Jack Lynch Books in Order

In Bragg's first case, a retired mobster hires him to investigate threats against his family. The job sends Bragg into a desert town where old violence is ready to start again.

Bragg goes to the airport to guard a man carrying something valuable and walks into a gun battle instead. Soon he is chasing smugglers, assassins, and a fortune in gem-encrusted chess pieces.

Peter Bragg is hired to protect a retired mobster and his young stepdaughter after death threats turn gruesomely real. The trail leads to a bleak California desert town and a violent past that refuses to stay buried.

A deadly stand-off inside San Quentin leaves hostages trapped and Peter Bragg under pressure to solve a murder. The prison crisis gives him almost no time and no room for mistakes.

A blackmail job drags Peter Bragg into Sausalito real estate warfare, where money and bay views are worth killing for. What starts as a local case quickly turns brutal and personal.

After a failed escape at San Quentin erupts into a hostage crisis, the convicts want Bragg to clear one man's teenage brother of murder. To stop a massacre, he has to solve a case far beyond the prison walls.

A blackmail case pulls Bragg across the Golden Gate to Sausalito, where developers are fighting dirty over waterfront land. Arson, torture, and murder turn a local feud into a deadly war.

At a Central California gathering, Peter Bragg reconnects with an old lover and soon finds her accused of murder. His search for the truth uncovers blackmail, extortion, and a secret worth killing to keep buried.

When a Seattle writer starts getting threats that turn violent, Peter Bragg heads home to protect him. The case forces Bragg to deal with old wounds as the attacks keep escalating.

When Bragg runs into an old lover and she is soon accused of killing her husband, he steps in to help. The case leads to blackmail, extortion, and a buried secret someone still wants to protect with murder.

Threats and gunfire drive Seattle freelancer Benny Bartlett to call Peter Bragg for help. Back in his hometown, Bragg faces both hired killers and the painful return of his own past.

Lynch examines how eighteenth-century Britain imagined the Renaissance and the age of Elizabeth. It is a study of how later readers used Shakespeare, humanism, and the past to define their own culture.

A research tool for readers working on Samuel Johnson and his circle. Lynch gathers scholarship from 1986 to 1998 into a clear bibliographic guide that helps map the field.

Peter Bragg is drawn into a case by a psychic's visions of bodies in the woods near Jack London's ruined Wolf House. As fresh corpses appear, Bragg races to find the killer before the visions catch up with him.

An edited selection from Johnson's 1755 dictionary, built from thousands of entries and quotations. It lets modern readers sample a landmark work that shaped English for generations.

A sharp, entertaining selection of Samuel Johnson's put-downs, quarrels, and verbal swipes. It offers the pleasure of the jokes along with a glimpse of the man behind them.

The opening I Am Not a Machine book argues that much cognition happens before language enters the picture. Lynch challenges the idea that thought is just inner verbal or symbolic computation.

A collection of scholarly essays marking the anniversary of Johnson's Dictionary. The contributors treat the dictionary as a working piece of scholarship and a major event in the history of English.

The second I Am Not a Machine book asks what language adds to human thought. Lynch argues that words do more than label ideas, they help reshape memory, reasoning, and self-awareness.

Instead of starting with Shakespeare's life, Lynch starts with his death and follows the long rise of his reputation. The book shows how theater, politics, editors, and readers helped make the Bard.

The third book in the I Am Not a Machine sequence challenges mainstream cognitive science. Lynch questions the mind-as-computer model and argues for a different account of thought and meaning.

An accessible guide to English usage that explains not just the rules but the reasons behind them. It is designed to help students and writers make clearer, stronger choices on the page.

This study looks at forgery, fraud, and fake identities in eighteenth-century Britain. Lynch shows how public arguments over evidence and truth shaped literary culture and everyday belief.

A compact rowing memoir about MIT's push for a national championship, told by an oarsman who did not start out looking like a natural athlete. It mixes hard training, campus life, and college competition.

Why do some English rules feel permanent when many were invented by particular people at particular moments? Lynch traces the long fight over proper English from early grammarians to modern usage wars.

A biographical look at the working lives behind public success. Lynch follows the odd jobs, side careers, and early detours that shaped famous people before they became widely known.

This reference collection places Samuel Johnson inside the literary, political, religious, and social world around him. It is designed to help readers see both the writer and the contexts that shaped his work.

The first book in a post-apocalyptic series opens after collapse, with survival suddenly more urgent than comfort or certainty. It sets up a harsh new world where staying alive means adapting fast.

Peter Bragg's search for a missing insurance investigator opens into stolen art, vanished money, and a killer obsessed with death itself. The deeper he digs, the more personal the danger becomes.

This opening episode begins in crisis and leans into survival, uncertainty, and the costs of collapse. It works as a short, bleak setup for a larger post-apocalyptic story.

A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide now foresees her own murder. Bragg has to sort intuition from evidence before a serial killer turns a warning into a body count.

A lively history of reference books, from ancient lists and dictionaries to encyclopedias, search engines, and Wikipedia. Lynch explores how people have tried to organize knowledge, and why that urge never really fades.

A wide-ranging reference volume on British poetry from 1660 to 1800. It gathers essays on major poets, forms, contexts, and critical approaches across the long eighteenth century.