Larry Johns

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2006
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Island Gang

1 - Legend of Crystal Cove (Jul-2006)
2 - Legend of the Masks (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Legend of Crystal Cove

    Island Gang - 1

    Situated in Henderson Bay, less than a mile from Raft Island, lies the mysterious Dead Man's Island. There is an array of tales as to how Dead Man's got its name, but the only one that holds water is the fact that the small island had once been used ...

  • Legend of the Masks

    Island Gang - 2

    While anchored in Fossil Bay, Gary comes across a wooden mask floating on the water. Mysterious powers of the mask take Gary to scenes from the past leading The Island Gang to sail north into the Gulf Islands. On Saturna Island, they stumble onto a v...

  • A Warrior's Code

    Treachery and double-cross are the hallmarks of the mercenary soldier. Because, who is the real enemy? Is he the man in your cross-hairs, or the friend alongside you? Or is it the man who pays your wages? Martin Palmer knows that a potentially fatal ...

  • I Said the Spyder

    Jackie Ryderbeit is a member of a "Shadow Ops" team of MI6. His live-in partner works for a research section of MI5, and she is unaware of what her man actually does for a crust. So Ryderbeit is living a lie within a lie. Worse, when things go disast...

  • I, Said the Spyder

    To get at the truth - in a world that deals in lies - Jackie Ryderbeit has to methodically chip away at the normality of indifference, betrayal, sham and sleaze that skulk behind the façade. It seems that the system is there to pervert, and everyone...

  • Place of Bones

    Africa is fighting its old enemies â€" naked greed, systemic corruption, and poorly disguised ambition. In Central Africa especially, innocence or guilt of these things can be â€" and is - decided by the flip of any powerful country’s coin. Robert ...

  • The Silent War

    In Europe, the Germans are still totally unaware that the allies have broken the complicated ENIGMA code, whilst in the Far East theatre, where the Japanese are using their own version of the ENIGMA code, an intercepted communication leads Brigadier ...

  • Dirty Money

    With nightmares of past deeds threatening his sanity, Martin Palmer - hero of "A Warrior's Code" - wants out of the mercenary soldier business. The problem: he was good at it. Very good. The question: will the business let him go? His solution: try a...

  • The Dongola Script

    A group of archaeologists, sifting through burial mounds in Saudi Arabia, make a discovery that threatens to tear the Middle East apart. As the ripples of greed, intrigue and murder extend outwards to engulf the rest of the world the polyglot team of...



  • Power Play

    Jackie Ryderbeit, with licence to kill, is tossed into a cauldron of International intrigue with orders to find and eliminate a double agent. With the help of a booze-sodden ex-courier and an over-the-hill trigger- man he casts for a shark only to fi...

  • A Time to Die

    Burma has already fallen, and it seems certain that India must follow. The Allied armies, frantically attempting to regroup, must find a way to halt the westward advance of the Japanese, to gain a few precious hours’ respite. The target is Major Ge...

  • Czechmate

    A dangerous double agent must be rescued from a Czechoslovakian prison. Or, failing that, he must be disposed of. In the event neither option is available, because the Black King has already "castled"....

  • Thunder Island

    Gilby Nash, demolition expert extraordinary, reaches for a glittering prize on a sun-soaked island where the bullet and the knife are never far away. Greed, intrigue and triple-cross, the component parts of disaster, follow him like a spectre....

  • The Devil's Breath

    A return to the blood-soaked cauldron of Central Africa is nowhere on this world-weary mercenary soldier's wish list. But when the prize – at least for someone else - exceeds nine figures, personal preferences are removed from the equation, and...

  • If Nothing Else

    At the heart of If Nothing Else is the unlikely relationship between an ex-mercenary soldier and a full-blooded Masai tribesman, both of whom find themselves exiled in Nigeria. Circumstance throws the two of them together with a disparate group of......

  • An Ounce of Metal

    Demolition expert Sergeant Billy Bentley was a good soldier; a lifer, on his third tour of The Stan.  Then someone screws up an unnecessarily-complicated mission and the wrong men die. Friendly fire, some say. Blue on blue. Either way, with the ...

  • I...said the Spyder

    To get at the truth - in a world that deals in lies - Ryderbeit has to methodically chip away at the normality of indifference and betrayal that skulk behind the façade. It seems that the system is there to pervert, and everyone who is anyone ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Larry Johns has published 17 books.

Larry Johns does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I...said the Spyder, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Larry Johns, Legend of Crystal Cove, was published in July 2006.

Yes. Larry Johns has 1 series.
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