All Troy Holden wanted was a fair price for his father''s Wyoming ranch. But ruthless rustlers were after the spread, offering Holden''s life as payment. It was green horn against gringo - and the loser would win a piece of boot hill.
Cal, Letty, Tony, Opi, and Sasha were thrust together when they were kidnapped by the Molethian civilization and forced to become a fighter crew to battle against The Horde—the most vicious, predatory enemy in all the Milky Way galaxy. At first, only Letty could get along with the rest of them, and they basically hated each other. However, due largely to Letty’s efforts, they became not only the top fighting crew in the Shadow Warriors, but also a close family that love and support each other. Due to Opi’s amazing strategic thinking, Letty’s organizational skills, Sasha’s unparalleled ability as a weapons officer, Tony’s crack talent as a navigator, and Cal’s icy nerve as a battle leader, they found a way to defeat a hundred-thousand-ship invasion force. But wait: since Molethians don’t fight their own battles, the High Command, back on Molethan, put no credence in the story of two thousand Molethian fighters destroying a force fifty times their size. A bungling investigating committee wrongly put the enemy total at two thousand, and since the commanding officer, Commander T’Kell, lost one thousand fighters, she has been returned to Molethan and put on trial for incompetence. Cal, Letty, Opi, Sasha, and Tony are called to testify in their commander’s defense. Can they save her career? They’ll need to do it quickly, as The Horde has sent out a new invasion of forty thousand new-style fighters, and they are nearly impregnable. If our heroes can’t save their commander, Molethan will almost surely lose the next battle, and their civilization will be destroyed. But even with Commander T’Kell back in command, can Opi and her crew find a way to pull off a miracle again? As they are frantically working to find a route to victory, the High Command is threatening to take over battle plans, which means the top navy commanders on Molethan may snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
"Rondu's Redemption" is the sequel to "Kodo: The Revolution," set in a chaotic world dominated by gang warfare, three years after Kodo's death. Following Kodo's demise, the world has devolved into a brutal landscape of gang conflicts and power struggles. This tale follows Rondu, the son of the infamous Ruta, as he navigates this violent world, seeking vengeance and redemption.
What lies beyond the mountains? Castaway Michael Malvern crosses the peaks to search for his kidnapped love and for answers to the riddle of a strange world. A fantasy adventure novel by Stephen Brooke, VALLEY OF VISIONS is Book II of the Malvern Saga
They were kidnapped and forced to fight in an alien space fleet . . . Cal, Letty, Tony, Opi, and Sasha were thrust together when they were kidnapped by the alien Molethan civilization and forced to become a fighting unit against The Horde, the most vicious, predatory enemy in the galaxy. At first, only Letty could get along with her fellow trainees, and largely due to her efforts, they became not only the top fighting crew in the Shadow Warriors, but also a close unit bound together with love and support. Thanks to Opi’s amazing strategic thinking, Letty’s organizational skills, Sasha’s unparalleled weapons ability, Tony’s crack talent as a navigator, and Cal’s icy nerve as a battle leader, they found a way to defeat a huge Horde invasion force. But since Molethians don’t fight their own battles, the High Command put no credence in the story of a small Shadow Warrior force destroying an enemy fleet fifty times their size. A bungling investigating committee wrongly, and vastly underestimated the enemy casualty total, and since the commanding officer T’Kell suffered many losses, she has been returned to the home world of Molethan and put on trial for incompetence. The Shadow Warriors are called to testify in their commander’s defense. Can they save her career? They’ll need to do it quickly, because The Horde has sent out a huge new invasion force. If our heroes can’t save their commander, the Molethan civilization will surely be destroyed. Even with Commander T’Kell back in command, can Opi and her crew pull off another miracle? Meanwhile, the incompetent High Command threatens to take over the defensive plans, and Molethan’s top navy commanders may snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
John Devereaux and his MANTRA-6 team are now fully operational. On the frozen landscape of Northern Russia, four figures dressed in arctic camouflage uniforms, break into the Polyarny Naval Base near Murmansk – Home of Russia’s Northern Fleet. Their mission, to steal 60kg of highly enriched Uranium-235 and hand it over to the Russian Mafia. Rogue nations and despots – North Korea, Libya, Iran, Al-Qa’Ida, Hamas and Hezbollah, all want their hands on this lethal cargo… Let the bidding begin! MANTRA-6 is on the hunt. God help anyone who gets in their way! Mantra 6: Nitrate is the second book in Russel Hutchings' explosive new thriller series featuring operative John Devereaux.
A report from the epicenter of the Naxalite war In its war against the Maoists, it is the Indian state that usually gets to tell its side of story. But official explanations are not meant to convey truth. Most often they attempt to cover up the reality and obscure it. The claim that only one warring side has the right to propagate its views whereas the other does not because they are projected as ‘enemy’ is questionable when we know there are two sides to any conflict and where both sides comprise our own people. In this situation of internal war, not satisfied with the knowledge offered by books and documents, Gautam Navlakha went into the heart of Bastar to get to know the Maoists first hand. This book is an account of the fortnight he spent in the guerilla zone where the Maoists run their people’s government, the Jantana Sarkar. His enquiry unflinching and his perspective critical but partisan, Navlakha succeeds in the difficult task of making the demonized human, laying bare the heartland of rebellion.
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy.
Lists writers of western fiction, with a biography, a bibliography of the writer's works, and a critical essay on each writer. Sometimes comments by the author himself are included.