Terry Persun

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2007
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • The Resurrection of Billy Maynard

    The Resurrection of Billy Maynard is a young man s discovery of himself in relation to his past. Billy s father died before Billy was born, leaving him to be raised by his mother and grandparents. One summer, while working to save money for his retur...

  • Giver of Gifts

    WINNER of the 2012 IPPY AWARD ("Sweet Song") For fans of James Salter, Jonathan Evison, Jim Harrison, and J.D. Salinger 
     
    BOOK DESCRIPTION:
       Dying of cancer, lost in a snowy forest, Jim mysteriously connects with a dee...

  • Sweet Song

    WINNER of the 2012 IPPY AWARD, SWEET SONG is for fans of Philippa Gregory, Jim Harrison, and J.D. Salinger 
     
    BOOK DESCRIPTION:
       An archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post - Civil War ...

  • Deception Creek

    WINNER of the 2012 IPPY AWARD ("Sweet Song") For fans of James Salter, Jonathan Evison, Jim Harrison, and J.D. Salinger 
     
    BOOK DESCRIPTION:
       Secrets from the past overtake a young man who never knew his father. Will ol...

  • The Witness Tree

    WINNER of the 2012 IPPY AWARD ("Sweet Song") For fans of James Salter, Jonathan Evison, Jim Harrison, and J.D. Salinger 
     
    BOOK DESCRIPTION:
       A troubled, brilliant artist's story, told in the voice of a magnificent tree...

  • Wolf's Rite

    WINNER of the 2012 IPPY AWARD ("Sweet Song") For fans of James Salter, Jonathan Evison, Jim Harrison, and J.D. Salinger 
     
    BOOK DESCRIPTION:
       An ad exec, led to spiritual awakening by mystical Native Americans, discover...

  • Cathedral of Dreams

    "Cathedral of Dreams" won the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Finalist Award.  
    In Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed, because your monitoring chip will alert the police to bring you in for treatment. Getting bett...

  • Death Speech

    Psychological short story: I wrote this as a spooky short story along the lines of the old Twilight Zone shows. In this story, it may seem as though one person is just talking with another, but something much stranger is going on. NOTE: This story wa...

  • Escape from Hell

    Horror/humor short story: When I heard that some people believe that our bodies are available when our souls are traveling out of them (as in out-of-body experiences), I had to see how that might affect those in hell. NOTE: This story was previously ...



  • Jeremy's World

    Twilight Zone type short story: I’ve always wondered what it would be like if we really did have a black box that could give us anything we wanted. Well, there is a good side to this and a bad side. NOTE: This story was previously published in a sm...

  • Meat House

    Desmond finds that the streets are too violent and dangerous for him, and his work income can hardly pay for his needs. But the company has an offer for him. All he has to do is give up something... This story was originally published in a small inde...

  • Psychic Circus

    Twilight Zone type short story: I enjoy exploring the subconscious and was thinking about that one day. Why I came up with this, I don’t know. In this short story, I had a specific situation in mind, that if I told you, it would give the story away...

  • Saving Tinika

    Weird Tales type short story: I wanted to write something that shows how our mind can actually save our life. I came up with this strange story. NOTE: This story was previously published in a small, independent magazine that is no longer available....

  • Finding a Little Courage

    Strange horror short story: Ever wonder why some people who think about doing a certain thing actually do it, while others don’t? In this spooky piece, I played with the idea that we sometimes need a little shove to do what we’ve been thinking ab...

  • DNA

    Revision 7: DNA About "Revision 7: DNA": "Time travel and conspiracies combine with sensational robotics in this science fiction thriller. Furiously fun. terry Persun will keep you guessing and wanting more." -- Kay Kenyon, New York Times bes...

  • And Now This

    And Now This persuades me that we inhale the whole sensuous journey of growing up until the right words come to release it. These poems are a journey with roots in a hollow on Beautys Run Road that needs time and a poet’s eye to discover its lesson...

  • Unusual Stories

  • Doublesight

    "Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel Doublesight does both and more. Richly textural, complicated in character, and presenting a world unlike any other, this debut imbues new blood into the genre. It is...

  • The NSA Files

    A retired shaman is contacted by the NSA to find out who's coercing politicians into passing bills that they have fought up until now. Dan Johnston The NSA pulls Dan Johnston out of a comfortable, but boring, retirement to help them with a very unusu...



