Lou Cameron Books in Order

Bass player Ben Parker watches ruthless drummer Johnny Angel exploit musicians to rise through the music business. After wartime service, Parker forms new creative partnerships, but Angel returns to threaten their work as ambition escalates into violence.

A seismic surveyor travels into Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to locate a potentially enormous oil deposit. Harsh desert conditions and conflicts within the expedition complicate the search, while regional rivalries and the possibility of war threaten the venture.

A San Francisco skydiving club becomes the scene of a dangerous mystery when someone sabotages its female members' parachutes. Instructor Lou Hovik, treasurer Amber McCall, and newcomer Cyrus Hall navigate personal tensions as the threat to their fellow jumpers grows.

Tail gunner Martin Slade is aboard a damaged B-24 over Germany when the bomber becomes separated from its squadron and breaks apart. Stranded behind enemy lines during World War II, he faces a new struggle to survive.

This history follows World War I airmen fighting above France and Germany in early aircraft. Accounts of pilots and aerial combat explore the risks of military flying when fragile wooden and fabric machines became weapons of war.

War is seen through contrasting voices, including a bereaved French woman, a Welsh tank commander, an American medical orderly, and a German officer. Their different backgrounds shape a story of combat and loss that crosses national and social divisions.

Behavioral psychologist Woody Legion applies his advertising expertise to the presidential campaign of former movie cowboy Rex Vane. Using calculated falsehoods to damage a rival, he becomes immersed in the manipulation behind a candidate's carefully constructed public image.

Nevada police officer Frank Talbot investigates a decomposed woman's body discovered in an abandoned Volkswagen at a wrecking yard. With identifying evidence deliberately removed, he follows scant leads through the gambling world surrounding Las Vegas to uncover her identity and killer.

British prisoner of war Stephen Brooks cares for an elephant at Munich's zoo until bombing forces its evacuation. Accompanying the animal into the Alps, he encounters Nazi hostility and an opportunity to pursue freedom across the Swiss border.

Private Don Grey and Sergeant Steve Cartier survive an ambush in Vietnam, leaving them stranded together in hostile territory. Their mutual hostility threatens the cooperation they need if either man is to escape the jungle alive.

Private investigator David Ross searches for missing movie star Vania Dare, whose apparently successful life offers little explanation for her disappearance. An unconventional young woman insists on joining the investigation, complicating his efforts to discover what happened.

Vietnam veteran Steve Warren takes a repossession job after returning to his hometown. When the car's owner is found murdered, Warren investigates with an Israeli medical student as further deaths expose secrets the community's influential residents would prefer concealed.

Doctor Clay Morgan arrives in Parker County hoping to avoid trouble, but feuding ranchers, outlaws and reckless marshals leave no refuge. With violence overwhelming the community, he trades his medical bag for a gun and confronts the terror.

Computer expert Ross MacLean visits a model town whose public services are controlled by a central electronic brain. What appears to be a routine inspection becomes threatening as increasingly personal malfunctions suggest deliberate hostility behind the town's convenient automation.

Demolition expert Boomer Green accepts a job clearing an Amazon logjam with explosives. Possible harm to communities downstream, an unstable employer, and a poisoned-dart attack force him to investigate the project's secrets while keeping himself and others alive.

Police investigator Barca pursues a case involving a dead young woman while confronting the consequences of a bullet lodged in his head. Questioning those who knew her brings him into contact with a social worker and increasingly complicated personal choices.

Recovering from an accident that nearly blinded her, Lilith Crane visits a South Jersey fishing village to seek her birth mother. Her artificial cornea reveals strange visions, while the community's hostility and sinister practices threaten her search.

Lieutenant William Garth investigates killings in New York apartment buildings, methodically following clues and questioning suspects. Meanwhile, the narrative follows an exterminator whose access to residents gives him opportunities for violence, placing the investigation in a race against further deaths.

Reverend Luther Waterman dismisses the possibility of possession until his four-year-old daughter begins describing creatures living in the church rafters. Her changing behavior and frightening disturbances challenge his beliefs as the apparent poltergeist places those around her in danger.

In 1944, paratrooper Captain David Evans receives orders to disable a German fuel refinery supporting new weapons. Its proximity to a hospital holding Allied prisoners and a camp of forced laborers makes ordinary bombing impossible and complicates the secret mission.

