Marc Olden

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1974
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Black Samurai

1 - Black Samurai (May-1974)
2 - The Golden Kill (May-1974)
3 - Killer Warrior (Jul-1974)
4 - The Deadly Pearl (Sep-1974)
5 - The Inquisition (Nov-1974)
6 - The Warlock (Jan-1975)
7 - Sword of Allah (Apr-1975)
8 - The Katana (Jun-1975)

Harker File

1 - Harker File (Apr-1976)
2 - Dead and Paid For (Jul-1976)
3 - They've Killed Anna (Feb-1977)
4 - Kill the Reporter (Feb-1978)

A Manny Decker Novel

Giri (Jul-2012)

Narc

1 - Narc (Jul-2012)
2 - Death of a Courier (Jul-2012)
3 - The Death List (Jul-2012)
4 - The Delgado Killings (Jul-2012)
5 - Kill the Dragon (Jul-2012)
6 - The Beauty Kill (Jul-2012)
7 - Corsican Death (Jul-2012)
8 - Death Song (Jul-2012)
9 - Kill for It (Jul-2012)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Black Samurai

    Black Samurai - 1

    Rescued by a Japanese samurai master, trained for seven years, Robert Sand became the Black Samurai, a man to be reckoned with. And having suffered at the hands of military racists and seeing his teacher and brother samurai killed before his eyes by ...

  • The Golden Kill

    Black Samurai - 2

    No one seemed able to combat the vast secret global network of money, power, and violence that was step by step enslaving mankind. Its mysterious masters commanded armies of men, gigantic corporations, entire governments, every means of destruction i...

  • Killer Warrior

    Black Samurai - 3

    Robert Sand, Black Samurai, knew that saving New York from atomic destruction was close to mission impossible, even for him. Ranged against him were a monstrously rich Japanese murder-master, a fiendish French Connection who could deliver a diabolica...

  • The Deadly Pearl

    Black Samurai - 4

    Sand attacks the empire of New York's deadliest pimp Her name is Rochelle, and she is only fifteen when she disappears. Her father is a secret service agent assigned to ex-president William Baron Clarke, and when he asks for help, Clarke calls the...

  • The Inquisition

    Black Samurai - 5

    Dessalines was black, bloodthirsty, and insane. And he was the head of THE INQUISITION, a terrorist organization sworn to wipe out the rich, the law enforcers, the Establishment -- anyone who got in their way. Swift and deadly, they seemed to be unst...

  • The Warlock

    Black Samurai - 6

    The Warlock ruled an occult empire that stretched around the world. This evil genius giant of a man with his slavelike army of hideous killer dwarves, gorgeous women, sadistic perverts, and all the other devotees of his devil-worshiping religion now ...

  • Sword of Allah

    Black Samurai - 7

    Insane with grief, Sand vows to destroy a terrorist cabal....

    Ever since he took the vows of the samurai, Robert Sand has been ready to die. But now, for the first time in his life, he has a reason to live. Her name is Ann, and he sits besi...

  • The Katana

    Black Samurai - 8

    For the sake of his master’s memory, Sand will kill to recover a magnificent sword

    Though useless in battle, the emperor’s katana is a beautiful weapon. Cast from solid gold, this 1,200-year-old blade was thought to be lost unti...

  • Harker File

    Harker File - 1

    Chasing a scoop on the CIA, a reporter finds his own name on the hit list.

    In Madison, Wisconsin, a dairy farmer drops dead of a heart attack. A few days later, a small-town citizen in Iowa is killed in a three-car pile-up. Few men know the...



  • Dead and Paid For

    Harker File - 2

    To protect the families of missing veterans, Harker could go missing himself The US Army is out of Vietnam, but not all of its boys made it home. Thousands remain unaccounted for, and as the years go on, their families hold out hope that somewhere ...

  • They've Killed Anna

    Harker File - 3

    When his source is murdered, Harker knows he's on the right track

    Finally, Harker has a break in the nuclear story. There is a vast conspiracy inside the government to keep the dangers of nuclear energy from the public, and now he has a sou...

  • Kill the Reporter

    Harker File - 4

    Harker uncovers a cult whose members believe in peace, love, understanding, and torture

    Rudolph Franklin thinks his biggest problem is reelection. A battle with a fellow senator about military spending is getting ugly, and if he can’t...

  • Poe Must Die

    A half-mad, alcoholic Edgar Allan Poe aims to defeat an occultist's terrifying plot in this intelligent, suspenseful thriller set in 1840s New York ( Booklist ). It is said that beneath Solomon's glorious throne, booksthat gave the fabled king con...

  • A Dangerous Glamour

    A world where beauty is bought and sold - and often shattered! When two New York modeling agencies compete for the world''s hottest fashion plates, the battle can get pretty dirty. Bankrolled by a wealthy playboy, desired by more than one fabulous...

  • Giri the Japanese Call It

    Giri: Japanese for loyalty. For one American it comes to mean something else, something infinitely more lethal. A crazed mass murderer is terrorizing New York, his victims the target of a strange and deadly form of Oriental blood sacrifice. Detective...

