Christopher Davis

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Joseph and the Old Man

  • Valley of the Shadow

  • The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future

  • The Tyrant of the Ppast and the Slave of the Future

  • Philadelphia

    When Andrew Beckett is fired from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm because he has AIDS, he convinces Joe Miller, a small-time personal injuries lawyer, to represent him against his former employers...

  • A Peep into the 20th Century

    A National Book Award nominee, A Peep Into The 20th Century is about the first electrical execution in 1890 and the war between Edison and Westinghouse for the soul of electricity's first deliberate victim. ...a brutal case of man's inhumanity to man...

  • Dog Horse Rat

    Van and Royal West are brothers in an upstate New York town dominated by a prison, a few bars and sense of having been cut adrift from history. By all accounts, the splendidly pastoral hamlet of Whitehead is a cultural backwater. Although organized a...

  • Suicide Note

    A compact death sonatacrisp and clearDavis has put more fine writing and sense into these unsettling pages than youd have thought possible.Kirkus (starred)The novel itselfin its startling brevity, clarity, and simplicityis like a suicide note. And th...

  • Belmarch

    I was certain that Davis had had a vision "[This book] combines observation and perception in a remarkable . . . way this is not a touching book; it is a seizing one." -Leonard Bernstein. "A surrealist nightmare . . . compelling, disturbing . . . it ...



  • The Sun In Mid-Career

    "An absorbing novel a saga in the 19th century European tradition recounted in 20th century American style. Christopher Davis is not only a successful plotter; he has an eye for miniature and an ear for speech."-Ned Rorem...

  • Ishmael

    Ishmael and Hagar wander in the wastes of Beersheba and find a fallible God: fable and metaphor. A short, intense, poetic-rhapsodic novelit is remarkable this portrait can be contained in the frame of a brief book also filled with other rich portrait...

  • Lost Summer

    Best book by a new writer; Christopher Daviss Lost Summer.John Wain, The London Observer A first novel of unusual merithandled with skillnever less than grippingMr. Davis is a real discovery.The New Statesman Remarkably fine first novelacutely percep...

  • Waiting For It

    "Occasionally a book is published which should be published not because of its potential sales but because of the importance of the questions it raises: this is such a book . . . a book that leaves the reader questioning his own innocence or guilt in...

  • First Family

    Breaking the color barrier in 1960s white suburbia. It is impossible to read it and to remain untouchedor unchanged.Newsday All the characters in this fine novel are beautifully drawnin the best sense of the word. A sophisticated novel and painfully ...

  • Little Knives

  • "We Too Shall Wear A Crown"

  • The Conduct of Saints

    The Conduct of Saints is a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the Devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the Bomb has yet to ...

  • Crossfire

    Crossfire is a fast action crime thriller that could take place in any central California town. Dave Bowen and Rick Hoffman are out to make a little side money trading guns when they get a little more than they bargained for in an abandoned warehouse...

  • Going Back to Dallas

    Going Back to Dallas is the prohibition era tale of Calvin Leff returning to Dallas after being shot, to settle the score with a pair of whiskey men that have moved in killing his friend Elijah Corey along the way. Over a shared cigarette, Leff is be...



  • Meet Me in Tulsa

    Meet Me in Tulsa is a prohibition era tale, when hard men took on hard odds just to get ahead and make a dollar. Atlee Dodge and Elmer Johnson plan to rob the First National Bank of Missouri from behind bars with both Jefferson City and St Louis fall...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Vol. 3

    Seven tales sure to send your goosebumps screaming in terror… The Twilight Zone meets Hitchcock… Do you see me now? Nothing is as it seems… Wake Up to Your Worst Nightmare… It’s dark magic; get the picture? Do captured Spirits really ...

  • Walking to Babylon

    Walking to Babylon is a dark, gritty tale of two transplanted New Jersey boys who grow up together in the desert city of Las Vegas, busting balls for the old man. Sammy Soriano tells us the story as he walks away from a burning car where the body of ...

  • Ain't No Law in California

    Ain’t No Law in California is a hard hitting post-apocalyptic western, where the bad guys are quick on the draw and the lawmen are even quicker. Dan Bardwell and his young partner Franklin Curtis allow us to ride along as they traipse across the ba...

  • Scratches

    Scratches starts as the Sacramento lawman-Dan Bardwell-falls from his saddle in front of the mission gates at Arroyo de la Cantua. After safely getting his man-or men rather-and riding away into the night, the lawman is awakened by a terrible buzz...

  • Unholy

    A cantina gunfight along the highway sees Dan Bardwell get the outlaw that he is after. Riding south from the border town with the dead man tied over the unsaddled spare horse, the lawman makes camp in the desert for the night. Awakened by a terri...

  • Black

    Black is another dark piece of the Dan Bardwell Western story that started with the novel, 'Ain't No Law in California' and continued through 'Scratches' and 'Unholy.'This story is told more from the point of view of new character, Gustav Qu...

  • Con Games

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    Bobby Derrick has rolled out with ten G's in Las Vegas meth and is yet to make good on his debt. Marty Marzano is tasked with either bringing back the money, the dope or Derrick's head. Friends since high school, Marzano dreads find...

  • Money Talks

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  • Vicky's Secret

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    Vicky's Secret is a short tale of three college friends, a hot rod car, late night drag races and a dead woman on a lonely country road. Bobby Tamer has a bad-ass car and he knows it, his pal Tony Barcelona has helped to build it. Bobby...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Christopher Davis has published 29 books.

Christopher Davis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Black, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Christopher Davis, Joseph and the Old Man, was published in August 1987.

No. Christopher Davis does not write books in series.
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