Gerald A. Browne

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    June 1996
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About the Author

Gerald Austin Browne was born 1924, in Connecticut, USA. He was raised in Litchfield County, Connecticut. He attended the University of New Mexico, The Sorbonne and Columbia University, where he won several literary awards. His first novel, It's All Zoo, was written while he was living in Paris and working as a fashion photographer. His bestselling novels include 11 Harrowhouse, Green Ice, 19 Purchase Street, Stone 588, and Hot Siberian, several of which have been made into films. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife, Merle, a model and actress, as well as the co-author of a novel entitled The Ravishers.

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Eleven Harrow House

    11 Harrowhouse: The London town house that headquartered The System, the international diamond cartel that totally controlled the world's market. 11 Harrowhouse: Whose impregnable subterranean vaults hold a treasure in precious stones beyond imaginin...

  • 19 Purchase Street

    Laundering billions of dollars at the WASPS empire headquarters, lovers Gainer and Leslie plot the ultimate heist against the deadly stuffed shirts at 19 Purchase Street, in a story of greed, murder, and revenge...

  • Hazard

    A freelance intelligence agent with a deadly gift goes after a gang of terrorists in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s stylish, action-packed thriller The train slips across the horizon, its serial numbers painted over,...

  • 11 Harrowhouse

    The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as...

  • Slide

    New York Times best-selling author Gerald A. Browne''s suspenseful disaster novel about a massive mudslide along California''s southern coast.

    The people of Southern California worship the sun, but their idol has forsaken them. For more tha...

  • Stone 588

    An octahedral crystal that came into the hands of diamond merchant Phillip Springer's father many years earlier, Stone 588 lay ignored because it was so obviously flawed: a rough, whitish-opaque lump with a chipped corner, clearly of no commercial va...

  • Green Ice

    Cynical, ne'er-do-well New Yorker John Wiley, seeking to get away from it all, meets up with a self-destructive young heiress and earns the disfavor of the South American syndicate which controls the black market in Colombian emeralds...

  • Hot Siberian

    A young Soviet diamond trader races to shut down clandestine gem smugglers in Siberia before the cartel decides he is the mastermind of the operation in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s thrilling, atmospheric novel Nik...

  • The Arousers



  • The Ravishers

  • It's All Zoo

    New York Times best-selling author Gerald A. Browne's stylish debut novel about a pair of unlikely lovers in 1960s Paris.

    It's not the prostitutes who are keeping Lillian awake. She may share her apartment building with a bordello, but the ...

  • 18Mm Blues

    Finding their fates entwined with the lives and deaths of two Japanese pearl divers, Grady Bowman and Julia Elkins travel to the Far East where they unravel an extraordinary mystery and discover the world's most precious pearls. Reprint....

  • West 47th

    A New York jeweler becomes involved in the search for priceless emeralds stolen from the Iranian treasury and finds himself up against mobsters, a disillusioned cop, and vicious Iranian emissaries. Reprint....

  • Eighteen Millimeter Blues

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Gerald A. Browne has published 14 books.

Gerald A. Browne does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, West 47th, was published in June 1996.

The first book by Gerald A. Browne, Eleven Harrow House, was published in January 1972.

No. Gerald A. Browne does not write books in series.
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