Al Stevens Books in Order

This short story collection shows Stevens working in a looser, more experimental mode. Expect offbeat ideas, quick turns, and a mix of humor, suspense, and speculative touches that reveal the range behind his novels.

A boy marked by violence grows into a CIA-trained assassin in this Cold War conspiracy thriller. His path leads to Dealey Plaza, where ambition, doubt, and history narrow to a single shot.

After a drive-by attack, Stanley Bentworth learns a murdered stranger looked uncannily like him. Hired by the dead man's widow, he follows the case into corporate intrigue, old secrets, and a threat that may still be aimed at him.

Annie crash-lands near a small Iowa town while scouting Earth for colonists fleeing a dying world. With help from three teenagers, she tries to win human trust before fear, politics, and the military turn first contact into disaster.

Young women are turning up slaughtered, and homicide detective Stanley Bentworth is stuck hunting a brutal serial killer. As the murders accelerate, pressure mounts to stop the next attack before panic swallows the town.

Bruises, deaths, and quiet threats convince a group of nursing home residents that something is badly wrong. Armed with nerve, homemade tricks, and stubborn curiosity, they set out to expose abuse and murder from the inside.

Former homicide cop Stanley Bentworth now runs a one-man PI agency and takes a blackmail case for quick money. The job turns dangerous fast, with the mob, a frightened client, and death hanging over every move.

A machine-ruled northern power and the female-led land of Amazonia head toward war over vital energy resources. Caught between them, an enslaved laborer and a condemned android gamble everything on rebellion.

A botched bounty-hunting job leaves Stanley injured and wanted on federal kidnapping charges. Forced onto the run under an alias, he stumbles into terrorists, corrupt cops, and old enemies who would love to finish him off.

After a fatal shooting, homicide detective Stanley Bentworth lands under Internal Affairs scrutiny. Stuck between dirty cops, gang violence, and his own unraveling life, he has to investigate while everything around him hardens.

A break from Homicide sends Stanley Bentworth into the security office of a high-tech startup. When an executive turns up shot dead, rest gives way to corporate espionage, terrorism fears, and another ugly investigation.

Stanley Bentworth is on the run and accused of killing two mob enforcers. With evidence stacked against him and no safe place to hide, he has to solve the murders before the cops or the mob catch up.

When Stanley Bentworth helps a young prostitute shake an obsessive stalker, he walks straight into a murder case. This time the danger is personal, because the police think Stan may have done the killing himself.

Stanley's getaway with Grace turns deadly when a brutal murder rocks their ship at sea. Recruited to investigate, Stan soon realizes the killer is willing to sink both the case and the people chasing it.

Bodies pile up as Sanford, a freelance consultant and assassin, takes jobs through a Darknet brokerage called Bugsy's List. Cops, rival killers, and crime bosses close in while others cash in on the spreading chaos.

A simple missing-person case pulls Stanley Bentworth into a nursing home nightmare. What starts with a vanished aunt turns into a grim scheme involving fraud, murdered residents, and profit made from the dead.