Les Standiford

John Deal

1 - Done Deal (Oct-1993)
2 - Raw Deal (Oct-1994)
3 - Deal to Die For (Oct-1995)
4 - Deal on Ice (Feb-1997)
5 - Presidential Deal (Aug-1998)
6 - Deal With the Dead (Feb-2001)
6 - Book Deal (Mar-2002)
7 - Bone Key (Apr-2002)
8 - Havana Run (May-2003)

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  Spill
  

  • May-1991
  • / Suspense
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  When a tanker truck carrying a strain of hemorrhagic fever virus crashes into a creekbed on state park land, an army of government-approved assassins, bent on covering up the scandal, sets out to kill the people vacationing there. Reprint....

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  Done Deal
  

  • Oct-1993
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 1
  

  Done Deal is the first in the series featuring reluctant sleuth John Deal, a South Florida building contractor who has a penchant for stepping into the path of the wrong people. Here, Deal is struggling to rebuild the once formidable DealCo, a develo...

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  Raw Deal
  

  • Oct-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 2
  

  "John Deal is such a rich creation, full of anger, courage and doubt, that you may have to remind yourself that you're reading fiction." -- Chicago TribuneJohn Deal's life is finally coming together -- he is reunited with his lovely wife, they have a...

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  Deal to Die For
  

  • Oct-1995
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 3
  

  This suspenseful third John Deal crime thriller from Standiford finds the Miami building contractor tangling with Chinese gangsters who are trying to move in on a scheme hatched by two Hollywood porno magnates to create X-rated films for the huge mai...

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  Deal on Ice
  

  • Feb-1997
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 4
  

  Contractor-sleuth John Deal is the last of his kind--a builder who appreciates his craft. His friend Arch Dolan was the last of his kind, too, a Miami bookseller who sold books because he loved them. Now someone has killed him for it. And he's only t...

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  Presidential Deal
  

  • Aug-1998
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 5
  

  In the fifth installment of the series, Deal is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Valor, and as a campaign gimmick, the presentation ceremony is held in Miami. During the ceremony, terrorists interrupt with machine gun fire, and Deal and the Fi...

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  Black Mountain
  

  • Feb-2000
  • / Mystery
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  Transit cop Richard Corrigan never expected to find himself trekking through the Wyoming wilderness--with the governor of New York, no less. But then there's a lot about this trip he can't even begin to understand. Why is the governor more concerned ...

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  Deal With the Dead
  

  • Feb-2001
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 6
  

  Life looks good for John Deal. A new contract promises to put the family business in the black and restore its reputation, tarnished by the suicide of its founder--John's own father. But getting out from under Barton Deal's shady past is tough. The n...

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  Book Deal
  

  • Mar-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  John Deal - 6
  

  Reluctant sleuth and Miami developer John Deal is the last of his kind - a builder who appreciates his craft. His friend Arch Dolan was the last of his kind, too, a Miami bookseller who sold books because he loved them. Now someone has killed him for...

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  Bone Key
  

  • Apr-2002
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 7
  

  In Key West, a small-time hustler is being beaten by a cop--and John Deal steps in to stop it. It's only a temporary rescue, though--the same man is found slain two days later. The cops are claiming ignorance. The locals aren't saying a word. All Dea...

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  Havana Run
  

  • May-2003
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  John Deal - 8
  

  John Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. When the possibility of a major project in post-normalized Cuba arises, he can't help but be intrigued-only to find that he's been l...

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  Last train to paradise
  

  • Feb-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad -- one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit ...

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