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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2012
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • 1923: Faced with impending personal and political scandals (corrupt cabinet members, drinking, gambling, failing health made worse by a quack physician, blackmailers attempting to exploit his numerous affairs and bastard children, murders and suicide...



  • Set in 1919, The Greatest Living Englishman tells the comedic adventures of "England's Worst Poet," Colin Gilfeather Millaney, an egotistical, self-proclaimed, poet who is wholly untouched with even the faintest speck of talent. He is so awful that p...



  • Customer Service Manager Bob Thomassoulo gets more than he bargained for when he and his friends go to to Mexico and take revenge on the man who took his job in this absurd mix of revenge, gold lust, corporate America, friendship, classic rock and po...



  • The time? Tomorrow. Can the President of the United Red States of America, and the President of the United Blue States of America, come together in order stop a giant asteroid before it destroys Earth in one month's time? Who is the mysterious Doctor...



  • A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the middle of political intrigue and revolution on the island of Costa San Rica while trying to save the agency's banana account....



  • One night, in a London pub in the 1990's, I ran into a man who claimed to be the actor Michael Caine. The man said (in a thick Cockney accent): "'ere mate, if yer buy me a beer I will recite the bloomin' 'oole of Franz Kafka's classic tale of alienat...





  • A teenage boy runs away from a small Alabama town to Manhattan in order to live out his dad's rock 'n' roll dreams - and then he discovers a few of his own. Along the way he discovers that, while the seedy underbelly of the city that he sought has be...



  • A mild-mannered, small town barber steals a valuable necklace on a whim and then undergoes intense psychological turmoil as an insurance investigator turns the heat up on him. He ends up on the run and with the blood of multiple murder victims on his...






  • A rich playboy named Johnnie Romano becomes mixed-up with a seductive, but dangerous, woman and a depraved gambling club. He uses embezzled funds to play, and soon finds himself in over his head with debt. Facing financial ruin, and with the authorit...



  • A recently discovered manuscript, brittle and yellowed, written by Uncle Remus in 1886, suggests that he was the actual author of the story that's come to be known as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. That tale, Da Yeller Brick Road, is published here for ...



  • One night in a London pub in the 1990's I ran into a man who claimed to be the actor Michael Caine. The man said (in a thick Cockney accent): "'ere mate, if yer buy me a beer I will recite the bloomin' 'oole of Franz Kafka's classic tale of alienatio...






  • When a gold coin heist turns out badly a pair of idiotic crooks hook-up with some moronic thieves (and a movie star) in order to steal the secret KFC chicken recipe. Along the way they reveal (among many other things) the connection between Gilligan'...



  • The comic adventures of Joe Perk: inarticulate, simple-hearted and naive. Joe is "a coffee-whisperer" whose amazing talent for pulling the perfect cup of java propels him from small town Oklahoma to New York City to realize his dream: to become a wor...



  • Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man wh...



  • 1984, New York City. Through a series of bad life decisions, a former big time mobster has been reduced to a low-level hood and he has to find a way to repay the family $100,000 in a week, or else face the consequences. This sets off a chain reaction...



  • IN SPACE, NO ONE WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS...One day, in 1994, just as he was poised to land a major cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, music journalist, Derek Christian, is whisked away by a mysterious man with multiple arms and tentacles, name...






  • The continuing outlandish adventures of mediocre music journalist turned accidental space adventurer, Derek Christian, and his friends now aboard the Napoo Starship, the VHS Betamax. Many questions will be raised although the answers will no doubt be...



  • In the final book of the thrilling Bar at the Intergalactic Hotel trilogy we find our heroes wrapping up loose ends, starting new beginnings and, for some, embarking on mind-blowing journeys that will forever alter the universe as we know it--all if ...



  • Before Derek Christian became the confused hero, pawn of the universe, and reluctant cosmic adventurer of the Intergalactic novels, he was a simple copywriter at a radio station in Atlanta, WRFA: Radio Free America. This story tells how his writer's ...



  • Meet Carter Kovac, disgraced art dealer turned reluctant, bumbling private detective. After inheriting his famous father's detective agency, he immediately becomes entangled in a mysterious web of intrigue and murder--and the police think he's the cu...



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    Set in the late days of the Great Depression, The French Stranger is about Fred Dumas, who has been cursed (or blessed) with an abnormally long set of middle fingers, which serve him well as a digitator, or a bum twaddler, working for M'Lady: a Ladie...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jim Yoakum has published 24 books.

Jim Yoakum does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Chinese Gunman, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Jim Yoakum, The Bloviator, was published in August 2012.

No. Jim Yoakum does not write books in series.