Doctor Travis follows his former Confederate commander into Mexico to obtain the discharge papers he needs to return to Texas. Rival forces in Mexico's civil war obstruct his journey, requiring quick thinking and gunfighting skills to survive.

Terrorists kidnap an industrialist's wife and children in Greece, prompting her former husband to organize an unconventional rescue. His plan uses hang gliders to approach their captors, turning an aerial operation into the family's chance of escape.

Cavalry troopers assigned to Jefferson Davis's experimental Camel Corps must master stubborn foreign mounts before entering the western desert. Their mission against Apache raiders pits the challenges of unfamiliar animals against the demands and dangers of frontier military service.

Sean Costello seeks a fresh start as police chief of a small Florida coastal town after losing his previous job. Limited resources, everyday crimes, and a developing relationship with a wealthy widow make his supposed off-duty hours difficult to protect.

As the Civil War approaches, mountain man Zeb Macahan helps his brother's family seek a new life in the West. Their journey brings frontier dangers and divided obligations, while events back home threaten the security they hoped to find.

Captain Gringo reaches Panama amid the failures of the French canal project and finds adventurers and rebels eager for his fighting skills. Gunrunning, disease, hostile terrain, and opportunistic schemes turn the tropical setting into another dangerous assignment.

Escaping an Army jailer and the threat of hanging, Captain Gringo crosses the border to survive as a soldier of fortune. His flight draws him into clashes with Mexican rural police and guerrilla raids, requiring both deception and firepower.

Wanted by the U.S. Cavalry after revolutions and a court-martial, Captain Gringo seeks respite in Costa Rica. His uneasy holiday soon gives way to an assignment involving an attack on three major powers, putting his fighting skills back to work.

Captain Gringo is recruited to restore order on a Caribbean island where marauders terrorize residents and British authority is collapsing. Rumors of zombies and local panic complicate his assignment, turning the troubled colony into another dangerous battleground.

Trapped aboard a damaged gunboat in shark-infested waters, Captain Gringo faces approaching enemies and mutiny among his own crew. His unexpected interest in young redhead Mac adds another complication as he struggles to survive the maritime siege.

Running guns in revolutionary Nicaragua places Captain Gringo between rulers and rebels equally eager to control his cargo. Competing military demands and dangerous romantic entanglements make trust scarce as he tries to survive with his weapons and freedom.

An aspiring New York gangster carries out contract killings to impress powerful organized-crime figures. Pursued by the city's police, he relies on an intimate knowledge of the subway system to conceal himself and evade capture underground.

After Nevada Jones rescues Dawn Carlyle in the desert, separation sends her into the upheaval of California’s gold rush. Rising from poverty toward wealth and influence, she faces hardships that threaten her hopes of finding lasting love.

Captain Gringo becomes entangled in the Dreyfus affair while dodging hostile forces and rival European agents. A redheaded reporter's plan to rescue the imprisoned officer from Devil's Island draws the mercenary into an especially dangerous mission.

Captain Gringo leads a brigade across Colombia's volcanic highlands toward Bogotá, aiming to overthrow a corrupt regime. Dangerous terrain, political instability, and pursuing enemies complicate the march as his soldiers approach a country ready to explode.

Threatened with execution unless he accepts a Brazilian government assignment, Captain Gringo takes a gunboat into the Amazon. Bandits terrorizing local communities are only part of the danger, as an international conspiracy awaits him upstream in the jungle.

Captain Gringo leaves Bogotá on a hazardous journey through the Amazon and Andes, pursued by German spies and surrounded by rebels. Rubber interests and international rivalries make the region dangerous, while a guerrilla woman becomes his companion.

Berkeley anti-nuclear radicals steal cobalt-60 from a nuclear plant and conceal it in the radiator of a white Lancia Scorpion. Their chosen hiding place turns an apparently ordinary vehicle into a dangerous carrier of radioactive material.

Captain Gringo advances through Mexican jungle toward disputed cocoa country, encountering marauders and guerrillas around ancient Mayan ruins. A fanatical would-be dictator turns the assignment into an international crisis that requires more than his usual firepower.

Leading raiders aboard a stolen schooner, Captain Gringo travels along British Honduras toward a guarded jungle fortress. His mission is to capture a sadistic hunter of human prey, while unexpected companions add personal complications to the assault.

Fleeing a murder charge in Costa Rica, Captain Gringo becomes General Morales's munitions officer in Honduras. His violent, misfit brigade must resist invading British troops, while a gun-smuggling woman offers another dangerous distraction from the campaign.

