James Becker Books in Order

Four illustrated fantasy shorts take readers from a deadly Mexican island inheritance to teen wizards defending their town, vengeful undead justice and a post apocalyptic quest along the Gulf Coast. It is a fast moving mix of magic, monsters and adventure.

Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis are deep in Ethiopia, chasing rumours of the Ark of the Covenant, when their search stalls. A new lead in southern France draws them into a deadly race against Vatican agents and a ruthless Jerusalem based group determined to seize the Ark first.

On the eve of the Titanic's fateful voyage, three men plan to forge a secret alliance between Germany and the United States that will lead to war with Britain. British agents Alex Tremayne and Maria Weston board the liner to stop them, uncovering a plot the iceberg story helps to hide.

In 1888, as a killer stalks the women of Whitechapel, Police Commissioner Charles Warren hides a relic he smuggled from Jerusalem, unaware of the danger it brings. As the Ripper murders escalate, the true motive behind the slaughter is tied to that ancient artefact.

Chris Bronson flies to an archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert expecting a break with his old friend Angela Lewis, and instead finds a massacre and a defaced discovery. Their only clue, a damaged inscription, sends them racing across continents toward a lethal Templar secret.

Antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop and code expert David Mallory have barely survived a Templar cult when fresh clues send them across Europe. Inside secret archives they find an ancient Templar passport and evidence of a mission to move a priceless relic, drawing them toward a revelation that could upend centuries of belief.

This short standalone story from James Becker offers a quick, self contained dose of his suspenseful storytelling, distilling danger, hard choices and consequence into a brief read that can be finished in a single sitting.

This tongue in cheek horror adventure follows a group of artists and writers battling an army of toxic, acid spewing mutants on Halloween night. Told from several viewpoints, it blends splattery action, in jokes and a hint of apocalyptic mystery.

A compact collection of three fantasy stories by James Becker and Allie Marchase, each paired with bold black and white art. Expect strange magic, otherworldly creatures and a quick hit of imaginative escapism.

As Robin Jessop and David Mallory decode fragments of Templar lore, they realise the legendary treasure may be an archive, not a hoard of gold. Records of land, titles and secret deals could be worth more than money, and ruthless modern heirs will kill to keep that information hidden.

An illustrated mini anthology of three darkly playful tales, mixing offbeat horror and humor with underground style artwork. Short enough to read in a sitting, it showcases James Becker and collaborators experimenting outside his usual thriller territory.

In a quiet seaside town, bookseller Robin Jessop buys what looks like a medieval volume and finds a concealed safe inside. The coded parchment it hides pulls her and encryption expert David Mallory into a seven hundred year old Templar conspiracy and a hunt for a treasure others will kill to control.

When mutilated cattle start turning up on the New Mexico prairie, British detective Steven Hunter is loaned to the FBI. As eviscerated human bodies follow and unmarked black helicopters haunt the skies, Hunter has to untangle a web of secrecy before the killer claims another victim.

When a mysterious artefact surfaces in a Cairo market and the seller is tortured to death, historian Angela Lewis is pulled into the case. She and her ex husband Chris Bronson follow its trail to Spain, uncovering a secret that could rewrite Christian history.

Seconded to the FBI, British policeman Steven Hunter is handed a bizarre murder case, a corpse discovered with a human thigh bone driven through its skull. His investigation uncovers a trail leading toward high office, where powerful figures will do anything to bury the truth.

In 1936 Hitler vows to find a weapon that will wipe out so called inferior races. Decades later, Chris Bronson infiltrates anarchists bent on disrupting the London Olympics and uncovers a buried Nazi project and a revenge plot that could destroy a modern city.

A macabre burial in eighteenth century Bohemia echoes into present day Venice, where Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis find a violated tomb and a coded diary. As ritual murders of young women begin and Angela vanishes, Bronson hunts a sinister scroll on the Island of the Dead.

Museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a sealed parchment in a crumbling English mansion, a text that seems to tell the life of Jesus from outside the New Testament. With Chris Bronson, she follows its encoded clues into harsh country where others will kill to keep the secret buried.

After a British couple unearths a clay tablet in Morocco and then die in a suspicious crash, the artefact vanishes. Chris Bronson follows a trail from crowded souks to the caves of Qumran and a desert fortress, racing extremists to decode a two thousand year old secret.

When an Englishwoman is found dead near Rome, her grieving husband turns to his friend, detective sergeant Chris Bronson. An inscription above the fireplace, translating as "Here Lie the Liars", pulls Bronson and his ex wife into a chase across Europe toward the origins of Christianity.