Books

A collection of books on a wooden surface, including titles like "Stop Pretending You're Going to Retire Rich," "South of Manila," "Ketamine Dreams," "Peril in Palawan," "That Thing That Happened in the Delta," and multiple titles by Sean Johnson. Some books are stacked, and others are arranged standing against the wall.

The Huck Rogers Adventure Series

Six novels following American expat Huck Rogers through the danger zones of Southeast Asia.
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  • Book cover titled South of Manila by Sean Johnson, featuring a map with a helicopter flying over water and a person floating face down in water in the foreground.

    South of Manila

    Huck Rogers arrives in the Philippines looking for a quiet life and finds anything but. The first book in the series introduces the expat fixer who can't stop getting involved in things that are none of his business.

  • Book cover titled "Peril in Palawan" by Sean Johnson, featuring an underwater scene with a scuba diver flashlight illuminating coral, a map of Palawan in the background, and a helicopter flying above the water.

    Peril in Palawan

    A journalist investigating the world's most exclusive drug disappears in Palawan. Huck goes looking and finds a Ukrainian kingpin, a chemist trapped in a jungle lab, and a conspiracy that gets personal when Diona is taken.

  • Book cover for "Witch Island: A Huck Rogers Adventure" by Sean Johnson. The cover features a split scene with an island and volcanic eruption in the background, and a woman underwater in the foreground.

    Witch Island

    Huck and Diona are supposed to be on vacation. Then Diona walks down a jungle path and doesn't come back. The only lead points to a wellness retreat on Siquijor where not all the women make it out.

  • Book cover for 'The Formosa Run: A Huck Rogers Adventure' by Sean Johnson. The cover depicts a mountainous island with a helicopter flying above and two ships sailing in the water, one with a Chinese flag.

    The Formosa Run

    Off the coast of Taiwan, a routine job goes sideways in contested waters. A slow boat, a Chinese destroyer, and a narrowing set of choices. A thriller where small mistakes carry international consequences.

  • Book cover of 'The Hoi An Crossing' by Sean Johnson, featuring a helicopter flying over a misty green jungle with an abandoned building and a rocky path in the foreground.

    The Hoi An Crossing

    Chinese intelligence takes the wrong man off a street in Hoi An. What follows is a race through the highlands of central Vietnam — and the story of a door gunner who finally begins to find his way home.

  • Book cover for 'Blood Gold' by Sean Johnson, showing a jungle landscape with an abandoned wrecked airplane, a mountain in the background, and a helicopter flying above.

    Blood Gold

    A standalone novella in the Huck Rogers series. Old sins, desperate choices, and what you'll do for the people who matter. A fast entry point for new readers, a quick return for fans.

  • The Fluffy Extraction

    When Rona's sister arrives with a laminated folder and a missing Maine Coon, Huck Rogers takes the case. It's a cat. It shouldn't be complicated. It gets complicated.

Stand-Alone Novels

  • Book cover of 'The Deadening' by Sean Johnson, depicting a barren landscape with leafless trees, a dirt path, cotton plants, a small wooden shed, and an orange sky.

    The Deadening

    Mississippi Delta, 1895. Five hundred Italian immigrants arrive with a papal blessing and a contract they couldn't read. The contract is a trap. Antonio Piccolo knew that before he signed it — he just didn't know what the window out would cost. Around him, a world is being born from swamp and ruin: Isaiah Montgomery raising Mound Bayou out of nothing, Will Dockery building a plantation empire that will become the cradle of the blues. Antonio has his eye on land. The question is what kind of man he'll have to become to take it.

  • Book cover for 'And He Shall Devour' by Sean Johnson featuring a large leafless tree and small houses, with one house having a lit window, set against a dark blue background.

    And He Shall Devour

    The true story of Alonzo Robinson, a 1934 Mississippi cannibal whose case quietly shaped the literary archetype of Hannibal Lecter. Part true crime, part Southern Gothic, part excavation of a story that was never supposed to be told.

  • Book cover titled 'The French Concession' by Sean Johnson featuring a spiral pattern in red and black with a small yellow figure at the bottom right corner.

    The French Concession

    A drifting American's Shanghai layover stretches into a month, then into something far more dangerous. A woman, competing intelligence services, and a chase from the French Concession to the backroads of Vietnam. A spy novella about not knowing which side you're on until it's too late.

  • Book cover titled 'In My Father's House Are Many Mansions' by Sean Johnson, featuring a simple constellation illustration.

    In My Father's House Are Many Mansions

    A soul named Caleb has been cycling through human lives for longer than he can count. He's starting to wonder if the forgetting is the point — or the problem. A work of speculative spiritual fiction about consciousness, incarnation, and what it might mean to finally remember what you are while you're still living it.

  • Book cover titled 'Copper Sky: The Ballads of Mike and Ray' by Sean Johnson, depicting a desolate road with two men walking, carrying a guitar case and backpack, under a dark, cloudy sky.

