Jack R Stanley: 51 books

Just before World War I along the Texas-Mexican border, an American pilot, who gets air sick if he’s over four feet off the ground, lands his bi-plane on the wrong side of the Rio Grande and is captured by second rate gang of  Mexican bandits.  The outlaws leader, a  Pancho-Villa-want’a-be,...

A prerecorded message on a computer memory chip arrives at the office of Houston Mayor Amon Burlingame.  It’s just the beginning of what turns out to be a nuclear terrorist threat.  The mayor must deal with the infighting between the local, police, sheriff’s office and the F.B.I. all while trying...

Relationships are not easy.  We all have our reservations whether we entering into a new one, or trying to keep an existing one alive.  At The Reatta Hotel on South Padre Island, Texas, Barton, the young senior assistant manager and his significant other, Erika, another assistant manager,...

This adult sex comedy is set in a Texas cat house in Galveston with a host of whacky characters, sexy young women and romance in the midst of the oldest profession of all.  Farin owns the bordello where Mom, his adopted mother, is madam to all the girls, including Apple Pye, Mom’s and Farin’s...

In the Hispanic/Latino culture, a folk healer is called a “curandero.”  Noe’s grandfather, Santiago, was a wise and powerful healer who, in the end, could not cure or save his own daughter, Noe’s mother.  As child Noe made the decision he would become a “real doctor” even though his...

Young and attractive TV reporter Kodi Burch has visions of three rattlesnake murders. Her insights at first surprise the Texas Rangers who are assigned to the case but become invaluable as other such murders occur. Ranger Keith Catlin and his partner Tomas Botello reluctantly seek the help...

Doyle Gillette is in his last semester of law school and planning to marry his fiancée and graduate journalism student Kari McCrinnon.  One day an anonymous message turns up on his answering machine one day saying, “You can’t marry the girl you’re engaged to.  She is your sister.” Doyle’s...

Muleshoe, is a not-so-modern Texas Panhandle town of about 5,000 — on Saturday — during the county fair. But Jarvis Dickle’s been murdered there — three nails in the top of his head. Nobody liked Jarvis --- but then nobody even knew who he really was. His daughter, Lottie, a local disc jockey,...

Javi Asher, a young roughneck in oil fields of South Texas, must come into San Antonio to I.D. the body of his estranged father who was murdered, a private eye. Javi also discovers the unsolved mystery his father was working when he was killed, and a girl he can’t resist.  It all results...

How can you ever get even with an old boy friend who dumped you the night before you took the exam for medical school and that caused you to completely flunk the test?  Angel Diaz, now a radio disc jockey on Texas’s South Padre Island, has a plan.  It’s is a good plan until Angel’s guardian...

Is it possible that a modern day male college library major, whom most coeds treat as if he has leprosy, has the gift that all the great ladies men of history have had?  That’s Rudy Kosti’s question.  His Uncle Don (Juan) Kosti say it’s true.  And Uncle Don is in the hospital recovering from...

Even if you understand the biology, the chemistry, and the psychology of love, does that make your love life any easier?  A college course called “Love Among Human Beings” is the center of the story involving several couple both in college and after.  Screenwriting grad student Jake reconnects...

In graduate school, young Mara Foley learns about the ethics and the theory of modern electronic journalism. However a summer internship with a South Texas TV station opens her eyes to the real world of in-house drama and competitiveness among those who ply the trade as their profession. Teamed...

Slamming doors, near misses and comic mayhem are just the beginning of a honeymoon mix up between the beautiful star of the number one rated TV sitcom, “The Last Virgin From Las Vegas,” her handsome, skirt chasing co-star, and the brides ex-jock bridegroom. To celebrate the taping of the...