  • Hear No Evil

    2012 IPPY AWARD WINNER ("Sweet Song") For fans of Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, and Arthur C. Clarke) BOOK DESCRIPTION: A colony of scientists, a megalomaniac, an alien race...which will prevail?    Brandon and Palmer, soldier and pilot, pitch their...

  • Mistake In Identity

    This Noir Detective novella by Award Winning novelist Terry Persun is for readers of Zane, Westlake, Block, Parker, and Ellis " Book Description: Mistake in Identity is a noir detective novel about Simon Harry, a straight-shooting, foul-mouthed, ho...

  • Ten Months in Wonderland

    International Book Award Finalist Winner -- If you enjoy edgy fiction, fiction with depth and bite, read the raw but sensitive "Ten Months in Wonderland" -- Airman Kevin Grayson, a happily married, nineteen-year-old family man, is deployed to an ai...

  • The Perceived Darkness

    IPPY AWARD WINNER (“Sweet Song”, 2012)For fans of Joyce Carol Oats, James Salter, Jim Harrison, and E.L. DoctorowBOOK DESCRIPTION: A bold and raw study of the human condition, readers will instantly see themselves and their friends and family in ...

  • Backyard Aliens

    Sequel to "Revision 7: DNA": A pair of intriguing aliens pull at the hearts and minds of Neil and Mavra while the government is bent on research and analysis.     Might first contact with aliens be different if they were young and cute?     Terr...

  • Man by the Door

    While minding her own business at an Electronics Trade Show, Abbey Stark, the marketing manager for her father’s company, becomes entangled in a murder case. As a witness to the murder of her father’s biggest competitor, she is determined to trac...

  • Memory Tower

    James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series said this about Book 1 of the Doublesight series:
    "Lately fantasy rarely surprises and seldom delights, but Terry Persun's novel DOUBLESIGH...

  • Terry Persun

    Three award-winning books in one package! “When Persun writes of man/nature, he writes of us -- not just to us -- and shows us images we can’t simply blink away.” -- Robert Fulton Jr., author of But…You Know What I Mean The Witness Tree - ...

  • Dial-In Death

    This is Book 3 in the series: In this exciting thriller (series), Tempest Eugene Nesbit (T.E.N.) runs from the government, the same government that ordered his wife to be killed and is now hunting him down. The top secret project he worked on was shu...

  • Revenge

    In this exciting thriller (series), Tempest Eugene Nesbit (T.E.N.) runs from the government, the same government that ordered his wife to be killed and is now hunting him down. The top secret project he worked on was shut down, but why? His bodyguard...



  • Second Kill

    In this exciting thriller (series), Tempest Eugene Nesbit (T.E.N.) runs from the government, the same government that ordered his wife to be killed and is now hunting him down. The top secret project he worked on was shut down, but why? His bodyguard...

  • Checkmate

  • Game

  • The Killing Machine - Books 1-5

    In this exciting thriller (series), Tempest Eugene Nesbit (T.E.N.) runs from the government, the same government that ordered his wife to be killed and is now hunting him down. The top secret project he worked on was shut down, but why? His bodyguard...

  • Fugitives

    Noot, Zimp, and Storret, the crow, run for their lives, while attempting to have a sacred vigil for the loss of their fellow doublesight. But with ransoms on their heads, who can they trust? After the battle at Castle Weilk, the doublesight split up ...

  • T.E.N.-A Sci-Fi Thriller: Books 1 Through 5

    In this exciting thriller (series), Tempest Eugene Nesbit (T.E.N.) runs from the government, the same government that ordered his wife to be killed and is now hunting him down. The top secret project he worked on was shut down, but why? His bodyguard...

  • Abstract Writings

    Abstract Writings is a collection of short storieswritten by Terry Persun through the 1970s,80s, and 90s. Many of these stories have beenpublished by small, idependent magazines anduniversity publications. The stories vary in length from short, flash...

  • The Voodoo Case

    Shaman Detective Dan Johnston and his son Jason go to New Orleans to find a missing paranormal investigator believed to be under the spell of a witch doctor. A missing person, an evil entity, and New Orleans come together in this suspense filled para...

  • Coming Clean

    After Fred Lancing retired from the Air Force, he took a peaceful job as janitor at New York City’s top detective agency, Detective Ink. When one of the detectives hands Fred a case as a cruel joke, Fred’s boredom with his job and his life gets t...

  • Gargoyle

    Nashtin, King Belford’s cousin, took over the throne of Weilk Alshore, and is out to find Zimp, who he believes is the last of the doublesight to have infiltrated Castle Weilk and started a bloody battle that took many soldier’s lives. Zimp, alon...



