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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Assassin

1 - Manhattan Massacre (Mar-2022)
2 - New Orleans Holocaust (Jun-2022)
3 - Boston Bust-Out (Sep-2022)
4 - Death Hunt (Dec-2022)

A Carmody Western

1 - The Slavers (Dec-2014)
2 - The Killers (Mar-2015)
3 - Tough Bullet (Jul-2015)
4 - Tall Man Riding (Nov-2015)
5 - Hangtown (Feb-2016)
6 - Screaming on the Wire (May-2016)

A Lassiter Western

1 - High Lonesome (Nov-2014)
2 - The Man from Del Rio (Feb-2015)
3 - The Man From Lordsburg (May-2015)
4 - Gunfight at Ringo Junction (Sep-1988)

The Mafia Chronicles

1 - Mafioso (Feb-2023)
2 - Cosa Nostra (Apr-2023)
3 - The Syndicate (Jul-2023)
4 - Omerta (Oct-2023)

Soldier of Fortune

Spoils of War (Jan-1976)
Battle Pay (Jan-1978)
Massacre at Umtali (Dec-1981)
The Deadliest Game (Jan-1982)
The Guns of Pelembang (Mar-1982)
First Blood (Apr-1982)
Ambush at Derati Wells (May-1982)
Operation Hong Kong (Jun-1982)
Body Count (Jul-1982)
Yellow Rain (Mar-1984)
Moro (Jul-1984)
Kalahari (Sep-1984)
Golden Triangle (Nov-1984)
Bloodbath (Mar-1985)
Somali Smashout (Jun-1985)
Blood Island (Aug-1985)

Multi-Author Series List

Sundance

23 - Gunbelt (1977)
26 - The Nightriders (Jun-1979)
27 - Death Dance (Jan-1979)
28 - Savage (Sep-1979)
29 - Day of the Half-Breeds (1979)
30 - Los Olvidados (1980)
32 - Scorpion (Jan-1980)
33 - Hangman's Knot (Mar-1986)
34 - Apache War (Oct-1985)
35 - Gold Strike (Jan-1980)
36 - Trail Drive (Feb-1981)
37 - Iron Men (Aug-1981)
38 - Drumfire (Jun-1982)
39 - Buffalo War (Oct-1981)
40 - The Hunters (Nov-1981)
41 - Cage (Dec-1992)
42 - Choctaw County War (Aug-1982)

Book List in Order: 61 titles



  • Adventure #51779. #3 in the series. Cover different than shown. (Unfortunately a photo of this edition was not to be found.) Strong near perfect spine. Name written on exterior pages. Light moisture staining on front of cover and exterior pages. Text...



  • KILLER FOR A CAUSE Sundance is a loner who wanders the West from the Sierra Madre to the Canadian Rockies. They know and fear him in all the roistering hell towns along the frontier. His fight against the crooked Indian agents all the grafters who...




  • It was one of Pete Shay’s stranger cases. He’d set out to find the killer of a small-time hood, and the trail led straight to Fat Vinny, the meanest loanshark in New York. But then Fat Vinny himself hired Shay to continue his investigatio...




  • Wealthy cattleman Brian Athlone promised Sundance a generous reward if the half-bred could find Athlone’s daughter Laurie, who had been abducted by Indians. If he failed, however, Athlone swore to destroy the village of Sundance’s blood b...



  • HALFBREED REBELLION Trouble was brewing in Canada among the half breeds and full-blooded Indians. Led by a fanatic, they were forming a renegade army whose purpose was to destroy whites on both sides of the border. Jim Sundance was the logical ...



  • Jim Sundance could be a deadly enemy, but he was also a lifelong friend. Simon Tolliver found this out when the halfbreed showed up to help him save his ranch from land-grabber Greeley Nash.Nash had an outlaw army at his disposal, led by an ex-cavalr...



  • Arriving in California to join the fight against crooked politicians in the Indian Ring, Sundance learned of a plot to kill his old friend General Crook. But where was the threat coming from? That’s the mystery Jim Sundance has to solve in orde...






  • Riding through Nevada, Jim Sundance came across one of the biggest gold strikes the Territory had ever known. A lucky break, the gunman thought … until he went to nearby Orono to stake the claim. Millionaire miner Jackson Selby, who ruled the m...



