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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2013
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Bayside City Book

1 - Dead Soprano (Feb-2015)
2 - Purple Haze (May-2015)
3 - Red Magic (May-2015)
4 - Honey Bee (Jun-2015)
5 - Killer Toast (Jul-2015)
6 - Tiger Dawn (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 40 titles



  • His army defeated in battle, the Emperor, and former lord of the world, is alone as he scans the battlefield, the place of his downfall. With time to think now, he contemplates his past mistakes and tries to understand them. With countless dead soldi...



  • Dean's got a problem: the 'back to work' course from the Jobcentre,. If he doesn't go, he'll lose his dole. With a girlfriend and two kids to look after, that doesn't sound good at all. We join him on the Monday morning in this gritty story of worki...



  • Working in a factory can be murder, literally.What does a saveloy, a bicycle and the Irish countryside have in common? Sausage Heaven, that's what, Britain's premier sausage & saveloy factory.Birmingham Irishman Michael Gibson and his merry band of c...



  • Galway, Ireland. At the wake of a young boy at O'Hare's pub, in walks Sean. Sean has powers, special powers, and he will use them to entertain the family in mourning. And maybe if they're lucky, a bit more besides. A short story of 3,700 words that b...



  • Football's only a game. Real life isn't. Birmingham, England, 1985, and Thatcher rules supreme. Darren Acheson is a normal lad with everything and the world going against him: he's on the dole, his girlfriend's got cancer and his beloved football clu...



  • De Lacy has just got out of prison. His crime is a dark secret he wishes to keep that way. Alone, he must find himself again in the world - a world where he used to be someone respected. Now he is little more than a human stain, existing because that...



  • Sasha and his wife, Tatiana, are enjoying a picnic under the hot summer sun. They are in love - or at least that's what Sasha thinks. With her doubts, Tatiana leaves him and walks into the nearby cornfield, where she seeks some answers to the stag...



  • SPAGHETTI JUNCTION, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet Napoleon 'Na...



  • Do you believe in Evil?Most Dubliners have heard the stories about the Lodge at the Hellfire Club on top of Montpelier Hill, in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and the evil goings on of the place, but are they aware of what really happened? It is a storm...






  • CUYAHOGA BLUES, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 2 It's two men against a whole world of criminality. They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet Napoleon ...



  • HE CAME FOR A DREAM, BUT FOUND A NIGHTMARE. By the thousands they come, searching for a better life, hoping for the dreams to materialise. Mayo man Thomas Fox is just one of these dreamers. After borrowing money from Eddie McGoldrick, the local Irish...



  • IS THIS THE APOCALYPSE? -December 21st, 2012 has come and gone, and after a cave-diving trip with a friend in the Polish mountains to escape from all the media-hype connected to the event, Patrick Kowalski quickly finds out the world in which he knew...



  • PAPYRUS COMIC HOBO is an eclectic collection of four short stories and a novella. The stories are THE MIRACLE AT O'HARE'S PUB, an Irish fantasy-comic tale, GOD AND THE LONELY EMPEROR, a magical realism story about an emperor who's lost it all, IN THE...





  • DUBLIN MURDER MYSTERY, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOLUME 3It's two men against a whole world of criminality. They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet N...



  • London Blues musician Sam has ambition, though he thinks the other members of his band don't have any. During a confrontation with them, Sam tells them some bitter truths. How will it all end? MOJO is a 3,000-word short story....



  • Farzin, a simple man of simple faith, finds the end of the world has come - nuclear war has spread across the Middle East, and now he must escape with his family and find refuge.'Mushroom' is a 3000-word alternate history short story set in Iran twen...



  • Jan Nowak, a 94-year-old veteran of the Second World War, is tired of life. His days are spent in a monotonous way and he wants out, especially since the death of his wife. We follow him for a few days as he recalls the way things used to be and how ...



  • SPANISH POODLE, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOLUME 4It's two men against a whole world of criminality.They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet Napoleon ...






  • CUYAHOGA BLUES, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOLUME 2 It's two men against a whole world of criminality. They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson with not a clue in sight. Meet Napoleo...




  • DEAD SOPRANO, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK, EPISODE ONEOnly the strong will survive in this city in turmoil!The four ethnic mobs of Bayside City are vying for control of the town, and they will stop at nothing to get it. There's not a lot to stop them other t...



