John E. Gardner

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  • Bibliography:
    71 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1964
  • Latest Book:
    November 2010
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Full Series List in Order

Boysie Oakes

1 - The Liquidator (Sep-1964)
2 - The Understrike (1965)
3 - Amber Nine (Aug-1966)
4 - Madrigal (1967)
5 - Founder Member (1969)
6 - Traitor's Exit (1970)
7 - The Airline Pirates (1970)
8 - A Killer for a Song (1975)

Derek Torry

1 - The Stone Killer (1969)
2 - The Corner Men (1974)

Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford

1 - Bottled Spider (Sep-2002)
2 - The Streets of Town (May-2003)
3 - Unknown Fears (Dec-2004)
4 - Troubled Midnight (Feb-2006)
5 - No Human Enemy (Sep-2008)

Herbie Kruger

1 - The Nostradamus Traitor (1979)
2 - The Garden of Weapons (Feb-1981)
3 - The Quiet Dogs (1982)
4 - The Secret Houses (Nov-1987)
5 - The Secret Families (Apr-1989)
6 - Maestro (Sep-1993)
7 - Confessor (Apr-1995)

James Bond

1 - License Renewed (Apr-1981)
2 - For Special Services (Apr-1983)
3 - Icebreaker (1983)
4 - Role of Honour (Oct-1984)
5 - Nobody Lives Forever (May-1986)
6 - No Deals, Mr. Bond (May-1987)
7 - Win, Lose or Die (Aug-1989)
8 - Brokenclaw (Jul-1990)
9 - The Man from Barbarossa (Jun-1991)
10 - Death Is Forever (Jun-1992)
11 - Never Send Flowers (May-1993)
12 - Seafire (Aug-1994)
13 - Goldeneye (Nov-1995)
14 - Cold Fall (Jun-1996)

Professor Moriarty

1 - The Return of Moriarty (1974)
2 - The Revenge of Moriarty (1975)

Book List in Order: 71 titles

  • The Liquidator

    Boysie Oakes - 1

  • The Understrike

    Boysie Oakes - 2

  • Amber Nine

    Boysie Oakes - 3

  • Madrigal

    Boysie Oakes - 4

    The Cold War is at its height.And Boysie Oakes is back in another terrifying adventure. The reluctant assassin has been sent to Berlin to make a kill 'in the cold' on the other side of the Wall.Trying to remember his own code-name, he is soon battlin...

  • Founder Member

    Boysie Oakes - 5

    Deep in the heart of London a secret meeting is taking place. Drastic plans are being put into action. But Boysie Oakes, the suave, womanising special agent for British Intelligence, is unaware of the events unfolding around him - and is revelling in...

  • The Stone Killer

    Derek Torry - 1

  • A Complete State of Death

  • The Airline Pirates

    Boysie Oakes - 7

  • Traitor's Exit

    Boysie Oakes - 6



  • Air Apparent

    Boysie Oakes, ex anguished agent, ex defective private eye, and greying horrifically at the temples, is facing the wilderness of middle-age supported only by the Welfare State.

    At long last Boysie Oakes has reached seedy maturity - and he plan...

  • Grendel

    This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic."An extraordinary achievement." -- New York TimesThe first and most terrifyi...

  • The Sunlight Dialogues

     John Gardner’s sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town One summer day, a countercultural dri...

  • Jason and Medeia

    • / General Fiction
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    A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King ...

  • Nickel Mountain

    John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love.At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story: when at 42, the obese, anxious and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells -- who is pregnant w...

  • The Corner Men

    Derek Torry - 2

    London’s underworld was quietly and profitably controlled by the Magnus boys -- two men of compelling evil. Their methods were simple because no terror, no act of brutality, was too extreme. Their orders were always carried out, or had been, until ...

  • The Return of Moriarty

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Professor Moriarty - 1

    London is in terror. The streets are filled with dippers, macers and bullies of every description, all collecting "contributions for the Professor." But Holmes saw Professor Moriarty swept over a waterfall in Switzerland! Could it be that Europe's Ma...

  • The King's Indian: Stories and Tales

    An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain worldIn this exceptional book, author John Gardner explores the literary form as a vehicle of vision, and creates heroes that personify his tremendous artistic ...

  • A Killer for a Song

    Boysie Oakes - 8

    Nobody escapes the past--and Boysie Oakes knows all too well that he is no exception. So when the wily Moslyn, his former boss in the Department employs him once again, it is with sinking heart and fluttering stomach that Boysie is forced to retur...

  • The Revenge of Moriarty

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Professor Moriarty - 2

    San Francisco 1896. The foggy mists are lifting, and who should emerge from the sinister back alleys to reclaim his title as the most dangerous scientific criminal of his time but the nefarious Professor James Moriarty! Rising like a wicked phoenix f...



