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In 1975, when in his mid-twenties, Brendan Gisby - spurred on by a press report on "The warming of relations between the Republic of China and the USSR" - put his imaginative prowess of words to work, together with the courage of his convictions, and the then-full-blooded youth (in his own words "I was further Right than Attila the Hun") began to write his own version of what might happen should these two Communist giants combine and collude to dominate the world.

The result, some 30 years later due to the intervention of life and his career, is "The Olive Branch". Set a few years into the future, this gripping and scintillating yarn has all the necessary ingredients and more for a first class read. Combining the horrors of war with the scenic beauty of surrounding countryside, and the essential underlying blossoming of first love, this book provokes a host of emotions within the reader - not least of which is the humbling realisation of how lucky we are to have our freedom.

“Mr. Barrett,” she said, coldly, very clearly. “Over and above what I’m already paying you, I will pay you an additional fifty thousand dollars if you bring my daughter’s murderer to justice. Or the equivalent of regular justice, if you know what I mean.”

Tammy McClane was a runaway that he’d been hired to find. But when he finally tracked her down, it was to a shallow grave in the Sonora desert outside Sunset City, Arizona.

Now he’s searching for her killer, but Sunset City keeps on posing Matt Barrett an awful lot of questions. Why does he feel like he’s constantly being watched? Why are some of the local cops acting so aggressive? What is it with that huge, palatial mansion outside the town line? And most importantly of all … how many other girls have met their ends this way?

Matt Barrett doesn’t know it yet, but he is on a journey that will lead him to the deepest recesses of this town’s past, its darkest secrets. It’s an unstoppable voyage into the hidden regions of the human soul, with an explosive finale.

“Richards is a master” - RT Book Reviews.

“A terrific author. A unique and eloquent voice” - John Pelan.

“Hard and beautiful. Man, can this guy write. He has the power to introduce you all over again to the pleasures of reading good prose” - Ed Gorman.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tony Richards is the author of 7 novels from HarperCollins, Tor, and Pan Macmillan, and has had more than one hundred short stories in print, most of them in publications such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Shadows Mystery Magazine, Postscripts and Midnight Street. He has been nominated for two major awards. He now has 17 self-published titles on Amazon Kindle.

The third book in the Trafficker series when Lieutenant Karen Marshal, a special operations soldier, attached to Dark Angel, the European strike force, goes covert and dares to take on the most dangerous of all traffickers. The child trafficker. Hailed as the most exciting of the three books - this is one you will not forget!

An Ex-Con on the straight and narrow is pulled into a twisted game of Russian Roulette in Las Vegas to save his wife. 666. Six Contestants, six chambers in a revolver, and six sides of a die.

Riley Toback is at a crossroads. After serving a prison sentence for Armed Robbery, he’s determined to make a fresh start in Atlantic City.

Until his brother-in-law, drowning in gambling debt convinces him to pull a heist at a Jersey Shore nightclub.

In the aftermath of the botched robbery, Karim Rashid, a vicious Indian gangster, tracks them down. And makes Riley an offer.

Triple Six. One round is loaded into a revolver and the chamber is spun. The Contestant rolls a die, with the face value dictating how many times the weapon is fired. If you can survive three rounds, you win.

With his wife and life on the line, Riley takes the deal.

DUBROVNIK spins with cultural conflicts. The old walled-in city is an immensely rich backdrop. Dubrovnik generates shadows of civil war in a country on the verge of westernizing its culture and politics. Alexander Crown and Ivan Andric, two Special Forces agents, fight against selfishness and treachery between two families. Will they win trust and loyalty from their new Croatian friends? Read this fascinating story and find out.

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For Matt and his flying club, there aren't any options left. Trapped residents, threatened towns and one small airstrip safely upwind of the fire line.

It's not a promising position, but they volunteer anyway, hoping a protected position and a base close to the fire might make a difference.

And then the wind changes.
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Fire Season is the debut novel by British author VH Folland. The story of a small airstrip and a remote town during the height of fire season, it is a modern adventure story.

"The virus has spread."

In a moment of pure chaos, the majority of the Earth's population has become the walking dead. One man promises to help bring the truth to light.

"The lies have spread."

When journalist Jacob Plummer is infected, Jacob turns to the written word to not only ease the pain of change, but to bring to surface a truth far deeper and deadlier than anyone could have imagined.

"The truth must now be spread."

With the help of a rag-tag group of survivors, Jacob helps to fight off the growing undead horde in hopes of saving himself and the planet from the rot growing within.