British and Guatemalan intrigue sends Captain Gringo through cities and jungle toward a destination absent from every map. His journey crosses violent guerrilla conflicts and a Mayan community practicing human sacrifice, where a high priestess draws his attention.

Trapped in Mexico between armed enemies, rabid bats, and bandits, Captain Gringo struggles to escape with his Maxim. Pursuing rural police and Americans demanding missing gold make every possible route out of the danger more complicated.

Captain Gringo joins British treasure seekers in Honduras but doubts their explanation for the expedition. Foreign troops waiting in the jungle and a devastating cannon bombardment leave him little choice but to stand and defend the surrounded group.

General Portola demands that Captain Gringo destroy a dam on the Dorado River or face a brutal death. A construction company's counteroffer pulls him in the opposite direction, making either allegiance potentially fatal for the mercenary.

Captain Gringo faces a firing squad for a crime he did not commit, despite his long history of actual wrongdoing. His struggle to survive becomes entangled with a strange mission run by women whose apparent piety conceals sinister activities.

In revolutionary Mazatlán, Captain Gringo is betrayed by a woman and pursued by an American officer determined to return him for execution. Rival factions and another dangerous attraction make escaping the violence more difficult than choosing a battlefield side.

Captain Gringo and Gaston enter Venezuela carrying weapons they hope to sell, only to encounter a developing conflict between Britain and the United States. Uncovering who is driving the confrontation becomes essential to preventing war and surviving.

Captain Gringo leads a ragged force toward the southern border to confront Panamanian rebels and Colombian troops. Hidden traitors, ruthless bandits, and a formidable army make earning his pay a dangerous campaign with threats inside his own ranks.

A persuasive widow secures Captain Gringo a Guatemalan Army commission to repel Mexican forces from the northern border. Leading a mule-mounted regiment with outdated artillery becomes still more dangerous when British Royal Marines approach along the river.

Captain Gringo accepts corrupt arms trader Sir Basil Hakim's lucrative assignment to locate a secret Spanish shipwreck. A Greek spongeboat carries him through hostile waters, where sharks, American gunboats, German spies, and island enemies threaten the expedition.

Captain Gringo accepts an American assignment promising payment and a presidential pardon if he survives Panama's dangers. Fighting sharks and Colombian troops is difficult enough, but treacherous revolutionary allies may be the greatest obstacle to returning home.

To escape trouble in Honduras, Captain Gringo agrees to guide inexperienced American filmmakers through the jungle while running guns for guerrillas. Conflict between rebels and government troops exposes deeper dangers that threaten his expedition and its companions.

Twin sisters recruit Captain Gringo as their troubleshooter, leaving him caught between Mexican soldiers and a ruthless rebel leader. An erupting volcano intensifies the danger, while romantic distractions complicate his attempts to escape the tightening trap alive.

Captain Gringo searches Costa Rica for an heiress abducted by unknown enemies, but the rescue leads into a larger conflict. Commanding guerrillas intent on liberating Nicaragua exposes him to betrayal within his forces and brutal opposition beyond them.

British intelligence pressures Captain Gringo for information about a Scottish pearl-trading settlement on the Caribbean coast. A woman's unusual pearls draw him into the colony's struggles against a land-hungry Spanish nobleman and British ambitions to control its wealth.

Fleeing the law, Captain Gringo reaches a Nicaraguan port just as a rebel siege erupts. A guerrilla leader's forces trap him in a civil war, leaving him to navigate military danger and personal entanglements before choosing a side.

Avoiding capture in Costa Rica, Captain Gringo joins mercenaries in Mexico's Yucatán with orders to invade Cuba. Mexican troops and American Secret Service agents pursue him, while a biologist accompanying the expedition complicates an already hazardous assignment.

Captain Gringo takes command of an ill-equipped army fighting mountain bandits on the Mosquito Coast. Corruption in the capital offers little refuge from combat, and two troublesome women further complicate his desperate campaign against the raiders.

A South Seas princess hires Captain Gringo to free her enslaved people along Central America's coast. Sailing from Costa Rica aboard an aging schooner with poorly equipped islanders, he faces a rescue mission against overwhelming military odds.

Captain Gringo transports American-supplied weapons through Spanish-controlled Cuba to reach its freedom fighters. Delivering ten tons of arms and ammunition brings him into direct conflict with General Weyler, who intends to end the mercenary's career permanently.

