Jerome Charyn

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Isaac Sidel

1 - Blue Eyes (1976)
2 - Marilyn the Wild (1976)
3 - The Education of Patrick Silver (Jun-1981)
4 - Secret Isaac (1978)
5 - The Good Policeman (Jun-1990)
6 - Maria's Girls (May-1992)
7 - Montezuma's Man (Aug-1993)
8 - Little Angel Street (Nov-1994)
9 - El Bronx (Feb-1997)
9 - Death of a Tango King (Aug-1998)
10 - Citizen Sidel (Jan-1999)
11 - Winter Warning (Oct-2017)
Under the Eye of God (Nov-2012)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • Blue Eyes

    Isaac Sidel - 1

    A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ringBefore Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father’s suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging alo...

  • Marilyn the Wild

    Isaac Sidel - 2

    Lower East Side police inspector Isaac Sidel has his hands full when Rupert, the son of his best friend, joins with a Chinatown punk and a fiery JDL revolutionary to form a group that will topple Isaac's rule and tempt Isaac's daughter, Marilyn...

  • Secret Isaac

    Isaac Sidel - 4

    Disguised as a bum and living in a flophouse, Sidel tries to save a streetwalkerThe ragged old man has a tapeworm in his gut and a room at a nameless Whore’s Row hotel, but to those in the know, he is one of the most powerful people in New York...

  • The Education of Patrick Silver

    Isaac Sidel - 3

    In a shocking New York underworld populated by a constellation of punks, low lifes, thugs, nymphs, vice lords and bag men, Patrick Silver is an eccentric giant. An ex-cop, he once served under the now disgraced First Deputy Isaac Sidel. But now his l...

  • Pinocchio's Nose

  • Panna Maria

  • The Catfish Man

  • Darlin' Bill

  • The Seventh Babe

    When Babe Ragland makes the hapless Boston Red Sox in a Spring Training tryout, he becomes baseball's seventh Babe. He soon establishes himself as an acrobatic third baseman, and his rookie fright is soon replaced by a fierce competitiveness and a ch...



  • War Cries over Avenue C

    Tell me what you throw into the garbage, and I will tell you who you are. Jerome Charyn takes two of the champion wastelands of our time--Vietnam and the grimmer reaches of New York's Lower East Side--and superimposes one upon the other. His purpose,...

  • Paradise Man

    A stylish killer makes the mistake of befriending a godThough he doesn’t know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and A...

  • Metropolis

  • The Magician's Wife

  • The Good Policeman

    Isaac Sidel - 5

    Sent on a cross-country lecture tour after capturing the FBI's most wanted criminal, New York City Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel returns to the city and finds himself battling criminals, the establishment, and the Christy Mathewson Club...

  • Billy Budd, KGB

    "Vivid and sensitive." — Publishers Weekly. Inspired by Herman Melville's novella, this graphic novel recounts a gifted and naïve young man's recruitment by the Soviet secret service and his adventures in New York City...

  • Elsinore

    Eager to find his girlfriend, Fay Abruzzi, who has been secreted away by her district attorney father, former hitman Sidney Holden agrees to come out of retirement and help millionaire Howard Phipps bring down the D.A. Reprint. PW....

  • Margot in Badtown

  • Maria's Girls

    Isaac Sidel - 6

    Obsessed with Alejo Toma+a7s and Carlos Maria Montalba+a7n, two corrupt members of the New York school system, police commissioner Isaac Sidel sends Detective Caroll Brent to dog their trail. Reprint....

  • The New Mystery

    A collection of more than forty crime stories features work by such well-known writers as Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, P. D. James, Raymond Carver, Walter Mosley, George Chesbro, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and others. 35,000 first printing. ...



  • Montezuma's Man

    Isaac Sidel - 7

    Teaming up with a cop who occasionally deals on the wrong side of the tracks, police commissioner Sidel plans to raid Mafia hideouts and finds himself on a trail of ancient puppets, heroin, and corruption that leads straight to Sicily. Reprint....

  • Little Angel Street

    Isaac Sidel - 8

    On the brink of being named mayor of New York, Isaac the Pink Commish goes underground, assuming the alias of Geronimo Jones, and a racist gang called the Knickerbocker Boys begin killing off anyone who could be Isaac. Reprint....

  • The Tar Baby

    Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, ?"The Tar Baby"?is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole ...

  • The Crime Lover's Casebook

    A crime-lover's treasury of cutthroat murders and hairbreadth escapes includes the writings of such popular authors as James Ellroy, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, P. D. James, and Sara Paretsky. Reprint....

  • El Bronx

    Isaac Sidel - 9

    In the emerald island of Yankee Stadium Isaac watches millionaires play baseball, while a few blocks away children smoke crack and wave kitchen knives in the air. This is the borough where wild dogs used to roam the parks. This is the land where an a...

  • Death of a Tango King

    Isaac Sidel - 9

    Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Now all the Hell Sisters at Harrington Hills prison farm are in love with her. Their leader wants to "marry" her. Yolanda has to find a way out. She's been taking a ph...

