Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. Book 1: The strident call to action comes from Cuba as an unprecedented wave of violence against Americans that Castro’s inheritors can’t-or won’t- control. When the U.S. offers of military support are turned down, the five member Black OPS force is dispatched on a clandestine down and dirty mission... In the tradition of Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan and Warren Murphy's Destroyer classic paperback book series!
Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. Book 2: The Black OPS team has dealt with foreign terrorists aboard, but now the carnage is the bloody handiwork of Americans as Los Angeles turns into a powder keg in an interracial war that threatens to sweep the county. Deployed to infiltrate the gangs, to trace the weapons flooding L.A. to their source, the Black OPS commandos uncover a trail of diabolical horror leading to the gruesome vision of social engineering.
Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. Book 3: The Black OPS team’s priority is to rescue a hostaged group of archaeological students, including the niece of the Secretary of State. Blood has already been spilled, and the students face an ever-receding future that will be terminated by torture and death. But the five member Black OPS team have emerged from deep cover to take on the terrorists at their own game.
In the tradition of Blue Thunder. Torn apart by violent crime, 1999 America was in big trouble. Armed criminal cartels terrorized our cities, dealing drugs and death wholesale. Local police were outgunned and overrun by the explosion of terror, so the President unleashed the only force able to save the country: the U.S. TACTICAL POLICE FORCE. An elite army of super cops with ammo to burn, they powered down on the hot spots in sleek high-tech attack choppers to win the dirty war and take back the streets of America! Book 1: The battle lines are drawn when a Seattle crime gang hijacks a Trident missile to threaten the entire West Coast of the United States. Hot off a night mission to interdict illegal arms, Capt. Buzz Corcran and his TPF Dragon Flight strike team target an old Puget Sound prison island as the terrorists’ fortified headquarters, swooping down to blast the enemy and stop the missile's detonation.
Torn apart by violent crime, 1999 America was in big trouble. Armed criminal cartels terrorized our cities, dealing drugs and death wholesale. Local police were outgunned and overrun by the explosion of terror, so the President unleashed the only force able to save the country: the U.S. TACTICAL POLICE FORCE. An elite army of super cops with ammo to burn, they powered down on the hot spots in sleek high-tech attack choppers to win the dirty war and take back the streets of America! Book 2: Smoke blackens the skies along the Texas Gulf Coast as several U.S. offshore oil rigs explode in huge balls of fire. The devastation is the first step in a crazed terrorist plot to cripple the United States.. Thousands will die and billions of dollars will be lost unless they can be stopped. Captain Buzz Corcran of the TPF and his squadron of super skycops power into action, leaving a trail of death behind them as they track down the savage killers in a firefight to save America!
Torn apart by violent crime, 1999 America was in big trouble. Armed criminal cartels terrorized our cities, dealing drugs and death wholesale. Local police were outgunned and overrun by the explosion of terror, so the President unleashed the only force able to save the country: the U.S. TACTICAL POLICE FORCE. An elite army of super cops with ammo to burn, they powered down on the hot spots in sleek high-tech attack choppers to win the dirty war and take back the streets of America! Book 3: New Year’s Eve, 1999. Hidden in a super fortress high in the Colorado mountains, an illegal satellite defense relay station prepares to take over an orbiting military platform in order to destroy a nuclear plant in Southern California. Millions will die and the entire Southwest region will be turned into a radioactive wasteland unless the terrorist plot can be stopped. It’s up to the TPF to uncover the plot in time while searching for two team members who have crashed in the winter mountain wilderness.
Torn apart by violent crime, 1999 America was in big trouble. Armed criminal cartels terrorized our cities, dealing drugs and death wholesale. Local police were outgunned and overrun by the explosion of terror, so the President unleashed the only force able to save the country: the U.S. TACTICAL POLICE FORCE. An elite army of super cops with ammo to burn, they powered down on the hot spots in sleek high-tech attack choppers to win the dirty war and take back the streets of America! Book 4: Crazed addicts have turned our cities into living hell as they kill each other for one last hit of the latest designer drug called EDGE. Super-thieves in high-tech choppers blast open banks, stealing millions each week. All signs point to a plot by the powerful LA mob. Unable to fight the threat alone, the LAPD sends for the only force able to stop it: Captain Buzz Corcran’s strike force of skycops. Exploding into action, the squad must win the bloody battle in the air and the streets before crime destroys America forever!
