John Burton Thompson

It's the late 1950s. Ches Markham is an FBI agent stationed in D. C. who is known as a lady's man...and who uses those skills for Uncle Sam. He's set-up to be seduced, and snatched, by Dayne Holcombe, a beautiful Austrian seductress, as part of an elaborate scheme by Nazi fugitives involving stolen gold and diamonds. But it all goes violently wrong for everyone. Markham escapes and Dayne flees to Sierra Negro, a volcanic island off the Yucatan peninsula. Markham goes after her, on a mission to foil the plot...but becomes embroiled with Dayne in the passionate, pagan rituals of the ancient Mayans. If his raging desires don't kill him, the deadly conspiracy could...and take our country down with him.

Every Color of Skin... Every Kind of Sin. A novel of men on the loose and women on the prowl. The story of three girls who run a household of the dubious yet sprightly kind in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Their purpose is to love when and how they chose, their habit is to follow their desire wherever it leads. Favre experiments with a father but settles for his sons. Arden seeks the caressses of an artist...but also longs for Favre's kisses. And there's T'Ling, a sweet girl with golden skin, who takes love where she finds it. Are these three wicked? Or merely naughty? A rollicking, frolicking novel by the incomparable John B. Thompson. Previously published under the title Love and the Wicked City

Deep in the hot swamplands of the South, a wealthy, desperate man fleeing his scandalous past meets Shayne, a woman of raw, natural beauty whose ravenous sexual desires could lead them both to sweet, ecstatic ruin. "Thompson was a better writer than his genre deserved," Paperback WarriorThis was the first published novel by John Burton Thompson (1911-1994), a Louisiana native and World War II veteran who went on to write 75 books under his own name and many pseudonyms, including Kevin McLeod, Bowie Morton, Gordon Greene, Todd Marshall, and Burton St. John. He broke into publishing in 1950 at age 39 by writing a fan letter of Jack Woodford, author of two books on writing, and a controversial (and highly writer of "sleazy" fiction. Woodford encouraged Thompson to send him copies of his unpublished manuscripts. Thompson did, and Woolford immediately sold them, adding his name to the manuscripts and beginning a professional co-authoring and publishing relationship that would last for several years...and get them both into trouble in the early 1950s with New York City police for writing "indecent work." But Thompson's many novels, racy at the time and tame by today's standards, were clearly a cut above what other authors were doing in the "sleaze" genre. He had literary aspirations and, surprisingly, often achieved them with his strong characters, rich writing, and provocative plots, which were psychological and cultural dramas mostly set in his native Louisiana.