  • October Light

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    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.

    October Light is one of John Gardner''...

  • The Nostradamus Traitor

    Herbie Kruger - 1

    Herbie Kruger, a European intelligence expert, must uncover the connections between Hildegarde Fenderman, an aging German beauty who suddenly enters his life, and bloodcurdling plots in wartime Germany and France...

  • Freddy's Book

    Freddy Agaard, son of a college professor, has projected himself into a story of Gustav, a sixteenth-century Scandinavian king, and Lars-Goren, a brave knight who, like Freddy, is a giant and suffers from his physical condition...

  • The Last Trump

    EUROPE HAS FALLEN UNDER SOVIET RULE. AND AMERICA HAS FALLEN TO ITS KNEES... Sweeping across the borders, Soviet troops have occupied every major European city and port. Now, they're calling a summit conference in Dublin. And the U.S. president will ...

  • The Garden of Weapons

    Herbie Kruger - 2

  • License Renewed

    James Bond - 1

    His assignment is more awesome -- His weapons are more potent -- His foes are more fiendish -- His women are more willing -- and JAMES BOND is better than ever! ...

  • The Quiet Dogs

    Herbie Kruger - 3

  • Icebreaker

    James Bond - 3

    An official, original James Bond adventure from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'. Now with a new introduction from thriller author Tim Glister, to celebrate the book's 40th anniversary. Bond reluctantly finds himself rec...

  • For Special Services

    James Bond - 2

    BOND IS BACK -- BETTER THAN EVER! SPECTRE IS BACK, TOO -- James Bond thought he had destroyed SPECTRE years ago. He was wrong. Now he is assigned to smash the most evil force on earth once and for all, with all his usual deadly skills and all his ...

  • On Becoming a Novelist

    """One of the greatest creative writing teachers we''ve ever had."" —Frederick Busch

    On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner''s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing...



  • The Art of Living and Other Stories

    An inspired book of short stories that explores the profound relationship between life and art While mourning the loss of his son in the Vietnam War, an Italian chef reflects on the importance of art for future generations. An American boy retreats i...

  • The Art of Fiction

    "John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, ...

  • Role of Honour

    James Bond - 4

    Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, James Bond becomes a gun for hire; able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have the disgraced ...

  • Mickelsson's Ghost

    The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.

    The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in...

  • The Dancing Dodo

  • Gilgamesh

    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry...

  • Flamingo

  • Nobody Lives Forever

    James Bond - 5

    “Take care 007. Take special care. The continent’s a hotbed of villainy these days and you can never be too careful.”

    Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond...

  • Stillness and Shadows

    This volume includes "Stillness," a short novel undertaken by the author and his first wife as an exploration of their pasts as individuals and as a couple, and "Shadows," an unfinished long novel about a drunk, amnesiac detective's search for authen...

  • The Secret Generations

    The first volume of The Secret Generations Triology The Secret Generations is drawn from the history of Britain’s intelligence and security services. Through the story of one family, the Railtons, whose lives become caught up in some of the grea...



  • The Resurrection

    A passionate portrait of a family''s attempts to understand the meaning behind personal tragedy.

    When Professor James Chandler learns he is dying from leukemia, he moves his family to his childhood home in Batavia, New York. There, surround...

  • No Deals, Mr. Bond

    James Bond - 6

    Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KG...

  • The Secret Houses

    Herbie Kruger - 4

    The second volume in The Secret Generations Trilogy Set between the final months of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, The Secret Houses continues the saga of two families, the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America, intertw...

  • Scorpius

    When the body of a mysterious woman is found carrying the phone number of James Bond, Bond is called in by M to help the investigation. But before he can even reach headquarters he is nearly run off the road in a high-speed motorway chase. Someone wa...

  • The Secret Families

    Herbie Kruger - 5

    The final volume in The Secret Generations Trilogy It is December 1964, and Caspar Railton is dead. But after a lifetime of distinguished work in the British Secret Intelligence Service, it now appears that Caspar was a traitor. Sine his death, wi...

  • Win, Lose or Die

    James Bond - 7

    When M receives word that a known terrorist organisation is planning to destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier â€" currently hosting a summit of world leaders - James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from ...

  • Brokenclaw

    James Bond - 8

    On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes intrigued by Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as 'Brokenclaw' because of a deformed hand. On his return to the UK, Bond is tasked to investigate the ...

  • Licence to Kill

    Bond has lost his licence to kill. After taking revenge on the CIA agent who handed his friend over to Sanchez, a master criminal, M revoked his double 0 status and he's now considered a rogue agent. With MI6 trying to bring him in and only the suppo...

  • The Man from Barbarossa

    James Bond - 9

    James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of ...

  • Death Is Forever

    James Bond - 10

    The Cold War is over. But when two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members...



  • Never Send Flowers

    James Bond - 11

    In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and ...

