John A Connell Books in Order

In ruined Munich during the winter of 1945, U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins hunts a killer leaving mutilated victims and cryptic messages. Military pressure mounts as the murders spread, and the murderer begins targeting Collins himself.

Mason Collins investigates murders in a Bavarian town crowded with escaped Nazis and stolen riches after World War II. Vanishing witnesses and evidence reveal a powerful conspiracy involving criminals and occupying forces determined to obstruct his inquiry.

In 1946, a stranger offers Mason Collins escape from pursuing assassins if he investigates teenage girls' disappearances in Tangier. The search exposes concealed motives among potential allies, while the killers following Mason close in again.

A beating leaves jazz musician Frank Valentine unable to play, prompting him to join friends in a heroin-distribution scheme in 1958 San Francisco. Betrayals and a girlfriend’s criminal connections turn his hoped-for financial rescue into a dangerous struggle.

When a secret organization targets Mason Collins's friends and lover, he tracks the man directing the attacks to postwar Vienna. Armed with only an alias, Mason enters a dangerous criminal world and compromises his principles seeking answers.

In 1947, Mason Collins pursues the Gestapo officer who killed a girl he had promised to protect. Tracking Nazi fugitives through Italy, he helps escort Jewish refugees and protects a woman and child pursued by his enemies.

Mason Collins escorts Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947 and seeks his pregnant lover, Laura, in Jerusalem. Evidence she possesses has forced her into hiding, drawing Mason into a conspiracy amid escalating violence in the region.