George Chesbro Books in Order

Preparing for a championship match in Venice, chess grandmaster John Butler is asked to help his Soviet opponent defect. A visit from the man’s sister draws him into a dangerous contest in which talent offers no guarantee of survival.

Private investigator Mongo is hired by an architect's widow after a new building suggests her supposedly dead husband may still be working. The investigation draws the former circus acrobat into a dangerous mystery involving powerful opponents.

Searching for a missing Iranian strongman sends private investigator Mongo into an international mystery. When his policeman brother becomes involved, Mongo travels to Iran on the brink of revolution, pursuing two missing men through an increasingly dangerous landscape.

Private investigator Mongo takes three unusual cases involving sensory deprivation, an accused psychic and a missing occult book. When a child is found comatose beside her dead father, he must discover the connection before she dies.

A former CIA assassin reunites with a reluctant partner who was once his lover for a lucrative Caribbean mission. Their differing motives conceal a larger manipulation, and the assignment places them on a path toward catastrophic violence.

Investigating his nephew’s apparent murder-suicide, Mongo discovers links to an elaborate fantasy computer game. His search leads across the country and into the Arctic, where a dangerous scientific scheme threatens far more than his family.

International assassin John Chant Sinclair has become a master of disguise and martial arts, choosing his own assignments. When his former teacher is hired to kill him, the two must confront each other in a deadly contest.

When his closest friend is tortured and killed, professional assassin Chant sets out for revenge. His target runs a remote Pacific facility teaching sadists their craft, forcing Chant to infiltrate a world built around calculated human suffering.

When artist and martial arts instructor Veil Kendry disappears, Mongo finds a bullet hole, a cryptic painting and an envelope of money. Searching for his friend exposes secrets from Vietnam and enemies determined to keep them buried.

Artist and former CIA operative Veil Kendry can enter other minds through his dreams. An invitation to study his unusual abilities takes him to a research institute where concealed motives turn scientific curiosity into a struggle for survival.

The violent death of a Roman magistrate convinces Chant that his friend's investigation of terrorist financiers made him a target. Following the conspiracy leads the assassin into a secret world and toward an adversary he has never defeated.

A stolen African religious artifact draws artist and former intelligence operative Veil Kendry into a dangerous pursuit. Using his ability to enter other minds, he hunts the thief while corrupt officials and rival seekers threaten his survival.

Mongo rescues his brother Garth from a government psychiatric facility, only to find him profoundly changed. When Garth becomes the focus of a cult, Mongo must confront followers and a terrorist plot to save him.

An amnesiac homeless man known as Bone searches for his identity while a detective suspects him of killing other people on the streets. Help from two unlikely allies draws him into the hidden dangers of New York’s underground.

Newly partnered as private investigators, Mongo and Garth discover a disturbing secret while answering children’s letters to Santa. Their holiday generosity becomes a race to rescue a girl from a doomsday cult and its murderous leader.

Hoping to save the circus where he once performed, Mongo tracks down its mysterious new owners. A series of brutal murders follows the traveling show, forcing him to investigate the terror gathering beneath its familiar big top.

Ten novellas follow Mongo from his unusual background as a circus performer into private investigation. Introductions by Chesbro accompany cases that combine detective work, strange scientific possibilities and dangerous encounters with the darker sides of human behavior.

An FBI friend’s suspicious drowning draws Mongo to an artistic community on the Hudson River. Investigating with his brother Garth, he encounters an influential political commentator and a conspiracy that threatens to make them the next victims.

Hired to investigate a major theft from a charitable foundation, Mongo travels to Zurich in pursuit of the elusive assassin Chant. Mounting deaths and shifting suspicions suggest that his employer’s version of events conceals a more dangerous truth.

Mongo and Garth face unsettling interference from a self-proclaimed magician while investigating an environmental officer’s death. As the two problems converge, an apparent campaign of petty harassment begins to threaten the people closest to them.

A famously disturbed neighborhood woman suddenly appears transformed by mysterious pills. While a serial killer terrorizes New York, Mongo investigates her remarkable change and uncovers a dangerous web of experimental drugs, escaped patients and official secrecy.

Struggling novelist Garth Fugue attempts an ambitious new book while working in a children’s psychiatric hospital. As his career falters, the violence he has imagined for decades leads him to confront his beliefs about morality and human nature.

Former naval intelligence officer Jade Aden has built a quieter life monitoring river pollution. A dead sea lion carrying a secret weapon draws her back into classified affairs, forcing her to confront those willing to kill for silence.

Eleven stories explore unusual encounters and dangerous reversals, from an architect who can read minds to a demon plagued by migraines. The collection includes the novella that provided the starting point for the first Mongo mystery.

Investigating illegal CIA activities in Haiti, Mongo and his brother discover victims of ritual killings. Following the evidence pulls them into an ambitious assassination conspiracy that threatens their lives and could alter the future of the United States.

A former policeman, a psychic painter, and an ex-priest investigate threats beyond ordinary experience. These stories follow Garth Frederickson, Veil Kendry, and Brendan Furie through encounters with militias, secret police, cults, and seemingly supernatural dangers.