  • Maestro

    Herbie Kruger - 6

    Tracking down an orchestra conductor whom he believes had been a spy for the Germans during World War II, master spy "Big Herbie" Krueger finds himself in an unexpected partnership with the conductor when a team of assassins strikes. Reprint....

  • Seafire

    James Bond - 12

    James Bond is back in action, with Flicka von Grusse at his side and his licence to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe, whose wealth is uncountable . . . and who appears to de...

  • Confessor

    Herbie Kruger - 7

    Retired and miserable, Big Herbie searches for an old friend's killers Heartbroken and unemployed, Herbie Kruger has turned to the bottle. Over decades in the Secret Intelligence Service, he has learned to hold his liquor wellpairing his scotch wi...

  • Goldeneye

    James Bond - 13

    She is beautiful. She is Russian. And she is very, very dangerous. Once Xenia worked for the KGB. But her new master is Janus, a powerful and ambitious Russian leader who no longer cares about ideology. Janus's ambitions are money and power: his ...

  • The Loving You Get

    in Murder for Love

    Sixteen stories about love gone wrong consider the link between romance and death and include contributions by such popular authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, and Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint....

  • Cold Fall

    James Bond - 14

    When a British-owned aircraft is destroyed at Dulles Airpot, killing the almost four hundred passengers on board, including his old lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta, James Bond embarks on a personal quest to find the fanatical terrorists respons...

  • Day of Absolution

    Retired spy Charlie Gauntlet heads for Ireland with his cop wife to track down a nasty assassin called the Alchemist, thus embarking on a treacherous journey that involves an ancient manuscript and a notorious British turncoat....

  • Bottled Spider

    Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford - 1

  • The Streets of Town

    Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford - 2

    The second book in the new detective series from a master storyteller The year is 1941, and London is still at war. After her adventures in Bottled Spider, WPC Suzie Mountford is back, and working the beat in West End Central - a notoriously dangerou...

  • Angels Dining at the Ritz

    The third adventure of the feisty Suzie Mountford
    Under the shadows of the first B17s taking off from East Anglia in 1942, the Ascoli family is found ruthlessly murdered their faces blasted off with a shotgun. It's an intriguing inquiry, all the m...

  • Unknown Fears

    Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford - 3

    The legacy of Jack the Ripper lives on When Phillip Tarpin is summoned from London to take up a top executive position at a New York publishing house, fortune seems to be smiling on him. But he is soon to be a victim of past history and past secrets....

  • Troubled Midnight

    Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford - 4

    In 1943, The United Kingdom is alive with men and women making ready for the greatest invasion in history: preparing to assault Hitler's Fortress Europe. The skies are full of training aircraft, their engines merging with the throb of the RAF and USA...

  • No Human Enemy

    Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford - 5

    England, June 1944. Exactly one week after the D-Day landings came the vengeance weapons. It was the beginning of a period which, to the war-weary inhabitants of southern England, was psychologically much worse than the days of the Blitz. With All...

  • Moriarty

    It is the turn of the century and, having survived the struggle with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Professor James Moriarty is alive and well and about to realize his plans to establish crime syndicates in the major cities of the United S...

  • In the Suicide Mountains

    An intricately woven fable filled with magical creaturesand astonishing surprises In this wonderful fantasy, John Gardner weaves tales within tales to bring a magical world to vivid life. When three travelers on their way to the Suicide Mountai...

  • The Wreckage of Agathon

    A wonderful exploration into the maturation process across the course of human life Laid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against...

  • Dragon, Dragon

    Four tales of fantasy from a twentieth-century literary master -- selected as the 1975 New York Times Outstanding Book for Children John Gardner’s first children’s book takes the traditional fairy tale and turns it on its head. In the title st...

  • Gudgekin the Thistle Girl

    John Gardner’s classic fairy-tale collection depicts a world where anything can happen -- and often does

    A humble thistle girl, a wise old philosopher, a hapless woodchopper, and an unscrupulous king -- these are the vivid protagonists of Gar...

  • The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales

    The classic children's collection: four fantastical stories filled with wit and wisdom, humor and heart In this wonderful collection of fairy tales, John Gardner turns a timeless tradition into a topsy-turvy whirlwind. In the title story, a kindly s...

  • The Conversation

    • / Thriller
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    Two arthritic, old spooks coincidentally meet up in a small Spanish town and their conversation brings back memories they would prefer to forget. Sunday lunch with an active Bulgarian spy takes Neil back to his past but he struggles with the history ...

  • The Werewolf Trace

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by John E. Gardner

October Light
1976 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John E. Gardner has published 71 books.

John E. Gardner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales, was published in November 2010.

The first book by John E. Gardner, The Liquidator, was published in September 1964.

Yes. John E. Gardner has 6 series.
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