Mongo Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.