The year is 2030 and the world is in a state of political and territorial unrest. The Peacekeepers, an elite military force is created to combat it. Armed with all the tactical advantages of modern technology, battle hard and ready when the free world is threatened - the Peacekeepers are the baddest grunts on the planet. Book 0: The rugged desert terrain of the Middle East is a high-tech battlefield for black gold. Fighting to control the monopoly of oil is a ruthless Arab alliance - up against a coalition of major Western industrial nations. As the war escalates, so does global unrest, and the Peacekeepers are dispatched. Their job is not to appeal to peace, brotherhood or goodwill. Times have changed, but war remains the same - strike first, strike hard and give no quarter. But in the changing battlefields and shifting alliances, the Keepers must first identify the enemy. If they make the wrong move, the world stands to be crushed by the destructive juggernaut of nuclear war.
The year is 2030 and the world is in a state of political and territorial unrest. The Peacekeepers, an elite military force is created to combat it. Armed with all the tactical advantages of modern technology, battle hard and ready when the free world is threatened - the Peacekeepers are the baddest grunts on the planet. Book 1: Violence shatters black-ruled South Africa, placing the white minority in deadly jeopardy. The Peacekeepers mount a lightning assault, successfully deflecting revolutionary shock troops, only to find themselves facing an army of Boer exiles determined to press their claims for the country and backed by money, fanaticism - and four neutron bombs.
The year is 2030 and the world is in a state of political and territorial unrest. The Peacekeepers, an elite military force is created to combat it. Armed with all the tactical advantages of modern technology, battle hard and ready when the free world is threatened - the Peacekeepers are the baddest grunts on the planet. Book 2: Echo Company’s transport plane crash-lands in Laos under fire from a renegade Han jet fighter. With only their Light Assault Rifles functioning, they head for the border...and encounter an astounding sight: a village of descendants of American POWs from the Vietnam War. With the enemy biting at their heels, Echo Company and sixty refugees are thrust into jungle guerrilla warfare at its most relentless and primitive. But they’re Peacekeepers - strip them down and put a rock in their hands, and they’re still bad news.
The year is 2030 and the world is in a state of political and territorial unrest. The Peacekeepers, an elite military force is created to combat it. Armed with all the tactical advantages of modern technology, battle hard and ready when the free world is threatened - the Peacekeepers are the baddest grunts on the planet. Book 3: The allied nations of South America are poised to attack Brazil for environmental crimes. The Peacekeepers are dispatched to stop the fighting.. Echo Company’s got the meanest grunts, but their opening salvos are met with superior resistance. Border claims, ancient disputes and outright greed all threaten to draw the rest of the continent into the conflict. The Peacekeepers have faced bad odds before, but up against a ruthless and bloodthirsty enemy - and with the specter of nuclear holocaust looming on the horizon - this operation has the potential of becoming their Alamo.
The village of Shepthorne England wasn’t being gripped, but rather strangled by a winter’s blanket of heavy snow and Arctic temperatures. The trouble began innocently enough with a massive pile-up of autos on frozen roads leading to and from the village. Then, from the sky, a military transport plane with its top secret cargo of devastation crashed down towards the center of the village. Hell was just beginning to touch Shepthorne and its unsuspecting citizens...
Now the military has come in to isolate the town and retrieve the plane’s cargo and any villagers are expendable in order to keep its deadly contents a secret from the rest of the world.
For fans of THE LION KING and THE JUNGLE BOOK. Set in the amazon jungle, a jaguar named Bichu, is wounded by a poacher’s bullet and wants nothing more to get back to her mountain lair so that she can die a peaceful death. But to do so she must evade and survive not only the natural dangers of the jungle, but also the cunning of a proud and stubborn Indian who is determined to catch and kill her after coming across her trail. For a jaguar’s hide can bring great wealth and standing for the Indian in his village. At the Indian’s side is his 12 year old daughter who has great admiration for her father and witnesses his unyielding determination. However as the chase, seen through the eyes of both man and beast, draws to its climax and the moment of truth draws near, both hunter and hunted have come to develop an extraordinary and totally unexpected respect for each other.
