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Wizard
Series · 10 books · 1987-1997

Books in series

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#0

The Wizard of Camelot

1993

As anarchy rages in the ruins of Earth, Tom Malory battles urban rioters and encounters Merlin, history's greatest wizard, who has returned to Earth to save humanity. Original.
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#1

The Wizard of 4th Street

1987

The prequel to this series is called The Wizard of Camelot. Wyrdrune is a student wizard with a penchant for botching spells when he meets Kira, a street-wise cutie, at an auction for the mysterious and powerful Euphrates rune stones. But he has no idea, when he tries to steal them, that the stones have already chosen him for a great adventure. From the author of the popular Timewars series.
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#2

The Wizard of Whitechapel

1988

Details the adventures of a student wizard, Wyrdrunne, and Kira, who along with an unlikely group of assistants, must save the last survivor of Camelot
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#3

The Wizard of Sunset Strip

1989

When mutilated bodies begin turning up in Hollywood and the police are baffled, the young wizard Wydrune and his band—a beautiful cat burglar, a Cockney punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin, and Camelot's last survivor—take the case
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#4

The Wizard of Rue Morgue

1990

Darkness in the City of Light….A beautiful model is found murdered with ancient runes carved into her body. An artist known for drunken rages is arrested and charged with ritual murder. As the bearers of the runestones—Wyrdrune, a dropout warlock; Kira, a cat burglar; Modred, the immortal son of the legendary King Arthur; and Billy Slade, a London punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin the Magician—respond to a friend’s plea to help save an innocent man, Parisian street children start to disappear without a trace and a series of savage killings brings new horror to the Rue Morgue.And beneath the streets of Paris, in the sewers and the Catacombs filled with the dusty bones of the victims of the guillotine, the immortal Dark Ones prepare a deadly plan to destroy the enchanted runestones and their avatars and unleash a bestial army that will drown the streets of Paris in a sea of blood….
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#5

The Samurai Wizard

1991

Tokyo, Japan, the twenty-third century: a thriving metropolis, powered by a blend of technology and magic. But some inhuman entity is murdering women in the Land of the Rising Sun, and Inspector Akiro Katayama, sorcerer agent in charge of crimes involving magic, has just one clue to work with—a dragon's scale. Enlisting the aid of Japan's greatest wizard and a streetwise homicide detective, Katayama tries desperately to solve the case—but he has no idea of the awesome power he is dealing with. The only ones who understand the threat are four people who have been chosen by an ancient spell to stop it...Wyrdrune, a bumbling young warlock; Kira, a beautiful cat burglar; Billy Slade, an English punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin; and the immortal Modred, son of the legendary King Arthur. Only they know the identity of the beautiful necromancer behind the killings—but can they stop her before she unleashes the most deadly spell of all?
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#6

The Wizard of Santa Fe

1991

Magic returns to New Mexico, but when evil forces try to take advantage and turn Santa Fe into a ghost town, Wydrune employs his students to help him prevent the Dark Ones from stealing souls
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#6.5

The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez

1992

Catseye Gomez, the savvy, magical, talking stray cat from The Wizard of Sante Fe returns in his own Rocky Mountain mystery involving a beautiful, ambitious broadcaster. When the young television journalist is killed by a car bomb, Gomez the feline detective pursues all the clues, as well as the victim's sexy calico. Catseye, P.I. Name’s Gomez. I’m a cat. And yeah, I talk. Because in an age of magic, nothing’s quite what it seems. When you combine magic with genetic engineering, predators and crooks take on a thousand different forms. So do the good guys. Denver was a new town, new turf for an old stray tom like me. I came in search of a fresh start, but what I found was criminal. It all began when Susan Jacobs, an ambitious and beautiful young broadcaster, met up with a car bomb that blew a lot more than her ratings sky high. After what happened in New Mexico, I needed a case like this like I needed a big hairball. But Susan Jacobs had a sexy little calico whose lambent golden eyes had a look in them that made it really hard to just say no…. So together with a Zippo-snapping, studded leather rebel cop named Leventhal, I’m prowling the streets and alleys of the Mile High City among political whack-jobs, religious nuts, media weasels, talking snakes, gutter sorcerers and wizard wannabes, on a cat-and-mouse hunt for a killer. And when I find out who it is, the fur is really gonna fly…
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#7

The Wizard of Lovecraft's Cafe

1993

In order to survive a necromantic ambush, the mystic Runestones merge Wyrdrune the bumbling warlock, cockney kid Billy Slade, immortal king Gorlois, deadly Mordred, and the great Merlin into one being.
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#8

The Last Wizard

1997

The Runestones' Avatars—Wyrdrune, Kira, Angelo, and Slade—are finallybacked by the entire military in their war against the necromantic Dark Ones...but it may be too little, and far too late. For on a dragon-infested peak, Talon, the most brilliant of the evil immortals, has already captured all the surviving Dark Ones. Here near Tucson he leeches their life force to empower a cult of sorcerous assassins programmed to launch a worldwide slaughter spree. And each murder feeds Talon, giving him more power than the spirits and the Runestones. The Avatars think they're battling an evil wizard. But they're about to face a mad god...

Author

Simon Hawke
Author · 45 books

aka J.D. Masters, Nicholas V. Yermakov He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D. Masters" and mystery novels.

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