Three veterans of different wars, their lives once saved by magic, find themselves brought together in one of the most strange, remote, and cruel parts of the California desert. As serial killers ply their deadly trade, a young woman, abducted and endangered, seeks her own brand of justice for those who threatened her, and an ancient evil sprouts from beneath desert sands, these three war veterans must learn to embrace the terrifying bond they share. Written in powerful prose as dry and dangerous as its desert setting, The Slab, for all its horrors, is ultimately an epic tale of hope and redemption.

Authors praise THE SLAB:

"In The Slab, Mariotte grabs the reader's mind bare-handed and drags you through the unraveling of human interactions. It's insightful, potent, powerful--and downright creepy. Not only is The Slab a microcosm of the dark side of human nature, it's also a ripping good thriller.
--Kevin J. Anderson, bestselling author of Terra Incognita, The Saga of Seven Suns, and Dune series

"Mariotte is an author with vision. His prose is striking, his plots involving, his characters identifiable. He knows how to move an audience--and how to strike absolute terror in their hearts. If you're not reading his work, you should be. I highly recommend The Slab."
--Scott Ciencin, bestselling author of The Vampire Odyssey

"New World Orders will make you question everything you have ever been told by the system. With frightening realism and a unparalleled sense of urgency, E.G. Talbot spins a story so compelling that it will suck you in from the very beginning and linger long in your thoughts after you finish the last page." – JAMES MELZER, author of Escape and Hull's Landing

"A bureaucratic apocalyptic cover-up! Ed’s mixture of real world politics and the possibility of what may come, keeps you captivated and wondering… what if?" – EMERIAN RICH, author of Night's Knights

BOOK DESCRIPTION:
"The Planet Was Smoking"
With the first four words, New World Orders gives a brief, yet terrifying vision of one possible future. Read it to find out more.

In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it's already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But they have a plan to save themselves.

Twenty years later, Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson stumble onto the conspiracy, and every answer they find is accompanied by more questions - and more deaths.

Jack is a former idealist, turned cynical by his years working as a New York tabloid editor. But his enthusiasm returns as he looks into the work of a NASA scientist who tells Jack about cover-ups at the space agency. Jim is a detective with little patience for conspiracy nuts. But he hates loose ends, and is unable to let go of the inconsistencies in another suspicious NASA death. Soon, his investigation leads him to Jack, and they join forces.

As Jack and Jim dig deeper, they are targeted by the type of killers that don't usually miss. From Washington to Las Vegas to the Middle East, they manage to stay one step ahead of their pursuers in a race to expose the truth, and maybe, just maybe, save the world.

What would happen if Osama bin Laden were captured as opposed to killed? With the uproar over Guantanamo would he have been held there? What if Alcatraz was recommissioned as a Federal detention facility for international terrorists while they awaited trial?

It's the year 2020 and In the aftermath of his most daring mission to capture Brent Weston—a hacker prodigy since childhood and now leader of the infamous cyberterrorist organization Brushfire—Major Frank Finn is called upon for one last assignment: interrogate Weston and learn everything he can about Brushfire. Their paths cross for a final confrontation on Alcatraz while Weston waits to stand trial and sentencing for his innumerable crimes.

While Weston is newly detained, Victor Gray is taking aim at Alcatraz as well. As the second-in-command at Brushfire he’s eager to free Weston in hopes of restoring Brushfire to its former glory. He enlists the help of Iain Shasec, a mercenary with a tenacity and expertise that will push the idea of Alcatraz as a secure facility to its limits. His audacious plan is nothing if not bold and Victor will stop at nothing to see it through to the end.

Meanwhile, Colonel Jordana Parsch is given complete authority over the military aspects of the island, eager to prove to her superiors that she's the right woman for the job. Her past with Brushfire associates Kayla and Katarina Timore proves to be more than just a distant memory, colliding in the present with the others converging on the island.

Alcatraz will face its toughest test in its storied history. Major Finn and Colonel Parsch will encounter their stiffest fight yet, all in the hopes of ridding the world of the top secret organization known as Brushfire. Weston is hoping that he can kindle a blaze on the island that will set him free and again spread Brushfire throughout the world.

When a Special Branch investigation into an Al Qeada cell is
disrupted by the arrival of a notorious Chechen fighter, Special
Branch Detective Sergeant David Hurst must work with MI5 much
sooner than expected.

Hurst and his team have to discover how Al Qaeda and the Chechen
are planning to attack a meeting in London between Russian diplomats
and businessmen. Supported by the FSB Russian intelligence
service, Hurst races to defuse the terrorist attack before there can be widespread casualties, potentially bringing the UK to a halt.
Blinded by misinformation, Hurst has to convince Special Branch and MI5 senior officers to change plans so disaster can be averted. Will he succeed?

