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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1992
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

George Sueno & Ernie Bascom

1 - Jade Lady Burning (Oct-1992)
2 - Slicky Boys (May-1997)
3 - Buddha's Money (May-1998)
4 - The Door to Bitterness (Sep-2005)
5 - The Wandering Ghost (Nov-2007)
6 - G.I. Bones (Nov-2009)
7 - Mr. Kill (Dec-2011)
9 - Joy Brigade (Jul-2012)
10 - The Iron Sickle (Sep-2014)
11 - The Ville Rat (Oct-2015)
12 - Ping-Pong Heart (Jul-2016)
13 - The Nine-Tailed Fox (Oct-2017)
14 - The Line (Oct-2018)
15 - G.I. Confidential (Oct-2019)
16 - War Women (Nov-2021)
Nightmare Range (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Meet Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom in their first investigation, set in 1970s South KoreaAlmost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the US Military is still present through...



  • The second Sergeant George Sueño investigation, follow-up to the New York Times Notable Jade Lady Burning The Slicky Boys rule the back alleys of 1970s Seoul. They can kill a man in a thousand gruesome ways. And you’ll never even see the...



  • This grisly, terrifying thriller follows CID Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom across the Korean Peninsula in their search for a lost artifact South Korea, 1970s: Retired Army officer Herman Burkowicz has quite a lucrative setup smuggling rare Ko...



  • The fourth Sergeant George Sueño InvestigationSeoul, 1970s: As North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, US 8th Army CID agent Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of ju...



  • The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed, or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeeri...



  • A Korean fortune teller is haunted by a long-dead American soldier who wants his bones found and buried. A Latino soldier and the underage daughter of a white American officer are missing. Several notorious Korean gangsters who own bars in Itaewon --...



  • On a crowded train from Pusan to Seoul, the brutal rape of a young mother sparks rage on the powder-keg peninsula of Korea, pitting Koreans against Americans and the 8th Army brass against the truth. Eyewitness accounts indicate the culprit was most...



  • In this pulse-racing ninth adventure, Sergeant George Sueño heads north of Korea's DMZ on a mission to prevent war between the Communist North and the American-allied South. Seoul, early 1970s: US Army Sergeant George Sueño is on a mission of e...



  • Twenty years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his...






  • When a U.S. Army Claims officer stationed in South Korea is murdered in grisly fashion the roustabout duo of George Sueño and Ernie Bascom go against orders to track a calculating killer. Early one rainy morning, the head of the 8th United States...



  • How much can murder, and silence, buy on the black market of 1974 South Korea? South Korea, 1970s: A young Korean woman dressed in a traditional "chima-jeogori" is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefu...



  • South Korea, 1974. US Army CID Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-ja, an Itaewon bar girl, of stealing twenty-five thousand won from him -- a...



  • Martin Limón’s series set in 1970s South Korea, an era of heightened Korean sociopolitical tension, pits Army CID agents Sueño and Bascom against a mysterious woman who may be the leader of a gang -- or a thousand-year-old creature. Three Amer...



  • George Sueño and Ernie Bascom return for their thirteenth outing, which takes them from Seoul to the DMZ in their most politically charged murder case yet. The Korean Demilitarized Zone, 1970s: A battered corpse is found a few feet north of the l...



  • US Army CID Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom become entangled with a pushy tabloid reporter as they investigate a series of violent bank robberies throughout South Korea. South Korea, 1970s: A rash of armed robberies at local Korean banks do...



  • Tasked with covering up a tabloid report about high-ranking officers, US Army CID Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom discover a dark web of systemic issues that have potentially fatal consequences. South Korea, 1970s: Sergeant First Class Cec...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Martin Limon has published 16 books.

Martin Limon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, War Women, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Martin Limon, Jade Lady Burning, was published in October 1992.

Yes. Martin Limon has 1 series.