North Atlantic Books

Robert Greer's latest novela prequel to his CJ Floyd mystery seriestakes readers back in time to a very young CJ Floyd. It's 1972, and the 22-year-old decorated war vet has recently returned to Denver from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. Navigating depression, he finds a friend in World War II vet and amputee Wiley Ames, who...

A NovelCitizens' stories of state abuse, from secret wiretapping to unjust imprisonment and worse, make headlines daily. In the hands of novelist Gordon W. Dale, they drive a masterful political thriller. As Fool's Republic opens, Simon Wyley floats in a tiny all-white cell. A short-order cook with a genius-level IQ, Wyley has had a steady job for...

It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee Stagolee Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the Stags, Stagolee makes alliances with the Democratic Party and votes for a Democratic...

Dr. Peter Proud's ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia. These dreamswhich he comes to believe may be flashbacks from a previous lifebecome so disturbing that he seeks answers from a sleep researcher, a clairvoyant,...

When Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, hes horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to himthat he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns up dead, CJ Floyd...

The Cold War ended years ago, or did it? For Thurmond Giles, a decorated African American Air Force veteran found naked, dead, and dangling by his ankles inside a deactivated minuteman missile silo in desolate southeastern Wyoming, the answer is no. The labyrinthine investigation that follows his deathled by former fighter pilot Major Bernadette...