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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1967
  • Latest Book:
    October 2018
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • An invaluable collection of early columns by one of New York’s sharpest mindsIn the 1960s, as the once-proud New York Herald Tribune spiraled into bankruptcy, the brightest light in its pages was an ebullient young columnist named Jimmy Breslin. Wh...



  • Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past   The department has taken away Dermot Davey’s gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing mom...





  • A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rica...



  • Returned to his Queens home in 1970 after winning a Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Owney Morrison works at digging tunnels during the day and escapes with drink at night--from everything, including his wife Dolores and their child...



  • "It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it''s terrific fun!The Gang That ...



  • Fausti 'the Fist' Dellacava is the most feared mobster in all of Gotham. But running the family business is proving to be problematic as the Feds start closing in. So what's a mobster to do to stay out of the slammer? Fausti chooses to go down the in...



  • A Catholic priest sets his sights on sin’s frontline: New York City Father D’Arcy Cosgrove honed his special talents during a mission to Africa, where he ministered to locals about the dangers of sex. To Cosgrove, sex is a menace to societies ...



  • New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” blow-by-blow account of how Tip O’Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate (Chicago Tribune). Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarte...






  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America’s most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and ...



  • Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times"bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize"winning journalist.   Jimmy Breslin was not only “the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City,” he was also an out...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jimmy Breslin has published 12 books.

Jimmy Breslin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Novels of Jimmy Breslin, was published in October 2018.

The first book by Jimmy Breslin, The World of Jimmy Breslin, was published in July 1967.

No. Jimmy Breslin does not write books in series.