Brian Garfield

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Cattlemen

1 - Trail Drive (Sep-2019)
2 - Rio Chama (Dec-2019)
3 - Massacre Basin (Mar-2020)

The Lawbringers

1 - The Lawbringers (May-2019)
2 - Arizona (Jul-1986)
3 - The Big Snow (Jan-2020)
4 - High Storm (Sep-2020)
5 - Vultures in the Sun (Apr-1987)
6 - Call Me Hazard (Jul-2021)

Marshal Jeremy Six

1 - Mr. Sixgun (Sep-2018)
2 - The Night it Rained Bullets (Dec-2018)
3 - The Bravos (Mar-2019)
4 - The Proud Riders (Jun-2019)
5 - A Badge for a Badman (Sep-2019)
6 - Brand of the Gun (Dec-2019)
7 - Gundown (Apr-2020)
8 - Big Country, Big Men (Aug-2020)

The Outlaws

1 - The Last Outlaw (Oct-2019)
2 - Dragoon Pass (Jun-2020)
3 - Arizona Rider (Sep-2020)
4 - Lynch Law Canyon (Jan-2021)
5 - The Lusty Breed (Apr-2021)

Paul Benjamin

1 - Death Wish (1972)
2 - Death Sentence (1975)

Sam Watchman

1 - Relentless (1972)
2 - The Threepersons Hunt (1974)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • Death Wish

    Paul Benjamin - 1

    For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul''s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken and forced to reevaluate his views, Benjamin becomes disillusioned with society and plots his revenge on the pe...

  • Relentless

    Sam Watchman - 1

    A Native American sheriff chases a gang of bloodthirsty bank robbers Were it not for the copper mine, San Miguel wouldn't exist. A hardscrabble town hewn out of the Arizona desert, it's long on sand and short on excitement. For fun its citizens g...

  • The Threepersons Hunt

    Sam Watchman - 2

    A Navajo trooper tracks a murderous fugitive loose on the reservation Joe Threepersons is a killer, but that doesn't bother most of the people on the Apache reservation. After all, killing a white man is not an unforgiveable crime. Sam Watchman, ...

  • Death Sentence

    Paul Benjamin - 2

     Paul Benjamin was an ordinary New Yorker until a gang of drug addicts killed his wife and raped his daughter. When the police proved helpless, Benjamin tracked and killed them one by one. Now he is in Chicago, and the cycle ...

  • Hopscotch

    Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself agai...

  • Wild Times

    An aged Western showman reflects over his long and colorful career Few bother to separate the myth of Colonel Hugh Cardiff from his real life. The nation knows him as a sharpshooter, buffalo hunter, moving pictures pioneer, and one-time proprieto...

  • Line of Succession

    Five bombs upend the foundation of the American governmentSturka is an artist with explosives. A sturdy man approaching middle age, he learned his trade on the darkest battlefields of the twentieth century: Indochina, Palestine, Guyana, Biafra, and t...

  • Sliphammer

    An Arizona sheriff takes an impossible job: arresting Wyatt EarpWyatt Earp rides the train to Tucson alongside his brother Morgan, who makes the trip in the comfort of a wooden casket. Earp comes from Tombstone, along with his two surviving brothers ...

  • Sweeney's Honor

    Eleven soldiers attempt to hold a river crossing in the middle of the desert The Colorado River's most vital point for American settlement is the ferryboat at Yuma Crossing. When the gold rush begins, a gang of white outlaws seizes the ferry from...



  • Paladin

  • Checkpoint Charlie

    At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer - before it’s too late.

    Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as ...

  • Hit

  • The Thousand Mile War

    The 1942 Japanese invasion of two of the Aleutian Islands, the thousand-mile archipelago west of Alaska, represents the only time in modern history that American territory has been occupied by a foreign power. The ensuing fifteen-month campaign, memo...

  • Valley of the Shadow

  • The Crime of My Life: Favorite Stories by Presidents of the Mystery Writers of America

  • Necessity

    "Necessity is the mother of invention and Madeleine had to invent something, all right: herself. She was on the run, in the fast lane, moving from town to town across the States, changing her identity, once, twice, as many times as necessary. Necessi...

  • Fear in a Handful of Dust

    A mental patient escapes his institution in search of bloody vengeance When rain falls on the mental hospital, Calvin Duggai knows it's time to leave. Institutionalized after he abandoned five men to die in the Mojave Desert, he has spent years pl...

  • Tripwire

    In the Wild West, a desperate gang of outlaws targets a gold shipment During the Indian Wars, Boag and Wilstach rode with the Tenth Cavalry, the most feared outfit ever to gallop over the American plains. But now that things are relatively peacef...

  • Bugle and Spur

    He was the best soldier Fort Dragoon ever had ... and the colonel was out to break him ... Colonel Mallory loved busting young lieutenants like dried sticks. So when he arrived at Fort Dragoon, he gave every lowdown, scum-eating duty in the outfit to...



  • Arizona

    The Lawbringers - 2

    In 1890, America was closing in on them. So there, on a piece of Arizonan land fit only for misfits, they built Ocotillo. And for that town of a thousand desperate men and women there was only one man for the High Sheriff of Mogollon County—Far...