This thriller enters the mind of the terrorist, who looks at killing as A
Dirty Game.

David Hurst stories are based on the author's own experiences as a detective in the UK's Special Branch Counter-terrorism Unit where he investigated and dealt with members of the Provisional IRA
and jihadist groups such as Al Qaeda.

East Germany, 1966. Major Werner Gottwald has dedicated his life to Communism, keeping western visitors under constant surveillance as an agent of the secret police Stasi. His latest assignment is the American millionaire Zane Smith as well as Smith's lover, the beautiful Shoushan Kariyan. At first, it seems to be just another mission. But there is more to Zane Smith than meets the eye and soon Gottwald finds himself in over his head. For it turns out that he underestimated the deviousness of the Communist brethren of the KGB. And he definitely underestimated Shoushan Kariyan…

This is a novelette of 8500 words.

Jack with a disability incurred on a mission as a Navy Seal returns to civilian life. He accepts a job as an associate detective. In his new career he encounters a moral dilemma. This dilemma creates a story that is intriguing and fascinating. He meets a woman also with a disability. Their union results in an action pack adventure with strong character development and twisting plots which involves the law enforcement community and the criminals they hunt. The disabilities are an advantage in this story revealing the capabilities of these characters and adding to the story.
In the story several characters become involved which creates intrigue resulting in an action filled novel drawing the reader into the story. It’s Reid Jackson’s second novel and he creates a spell bounding story that the reader can’t leave. The reader will bond with the characters and be drawn into the Moral Dilemma

"Men like pie." Who would know the truth behind those words better than Elaina Brady's mother Maria? Months after she showed her teenage daughter how to bake perfect pie and hours after offering that culinary wisdom, Maria abandons Elaina, her sister Dee Dee and their father Walt. All it took was a lingering, lusty look from a Missoula trucker who stopped by their family's diner and ordered a slice of lemon meringue. Maria hitches a ride west with him, and with that impulsive decision, sixteen-year-old Elaina loses her mother and gains a job baking pies at the diner.
A decade after Maria's departure, Elaina is still working at The Terminal Diner, just around the bend from an upstate New York airport. Her humdrum life is defined by pie-baking routine. Elaina realizes painfully that all she still knows about the opposite sex is summed up in the three last words her mother spoke to her. Then one deceivingly beautiful morning in September 2001, horrifying acts committed by terrorists a hundred miles away upset her world, bringing new influences into her life and inspiring her to be like her mother-impulsive. Will Elaina survive the consequences of her actions?

From the mountain farms of Italy to the distant shores of L'America young Paolo forges an unforgettable journey of fortitude, intrigue, and love as he eludes the retribution of the Camorra crime syndicate. Fleeing to the New World in 1909, Paolo struggles on his own until he meets the beautiful Maria, a bold, fiery, labor activist. The dauntless couple become involved in the dangerous garment workers' strike in New York City, but it is the ensuing fire at the Triangle Waist Company that proves to be the ultimate challenge of Paolo's psychic abilities . . . and a true test of his courage as a man!However, through it all, a perilous debt still remains from Paolo's troubled past and those who lie in wait seek to honor their sacred code of vengeance. Can Paolo overcome the blind forces of reprisal and is the future as predetermined as one may think?

DJ´s Daim Stories volume II (Daim is a Scandinavian candy bar)

A collection of 20 flash fiction stories (from 100 to 2500 words). While the first volume, Candied Crime, was crime for fun, these stories may be called ´her darker materials´.

A mysterious device.

A physicist with advanced medical knowledge.

A man's quest to uncover the secrets of his past and save the woman he loves.

When John Timmons finds an unusual metal object behind his cabin in Colorado, he suspects it belongs to his new neighbor, Jacob Mowat--a retired nuclear engineer who claims to have been employed by the government. As their friendship progresses, John discovers that his neighbor is guarding a terrible secret. His search for answers leads to a startling truth about his own troubled past as an orphan and the fate of humanity.

THE DEVICE is a character-driven mystery that explores loss and redemption, corruption and miracles. Fans of speculative fiction--George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World---will enjoy the chilling climax.