  • PURPLE HAZE, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK , EPISODE TWO Only the strong will survive in this city in turmoil! The four ethnic mobs of Bayside City are vying for control of the town, and they will stop at nothing to get it. There's not a lot to stop them other...



  • RED MAGIC, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK, EPISODE THREE Only the strong will survive in this city in turmoil! Avi Baumshinsky has grand plans to make his newly-refurbished Red Magic club the best in the country after Massimo Bertoni's boys hit it, though press...



  • HONEY BEE, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK, EPISODE FOUR Only the strong will survive in this city in turmoil! After Devereux's spent a few days in Arizona with his friend Phillip Randall, on his way back to the East Coast he meets a mysterious young woman calle...



  • LENIN'S GHOST, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOLUME 5 It's two men against a whole world of criminality. When Anna - Barry's Russian girlfriend he met in Kenya - invites him and Nappy over to Moscow for a few days, who are they to refuse. What starts off a...



  • From Book 1: SPAGHETTI JUNCTION, A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOLUME 1

    It's two men against a whole world of criminality.

    They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza minus the windmills, Holmes and Watson wit...



  • Bayside City, Bullet City in a word. A place where violence and death are never very far away... The Irish, Italian, Polish and Jewish mobs are all fighting for supreme power in town, but only one can come out on top. With only a few tough and hones...



  • KILLER TOAST, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK, EPISODE FIVE Only the strong will survive in this city in turmoil! The election for a new mayor is getting nearer, and Ralph Dickerson is in a confident mood: he thinks he's got the votes in the bag, but has he? Mea...






  • TIGER DAWN, A BAYSIDE CITY BOOK, EPISODE SIXOnly the strong will survive in this city in turmoil!The election for the Bayside City mayor is only days away, and the Italians, Irish and Jews are ready for all-out war. Devereux and his motley crew of vi...



  • FAT CAT, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERJohnny Calypso, broke gambler and small-time crook, has got himself in trouble after the money he borrowed off Hugo Copperpot, a Metropolisville gangster, gets stolen from an associate. Along with his new girl, Hot R...



  • GUN SMOKE, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERJovan 'Joe' Stojkovich is just out of the can, and he's got some catching up to do - twenty years' worth. After returning to his old neighbourhood in Metropolisville, there are only two things on ...



  • FENDER BENDER, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERSoon after the tragic death of his wife and child, oncologist Sidney Matrux seeks revenge - the only problem is the person responsible for their demise has direct connections to the Metropolisville Italian mob....



  • FENDER BENDER, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLER Soon after the tragic death of his wife and child, oncologist Sidney Matrux seeks revenge - the only problem is the person responsible for their demise has direct connections to the Metropolisville Italian mob...



  • PIG KILLER, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERBoz Holliday, aka the 'Pig Killer', is still out for revenge after killing two Metropolisville Police Department detectives. Detective William Spence and Lieutenant Randall Moore are dirty cops, colluding with a C...



  • BUTCHER BOY, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERThe murders of innocent women have put fear into the citizens of Metropolisville. One cop, Detective Leo Lyons, has been put on the case after his predecessor wasn't up for the job. Now, it's his turn to find the...



  • FAT CAT & GUN SMOKE, TWO NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERS. TWO BOOKS IN ONE! Two hardboiled neo-noir crime fiction titles for the PRICE OF FOUR! Fat Cat and Gun Smoke are part of the 'Neo-Noir Crime Thriller' series. FAT CAT, A NE...



  • Shanghai, China, 1937, and the Republic is at war. Harry, a young Chinese man working for a rich British business man in the International Settlement, is worried about his family in Suzhou, his hometown, whose population is threatened with extinction...



  • PANDA, CHINESE PULP FICTIONMess with the Triads and you will pay.Miles Li, Chinese immigrant and restaurant owner, is in heavy debt with the Triads. The extortion escalating, he contacts an associate, Ragnar Polizzi, who arranges for a former Kosova...






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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Dargan has published 40 books.

James Dargan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Panda, Chinese Pulp Fiction, was published in August 2017.

The first book by James Dargan, Mister Blue Sky, was published in September 2013.

Yes. James Dargan has 1 series.