Jack R Stanley: 51 books

            Did gambler “Fair Deal” Doak Logan empty “Quicksilver” Riggs DeGraf’s brain pan with a .44 shot to the head along the frozen Yukon River?  A miner’s court is convened in the Golden Mecca saloon on the Alaskan/Canadian frontier during the Klondike gold rush of the...

This novel begins only moments after the ending of The Reluctant President. A widowed Texas surgeon, Porter Randall, serving his second term in Congress has become the President of the United States, reluctantly at the sudden death of his predecessor. Giving a speech in support of his first State...

What if in the dark, small hours of a morning you discovered Secret Service agents at your front door telling you that you were now the President of the United States? That’s the way it happened to Porter Randall, a Texas Panhandle surgeon turned novelist who had been persuaded by friends to run...

Robyn has come to a decision and goes to the office of her Hollywood screenwriter husband, Thane, to tell him.  She discovers him in the arms of another woman.  But this doesn’t end like you might think.  Robyn apologizes because she and Thane have an open marriage and she’s not supposed to...

When a playwright is murdered in a university theatre, the students decide to pull an all-nighter to ready the new play in spite of a ghost that supposedly haunts the theatre.  This “slasher movie” story chronicles the bizarre killings of several students as they work on the production. From...

Sophocles classic Greek tragedy is retold in the time of the Texas War against Mexico. Antigone, one of two remaining sisters of the incestuous marriage of their father and his mother, decides to bury her beaten and disgraced brother, the general and emperor of Mexico, against the orders of her uncle,...

Bestselling novelist William Hollowell McGee makes a $50,000.00 bet that he can write a novel in one night. His best friend supplies the place, a summer mountain resort closed for the winter, and supplies him with the only key. However as the tries to work, he is visited through the night by a variety...

Ninfa, Tomas and four-year-old, Gloria have fled war torn El Salvador to “the land of the free and the home of the brave” -- by swimming and wading the Rio Grande River illegally.  They encounter dedicated Catholic nuns, protestant religious workers, as well as attorneys who are all a part...

A Soviet agent steals a MIG jet and defects to a U.S. air craft carrier toward the end of the cold war.  U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Col. Keith Shaddix, who works at N.A.T.O. headquarters in Brussels, learns there’s a mole inside American military intelligence.  Along with CIA agent Burl Matlock, they start the hunt for the mole which quickly point back at Shaddix.

“Her feet may be in town, but her ass — and the rest of her is in the county,” said Canyon Police Chief Haskell Maddox. “Obviously she was shot in the city --- she just fell into the county,” responded Sheriff’s Patrol Deputy Savanna Breeze. “That means I’ve got -- at...

A vampire rises in modern day Houston.  Detective Aylyne Bartok encounters a TV talk-show host, Gaylin Faulk, who seems to know more about the vampire case than she does.  Faulk may be a suspect or a helper in the investigation.  As other young women in the city die, the attractive detective begins grasping at any form of help, even if it’s as strange and handsome as Gaylin Faulk.

A horse with the peculiar fear of running water, is given to 13-year-old boy in 1836 by a Mexican rancher fleeing the Mexican army.  The boy’s mother owns a small hotel in Fort Bend, Texas.  The horse was taken by Mexican soldiers on their way North to the fight known as The Alamo.  Even though...

The death of his wife has left Olin Caylor a man who crawled into a bottle to survive.  It’s his feisty 12-year-old daughter, Darcie, with all the faith in the world in her father, who wants to stop his slide into oblivion. She gets him to take on a missing person’s case without knowing it’s...

This all happens while Garrett is helping teach an undergrad course called “Communication Between The Sexes” for an often absent professor.  His own bride, Hope, can’t understand how Garrett knew about the dead husband’s cheating ways but never said anything about it. The students have...