Damien Risa is in over his head with nowhere to turn and time slipping away. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. More than anyone, he should have been well-prepared for this. While in the military, he was sent to protect foreign citizens against war criminals which gave him perspective on the potential for human depravity. His graduate business degree and consulting job gave him further perspective on the mechanics of finance and markets, as well as life. Damien should be equipped to handle anything, yet when his life begins to unravel, he finds that he is ill-prepared to handle it. First his job was gone. Next, the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that was spawned in the military reared its ugly head. Then his best friend, a private banker named Frank Aziz is threatened by his own client, causing Damien to come to his rescue. Most shockingly, Damien learns that the lives of his family are in serious peril without any obvious reason. Damien struggles to unravel a staggering mystery that originates in the world financial markets, involving the most prestigious Wall St. banks, the murky world of organized crime, and ultimately the highest levels of government, before it lands directly on his doorstep. In a desperate attempt to protect his family from the forces closing in on him, an overmatched Damien sets his own strategy into motion that has as much a chance of failure as it does of success.

OSR agents Park Skarda and April Force are back in their second pulse-pounding adventure from Brian January, author of "Emerald"!


When a volcanic eruption destroyed the island of Thera in 1600 BCE, the fleeing inhabitants carried away with them a huge hoard of silver. But this silver wasn’t pure—it contained quantities of a rare earth element known as neosamarium, an element vital to the military strength of the United States, and one that the Chinese will pay a small fortune to get their hands on.

Searching for the hoard on Crete, OSR agents Park Skarda and April Force are given an ancient silver plaque by a dying archaeologist. They enlist the aid of Nathaniel Bennett, a genius Minoan scholar, to help them translate the artifact and unravel the clues about the treasure’s location. But the long-dead Minoans are not going to give up their secrets easily, and the ultimate answer will come at too high a cost.

With time running out, Skarda, April, and Nathaniel hunt through hidden caves and buried temples across the breadth of Crete, Turkey, and Cyprus, pursued by a ruthless female pirate, a cold-blooded mercenary, and an unscrupulous black market art collector.

Facing betrayals, danger, and certain death, they must survive a life-and-death race to stay one step ahead of their enemies and find the fabled treasure before it’s too late.

"Silver" is approximately 52,000 words or 210 printed pages.

The Priory of Sion lives: January 17, 1917 – the infamous priest in the tiny village of Rennes-le-Château, Bérenger Saunière, is found collapsed in the door of his tower. Five days later, he is dead, leaving few clues as to his fabulous wealth and influence. Some say he found Visigoth hoards or Templar Treasure, Cathar artifacts or even more unbelievable, the Holy Grail. All traces died with his housekeeper and she told no one. Over a century later, Commander Jaared Sen is assigned to follow a shady character, known as ‘The Head’, pursuing the treasure of Rennes-le-Château at all costs. What is this mysterious treasure and who are the Priory of Sion? Aided by his mysterious benefactress and a beautiful art historian, Jaared follows the Head to the south of France, into the dark heart of the Languedoc, its soil and history soaked in the blood of crusaders and martyrs.

Sabrina Miller, a fashion designer in Los Angeles, is stunned when she meets her own double. Her shock turns to terror when she learns that her duplicate was fabricated by a scientist and that there are people intent on killing her to protect their new, secret, creation.

Sabrina hides with the woman, whom she names Eve, as the news about a potential secret weapon for the Defense Department is leaked. An international race ensues to acquire the woman, a molecular clone of Sabrina's brain and body, but dramatically changed through advanced computer engineering.

Eve has been thrust into a new body. She must learn to act like a normal human woman to evade those hunting her. To complicate matters she is suddenly receiving mature female hormons which play havoc with her logical and biologically enhanced brain function. On top of all that her brain replicates electrical thought proccesses known only to Sabrina. Eve finds herself in love with Sabrina's boyfriend, Mark. How will she be able to cope with all this?

Although Sabrina and Eve look alike, there are enormous differences the people hunting them will do anything to possess.

