JD Sandon

Biography

J.D. Sandon was the pseudonym used by two authors: Angus Wells and John Harvey to write an exciting series of books set in the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900's. Both writers ave contributed to other series as well as their own.

Series

GRINGOS
CADE ONSLOW - US Army Major. Deserter, with nothing to gain but vengeance. JONAS STRONG - Top Sergeant, damned by his color. YATES McCLOUD - Rapist. Nowhere to go but Hell. JAMIE DURHAM - The needle of morphine was the only answer to his ruined face. Together they were THE GRINGOS - four men with nothing to lose but their lives. And they didn’t count for much in the bloody fury of rebellion. THE GRINGOS—four outlawed Americans fighting for freedom, justice—and money—in the bloody chaos that is revolutionary Mexico 1913.

Books

Gringos #9: Durango (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 9. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 45,830. Language: American English. Published: April 1, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
As the Revolutionary war in Mexico builds to a savage climax, The Gringos face their sternest test. In a welter of blood and a hail of death-dealing lead, they must avert the most vicious and cunning plot yet to rob the people of their chance of freedom. The Gringos ... four men on the wrong side of the border, the wrong side of the law and only just on the right side of Hell.
Gringos #10: Survivors (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 10. Pre-release—available July 1, 2024. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 34,580. Language: American English. Published by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Adventure » Men’s adventure
The revolution was sapping the life from the suffering people of Mexico. Los Gringos filled the gap with the two things they did best—fighting and killing. Guns and money were enough to satisfy their crude appetites—but to get them they first had to battle with some of the most vicious enemies the world had seen. SERIES FINALE
Gringos #8: Wheels of Thunder (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 8. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 40,080. Language: American English. Published: January 1, 2024 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa swore to bring his people out of slavery and into the 20th Century, but he didn’t reckon on having a Hollywood film crew in on the action. That is the price he must pay for the guns and ammunition he needs to fight the most savage battle of the war, and for the services of the men who will get them. The Gringos. The four hardest hombres south of the Rio Grande.
Gringos #7: One Too Many Mornings (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 7. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 44,870. Language: American English. Published: October 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » USA
The sunrise is blood red:, and The Gringos are facing one too many mornings … The prison was an impregnable fortress, the cells not fit for an animal, let alone a man. Death would have been a kindness for Oveda—neither escape nor rescue were possible. But Oveda’s freedom was vital to the cause of the Mexican Revolution. And for enough money, The Gringos would attempt even the impossible...
Gringos #6: Mazatlan (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 6. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 42,030. Language: American English. Published: June 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Pancho Villa needed reliable men to help a bandito take the bank at Mazatlán. The Gringos were chosen. What they didn’t know was that a vengeance-bent killer was dogging their trail. Or that the ruthless outlaws they were forced to work with planned a double-cross. But The Gringos had their own answer to betrayal. The answer was spelled ... DEATH. With the word painted in blood.
Gringos #5: Easy Money (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 5. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 45,130. Language: American English. Published: April 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
The Federale garrison of Zacatecas was fighting his bandit army to a standstill. But word came of howitzers stored in Tampico, and Villa called on the four men he trusted most to bring him guns—The Gringos. What they didn’t know was that the whole deal was a trap—an elaborate plan to destroy them. And when the jaws swung shut, they were left to escape the way they knew best... by fighting clear!
Gringos #4: Border Affair (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 4. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 40,100. Language: American English. Published: January 1, 2023 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
It should have been easy—collecting a shipment of arms in El Paso and running them south of the border to the rebel bandit, Pancho Villa. But in the blood and darkness of revolution nothing is as easy as it seems. Betrayed on all sides, the leader of the Gringos feels the raw rope of a hangman’s noose around his neck. It takes the other Gringos all their furious courage and firepower to save him.
Gringos #3: Fire in the Wind (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 3. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 52,100. Language: American English. Published: August 31, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Mexico 1914. Zapata held the south; Pancho Villa the north. Mexico City was caught in the pincer grip of the rebel armies. But in Reynosa there was an answer to the siege: enough explosive to blast the rebels to hell. And a way to deliver it: a bi-plane. It was a new way of making war, a way to deliver death from the sky. The Gringos met it the only way they knew how … with bullets and blood.
Gringos #2: Cannons in the Rain (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 2. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 46,990. Language: American English. Published: June 1, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » Action
When the consignment of illegal arms the Gringos were shipping south to the Mexican rebels was blown out of the water, they were forced to go to Zapata empty-handed. He could have had them killed on the spot. Instead he held one of them hostage and sent the others to hijack a government arms train. They all knew what would happen if they failed—but failure wasn’t a word the Gringos knew.
Gringos #1: Guns Across the River (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)
Series: GRINGOS, Book 1. Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 57,550. Language: English. Published: February 28, 2022 by Piccadilly. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » USA
The Mexican Revolution 1913 - when death rode a razor's edge and life hung on the hammer of a Colt automatic. Four men with nothing to lose but their lives. And they didn't count much in the bloody fury of the rebellion. These were the GRINGOS. First in the all-action series written by J.D. Sandon.