In El Salvador's war zones, Captain Gringo encounters an arms merchant planning an international coup that threatens the Panama Canal. Refugees and military dangers complicate his movements as he confronts Sir Basil Hakim's far-reaching ambitions and resources.

Captain Gringo escorts a gold caravan from Costa Rica to El Salvador across treacherous mountains and rivers. Bandits, insurgents, and German agents threaten the shipment, while an international triple cross makes identifying trustworthy allies increasingly urgent.

Retired cavalry sergeant Mingis Munro establishes a prosperous cattle operation at the Wyoming end of the Goodnight Trail. Poachers challenge his claim to the range, forcing him back into violence and putting an old friendship under severe strain.

Newsman Stringer returns to his Sierra hometown to write about an outlaw killed fifty years earlier. The seemingly easy assignment becomes dangerous when someone wants him dead, revealing a hostile reception and secrets behind the local history.

Stringer investigates Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens's unexpected election defeat, following the story into Mexico's badlands. Conflict between Villa's fighters, an opposing army, and Yaqui warriors turns his reporting assignment into a struggle to survive long enough to publish.

Reporter Stringer MacKail attends a Theodore Roosevelt speech in Wyoming and comes under fire. Unsure whether the shooter targeted him or Roosevelt, he pursues the truth while hired killers and train robbers make his investigation increasingly dangerous.

Reporter Stringer MacKail travels to Tombstone on an assignment involving a supposed flood. Discovering a hoax doesn't end his troubles: a gunfighter wants him dead, making his pursuit of the story increasingly hazardous.

An irrigation venture promises cheap water for desert land near the Salton Sink. Stringer investigates its claims, but the killing of an engineer who knows too much suggests something dangerous behind the proposed development.

Stringer heads into Judge Roy Bean's territory to investigate questionable legal dealings. His assignment earns him enemies who would prefer a dead reporter, leaving him to pursue the story while avoiding their bullets.

A rodeo assignment brings Stringer to Cheyenne, where Tom Horn faces hanging for murder. Suspecting that the case hides foul play, the reporter begins investigating a story more dangerous than the arena events.

Miners disturb a Yana burial ground, and two deputies are killed with arrows. Stringer questions the apparent evidence against the tribe and uncovers a plot designed to provoke a violent confrontation.

After a train robbery costs him his money, Stringer is forced to interview the outlaws at gunpoint. Riding with the gang puts the reporter between armed criminals and the posse pursuing them.

Cowboy Matt Taylor follows a trail boss who cheated him out of his wages. Taking work as a deputy under Big Bill Burton draws him into bank robbery, gunfights, and a growing collection of enemies.

Gil Martin's respectful relationship with the Cheyenne becomes dangerous after Custer's defeat. As hostility toward Native people intensifies, he must navigate a frontier where his loyalties expose him to threats from the backlash.

A staged border war promises spectacle and profit, but Stringer isn't convinced by the performance. Following the story into Mexico leads him toward genuine fighting involving troops and Yaqui forces.

Stringer investigates a thousand-head cattle drive across the Great Basin as railroads threaten the trade. Train robberies along the route raise suspicions that the herd's journey conceals more than ordinary ranching business.

Stringer arrives in Tulsa to cover the oil boom and quickly faces an attempt on his life. Greedy outlaws and unscrupulous lawyers make reporting on the rush a dangerous occupation.

A routine assignment following an old gunfighter's death takes Stringer to Comanche Woe. There, a self-appointed marshal, vigilantes, and bounty hunters turn the pursuit of wanted men into deadly turmoil.

Stringer covers a miners' strike in Cripple Creek, where neither mine owners nor union leaders welcome his questions. Pursuing the story puts him between hostile factions willing to silence a troublesome reporter.

Six mummified bodies discovered near Esperanza draw Stringer into a mystery reaching fifty years into the past. Threats and a hired gun suggest that someone is prepared to kill to keep the truth buried.

Civil War veteran Ross Clark travels west hoping to escape his troubles. Joining Colonel Chivington's Colorado Volunteers instead brings him into fresh violence, making the frontier another place where he must confront danger.

Seth Grant leaves New Jersey for the West and becomes caught in a struggle over a gold mine. Mexican and Native contenders and a crew of claim jumpers make his arrival far more dangerous than expected.

American soldiers in wartime North Africa undertake a perilous mission involving a French-held fortress. Their orders place them amid divided loyalties and enemy forces, with survival uncertain as the fighting closes around them.