  • Citizen Sidel

    Isaac Sidel - 10

    The Big Guy is running for the White House. Or rather, his self-aggrandizing sometimes partner baseball czar J. Michael Storm is running for president, and taking the mayor of New York along - not for the ride, but for the muscle. Isaac is all muscle...

  • Captain Kidd

    A portrait of World War II general George Patton is seen through the eyes of a member of his personal staff, Captain Roland Kahn, who walks the General's dog and runs a profitable scheme selling army supplies to underground customers...

  • The Franklin Scare

    It is May, 1944. An ordinary sailor named Oliver Beebe, a handsome man with a head full of eyebrows, arrives at the White House to cut the Presidents hair, and quickly, mysteriously, becomes a live-in, full-time companion and confidant to the Chief E...

  • Hurricane Lady

    Wealthy television producer Jocko Robinson falls in love with the Hurricane Lady, an ex-model calling herself Inertia, who serves a crime lord from Cologne, and finds himself drawn into a perilous and fantastical world of mayhem, crime, lust, and bet...



  • The Green Lantern

    Jerome Charyn is known for his paeans to the workingman. Here is another work in that tradition, about a simple prop manager who finds himself unexpectedly -- and literally -- pushed into the spotlight, and a player in world history.

    When Ivan...

  • Inside the Hornet's Head

    When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight...

  • Johnny One-Eye

    This comic masterpiece reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam, and a cunning George Washington. Praised for one of the most "singular and remarkable [careers] in American literature" (Jonathan Yardley, Wa...

  • The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

    What if the old maid of Amherst wasn't an old maid at all? Her older brother, Austin, spoke of Emily as his wild sister. Jerome Charyn, continuing his exploration of American history through fiction, has written a startling novel about Emily Dickinso...

  • Back to Bataan

    Gr 7-9-- Depressed after his father's death at Bataan during World War II, Jack Dalton, 11, faces a host of problems. He's tired of being a scholarship student at an exclusive private school, and angry after being thrown over by his so-called ``fianc...

  • The Lord of Sugar Hill

    When a friend’s crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop it -- before at least one of them winds up dead Edward Parkchester, or Parky, “the black eagle,” is the most successful criminal lawyer in...

  • Under the Eye of God

    Isaac Sidel

    After decades of madness in the Bronx, Isaac Sidel visits the craziest state in the country Isaac Sidel is too popular to be America’s vice president. Once the New York Police Department commissioner, he became the most beloved mayor in the cit...

  • At the Sudden Death Cafe

    When his father dies, a young bumper inherits the bloody family business Holden is more than a bill collector. He’s a killer. His father came to New York from Belgium to spend his life driving cars for the Aladdin Fur Company. But Holden has mor...

  • Bad Die Young

    A black defense attorney struggles with his obsession with the laziest whore in Harlem From his penthouse in posh Sugar Hill, Edward Parkchester rules over Manhattan. A silver-tongued defense attorney with a flourishing criminal sideline, he has f...

  • I Am Abraham

    Jerome Charyn’s “daring” and “memorable” (The New Yorker) historical novel renders the inner life of our sixteenth president like never before. This unforgettable portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War effortlessly mixes humor with S...



  • Bitter Bronx

    Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story AwardBrooklyn is dead. Long live the Bronx! In Bitter Bronx, Jerome Charyn returns to his roots and leads the literary renaissance of an oft-overlooked borough in this surprising new colle...

  • Jerzy

    "A moving attempt to trace the connections between Kosinski's wartime struggles and postwar fictions." -- New Yorker"Jerzy is a novel with a light touch that's still capable of lifting heavy subjects. Charyn knows what he wants to do and knows how t...

  • Winter Warning

    Isaac Sidel - 11

    The climactic conclusion to the iconic Isaac Sidel mystery series, which finds Charyn’s acclaimed hero facing his toughest showdown yet, this time as commander-in-chief... Reflecting our own world like a volatile funhouse mirror, Winter Warning ...

  • The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King

    Teddy Roosevelt comes to comic life in Jerome Charyn’s “tremendous[ly] fun . . . delightful novel” (Ron Charles, Washington Post).Widely considered “one of our most rewarding novelists,” Jerome Charyn “has upped the ante” (Larry McMurtr...

  • Family Man

    Two brothers: one, a man of God; the other, a man of the Mob. In a city on the edge of chaos, they'll do anything to survive.

    The story begins in New York City... one hour into the future. Crime runs rampant, rogue cops patrol the rubble-stre...

  • Cesare

    A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves“Charyn’s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . [Cesare is] provocati...

  • Sergeant Salinger

    A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat“Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” -- New YorkerJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Ch...

  • Big Red

    A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles.Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has da...

  • Ravage & Son

    A master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side -- the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jerome Charyn has published 48 books.

Jerome Charyn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ravage & Son, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Jerome Charyn, Blue Eyes, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Jerome Charyn has 1 series.
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