    Copper Sky: The Ballads of Mike and Ray

    Two brothers moving toward each other across a post-apocalyptic American landscape, told in two voices. A literary novel about family, regret, and what it means to finally show up when showing up might be too late.

  • Poster for the film 'That Thing That Happened in the Delta' featuring two women in a cotton field with the White House in the background. One woman is dressed casually in a plaid shirt and jeans, the other is in a red dress with sunglasses on her head, holding a cigarette.

    That Thing That Happened in the Delta: The Cotton Queen and the Movie Star

    A Delta story involving a beauty queen, a movie star, and the way small towns absorb scandals and keep them forever. Literary fiction rooted in the rhythms of Mississippi.

  • Book cover titled 'The Jerusalem Incident' by Sean Johnson, featuring a photograph of a city with smoke and fire, and two photographers in the foreground capturing the scene.

    The Jerusalem Incident

    Written in real time as the conflict unfolded. A taut thriller set in the present-day Middle East, moving from Tel Aviv to the ancient high places of Megiddo, where history has a habit of repeating at the worst possible moment.

Short Stories

  • Book cover titled 'The Colossus of Bunyan County and other stories' by Sean Johnson featuring a large statue of a woman with a hen's head holding a sign with Latin text, against a landscape at dusk.

    The Colossus of Bunyan County and Other Stories

    Stories from the American South and beyond. Characters who make terrible decisions for reasons you completely understand, in landscapes that hold everything they've ever witnessed.

  • Book cover titled 'Ketamine Dreams' by Sean Johnson. The cover features a painterly cityscape at night with colorful lights and a solitary figure walking on a wet street.

    Ketamine Dreams

    Speculative fiction. Strange premises followed faithfully to their conclusions. Darkly comic, occasionally unsettling, consistently surprising.

Nonfiction

  • Book cover titled 'Stop Pretending You're Going to Retire Rich' by Sean Johnson, 2026 edition, with subtitle 'The GenX Guide to Retiring Abroad on What You Actually Have.'

    Stop Pretending You're Going to Retire Rich

    The practical guide GenX actually needed. Based on years of living across Southeast Asia, it's about retiring on what you have — which turns out to be more than enough if you're willing to reconsider where you live.

  • Book cover featuring a prison cell with an empty wooden table, plate, fork, and knife, with the title "Final Course" and author's name Sean Johnson.

    Final Course: Recipes of Last Requests

    A hybrid of literary true crime and food writing built around the last meal requests of condemned prisoners. Equal parts haunting and human — a book about mortality, mercy, and what we want when we know it's the last thing we'll ever ask for.

Children’s Books

  • Cover of a children's book titled 'The Adventures of Dumling and Squip' by Lula Lu, featuring an animated dumpling and an octopus on a beach with coral and seaweed.

    Dumling & Squip Adventure Series

    Dumling is a little dumpling from a market by the sea. Squip is a small pink squid with a very important sailor hat. Together they explore the ancient streets of Hoi An, ride basket boats on the river, and discover that the best adventures are always better with a friend. Story and illustrations by Lula Lu

  • Dumling and Squip Explore the Chocolate Hills

    The Chocolate Hills of Bohol rise out of the Philippine jungle by the thousands — perfect, mysterious, and not even a little bit made of chocolate. Dumling and Squip are on the case. An adventure about wonder, disappointment, and why the real thing is always stranger and better than you imagined. 

Other Titles

  • Book cover with the title "BUG APPÉTIT" and subtitle "Finding the Future by Eating Crickets" by Dave Crispen, featuring a plate with a cricket illustration and some crumbs.

    Bug Appétit

    A humor cookbook for the adventurous eater, built around insects as ingredients. Recipes, science, and enough irreverence to make it go down easy. By Dave Crispen.

  • A romantic scene from a book cover showing a man and woman kissing in a rustic kitchen, with the title "Undone in Tuscany" and author's name "Chloe Lepen".

    Undone in Tuscany

    A romance novel set in the Italian countryside. Wine, heat, complicated feelings, and a landscape that makes everything feel more urgent.By Chloe LePen.

  • Book cover for 'Memphis to New Orleans: A Journey Through the Delta' by Diane Mitchell. The cover features an orange and red sunset with a silhouette of a car traveling down a road alongside power lines, with the sun setting over a distant horizon.

    Memphis to New Orleans: A Journey Through the Delta

    A travelogue tracing the blues highway from Memphis to the Gulf. Observational, funny, and quietly revelatory about a place most people drive through without stopping. By Diane Mitchell.

  • Book cover titled "Breaking Free From Kratom" by Paul Miller, showing a silhouette of a person walking toward a bright door in a dark space.

    Breaking Free of Kratom

    A practical guide for readers navigating kratom dependence, written with honesty about what withdrawal looks like and what recovery actually requires. By Paul Miller.

  • Book cover titled 'Seven Years I Barely Remember: One Year After Breaking Free from Kratom' by Paul Miller.

    The Seven Years I Don't Remember

    A memoir of lost time, recovered in fragments. About what addiction takes, what it leaves behind, and the slow work of reconstructing a life. By Paul Miller.

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