  • BAD COMPANY Sundance knew he wasn't traveling in good company. But Burt McGill had more to offer than a beautiful wife and a nasty disposition -- he had five hundred spanking new Winchesters. And nobody needed them more than Sundance's old compatr...



  • DEATH TO THE SLAVERS! Down in Old Mexico for a hunting expedition, Jim Sundance ran into an old friend, down-and-out lawyer Jorge Calderon, who was engaged in a lonely battle to save a poor Indian tribe from slavery. The halfbreed gunfighter join...






  • Josiah Moore’s ruthless and well-armed hunting expedition had invaded the Staked Plains to kill off the last of the buffalo herds. But their presence on Indian land threatened to cause an all-out war. Desperate, General Crook called in Sundance...



  • Big game hunter Edward Manning has come all the way from England to hire Sundance as a guide on a hunt for wild grizzlies. But Manning soon tired of stalking his four-legged prey, and set his sights on the one thing he had never hunted before—a...



  • Jim Rainey was an ex-marine from Texas who made his living doing what he did best—fighting. Now he was in Rhodesia, signing up for a nice fat fee as leader of a special anti-terrorist squad.The men under his command were a bunch of steel-hard k...



  • Professional soldier Jim Rainey went to Argentina because that’s where the action was. Communist terrorists were forcing the Government to hire mercenaries—but only the toughest fighting men needed to apply. With six wars under his belt, ...











  • Sundance was riding in the wildest corner of West Texas when he heard tell of a ruthless land baron called Hollis Bannister. As owner of the biggest ranch in the western half of the state, Bannister didn’t quite take to the idea of new settlers...




  • Sundance was on his way to pay respects to an old friend when he spotted a boy running across the prairie. He had escaped from kidnappers and Sundance helped the lad return home. But what the boy called home didn’t sit too well with Sundance. T...





  • Jim Rainey’s latest assignment was his toughest to date. A wealthy magazine publisher was paying him a cool hundred thousand dollars to rescue Charles Goldman, a journalist who’d been captured in Afghanistan while reporting on the secret ...






  • A wealthy Irish-American group hired Rainey to get rid of Daniel Larkin, a Vietnam vet turned professional killer who heads up a team of ruthless assassins and demolition experts in Belfast. Larkin’s gang is in the pay of both the IRA and the U...



  • Jim Rainey was approached by the elderly widow of an American brigadier general, who wanted him to find a valuable document hidden somewhere on a remote Philippine island. Though he distrusted the widow’s motives, the price was right, so Rainey...



  • Many years ago, fellow mercenary 'Wild Bill' Corcoran had rescued Rainey from a grisly death in the African bush. Now it's Rainey's chance to repay the debt.Corcoran is being held prisoner in a jail in Namibia, sentenced to death for working with Nam...



  • The last place in the world Rainey feels like visiting is Vietnam—as a Green Beret during the war, he’d been responsible for a lot of deaths, and he’s still a wanted man. But when a powerful Mafioso offers him a quarter of a million...



  • Rainey had flown to Hawaii for some much-needed R and R. Instead, he landed right in the middle of a Beirut-type blowout. A terrorist group had sent an ambulance packed with high explosives hurtling into a children’s hospital. Their aim: Hawaii...





  • In Hangman's Knot, Sundance is given a chance to escape a death sentence for killing a drunk in a barroom brawl by capturing an old friend, outlaw Joe Buck, while in Apache War, Sundance is sent to Fort McHenry, Arizona, to prevent an...



  • Riding into Fort Smith, Arkansas, Sundance had to kill a man who ambushed him. He received an instant death sentence from the infamous Hanging Judge. Then, on the morning he was to be hanged, the Judge offered him a deal. If Sundance delivered the fe...







  • When Lassiter broke out of jail with the Irishman Pierce McCain, the next logical step seemed to be joining McCain’s half-breed army in their crazy rebellion. McCain needed guns, and Lassiter agreed to get them -- for a price. There would be big mo...






  • Lassiter rode into a mess for $250. He was to kill a man that had killed his employer's brother. When he rode into the town of McDade, he found himself in the middle of a civil war. Two old war officers, a Yankee who hated the Confederacy an...



