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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 14 titles





  • A respectable citizen murdered his neighbor in an affluent suburb of New York. Hopler's confession takes place in the stark interrogation room of a midwestern state police barracks. Over a span of 48 hours, he lays out the complex details of his life...



  • Max Zajack's life is cheap rooms, dead-end jobs, and suicidal fantasies until he meets the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite, and everything goes to hell. Max is a struggling musician and wannabe writer. His life is in a rut until one night...



  • "'You're going to have to do something, Max. I can't handle it by myself anymore,' she said one morning over breakfast. 'Some of the bills are going unpaid. I didn't want to tell you last month, but. . .' "I knew what it meant -- I was going to have ...



  • "I was renting a basement, a hovel, really, at an absurdly low rate, on Park Street, but it never deterred any of the women I brought there, and there were quite a few. If the dust that coated everything bothered them, they didn't complain. If the un...



  • He’s been married a long time to his considerably older, and very wealthy wife, and if he wants to get a little action on the side, he’d better do it now, before he’s too old. A personals ad for a discreet affair brings on an avalanche of respo...



  • Murderers and serial killers. . .Jilted lovers and outcasts. . . Broken men and lost women. . . Loners.

    Cutting across genres for more than 20 years, Mark SaFranko has excelled in charting the life of the outsider. This collection includes ni...



  • "Dirty Work" is the fourth of Mark SaFranko's series of Max Zajack novels and follows the critically acclaimed "Hating Olivia," "Lounge Lizard" and "God Bless America." "Dirty Work" is the bridge between "God Bless America" and "Hating Olivia." Max h...



  • Hoboken: an amorphous, violent city, transformed into a chic high-rent neighbourhood full of disposable incomes and high aspiration. Police detective Brian Vincenti is charged with investigating the case of a young woman's self-destruction - or murde...






  • "In class the nuns hinted at the same thing. What we learned from the Baltimore Catechism was that 'self-gratification, ' whatever that meant, exactly, was a sin against the sixth commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, ' and the tenth commandm...



  • In the days after the bomb dropped, we went through all kinds of hell...I demanded to know everything. How did it start? How long had it been going on? How many times had they done it? What was she going to do about him? She wouldnÕt g...



  • "'You got the worst luck in the world, punk -- always in the wrong place at the wrong time!' Bash was yelling at me when she brought me home from the emergency room. Here I was, causing trouble again. Somehow, no matter what I was up to, I always man...



  • Nowhere Near Hollywood is the fifth major instalment of the ‘Max Zajack’ series.

    Familiar to readers across the world from the earlier novels, this time around Max, after years of struggle to get his writing recognized, decides impulsi...



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    One of the most talented writers out there in today's world of books. - Sam MillarAuthor: Mark SaFrankoClay's wandering eye has finally landed him in trouble. After a devastating accident that leaves him confined to a wheelchair, his many conquests a...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Safranko has published 14 books.

Mark Safranko does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nowhere Near Hollywood, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Mark Safranko, The Favor, was published in October 1988.

No. Mark Safranko does not write books in series.