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This page lists novels by Jack Foxx.

Jack Foxx is one of the pen name used by the author Bill Pronzini.

The Jade Figurine

Jack Foxx

1972

A later edition was credited to Bill Pronzini.

A Dan Connell novel

"A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle of cash to smuggle a jade carving of a bird out of Singapore—which doesn’t make the thieves or the authorities happy. When an old cohort is killed, Connell discovers that only by finding the bird can he avoid his own murder."

Dead Run: A Novel Of Suspense

Jack Foxx

1975

A later edition was credited to Bill Pronzini.

A Dan Connell novel.

" On the way to his new job, traveling by ship along the Malaysian coast from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Dan Connell finds himself entangled in peril. Aboard a beat up old ship, in the slums outside of exotic Kuala Lumpur, at a rubber plantation, and deep in the jungle, Connell discovers he's being pursued by ruthless killers—but he can't figure out why."

Freebooty

Jack Foxx

1976

A later edition was credited to Bill Pronzini.

"Set in San Francisco and environs during the Civil War, it introduces Fergus O'Hara, the most roguish new detective in years, and his equally-engaging wife Hattie. Their first case is a complicated and wacky one. Among other people, places and things, it involves a corpulent financial speculator named Horace T. Goatleg, an insane parrot, a one-eyed man addicted to hoarhound drops, a suave gambler addicted to women, a boisterous Irish militia company known as the Mulrooney Guards, the San Francisco Volunteer Fire Department, a keg of beer, a careless footpad, the crew of the riverboat Freebooty, the Freebooty herself, two murders, a gold robbery, several assorted chases, what may literally be termed a bang-up finale on St. Patrick's Day morning, and, for good measure, a couple of bonus surprises."

Wildfire

Jack Foxx

1978

A later edition was credited to Bill Pronzini.

"Logspur is a small and dangerously isolated community in the rugged logging country of northern California. The town's lumber baron, Henry Johnston, is a fanatic right-wing paramilitarist who has a cache of illegal weapons and ammo in two old freight cars. Three hardcase criminals—Zacharias, Frame and Tully—get wind of the cache and, in an attempt to hijack it, cause an explosion. In a matter of minutes the town is encircled by an inferno. Steve Hannigan, a would-be writer and dropout from life, helps to organize the townspeople for the only way out: an antique Baldwin locomotive that, miraculously, still runs. He and the other men attach the two passenger cars that are coupled to the freight cars. They are unaware of the deadly shipment they will be hauling through the long miles to the county seat at Springwood. They are also unaware that Zacharias and Tully have boarded the train, still determined to hijack its lethal contents."