  • Traders in Indian slaves did big business in the New Mexico territory. The Mexicans had been slaving Indians for hundreds of years, and though it was supposed to be against the law, ruthless men were still getting rich on human misery with the hel...



  • When Lassiter found the man with two arrows in his back, he picked his pockets and found a gilt-edge invitation to muscle in on some easy money. He left the corpse to bury itself and high-tailed it into a situation that had him fighting for his li...



  • Wounded, and barely managing to stay one step ahead of a posse, Carmody came up with the perfect cover - acting sheriff of Salter City, a quiet little town in the middle of nowhere. But things didn't stay quiet for very long. A green-eyed blonde n...



  • Lassiter rode up from Lordsburg to Abilene with money on his mind. Texas Jack Chandler-the richest, meanest bastard in the Lone Star State-was on the trail, heading north with a huge herd of cattle, and a fortune in gold. All that stood between La...



  • Carmody wanted a good time in New Orleans. With eleven thousand in stolen money in his pocket, he figured to enjoy some good liquor and bad women before he headed back to Texas. But it didn’t work out that way, and he found himself framed for a bru...



  • The Greenwoods made a bad mistake when they threw down on Carmody while he was walking away from a nice quiet bank robbery. They made a worse mistake when they put a rope on Carmody and dragged him. They should have finished the job. They should h...






  • Carmody rode into the Sangre de Cristo hills looking for a girl. The girl was worth $10,000 if he could get her away from the Garrison bunch, the meanest killers in the whole southwest. Carmody knew what the Garrison bunch would do to him if he fa...



  • Riding north from Sonora to hire out his gun, Carmody didn’t quite know what the trouble was about -- and didn’t give a damn. The money was good and it looked like it was going to be a nice dirty old-fashioned range war. That’s what Carmody tho...



  • “The Mafia made one hell of a mistake when they killed that man’s wife and son.”—Senator Thomas Cotton, Jr.Robert Briganti is the Assassin. Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia. With a ...



  • Robert Briganti is the Assassin. Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia. This time, armed with his hand-picked arsenal of superweapons, he moves south for his most savage hit: a Mafia summit conference in a New ...



  • Robert Briganti is the Assassin. Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia. This time, armed again with a private arsenal of handpicked superweapons, he mercilessly stalks his enemies in Boston: a vengeance hit tha...



  • Robert Briganti is the Assassin.Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia.This time, armed with his hand-picked arsenal of superweapons, he meets his match in a super-cool woman with her own thirst for vengeance.Bu...



  • Nick Lanzetta. Born Brooklyn, N.Y. 1933. Occupation: Mafia soldier. Specialty: murder. Expert with pistol, rifle, machine gun. Has been known to use an icepick, a length of piano wire, or his bare hands. Arrested 17 times, twice for first degree homi...



  • A bloody power struggle was boiling up inside the Mafia, with the Boston and Montreal mobs fighting over the state of Maine, the last open territory in the Northeast. The Godfather heard both sides and decided Boston had first crack at the big takeov...



  • Mafia hit man James Broderick had to break into a fiercely defended old Irish castle to kill C. Alex Ritter, a neo-fascist who made Hitler look like a choir boy. First Broderick had to get rid of Ritter’s stooges, then a beautiful redhead who a...



  • All his life Collino had lived by the rules of Omerta—the ancient Mafia Code of Silence. Like his father and grandfather before him, he had sworn the blood oath of allegiance to the Honored Society. But it wasn’t the threat of death than ...



  • Rainey had met her in Nam. Nancy Williams was a doctor, an angel of mercy; he was a killer, a cold-eyed angel of death. Yet somehow they became lovers for a brief and stormy period. Now Rainey had learned of her death in Central America at the hands ...



  • The powerful story of desperate men and their dramatic struggle for life in the world’s most brutal and infamous penal colony. There is Boulanger, the Jolly Rapist, Mirandola, the towering Italian killer, perverted Radisson, one-eyed Giroux, sa...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter McCurtin has published 61 books.

The next book by Peter McCurtin, Escape from Devil's Island, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Peter McCurtin, Spoils of War, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Peter McCurtin has 5 series.