Jack English Stories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is Jack English, the character, and there is a writer who uses the pen name Jack English.

 

Confusing? Socrates said it is a sign of the educated mind to be able to hold two ideas at one time.

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Jack English, the character, is featured in the novels: Rivers of Money, 

Target Error, Drugged, Down at the Stern, Desert Song, Hacked to Death, 

Worthless Paper, Shady Lady, Witchy Woman, War Games, and Sunken Island. 

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Jack English, the character, went to Atlantic City High School and got a history degree from Rutgers University in Camden. But what he really majored in was fraternity parties.

 

Jack English, the character, joined the army after college because there was no work for history majors. He earned a commission; the army found he had a talent for boxing; and he was a division boxing champ two years in a row. After the army, he went to Rutgers School of Law in Camden and practices law in Atlantic City.

 

Jack English, the character, tends to get in trouble, or rather his clients tend to get him into trouble.

 

THEN, there is Jack English, the writer. Do not confuse the two.

 

Jack English, the writer, got a physics degree from Rutgers University in Camden and only minored in fraternity parties. Jack English, the writer, joined the Navy and earned a commission. After the Navy, he worked as a Washington consultant for a while, then went to Rutgers School of Law in Camden, after which he practiced law in Atlantic City for several years. It was like going to the circus every day.

 

Jack English, the character, is like a perfectly cooked steak. But even the greatest steak lover wants barbeque once in a while. That is why Jack English, the writer, has other novels centered on other characters.

 

The principal characters in Archimedes Principle are Buckley Mills Forrester, an auditor, and Becker, a spikey-haired, tattooed woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Berkeley who is twice as smart as everyone around her.

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The principal characters in Crime Watch are Wilson Kiley, an investigative radio reporter, Stephanie Turlow, a woman good with power tools, and a mystery woman who refuses to reveal her name.

 

Matthew St. Augustine is the principal character in Fedwire. He counterfeited $10 billion of electronic money using the Federal Reserve's computers. But did he get away with it?

 

Jack English, the writer, has written several Science Fiction novels among them are

Maker of Worlds, Maker of Suns, and Maker of Men which revolve around an atmospheric physicist named Alexander Stoneheart. Abandoned, has an entirely different cast of characters, most of whom are not human.

 

Jack English, the writer, has also written more than a dozen short stories. They are available free on this website.

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And so, it goes. Jack English, the character, isn’t in every novel or short story, but the writing sensibility, the pace, and the narrative form of Jack English, the writer, cuts across all the writing in Jack English stories.

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