John Mort

• Apr-2022
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Silver Medal for the 2023 Will Rogers Medallion Award Named a 2022 Great Group Reads  In late fall of 1892 outlaw Eddie Mole gallops down the main street of Jericho Springs, Kansas, where he robs and shoots dead the freighter Barney Kreider...

• Sep-2018
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Down Along the Piney is John Mort's fourth short-story collection and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction. With settings in Florida, California, Mexico, Chicago, the Texas Panhandle, and, of course, the Ozarks themselves, these thir...

• May-2013
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One hot night on the Rio Grande, a corrupt drug deal goes the wrong way. Police set themselves against soldiers, and soldiers die. Lieutenant Mario Oliveros should be among them, but he swims for his life to Langtry, Texas. Officially, he’s a dead ...

• Sep-2011
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These twelve stories reflect the combat infantry experience of the Vietnam War--in the gritty "Tanks," "Called of God," and "Incubation Period." There's also the woman's perspective of Arlene, a naive Red Cross volunteer or "Doughnut Dolly," in "A Ma...

• May-2011
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It's 1966, Christmas Day, the Missouri Ozarks. Johnny Bell, not quite 16, is found in a snowdrift along a farm-to-market road by a fundamentalist farm family named Ogletree. Johnny came from Brownsville, Texas to the Ozarks, walking much of the way, ...

• Jun-2002
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At last―the first comprehensive readers' advisory guide for this highly popular genre! With an emphasis on contemporary publications, this book covers nearly 2,000 Christian fiction titles, featuring detailed annotations and bibliographies. Awar...

• Aug-1999
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John Mort's compelling first novel embodies both the Vietnam combat experience and the sad aftermath for those who underwent it. James Patrick ("Irish") Donnelly flees the Missouri Ozarks with his life in shambles. His house has burned down, he's div...

• Jun-1998
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• Apr-1990
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