George C. Chesbro
George C. Chesbro was an American author of detective fiction. His most notable works feature '"Dr. Robert "Mongo the Magnificent" Fredrickson"'. He also wrote the novelisation of the movie The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy.
Chesbro was born in Washington, D.C. He worked as a special education teacher at Pearl River and later at Rockland Psychiatric Center, where he worked with troubled teens. Chesbro was married and had a son, a daughter and two stepdaughters.
The Mongo">Mongo the Magnificent">Mongo Series
Shadow of a Broken Man 1977 City of Whispering Stone 1978 An Affair of Sorcerers 1979 The Beasts of Valhalla 1985 Two Songs This Archangel Sings 1987 The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone 1988 Second Horseman Out of Eden 1989 The Language of Cannibals 1990 In the House of Secret Enemies 1990 The Fear in Yesterday's Rings 1991 Dark Chant in a Crimson Key 1992 An Incident at Bloodtide 1993 Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm 1995 Dream of a Falling Eagle 1996 Lord of Ice and Loneliness 2003 French translation, not published in the US.
Chant 1986Chant: Silent Killer 1987Chant: Code of Blood 1987
Veil 1986Jungle of Steel and Stone 1988
Other Novels
Bone - Mysterious Press, 1989The Golden Child - Pocket, 1986Turn Loose The Dragons - Ballantine, 1982Crying Freeman - Rivages, 1999 King's Gambit - New English Library, 1976The Keeper - Apache Books Publications, 2001Prism: A Memoir As Fiction - Apache Books Publications, 2001
Short-Story Collections
Strange Prey - Apache Beach Publications, 2004Lone Wolves - Apache Beach Publications, 2003