Jack R Stanley: 51 books

In the paradise of Rabaul, New Britain, on the island of New Guinea, five years after the end of World War II, a young bride, Nadia Tanner, comes to make her home near a trible village with her husband. A native and convicted murder, Michael, a model prisoner for five year, works around the civilized...

Cyrano de Bergerac, a proud but poor member of the respected and elite Gascon Guard, is a gifted poet as well as a feared swordsman.  The love of his life is a distant cousin, the beautiful Roxane.  But Roxane is in love with a handsome new cadet in the Guard, Christian.  Christian also loves Roxane...

Filming a real war isn’t at all like making a Hollywood movie. The danger, the blood, the humor, friendships, the heroism, and the tragedies are very real. A newly minted 2nd Lt., a butter bar, relives his tour of duty in those turbulent days --- days some have never --- nor can ever --- move beyond....

Anabelle, a special little Christmas bell who usually hung on the peg where Santa tied the reins of the sleigh was tarnished badly.  It happened one dreadful Christmas Eve when Santa had to battle storms as he made his rounds.  Raspbob, the cranky old elf who took care of the sleigh bells and the...

     Filming a real war isn’t at all like making a Hollywood movie. The danger, the blood, the humor, friendships, the heroism, and the tragedies are very real.  A newly minted 2nd Lt., a butter bar, relives his tour of duty in those turbulent days --- days some have never --- nor can ever...

Russell Craven isn’t the professional photographer specializing in creating the covers for science fiction  novels he seems.  He’s a former Soviet agent in the Federal Witness Protection Program.  His former KGV mentor, Grigori Dorsky died a few years ago.  Then one day Russell hears a TV...

Divorced rancher Truitt Higdon brings his bratty daughter Bess, thirteen, with him from Texas to pick up a a few very special horses he has purchased from a widow in the Altain Mountains of Russia.  Kolka, a thirteen-year-old boy loves these unique breed of small orange coated horses with black spots,...

Based on real events, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was an even a bigger silent movie star than Charlie Chaplin.  In fact, Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” was costumed partially with a pair of Fatty’s trousers. In 1921 at the height of his popularity, Fatty is entangled in the scandlous death of a...

In the last desperate days of World War II, Adolph Hitler personally presented seven commemorative golden Luger pistols to those he felt most represented the ideals of the Third Reich.  The possession of just four of  weapons was the key to the hoard of Nazi gold, stolen, confiscated, and looted...

Gunfighter Clay Maxwell wants nothing more than to be left alone to live his life in Del Rio, Texas.  He is tired of doing other men’s dirty work and killing every young gun slinger looking to make a name for himself.  Nothing, Maxwell claims, can get him to go back to doing what he does best. But...

A happily divorced young couple, Dalt and Ceiana Glass, are not more than a week into their new lives when Ceiana becomes the chief suspect in the bizarre murder at the couple’s South Padre Island condo building.  Ceiana, who owns a high end lingerie boutique, begs with Dalt to look into the matter...

“A love for sex and poetry were the only things my daughter got out of college,” an elderly lady says. “Now, she runs an escort service. One of her girls was murdered last year. Did my daughter have anything to do with it?” Scott Kaven, a former Houston homicide detective turned private...

Following the Civil War, a former CSA officer brings his new bride to Texas where they plan to build a farm and a family.  While he is away buying seed, his young wife is viciously raped by a rogue Texas Ranger.  When the husband returns he must join forces with a hostile squaw man/rancher to track...

The last days of the Old West were about done “down below.”  The states and territories were starting to see electric lights and automobiles.  But up in Alaska, “the Great Alone,” there was gold and very little law and order.  Up there men either walked or rode horses and most of them carried...