Procurator (Ace Books; Bastei Lubbe in Germany)

New Barbarians (Ace; Bastei Lubbe)

Cry Republic (Ace; Bastei Lubbe)

Never the Twain (Ace):
An opportunistic time-traveler goes back to Virginia City to derail Mark Twain’s writing career and make a fortune in the process.

Black Dragon (St. Martin's Press; Paramount option;
adaptation by Lewis John Carlino):
A military police lieutenant investigates a homicide in a Japanese-American internment camp---and uncovers a conspiracy that wants him dead.

With Siberia Comes a Chill (St. Martin's):
A Russian-American homicide inspector fights for the lives of a Soviet ballerina and her daughter against a ruthless NKVD assassin during the charter meeting of the United Nations in 1945 San Francisco.

Shadow on the Valley (St. Martin's):
A Union Army surgeon hunts down a serial killer during Sheridan’s brutal Shenandoah Valley Campaign of the Civil War.

Fredericksburg:
A Novel of the Irish at Marye’s Heights (St. Martin's; 2003 reissue by iBooks/Simon and Schuster):The story of the epic battle through the
eyes of both Union and Confederate Irish.

High Desert Malice (Avon Books):
An Edgar-nominated contemporary mystery about a Basque-American female federal ranger hunting down the killers of two government employees against the backdrop of the Sagebrush Rebellion in Nevada.

Deep Valley Malice (Avon Books):
The female ranger is drawn into the on- going Owens Valley Water War made famous by Chinatown.

Cry Dance (Bantam Books; all---Rocher in France):
Native Investigators Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed track a sadistic killer through the seamy side of Indian gaming.

Spirit Sickness (Bantam):
Parker and Turnipseed investigate the immolation of a Navajo cop and his wife on the Big Rez.

Ancient Ones (Bantam):
Parker and Turnipseed try to keep the peace on an Oregon reservation when a discovery of ancient bones threatens to blow the lid off orthodox anthropology.

Sky Woman Falling (Berkley Prime Crime):
Parker and Turnipseed investigate the baffling falling death of an Oneida elder against the backdrop of a land claim that could restore much of white-held upstate New York to its original inhabitants.

Dance of the Thunder Dogs (Berkley Prime Crime 2004):
Emmett Parker returns home to the Comanche Nation, only to have his homecoming turn into a nightmare of murder and false accusation.

 

NOVELIZATIONS

A.D. (NBC Mini-Series; Berkley Books; Hanssler)

Lethal Weapon (Bantam/Jove Books; pseudonym of Joel Norst)

Delta Force (St. Martin's; Norst)

Colors (Simon and Schuster; Norst)

Mississippi Burning (New American Library; Norst)

Blown Away (Avon; Bastei Lubbe)

Backdraft (Berkley)

 

SCREENPLAYS

Mare Island Mutiny:
A political thriller set against the backdrop of the Port Chicago munitions disaster and mutiny allegations against black sailors.

The Hostage Negotiator:
A contemporary action/comedy about an off-beat San Francisco P.D. SWAT sergeant who is disabled in the line of duty and finds salvation in his own irreverent gift of gab.

Young Mr. McBride:
A young man struggles to step out of his tycoon father’s shadow with the help of two extraordinary women.

Alpine Carol:
During the last Christmas of the Second World War, seven Austrian soldiers suffer a reversal of fortune that pits them against their own forces and leaves their leader facing a deadly moral choice.

Sublime Harmony:
In the dying days of the rough-and-tumble mining town of Bodie, the madam of the local bordello unexpectedly inherits the job of coach to the boys’ baseball team.

Knights of the Sea:
A World War II drama set on Malta. Two young naval officers, one American and one British, must overcome their rivalry for the affections of a Cockney nurse in order to lead their Motor Torpedo Boat squadrons against a dangerous but courtly German E-Boat commander---before Rommel conquers North Africa.

Great Lives:
A contemporary drama/romantic comedy about a failed novelist turned con-man who runs afoul of a willful female prosecutor in the rural South while bilking the elderly for writing their “biographies.” In the process of uncovering a decades-old skeleton in the town’s closet, he stumbles upon one of the hidden cornerstones of the Civil Rights movement.