Richard Alan Dickson: 73 books

When aliens invaded the Earth, Colonel Alan Lane expected death and destruction to sweep the planet.  He didn't expect them to simply disappear into the ocean.  After three weeks, however, all remains quiet except for a few missing boats in pirate-infested waters.  Are the pirates up...

When an asteroid on a collision course turns into a surprise alien invasion, Captain Alan Lane and Pollywog Squadron must defend the Earth from attack.  But how can a bunch of military misfits at a submarine base succeed when the best military minds have already failed?  The day we've long...

Everyone laughed at Johnny five years ago when he told them he'd seen the aliens.  He learned his lesson.  Tonight, on the night they return, he won't go to the police.  Tonight, he'll deal with them, himself... if he can just figure out how.   Richard Alan Dickson,...

After sighting a supposedly-dead terrorist that the young security agents are busy ignoring, undercover officer Roger Turner crashes through the Oakland security gate in hot pursuit.  The man will not escape justice again, even when the boneheaded youngsters begin to chase Roger, instead....

When Doyle Hunter received his third strike, he expected life in prison.  He expected to disappear from society forever.  He expected that they'd lock the door and throw away the key.  He did not expect to be hauled out to some secret trial to see if they shouldn't just execute him,...

On a night when the best costume gets the most free candy, one young man knows that his costume must be the very best.  His only competition?  His big sister Sally and Boo Boy, a mysterious kid from down the lane.  But on this night—his night—there will be no mystery.  After...

One doomed planet.  One skilled salesman.  One shot at salvation.  In the Earth's final days, John Smith must sell the planet so the rest of us can move on.  With a thousand generations of used-car salesmen in his blood, he's more than a match for every race in the galaxy save...

Southern California.  Summer, 1962.  With "Big Al" Torres and his squirt-gun-toting goons moving to corner the Thirty-Ninth Street lemonade-stand racket, Bobbie Johnston gears up for war.  This summer, he has help: a kid who knows his way around squirt guns and water balloons. ...

For anyone but the youngest son of the Clan Chief, slaying the fiercest flying beast on the twelve planets would be an impressive task.  Not for Dras'unat.  He must do so using a temperamental flying chariot from a long-dead race.  But that won't stop him.  He will prevail. ...

After centuries of delivering toys to all the good little girls and boys, an evil elf comes to the North Pole to bring it to an end.  The reindeer spring into action to deliver a powerful plea to the children of the world: Save Our Santa.  Save him... from her.   Richard...

When Johnny asked Debbie Coyle to the Homecoming game, he never thought she'd accept.  He had no idea what Fate was thinking.  But as the engine to his dad's tired Oldsmobile began to sputter on the way to pick her up for the most important Friday night of his life, he had a terrible feeling...

When someone tosses an annoying animated puppet beneath Jack's car to frame him for a hit-and-run homicide one dark and stormy night, the giant killer's mood sours.  Someone has forgotten a very important rule: never mess with the baddest bad boy in town.   Richard Alan Dickson,...

With the evil space dogs' resonance chamber ready to destroy Katlantis, the gloves come off.  Cat Patrol Delta gears up for war.  But when the Earth dogs fight the space dogs for the same territory, Growler the Mutt comes to the curious cats with an offer that may simply be too hard to ignore....

While investigating a signal by its enemies in the Canine Cartel, Cat Patrol Delta crashes on the little known planet Earth.  Delta discovers a war between cats and dogs down there, too... and the cats are losing!  But when the dogs snatch a space cat, the earthbound mutts may quickly find...