John McNally

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1997
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Infinity Drake

1 - The Sons of Scarlatti (Mar-2015)
2 - The Forbidden City (Jun-2015)
3 - Giant Killer (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • High Infidelity

    An anthology of stories that share the common theme of adultery includes works by such well-known authors as John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Ethan Canin, Russell Banks, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Russell Banks, and Bharati Mukherjee....

  • Troublemakers

    Troublemakers is an often hilarious, sometimes frightening, occasionally off-the-wall collection of stories about men living on the edge. From the streets of Chicago's southwest side to the rural roads of Nebraska to the small towns of southern Il...

  • The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors

    Fiction, like life, has its lessons, and it’s a wild ride on the learning curve when storytelling goes to school. The short stories in this collection negotiate the heights, the depths, and the unexpected angles of campus intrigue, sexual and intel...

  • Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories

    Skillfully edited by John McNally, Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories collects nineteen contemporary baseball short stories from a successful mix of well-established writers, lesser-knowns, and a few up-and-comers. These s...

  • The Book of Ralph

    All of us need a Ralph in our lives. Chicago, 1978. Hank Boyd, a solid B+ student, a good kid, wants eighth grade to be his special year. But when Ralph, an oddball troublemaker who ' s been held back twice, gets the idea that he and Hank are pals, H...

  • America's Report Card

    America's Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connectio...

  • Ghosts of Chicago

    John Belushi, Walter Payton, Richard J. Daley, and Nelson Algren are some of the Chicagoans who inhabit and haunt this new collection of stories from a lauded American writer. In this first story collection since the aw...

  • After the Workshop: A Memoir by Jack Hercules Sheahan

    Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer’s block in this “ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities” (Kirkus Reviews).You graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a short story pub...

  • Ghosts of Chicago: Stories

    Chicago is famously a "city of neighborhoods" that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life. In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally likewise captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a ci...



  • The Sons of Scarlatti

    Infinity Drake - 1

    Humor and high adventure combine in the biggest, new action adventure in years - even if its characters are very small. ...

  • The Forbidden City

    Infinity Drake - 2

    Get shrunk! Humor and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero! Infinity Drake -- Finn for short -- is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to return...

  • Lord of the Ralphs

    "I knew kids like Ralph-and they scared me-but none of them had his heart, his humor, or ultimately his entertaining story.""-Mitch Albom""McNally''s writing is so compelling, not to mention funny, that you''re often surprised by sudden, more tender ...

  • Giant Killer

    Infinity Drake - 3

    Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the conclusion to the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero!And you thought 9mm was small?Infinity Drake takes it to a whole 'nother level…After months of captivity Finn ...

  • Revenge at Powder River

    Sam Heggarty returns home to hunt for the gunmen who robbed and executed his father. As he makes his way back, he witnesses another murder and stumbles across a clue to the people responsible for his father's death. Sam becomes caught up in the c...

  • A Gift From Crick

    Sailors Diggings an isolated mining settlement is left reeling when outlaws slaughter seventeen of the stunned population and clean out the assay office stealing $75,000 worth of freshly mined gold. A group of vigilantes led by Don Plunkett give chas...

  • Justice Was A Man

    Brockie Jack and Big Len Quinn rob a stage coach and make off with a heap of gold only to have it stolen from them hours later. Jack scorches a trail across Montana trying to recover his lost gold. Town Marshal Matt Buck goes toe to toe with him. In ...

  • The Fear of Everything

    A magician shows up unexpectedly at a grade school. Retirees answer phone calls from lonely children. A sleep study assistant speaks to a patient about his own afterlife experiences. Twenty years ago, Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, “John...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John McNally has published 17 books.

John McNally does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fear of Everything, was published in September 2020.

The first book by John McNally, High Infidelity, was published in June 1997.

Yes. John McNally has 1 series.
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