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![]() | A LITTLE TOO MUCH |
![]() | ON THE NICKEL |
![]() | PALOS VERDES BLUE The turf war draws in arsonists, angry bikers, border vigilantes and Jack's daughter Maeve, who once again puts herself at risk to help her father. |
![]() | THE DEVILS OF BAKERSFIELD 2008 978-1-933648-29-3 Maeve goes missing while she and Jack are in the Central Valley town of Bakersfield. It turns out the police are rounding up troublemakers, that they call Satanists. Hysteria. Book burnings. The pastor of a mega-church is all set to exorcise Maeve of her demons. All hell is about to break loose! | |
![]() | THE DARK STREETS Pegasus trade paperback 978-1-933648-94-0 $13.95 | |
![]() | DANGEROUS GAMES 2005 ISBN 0-7867-1543-X A young Indian girl has disappeared from a tiny reservation in the Owens Valley, swallowed up by the seedy underbelly of L.A. Jack must go find her, while worrying about his own daughter Maeve, who has been wounded in a drive-by shooting. | |
![]() | TERMINAL ISLAND 2004. ISBN 0-7867-1337-2. Nursing a collapsed lung, Jack is drawn back to his hometown of San Pedro to become entangled with Croatian fishermen, a destroyed Japanese fishing village, a Green Beret Vet who fancies himself a Samurai, and a stunning family surprise. | |
![]() | CITY OF STRANGERS 2003 ISBN 0-7867-1163-9. Four Persian boys are missing from an elite high school in L.A. and Jack must track them down. They have run away to rediscover their Moslem roots, but get caught up with violent terrorists.
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![]() | STREETS ON FIRE 2002 ISBN 0-7867-1018-7. A search for a missing boy carries Jack Liffey out of his element into the African-American community of South L.A. just as a new rebellion is about to erupt. His teen-age daughter is forced to come to his rescue. | |
![]() | THE ORANGE CURTAIN Jack is drawn deep into Orange County's Vietnamese community where a beautiful young woman has disappeared. The exotic realities and the complex alliances of Little Saigon draw Jack Liffey into danger--but the danger is soon magnified when he faces a trouble young man who believes he has an exotic toadstone in his head and has a chilling fear that everyone is about to laugh at him.
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![]() | LE RIDEAU ORANGE (French edition of The Orange Curtain) Pour les inconditionnels de Jack qui parlent Francais. | |
![]() | THE POISON SKY Jack Liffey goes after a naive high schooler drawn into the world of L.A.'s cults, but then the real doom merchants unleash a terror that could kill half the city.
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![]() | THE CRACKED EARTH NEW EDITION | |
![]() | THE CRACKED EARTH | |
![]() | Faille Fatale (French edition of The Cracked Earth) Pour les inconditionnels de Jack qui parlent Francais. | |
![]() | THE CONCRETE RIVER NEW EDITION! ISBN 1-933648-21-X $12.95
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![]() | THE CONCRETE RIVER Out of print. | |
![]() | THE CONCRETE RIVER Out of print. | |
![]() | La Riviere en Beton (French edition of The Concrete River) Pour les inconditionnels de Jack qui parlent Francais. | |
![]() | MURDER ON THE ROPES An anthology of mystery stories with a boxing theme, commissioned and edited by Otto Penzler. I have a short story in the anthology, "The Problem of Leon." | |
OTHER NOVELS | ||
![]() | THE TAKING OF THE WATERS 1994 ISBN 0-9639050-1-5. Not a Jack Liffey, but another John Shannon novel in print from John Brown Books. A three-generation saga of the American Left, released in France as three separate novels (see below). | |
![]() | LA RAFLE DES EAUX: OWENS Part 2: LA RAFLE DES EAUX: GREEN CITY Part 3: LA RAFLE DES EAUX: OWENS REVISITE L'Atalante Press, Nantes
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