  • Apache Canyon

    Will Brady. As a professional scout for the U.S. Army in Arizona, he has tasted the worst of the Indian wars and has no more stomach for fighting. But with only a few days remaining on his contract, the local Coyotero Apaches bust loose, spilling blo...

  • Vultures in the Sun

    The Lawbringers - 5

    Who Hired the Killer to Walk Our Streets?That was the headline of the Lodestar newspaper. The answer was Krayle MacIver.Krayle had hired the killer because he figured it was high time something was done about the trigger-happy band of toughs and band...

  • Manifest Destiny

    A rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore Roosevelt.

    In 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after...

  • Recoil

    Years after going into hiding, a witness must run from the mob againFred Mathieson was not an ordinary witness against the mob. He was never in the organization, and didn’t testify against gangster Frank Pastor to save his own skin. Mathieson is a ...

  • The Arizonans

    Since the end of the War of Rebellion, Eric Stratemeier thought he had put his past behind him for good. He came to the Arizona high country as the new owner of the embattled Hatchet outfit, boss to a dozen men and ten thousand cattle. But there his ...

  • The Hit and the Marksman

    Edgar Award-winning author

    Here's a double shot of crime from one of America's best-known authors. The Hit is a full-length novel that ranks with the best of man-on-the-run stories. In this instance, the running man happens to be Simon Crane, who ...

  • The Last Hard Men

    After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desert.

    Zach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yuma''s prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an oppo...

  • The Vanquished

    A California politician goes to Mexico to make himself king. The Sonorans hire Henry Crabb to protect them from Apaches. In the lawless days that followed the Mexican-American War, bands of Indians roamed the countryside, preying on the hard-worki...

  • The Last Bridge

    A crack team of American specialists makes a deadly run into North Vietnam Cliffs hang over the rail bridge that crosses the Sang Chu River, protecting the vital North Vietnamese supply line from attack by American bombers. It’s only accessible ...



  • Deep Cover

    A Soviet spymaster launches an audacious plan against the American military The KGB calls it Amergrad. Buried deep in Siberia, just a few hundred miles from the Chinese border, it’s the most tightly guarded secret in the Soviet Union. Away from ...

  • Kolchak's Gold

    On the hunt for long-lost gold, a historian attracts murderous attention Twenty-five million people died during the Russian Civil War. It was a clash between Tsarist loyalists and the new Soviet order, and when the imperialist forces saw defeat i...

  • The Marchand Woman

    When her son is kidnapped in Mexico, a mother seeks vengeance Film director Carole Marchand’s son has just been kidnapped for the third time. The first two times weren’t as troubling, since Carole had abducted Robert herself -- incidents in he...

  • The Romanov Succession

    During World War II, a Russian refugee spies for the United States Since the great upheaval of November 1917, Alex Denilov has known nothing but war. In the civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, he fought for the old imperial order. Wh...

  • Suspended Sentences

    A taut collection of razor-sharp stories of men at society’s edge Although best known as an author of westerns and espionage fiction, Brian Garfield is at heart an observer of human behavior. While traveling, he sometimes writes short fiction, u...

  • Target Manhattan

    A United States Air Force bomber threatens to obliterate New York The whole city sees the plane circling: an ancient B-17 bomber flying inches above the tops of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. As it nears Midtown, its bomb-bay doors creak open, giving ...

  • The Villiers Touch

    An unscrupulous businessman targets a family chemical company Though his business cards read “Mason Villiers,” that is not his name. His respectable lower-middle-class upbringing -- with its innocent stories of hot rods and prom queens -- is a...

  • What of Terry Conniston?

    A lawyer tracks a gang of amateur kidnappers across the southwestern desert By the time Carl Oakley gets to Soledad, the town is an empty shell. But the lawyer isn’t looking for the city; he wants to find Terry Conniston. A tire track proves tha...

  • Mr. Sixgun

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 1

    It was a hot, dusty summer in Spanish Flat, and Marshal Jeremy Six figured on the usual amount of trouble: liquored-up miners, brawls between farmers and cowhands, and a couple of scraps over girls or cards. Then Ben Sarasen rode into town.Something ...

  • The Night it Rained Bullets

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 2

    It started out with four drunken gunslingers raising the devil in a local saloon. Jeremy Six, marshal of Spanish Flat, knew it was going to be tough enough to silence that bunch.But Spanish Flat was in for more than just that little ruckus that night...



  • The Bravos

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 3

    “If the law’s only wanted when it’s convenient, then you can find yourself a marshal who thinks that way.” Jeremy Six took his badge off, mounted his horse, and rode away from Spanish Flat.But habit lingers and a trained trigger finger gets i...

  • The Lawbringers

    The Lawbringers - 1

    This powerful historical novel tells the story of Burt Mossman and the near-legendary force he commanded -- the ruthlessly effective Arizona Rangers. Under Captain Mossman, these men performed the herculean task of taming the Arizona Territory in pre...

