Mike Dennis: 22 books

"Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning." -- Jonathan Woods, author of BAD JUJU & Other Tales Of Mayhem And Madness Jack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night for...

  In this short story, Harry's a blackjack dealer at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. The kind of guy you'd never notice. Ordinary-looking, inconspicuous, practically invisible. Lives in a little apartment behind the hotel. Been working graveyard shift for twelve years now. Got no life of any consequence....

What if a total stranger gave you $95,000 in cash as he lay dying in the street? Do you keep it? Even after knowing who it really belongs to? Ex-private investigator Jack Barnett is handed such an envelope on a back street in Las Vegas. He needs the money, but as he learns more about it, he...

"Dennis writes true noir."--Vicki Hendricks, author of Cruel Poetry "Noir with panache." -- Charlie Stella, author of Johnny Porno FULLY LOADED / It's 1984 and Biloxi, Mississippi has seen better days. Sherry Lamar, used car saleswoman extraordinaire, is feeling the...

Las Vegas, October, 2003. Sandra Blake is dead. A bullet in her forehead. Her ex-husband wants former private investigator Jack Barnett to find the killer. The investigation leads Barnett into a high-powered world of shady characters and a rising body count, all for control of a seemingly...

It's 1984 and Biloxi, Mississippi has seen better days. Sherry Lamar, used car saleswoman extraordinaire, is feeling the pinch. Then one day, a stranger walks onto her small car lot and ushers her into a world of steamy sex and murder.

A young, headstrong performer with white-hot talent. A president of a small record company with big ambitions. A nervous nation coping with a new, dangerous music. It’s Memphis, 1958. It’s rock & roll, brother! It’s… CADILLAC’S COMIN’!

A small-time bookie is overcome by greed, lust, and extraordinary circumstances.Eddie Ryan operates in the rough-and-tumble East End section of Houston, and just lost a bundle on the World Series. For him, there's only one way out: a phone call to a local loan shark. This triggers a sequence of events...

The East German Ministry of State Security, popularly known as the Stasi, was one of the largest and most intrusive secret police systems in world history. So extensive was the system of surveillance and control that in any given year throughout the 1970s and 1980s, about one in fifty of the 13 million...

Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and...

Speaking candidly to veteran sportswriter Mike Shalin for the first time about his often tumultuous career in Major League Baseball, Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd recounts a life that began in the Deep South of Mississippi, and the events that led him toward great heights atop the pitcher’s mound at...

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world. The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...

Mystery writer Esther Luttrell has assembled a treasury of suspense fiction. Scottish novelist Ian Hall presents the lead story, Case of the Howling Husky, a brilliant tale of international intrigue set at a ballet performed for the world elite, inside an Antarctic Ice Station. Mike Graves weaves...

This volume collects all four of the action-packed G.I. Joe Yearbooks. Re-caps of important storylines, character profiles, and new stories were presented in these yearly comics that were published from 1985-1988. It also includes cover galleries and pin-ups by G.I. Joe cover artist Mike Zeck.