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Nik Morton is the author of a collection of 23 crime short stories collected in Leon Cazador, P.I., a romantic thriller series Catalyst, Catacomb and Cataclysm, Write a Western in 30 Days, three psychic spy Cold War thrillers Mission: Prague, Mission: Tehran, and Mission: Khyber, a romantic crime thriller An Evil Trade, a vampire thriller set in Malta, Chill of the Shadow, and five other collections of his short stories: Gifts from a Dead Race (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Nourish a Blind Life (sci-fi, horror, fantasy), Visitors (westerns), Codename Gaby (historical), I Celebrate Myself (crime and adventure). He is also the author of the noir western Cash Laramie adventures, Bullets for a Ballot and Coffin for Cash, and two sci-fi novellas in ...more

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	Bullets For A Ballot 3.95 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write a Western in 30 Days: With Plenty of Bullet-Points! 3.84 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spanish Eye 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coffin for Cash (Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles Book 12) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood of the Dragon Trees 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prague Papers (#1 Tana Standish Series) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rogue Prey: A Leon Cazador Thriller 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sudden Vengeance Waits 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catalyst (#1 in the 'Avenging Cat' series) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudden Vengeance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nik Morton rated a book liked it England Made Me by Graham Greene	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Graham Greene’s novel England Made Me was published in 1935 and republished in 1953 as The Shipwrecked. It’s a Penguin Twentieth Century Classic. Kate Farrant is sitting in the railway station bar. ‘She might have been waiting for her lover’ (p7). Eve ...more
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Nik Morton rated a book liked it The Wages of Sin by Matt Braun	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Matt Braun’s The Wages of Sin was first published as Ash Tallman: The Wages of Sin in 1984; in the same year he also wrote two other Tallman westerns, The Highbinders and Crossfire – all under the pseudonym of Tom Lord. He may have used this penname ...more
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Nik Morton rated a book liked it The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Poul Anderson’s sci-fi novel The Corridors of Time was published in 1965. Modern American Malcolm Lockridge is hired to work for the beautiful mysterious Storm Darroway. She believes he is suited to the dangerous task that involves travelling through ...more
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Nik Morton rated a book really liked it Sharpe's Christmas: Two Short Stories by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This slim volume contains two Sharpe short stories by Bernard Cornwell: ‘Sharpe’s Christmas’ and ‘Sharpe’s Ransom’. As 12,000-word tales, they originally featured in the Daily Mail (‘ever a lively newspaper’), each in three episodes, respectively 199 ...more
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Nik Morton rated a book really liked it The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The story first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 1961, so it's a slim volume. There's little show and mostly tell and yet it works well. The narrative is omniscient, author-intrusive almost, and yet it works well. Future events are signposted: ' ...more
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