  • Dai-sho

  • Gaijin

  • Oni

    He is a master assassin, combining a mercenary's deadly efficiency with a sadist's lust for blood. Stalking the world of the wealthy and the powerful, he sells death to the highest bidder. And now he works for "the Empress", the ruthless shadow ruler...

  • Sword of Vengeance

    He masterminds the most feared gang in global history. He is a ruthless killer, a relentless sadist; he is Lin Pao, and he has lived for centuries. Now he faces a worthy opponent--an invincible young samurai infected with the rage of centuries, and w...



  • Kisaeng

    About to become the latest victim of Park Song, a sick crime lord with a lust for beautiful women, Tawny DaSilva must rely on the help of New York Police Detective Manny Decker to escape from her captor. Reprint....

  • Fear's Justice

    When Fear Meagher, an old-fashioned, middle-aged police officer, investigates the murder of his lover, Linda, a detective married to a corrupt cop, he discovers that the supposed culprit, a homeless Black man, may have been set up by fellow cops work...

  • The Ghost

    The Ghost -- the code name for the secret member of an undercover cop's backup team. It is the Ghost's job to remain hidden, blending into the scenery, maintaining close observation of his assignment's surroundings. In short, he's supposed to keep th...

  • The Beauty Kill

    Narc - 6

    On the verge of death from two gunshot wounds, Bolt vows revenge They call him Black Beauty, because he is the most gorgeous thief the drug world has ever seen. Where some are content to make a living ripping off dime-bag hustlers, Black Beauty stea...

  • Book of Shadows

    To fulfill an ancient rite of vengeance, two druids descend on New York City

    Out for kicks on a dull summer night, a few Puerto Rican boys wander Central Park. Drunk, high, and bored they hack at an old oak tree, and they don’t notice the ...

  • Corsican Death

    Narc - 7

    With a handful of agents, Bolt takes on the crown prince of European smuggling

    Two French businessmen come to the United States to arrange an export deal. Normally the federal government would have no interest, but these Frenchmen are Corsic...

  • Death of a Courier

    Narc - 2

    To break the mafia, Bolt must face his murderous ex-partner

    Narcotics agents aren’t supposed to ride horses. But today John Bolt is tailing a drug courier in Central Park, and in two feet of snow, horseback is the only way to ride. When he...

  • Death Song

    Narc - 8

    After a narrow escape, Bolt goes after the mobster who tried to blow him up

    As far as the record industry is concerned, Matteo DiPalma is a manager, a producer, and the hit-maker behind some of the decade’s biggest chart successes. To the ...

  • The Death List

    Narc - 3

    A kingpin loses his little black book, and every pusher in the city will kill to find it

    His name is Mr. Church. He is a drug kingpin whose empire stretches across six cities in the Northeast. And he is about to die. A rival dealer hires a g...

  • The Delgado Killings

    Narc - 4

    To escape jail, a pusher takes out a contract on everyone in Bolt’s department

    The Delgado cocaine operation is more than a business. It’s an empire, supplied by a direct line to the coca plants of South America. Delgado’s soldiers are...



  • Giri

    A Manny Decker Novel

    A Japanese serial killer terrorizes New York, opposed only by a karate-savvy cop In the dojo, Manny Decker learned that training, focus, and cold discipline could make a man more dangerous than any weapon. His skill with his fists was useful in the...

  • The Informant

    Facing a long jail sentence, a woman takes a dangerous job for the New York Police Department

    Lydia Constanza is not cut out for prison. Since she came to the United States from Cuba, she’s twice been convicted as an accomplice to a violen...

  • Kill for It

    Narc - 9

    Alone and outgunned, Sand has two weeks to stop the largest gold heist in history

    The Chinese diplomat walks into the revolving door just a step ahead of the grenade. Samurai Robert Sand is too late to save him from the blast, but as the smo...

  • Kill the Dragon

    Narc - 5

    Only Bolt can save New York from an alliance between the Chinese and Italian mobs

    In a dank Chinatown gymnasium, a dragon prepares for the parade. As the teenagers inside the monster practice its ungainly walk, four Sun Eagles surround them ...

  • Narc

    Narc - 1

    A narcotics agent comes between a dealer and the biggest heroin shipment in history One thousand pounds of uncut heroin. Street value: a quarter of a billion dollars. New York's baddest dealer is a preening hustler named St. James Livingston, and h...

  • Wellington's

    At Wellington’s, it’s OK to break hearts, but never break your reservation

    Seven nights a week, the most beautiful people in Manhattan crowd around the bar at a dimly lit restaurant on Second Avenue. Fueled by drugs, liquor, and jealousy...

  • The Harker Files

    Follow a daring reporter in these four hard-boiled suspense mysteries from “a master of intrigue and adventure” (New York Times"bestselling author Clive Cussler).   Meet Harker, an investigative reporter willing to do whatever it takes to ...

  • The Narc Series Volume One

    Three hard-boiled mysteries featuring a tough as nails narcotics agent from “a master of intrigue and adventure” (New York Times"bestselling author Clive Cussler).   John Bolt is the best narcotics agent in D-3 -- the Department of Dangero...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marc Olden has published 37 books.

Marc Olden does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Harker Files, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Marc Olden, Black Samurai, was published in May 1974.

Yes. Marc Olden has 4 series.
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