Jake Logan

  • 81

    Catalog books

  • 38

    Works

  • 1977 to 2018

    Strongest span

Who This Author Is

Jake Logan writes hard-edged Westerns that follow rugged loners and fast-moving plots. His standalone Roughrider and numerous entries in the long-running Slocum series deliver gunfights, frontier justice, and pragmatic heroes who settle scores across dusty towns, ranches, and desert outposts.

Logan’s Slocum installments often pair the wandering gun-for-hire with historical or colorful figures—Doc Holliday, Apache raiders, undertakers—and place him in moral tight spots. Expect lean prose, episodic momentum, and stories focused on survival, honor among outlaws, and the costs of life on the range.

Best Place To Start

Author At A Glance

Best known for: Western action novels • Long-running Slocum series contributions • Gritty frontier tales

Genres and themes: Western • Adventure • Outlaw justice • Frontier survival

Who this author is best for: Good for readers who want brisk, plot-driven Westerns with tough protagonists and straightforward pacing.

Start with any Slocum title listed here to sample his style; standalone Roughrider shows a slightly different, single-novel focus.

Top Books To Start With

  1. Virginia City Showdown (Slocum Series #169)

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1993 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1993 • 220 pages.

  2. Slocum and the Timber King (Slocum Series #156)

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1992 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1992 • 220 pages.

  3. Slocum and the Apache Raiders (Slocum Series #147)

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1991 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1991 • 220 pages.

  4. Vengeance Road

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1990 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1990 • 220 pages.

  5. Slocum and the Claim Jumpers (Slocum Series #105)

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1987 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1987 • 220 pages.

  6. Roughrider

    Berkley Publishing Group • 1981 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1981 • 220 pages.

  7. Slocum 419

    Penguin Publishing Group • 2013 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2013 • 192 pages.

  8. Slocum and the schoolmarm

    Berkley Pub. • 2008 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2008 • 182 pages.

  9. Slocum and the town killers

    Jove Books|Jove • 2008 • standard commitment

    It helps anchor a specific period of this author’s publishing run instead of blending into the undated shelf clutter.

  10. Slocum 334

    Jove • 2006 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2006 • 192 pages.

How The Picks Compare

  • Slocum and the Timber King (Slocum Series #156) gives you an earlier look at this author’s shelf, while Virginia City Showdown (Slocum Series #169) leans later in the catalog.

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