True evil never dies; it just lays dormant waiting for the right time to awaken. In Ireland today there are many green and fertile acres that lie unplowed. Some are rumoured to be graveyards where the victims were buried in their thousands in unmarked graves. Others are beside former workhouses, only their ruins visible among the weeds.
No builder will build here. There are also many places that are unmapped and its only word of mouth that has marked them as such. Lonely spots, on empty stretches of road, that the old women still whisper about late at night and cross themselves in fear.
There is one such graveyard that was meant to be the resting-place of over a hundred of these unfortunate victims. An acre or more of unconsecrated ground into which their bodies were thrown one after the other. Some are buried alone, found decomposing on the side of the road or in their small tumble down cottages. They were hauled by cart to be covered by the damp earth in order to try and stop the spread of disease. Others are in groups, families that huddled together for warmth in the dreadful winter of 1847 and waited for death to relieve them of their suffering. There is also a mass grave where it is said that over fifty bodies are buried. Though these people will never be forgotten they remain just part of a tragic history. There are no stones that list their names, nothing to mark their passing, no sign that this was ever a graveyard.
Still, the very air around it should warn the unwary that this is a place of deep unrest. The bushes and trees that border it on all sides are overgrown and have tangled themselves around one another for comfort. Despite the warmth of a summer’s day there is a chill in the air that causes the hair to stand on end and goose pimples to rise on the skin. The many branches and thickets make it an ideal nesting place but there are no birds there. The absence of their song is a chilling reminder of what is lying beneath the earth, waiting.
The ground is rutted in places; the deep furrows of the funeral carts made over a hundred and fifty years ago are carved into the land. There are other holes that are so deep it makes walking precarious and one has to choose their step with care. It is not the sort of place to fall and lie injured as dark closes in and the graveyard comes to life. And there is a sort of life in this dead place, though it is not of this human world. The cool evening breeze picks up the first faint whispers that seem to circle around the field. Faint echoes of long ago that remain captured in time and replay the suffering over and over again. The sound of a mother weeping as she places her child in the dark hole and hurries the earth over it, wanting to be done and yet not wanting to leave her baby. She cries in misery and despair knowing as she rakes the earth with her fingers to form a mound that she will have to repeat this act three more times until she, finally, succumbs to death.
There’s another sound, the sound of children laughing. Little ones that once walked the land, little fingers that once clutched adult hands are there. Unaware that they are dead, they run and play in the high grass, yelling, laughing, whispering, theirs is a world of the night. And deep in the corner of the graveyard lies the cause of such unrest, Jack Carey. Christened Black Jack by those that knew him in life he is not finished with tormenting them in death. His evil moves like tentacles through the soil, tainting everything it touches and spreading misery and unrest in its path. It moves over the bones of the dead like a dark shadow, prodding them awake and it would have stayed this way throughout time but for one thing, an ambitious builder.
When the teeth of the big earthmovers first encountered the bones they started a chain of disaster. Had they stopped then, had they refused to continue with the desecration it might have been averted? As it was they followed orders and dug into the north most part of the graveyard, scooping up the rag-covered bones and the rotten wooden playthings of the children. These they dumped unceremoniously into blazing oil barrels and went back to their work. The workers frightened one another with tales of strange shapes in the trees and whisperings that made them uncomfortable. Each tale was met with laughter and there was much back slapping by their companions; but this did nothing to dispel the feeling of unease When he had finished, the builder had taken more then a third of the graveyard and what was left he cordoned off; replanting the bushes and trees. Within six months he had built twenty-seven houses, dream homes he called them. They would become such for the residents but it would be the stuff of nightmares, for Black Jack was abroad again and it would have much wiser to have let him sleep.

In an equally humorous and serious adult tale that moves from reality to the outer limits of mythological fantasy, a pregnant woman and a man seeking a second chance team up to battle an immortal evil readying the first phase of a new war on all Creation. Where Hope wills, can Faith win out? Join our Implausible Hero and Average Heroine in their quest to uncover the mind-bending answer.

Ramona Brinks is barely surviving her post-college angst, struggling to balance her partying with her job and her love life. She wants to move out and grow up. She doesn’t want to worry about the fact she’s seen a dead girl walking around in Elston or that she’s seen pictures indicating certain people in town haven’t aged in 60 years. She doesn’t want to be bothered by nagging evidence that something ancient and evil is at work in town. But when someone locks her in a basement because she’s asking too many questions, she can’t help but begin searching for answers in earnest.

As Ramona digs deeper, she begins to uncover a world underneath the seemingly quiet small town’s veneer. A realm of violent deaths and vengeful creatures, protecting a source of ancient power. Beneath the surface of her twentysomething culture–kids playing at being adults, existing on cigarettes, bars, and caffeine–something far more sinister is at work. And whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to want Ramona to leave.

John Truman, a bright, introverted, college student belongs to the New Dawn...he just doesn't know it yet. The plans of the 300-year-old, Oxford-based, secret society revolve around him, the final piece in their puzzle. He struggles with almost everything - the girl he loves, the extroverted uber-social best friend, his estranged father, and the recurring visions that compromise his ability to interact with others. All John wants is to get through today; all they want is to rule the world.

Suspense, intrigue, mystery, and romance all woven together into one thrilling tapestry. Enter a world where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. Are you ready?