  • The Killing Machine

    The next installment in award-winning author Terry Persun’s The ‘Ten’ Mystery Series! THE KILLING MACHINE follows the cyber detective and scientist known as Ten. He is assigned to work on a top-secret project for the government that i...

  • To Our Waking Souls

    A romantic triangle stretching between the past and present. Richard is devastated by his recent divorce, and heads to the mountains for solitude and reflection. When he happens upon an old carriage factory, vivid past-life experiences of him and his...

  • A Clean Break

  • Biomass Rewind

    For fans of Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, and Greg Bear, BIOMASS REWIND follows a group of "made" humans manufactured and trained by a sapient ship to colonize a new Earth-like planet. Once on the surface, the squad must evade gruesome death at the...

  • Stealing Childhood

    Human trafficking kingpins, a shamanic sect, and a reluctant FBI team merge to stop Dan and Jason Johnston from doing their best shamanic work. Dan and Jason Johnston are called to work with the FBI on a human trafficking assignment, targeted at Nat...

  • The Right Thing

    A computer malfunction-induced prison break leads two troubled investigators into a dark, twisted world in this technological thriller series debut.After the murder of his wife and unborn child, the only time freelance tech investigator Tempest ...

  • Biomass

    Carl just wants a home--on a new planet with Missy and their future children. He hungers for new memories, where home would have a true meaning, not just something their ship downloaded. Their sapient ship Argentina transverses the galaxy on an inter...

  • Blowout

    Fix the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion drive before there is a complete blowout!There are no FTL drives, no wormholes, and no methods to bend space. There is only the solar system to inhabit on mankind's goal to exit Earth.It's the depression all over ag...

  • Declaration

    It's big decision time! After moving up in the ranks as part of the Starlight crew, Jacob Flannery is faced with new obstacles to overcome. As he learns to strengthen his resolve, boost his confidence, and nurture his self-awareness, his internal cha...

  • Abuse of Murder

    Who's murdering abusive husbands? After a series of murders, where men are found in empty houses with their skulls crushed, Deputy Sheriff Leslie Fuller and his partner Mae Belle Walker discover the connecting thread while investigating the widows of...



  • Water Like Blood

    Kenny Reed's been a screwup as long as he can remember, carried along by inertia and indecision. Before he even noticed, his life whipped by him as fast as the current of his town's creek, both dangerously close to ruin. But this time Kenny's mistake...

  • Petrichor

    An intricate ballet of life, enigmatic relationships, and calculated choices that lead to the core of devastation, desire, and ultimate absolution.Gregg Wright has followed his father's advice to hire the best so you don't have to work, and crafts a ...

  • The Secret Carving

    An archaeological discovery has the power to alter the history of mankind forever — which is why it must remain a secret!Grace Jackson never expected her friend Edward Bailey to drag her all the way to Thailand, but that's exactly what he did....

  • Always A Gun

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    Was Toby Wilcox kidnapped or murdered? Deputy Leslie Fuller only wants to make it to retirement without dying. A few more years. He takes what he expects to be an easy case of a local runaway only to find later that the missing boy is also his daugh...

  • Breakdown

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    A Shell World is about to collapse! The first Shell World ever build was placed around the Pallas asteroid. It's old, poorly maintained, and struggling to stay viable. The former management team for Pallas has evacuated the world, leaving only a rece...

  • Cycle of Crime

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    Can murderous behavior be handed down?Defacing public property is one thing but when Mayor Jenkins' tires are slashed, the pranks appear to be ramping up toward something more threatening—like murder. If it's just a bunch of teenagers and youn...

  • The Humanzee Experiments

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    Ten must track down and stop rogue scientists behind the development of criminal technology in THE HUMANZEE EXPERIMENTS, the next installment of The 'Ten' Mystery Series! The International Security for Technological Innovations, a federal agency...

  • Terminator Zone

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    Who or what is murdering soldiers after they return from war? The military is on high alert after a series of mysterious and gruesome murders. General Harkins calls on Neil and Mavra to find and deliver the perpetrator quickly and quietly, but the k...

  • Wired for Destruction

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    Choices: suicide or save thousands of other lives. Sounds like a no-brainer but neither choice will change Lincoln Barnes' life significantly. Not as he sees it. His business has failed, his wife left him for another man, and he's now living off the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Terry Persun has published 58 books.

Terry Persun does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Secret Carving, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Terry Persun, The Resurrection of Billy Maynard, was published in June 2007.

No. Terry Persun does not write books in series.
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