Gerald: 1985 books

Waylon McPhee, middle-aged and divorced, moves back in with his widowed father in hopes of coasting through another year. But his father is dating again, and his sisters are trying to manipulate Waylon into asking their father for their inheritance before he gives it to a second wife. The sarcastic...

Human nature, in its most raw and desperate form, is to survive; at any cost. What we did to ourselves, and to each other, in order to stay alive out in the dark and cold depths of the forest shocked and shamed us to our very cores. The out-of-control events changed us. Forever. For now we know how...

New York Times**–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s suspenseful disaster novel about a massive mudslide along California’s southern coast** The people of Southern California worship the sun, but their idol has forsaken them. For more than two weeks, rain has fallen on this earthly...

In Gerald A. Browne’s spellbinding New York Times bestseller, a man bent on vengeance infiltrates a cabal of blue-blooded bankers that have taken over the Mafia In a quiet suburb of New York City, a mansion on a gated estate houses one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the United States—an...

In New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s riveting thriller, a down-on-his-luck American makes one last gamble to reap a fortune in the Colombian emerald business After years of stultifying office work, Joseph Wiley will try anything to get rich in a hurry. He’s hustled...

A gem dealer caught up in a decades-old murder mystery searches for the world’s most precious and mysterious pearls in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s exotic, riveting thriller When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the...

An investigator who recovers stolen insured jewelry steps into a web of international deceit and murder in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s spellbinding tale set in New York City’s world-renowned Diamond District A woman steps out of a limousine on the Upper East Side,...

A freelance intelligence agent with a deadly gift goes after a gang of terrorists in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s stylish, action-packed thriller The train slips across the horizon, its serial numbers painted over, its cars empty save for the soldiers who guard the...

In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save Camelot. The characters Gerald Morris has brought to life throughout his series—“Terence and Gawain, Lynet and Gaheris, Luneta and Rhience, Dinadan...

On her deathbed, Beaufils’s mother leaves him with a quest and a clue: find your father, a knight of King Arthur’s court. So Beaufils leaves the isolated forest of his youth and quickly discovers that he has much to learn about the world beyond his experience. Beaufils’s innocence never fails...

Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father (who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur’s Round Table). She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend’s castle...

Crocodilo was used to dealing with small timers. When he wrested half a buck from a lion he decided to go for broke. But elephant had other ideas. Dangerous ones. A short story for animal-tales enthusiasts.

Piers is desperate to become a page to escape the dirty, tedious labor of his father’s blacksmith shop. So when a knight arrives announcing that he’s on “the quest,” Piers begs to go along. Off on a series of adventures he never dreamed possible, Piers and the knight quickly run into difficulties....

When Detroit was settled over three hundred years ago, beavers (then known by the French name “castors”) were one of the most numerous and important animals in North America. Yet the aggressive beaver pelt trade in Detroit and elsewhere decimated the animal’s population, and the region’s remaining...