Warren Murphy: 216 books

It was supposed to be a harmless scientific demonstration. To disprove her critics, geneticist Sheila Feinberg ingests a chromosomal cocktail on live TV. Suddenly, she's agile, intelligent… and deadly. Craving meat of the human variety, she stalks the city of Boston, drawing the attention of the...

The scion of an immensely wealthy family, Elmer Lippincott, Jr. just took a four-story swan dive out a Tokyo office window. More than just a personal tragedy, it's international news: the Lippincott name is synonymous with high finance, so confidence in the American dollar plummeted right along with...

Someone has taken a special interest in the Brewster Forum think tank. Compromising photos have been taken. Their security officer is dead under suspicious circumstances. Information about its members is being traded in shadowy places by shadowy figures. This wouldn't normally be a job for America's...

Remo Williams was a simple beat cop. Nobody special, really, until he came to the attention of a secret government organization. They had him killed. Then they brought him back to life, erased his identity, and trained him to be the perfect assassin. All under the pretext of defending the Constitution....

In Smoked Out, Digger crashes a funeral to find out whether the death of a doctor’s wife was an accident . . . or murder.

The appropriately named Vinnie Angus ran a small chain of steakhouses. He set out one cold, crisp morning for a day away from his life, but his hunting trip was tragically cut short. His body was found the next day by a hiker, strung up in a tree, drained of blood, his inside buried in the ground...

A daredevil actor known for dangerous antics—onscreen and off—holds a whopping $5 million policy and Garrison Fidelity isn't taking any chances. For the first time in his career, Trace is hired to prevent a claim from happening—at twice his usual fee. Gone from gumshoe to guard dog, Trace must...

It's trouble in paradise when a mafioso hires Trace to tail his wayward wife, who's run off and joined a crazed sex cult. As the case involving the gangster's gal turns deadly and two cantankerous cops are chomping at the bit, Chico threatens to leave for good. With all the loose ends splitting apart, Trace must track the deadly string across New York City before the bodies start piling up.

In Fool’s Flight, Digger investigates a plane crash that leaves forty pilgrims dead, each of whom has an insurance policy payable to the reverend whose religious retreat they were traveling to attend.

Young socialites from America's leading families are dying—or are they? When one of the "dead" is found alive, enslaved in an exclusive African brothel, influential people see to it that Remo and Chiun are issued with tickets for the Dark Continent. Whether they like it or not. And if...

Mysterious ruptures are appearing in the ozone layer, allowing the searing rays of the sun to sterilize the earth below. New nuclear missile sites are being activated in the Soviet Union, controlled by a shadowy figure of the old regime. Which will destroy the U.S. first: unfiltered ultraviolet rays...

Dr. William Westhead Wooley has done it: he’s perfected a device that captures its user’s inmost fantasies and projects them onto a television screen. The ultimate in personalized entertainment is now sought by the Mafia, TV moguls, pornographers, and the super-secret agency of CURE. Fame, profit,...

A string of clues, written in an ancient language, points the way to legendary mountain of gold. It's a treasure vast enough to undermine the world's economy, and a mad South American generalissimo will stop at nothing to get it. The only person who can decipher the clues, Dr. Terri Pomfret, is squarely...

Devlin Tracy is a private investigator specializing in insurance fraud; the bigger the fraud, the bigger his payday. This time, the action is in Las Vegas, and he’s playing for seven-figure stakes. It’s a complicated job, but that’s why they wanted Trace. Problem: One of Garrison Fidelity’s...