"Four Kinds of Rain is a great read. Robert Ward has created a darkly comic masterpiece that keeps you thinking long after the last page is turned." -Michael Connelly

"Four Kinds of Rain is feverish and funny, an end-of-the-dream novel that could only have come from the very talented, slightly twisted mind of Robert Ward." -George Pelecanos

"Noir for the lost. Heartbreaking, hilarious and oh so beautifully written. A renegade prose poem to the loss and regret we carry like the best rock 'n roll music, full of beauty and despair with the gonzo gift of sheer immediacy." -Ken Bruen

A fictional memoir about the writer's grandmother, a Civil Rights activist in Baltimore.

"A book-length valentine written for and about a woman he clearly adored." -New York Times

"Ward fashions many quietly beautiful moments...The disclosure of the secrets in Grace's mysterious past culminates in a moving revelation." -Publishers Weekly

"The story tumbles along from one insightful revelation to the next...With the book that bears her name, Ward has given Grace a lovely monument." -San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

A machinegun-paced thriller about an undercover DEA agent trying to bust a group of drug smugglers.

"The Cactus Garden is a righteous grabber...Read it and feel your blood pressure accelerate." -James Elroy

"The action is fast, furious and violent, the double-crosses and surprises keep coming." -Publishers Weekly

"A page-turner that delivers expert narrative and...memorable characters...The constant changes of scene, multiple narrow escapes and continual sharp banter among the characters help give the novel its wired, hip quality." -Los Angeles Times

The semi-autobiographical novel of a gifted young writer's experiences as a college student in the 1960s.

"The book's pulsing vitality -- as in the novels of Thomas Wolfe, a writer of similar faults and virtues -- carries the day." -Publishers Weekly

"A case of Sixties free spirits romping through wild adventures...a sweet, deftly written novel that reminds you of Conroy, Kesey, and Salinger all at once." -Digby Diehl, Playboy

A Baltimore steelworker's life slowly falls apart after he loses his job.

"Mr. Ward writes with a directness and sincerity that is increasingly rare in these days of fashionable irony and high-tech literary pyrotechnics...The reader...really does want to know what happens." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"A truly awesome achievement, a paean of power and intensity directed toward a too often forgotten group, those American refugees so cruelly displaced by the raw greed and economic convulsions in the heavy steel industry. Red Baker is a remarkable novel." -James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss

"They may not build 'em like they used to, but Red Baker is a product that any working fella can damn well be proud of." -Time

Anesthesiologist Dr. Cross' job is to alleviate pain but someone is now accusing him of murder.

The lives and adventures of two young women in the Old West who joined the Doolin-Dalton outlaw gang and fell in love with two of its members.

"A fable for our children, from Jesse James to Patty Hearst. A love story connecting the failure of love to the failure of the social contract; honestly, even daringly perceived, and very beautifully written." -James Baldwin

"Cattle Annie and Little Britches will undoubtedly be compared to True Grit, a book I admire, but Cattle Annie and Little Britches is a better book than True Grit. It is ranker, reeks of all of life's sweet stinks, is funnier, and is written in a clear, controlled language that vibrates on the page." -Harry Crews

An autobiographical novel about a young man's journey across the United States in the 1960s.

"The quintessential hippie '60s novel." -Publishers Weekly

"One of the finest novels to come out of the great social, psychic and moral convulsion called the sixties." -Pete Hamill, author of A Drinking Life

"A novel in overdrive -- vulgar, outrageous, totally hyperbolic, exceptionally funny, and written with an uncommon attention to the wonders of language...superb." -Sheldon Frank, New York Times Book Review