Jon Stanton

Jon Stanton is the lead character in the Jon Stanton series of novels by the Afghanistan born award-winning author Victor Methos, best known for writing science fiction, crime, thrillers, and mysteries. Even as Victor Methos has written more than forty novels over the years, his best-known series is the Jon Stanton series, the first novel of which was the 2011 published “The White Angel Murder”. Over four years between 2011 and 2015, the author published about two novels a year in the still ongoing series. The novels were just as popular as the first and made Jon Stanton one of the most popular police detective protagonists in recent times. As a criminal defense attorney with more than 100 criminal cases under his belt, Methos writes the Jon Stanton series as complex, violent, dark, and gritty novels that over a few years have become fan favorites. The lead character in the series is Jon Stanton, a police detective with strong moral and ethical values fighting against crime and a corrupt police force. The novels excellently portray the moral ethical dilemmas facing police officers in corrupt jurisdictions. It also looks into how police officers deal with personal problems, which sometimes encroach into their work.