  • The Proud Riders

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 4

    If it hadn’t been for John Paradise arriving in town the same time as a government payroll amounting to sixty-five thousand dollars in gold, Marshal Jeremy Six might have passed a peaceful Fourth of July weekend.But the one-armed killer with a repu...

  • The Crime of My Life

    A VERY SPECIAL MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY FEATURING THE BEST BY THE BEST...In 1984, Mystery Writers of America brought together a roster of authors that has rarely been equaled before or since. Every living MWA President (including several who were also Grand...

  • A Badge for a Badman

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 5

    “I’ll have your guts for guitar strings, Jeremy Six!”If you’ve ever seen a she-bear defend her cub against a pack of wolves, you’ll know what Ma Marriner was like, only maybe she was bigger and meaner and the wolves were on her side.What th...

  • Trail Drive

    The Cattlemen - 1

    Dan Sweet was a tall man, a strong man, and most important, a man who had taken his own measure and lived by it. Now he had promised Ben Gaultt to drive four thousand head of beef across the blazing Arizona desert -- Indian country. Sweet was not the...

  • The Last Outlaw

    The Outlaws - 1

    Logan was first to leave. Sick of living on the run, hiding his face in public, he dropped out, met a girl, and got married ... and then there were three.Then Bob got killed in a gun battle ... and then there were two.Joe, the youngest, took off on h...

  • Brand of the Gun

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 6

    Wade Cruze and his men were in Spanish Flat, waiting. As hardcase a crew as ever rode the Arizona range, they were loaded for bear. Because their herd was on its way to town also, but under another man’s brand and prodded by an equally gun-quic...

  • Rio Chama

    The Cattlemen - 2

    There was only one way Buck Madrid could get his herd to market—and that was over Vern Cotton’s land. To push the boundaries of his cattle empire across the river, Madrid brought hired guns to the Rio Chama and built them into a gunslick ...

  • The Big Snow

    The Lawbringers - 3

    BROTHER SHERIFF " BROTHER OUTLAWThree disasters hit the mountain town of Aztec at the same time:A blizzard had completely blocked the passes and cut the town off from all help.Curt Warren, the prospector the town had been grubstaking, was found bus...



  • Massacre Basin

    The Cattlemen - 3

    “When I’m gone the wolves will come out of their black holes and gang up on Hat. They’ll be like a pack after a crippled antelope.”Such was the prophecy by which Nora Parrott had inherited the mighty ranch and by which her for...

  • Gundown

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 7

    Spanish Flat was a town balanced between high country and desert, between mines and ranches, between horsemen and hoemen, between the law-abiding and the naturally lawless. At any moment, the balance could shift and the place go up in gunsmoke. One m...

  • Dragoon Pass

    The Outlaws - 2

    The band of rustlers that hung out in Dragoon Pass laughed at lawmen and their clumsy posses. All the rich ranches in the valley below were theirs for the raiding, including the one Ben McCracken ramrodded. But Ben was different from the usual run of...

  • Big Country, Big Men

    Marshal Jeremy Six - 8

    Jeremy Six, marshal of Spanish Flat, Arizona Territory, pocketed his law badge and rode across the Mexican border on a personal vendetta. His prey was Steve Lament - gambler, gunslinger, and the slayer of Jeremy’s girlfriend. Six soon found him...

  • Arizona Rider

    The Outlaws - 3

    Wes Marriner was a hired gun, sharp, cautious, and skilled at killing. Yet he found there was such a thing as one job too many and too ugly for any amount of gold. But his decision to quit couldn’t be final. Either he took the money and job, or...

  • High Storm

    The Lawbringers - 4

    While the blizzard raged outside, the cabin trembled, its beams creaking in the night. Thrown together by the storm and forced into each other’s company, seven men and a girl strained against the intimate confinement, their nerves rubbed raw. T...

  • Seven Brave Men

  • Lynch Law Canyon

    The Outlaws - 4

    It was called Mule Canyon, and it was one of those gold-boom towns in Colorado where men gathered quickly to make a fast fortune, and left just as suddenly. It drew all sorts—the greedy, the adventurous, the lawless—and Sam Calhoun.Calhou...

  • The Lusty Breed

    The Outlaws - 5

    Chris McLean had been a professional gambler for six years and had learned the odds the hard way in rough dives, border saloons, and the blazing streets of boom towns. But when he returned to the family ranch in Arizona Territory to protect his broth...

  • Justice at Spanish Flat

    Tracy Chavis rode with caution, one hand never far from his gun. Behind him stretched a four-year trail blazed by gunflame and the guilt of an unfulfilled mission — to recover the five thousand dollars robbed from Chainlink’s boss Jim Boy...

  • Call Me Hazard

    The Lawbringers - 6

    Returning to the town of Stinking Springs, Arizona, ex-mine owner Jason Hazard meets with an unexpected cold reception. Vic Olsen – an old enemy of his – is now the new mine owner and hates Hazard with a vengeance. Added to his trouble th...

Award-Winning Books by Brian Garfield

Hopscotch
1976 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


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Brian Garfield has published 60 books.

Brian Garfield does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Call Me Hazard, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Brian Garfield, Death Wish, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Brian Garfield has 6 series.
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