearing to have...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, 2011. — 244 p. A crack team of American specialists makes a deadly run into North Vietnam. Cliffs hang over the rail bridge that crosses the Sang Chu River, protecting the vital North Vietnamese supply line from attack by American bombers. It's only accessible by a parachute drop that would put American GIs deep behind...
New York: Bantam, 1987. — 176 p. — ISBN: 0553265709 (ISBN13: 9780553265705). After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desert. Zach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yuma's prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an opportunity to escape. He smashes one guard's face with a rock,...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1453237747 (ISBN13: 9781453237748). When her son is kidnapped in Mexico, a mother seeks vengeance. Film director Carole Marchand’s son has just been kidnapped for the third time. The first two times weren’t as troubling, since Carole had abducted Robert herself—incidents in her hideous divorce. This time, the...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 410 p. — ISBN: 1453237720 (ISBN13: 9781453237724). During World War II, a Russian refugee spies for the United States. Since the great upheaval of November 1917, Alex Denilov has known nothing but war. In the civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, he fought for the old imperial order. When the Reds won out, he fled...
New York: Open Road Media, 2011. — 206 p. — ISBN: 1453237909 (ISBN13: 9781453237908). A California politician goes to Mexico to make himself king. The Sonorans hire Henry Crabb to protect them from Apaches. In the lawless days that followed the Mexican-American War, bands of Indians roamed the countryside, preying on the hard-working peasants of northern Mexico. Desperate for...
New York: Open Road Media, 2011. — 206 p. — ISBN: 1453237909 (ISBN13: 9781453237908). The Sonorans hire Henry Crabb to protect them from Apaches. In the lawless days that followed the Mexican-American War, bands of Indians roamed the countryside, preying on the hard-working peasants of northern Mexico. Desperate for help, a farming community offers Crabb land to establish a...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 344 p. — ISBN: 145323781X (ISBN13: 9781453237816). An unscrupulous businessman targets a family chemical company. Though his business cards read “Mason Villiers,” that is not his name. His respectable lower-middle-class upbringing—with its innocent stories of hot rods and prom queens—is a lie. Though an expert on finance, he has...
New York: Mysterious Press/Open Road Media, 2011. — 178 p. In the Wild West, a desperate gang of outlaws targets a gold shipment. During the Indian Wars, Boag and Wilstach rode with the Tenth Cavalry, the most feared outfit ever to gallop over the American plains. But now that things are relatively peaceful, the two soldiers wander the land, cloaking their once-spotless...
New York: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012. — 184 p. — ISBN: 1453237828 (ISBN13: 9781453237823). A lawyer tracks a gang of amateur kidnappers across the southwestern desert. By the time Carl Oakley gets to Soledad, the town is an empty shell. But the lawyer isn’t looking for the city; he wants to find Terry Conniston. A tire track proves that her sports car passed through...
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