John Gregory Betancourt

BLURBFel Blackmane is a pirate, rogue, and thorough scoundrel. But he also has a sense of adventure second to none, and every year he vows to do one impossible thing. This time he plans to sail his ship to the annual fair, sell ill-gotten booty back to its original owners, and make off with a new fortune. Unfortunately, Blackmane's deeds haven't gone unnoticed. Someone powerful is looking for vengeance . . . and the dreaded Dragon Sorcerer, with an army of unstoppable monsters under...

Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter «Pit Bull» Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are: «Pit and the Pendulum,» «Pit on the Road to Hell,» «A Christmas Pit,» «Dog Pit,» and «Horse Pit» (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great reading...

Based on the classic series by James Holding, «The Jamaican Ice Mystery» continues the crime-solving adventures of Martin Leroy and King Danforth, the octogenarian writing team who find mystery and murder around the world. The «Leroy King» series pokes gentle fun at the Ellery Queen series.

A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system…and bring back the Constitution and the President. JOHNNY ZED is their leader…a brilliant strategist and political theorist, always heard but never seen. SHELLY TRACER is his pawn – and his ultimate weapon…a warrior in a world of glitterfolk, oxygen addicts, and genetically modified animen whose ties to the old world hold the...

John Gregory Betancourt's award-winning Peter «Pit Bull» Geller series gets a new twist in this historical tale featuring Pit's grandfather, a plumber in Brooklyn, New York. Newly back from World War 2, Joe Geller gets more than he bargained for when he fixes the plumbing for a wealthy Russian countess.

For catmen Hangman and Slash, prowling the burned-out urban Sprawl is the ideal life. These genetically modified people live to rip off hot cargoes from rival animen. It&apos;s a fine life of thief vs. thief…cat vs. dog…<P> Fine, that is, until Slash scores a take that&apos;s a little too hot: the PED spy-eye, a top-secret sense-recorder implant that turns the human brain into a perfect playback machine. Any brain, living or dead…<P> And there are those who will stop at nothing to...

Revival on the banks of the River was not limited to white Anglo Saxons. This tale reinterprets the Riverworld resurrection through the eyes of a tribe of primitive people, whose beliefs and superstitions blend marvelously with what has happened to them. This tale was singled out by Science Fiction Chronicle for praise as a worthwhile addition to the Riverworld canon. This story, like «The Merry Men of Riverworld,» was written with Philip Jose Farmer&apos;s permission.

When an actor who played Robin Hood on a 1950s children&apos;s TV show wakes up in Riverworld, he decides to live out his dreams and forms a new band of Merry Men (including Abraham Lincoln as Little John). Unfortunately, he didn&apos;t count on running into Al Capone, who has hijacked a thriving technocracy run by Jules Verne… Set in Philip Jose Farmer&apos;s «Riverworld» universe, this novelet was written with Farmer&apos;s permission.