During WWII a British officer was sent to East Africa to align and coordinate with the native tribes a guerrilla campaign to attack and harass the Axis forces. In his possession were secret government documents outlining certain allegiances and a strongbox containing gold bullion to pay for those allegiances. Unfortunately the officer was captured by a group of Italian soldiers and killed; and the whereabouts of those documents and gold undetermined.
Now, 13 years later comes word that one of those Italians has turned up and is being held prisoner by an African warlord. A branch of the British Foreign Office is tasked to get their hands on that Italian and find the gold but more importantly the sensitive and compromising documents, and to do it they will send in Ian Metcalfe to make it happen.
Rogue’s Gambit is a fast-moving novel of action and suspense, of strange and violent adventures in the post-war years, written by a veteran WWII British intelligence officer.
During World War II Alan Caillou was on a British Intelligence deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert of Africa when he was captured by the Italians in February 1943. This is the story of his capture and subsequent escape after being sentenced for execution for being a spy; brilliantly told as to his experiences during that time. It can be considered not only as an escape book but as a prison book as well. For fans of such prison war films as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and King Rat.
"Something very much out of the ordinary run." - Times Literary Supplement
"This book is a record that arouses admiration, raises many a smile, and shows a fine sense of the dramatic." - Manchester Evening Post
"An Intelligent and unusual book, full of good reading." - Punch
Novelization of the Academy Award winning screenplay of the epic motion picture starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence Olivier.
In 1883, a Holy War rages across Egypt. The Mahdi, devout prophet of Allah and leader of countless thousands of armed tribesman, is about to descend upon the city of Khartoum, in the Sudan. A city that has become the arsenal to Egypt and that the Mahdi pledges to kill ever man, woman, and child within it. William Gladstone, Britain's Prime Minister, vows that he will not send British troops to defend the city. Instead he would sacrifice one man and enlists the reputable General Gordon to smooth over the situation in Sudan after a brutal battle has left several British men dead. Gordon, savior of the Sudan who broke the slave trade several years prior, a man of righteous courage who would defy even the Prime Minister of England to rescue the people he loved. For he was a man who had lived for them and, if need be, would die for them . . . so instead of acting as an ambassador, he motivates the city to prepare its defenses and takes command of its small vastly outnumbered army.
This novelization contains numerous scenes and subplots not seen in the released motion picture.
The first in the Mike Benasque thriller series!
THE PLOTTERS: A whirlwind novel of chase and daring about a down-at-the-heels newspaperman who gets caught in the crossfire of a South American revolution.
A high government official falls ill with a terrible and dreaded disease.
An American citizen vanishes without a trace from a lonely railroad station.
A parachutist drops through the silent night into the shelter of a dense forest.
Only the plotters know that these isolated happenings are all part of a master plan. A daring attempt to overthrow a cut-throat dictator who does not hesitate to maim or murder anyone who makes a try for freedom.
For Mike Benasque the terror began with the stroke of midnight. He is an American newspaperman bumming around Caracas, out of a job, out of money, and out of luck. One evening two gentlemen approach him and offer a great deal of money for his willingness to take a small part in their scheme. Despite being a newspaper man and always skeptical, Benasque finds himself agreeing to become the central vital figure in their plot without ever knowing their true endgame. A plot that ultimately turns out is both daring and desperate, and that could bring Benasque financial freedom but more likely sudden death.
“Suspenseful . . . exciting . . . one dramatic climax after another” — BOSTON HERALD
“Almost unbearable suspense" —NASHVILLE BANNER
“First rate” — ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS
One of the bloodiest “little wars” in American history, that saw the deaths of 4,200 U.S. soldiers, serves as the background for this story of high adventure and brutal combat.
The year is 1898 and the setting is the island of Sulu in the Philippines. The Spanish-American War has just ended and with its victory over Spain, the United States has gained possession of the islands. However, American troops are now fighting a series of savage and brutal guerrilla skirmishes with rebellious local tribes who wish independence. The most feared and fearless of these are the violent Moros, headed by a chieftain of unusual intelligence and cunning named Jokiri.
Three years later with no victory in site, the U.S. has sent out patrols into the jungle to locate Jokiri, but he has laid a treacherous ambush for one group of these foreigners. Surrounding a group of Army officers who fall into his trap, he slays and beheads all of the soldiers except Captain Shay Sullivan, whom he takes to his camp. There Sullivan faces unimaginable torture and death unless he turns traitor to his country and teaches the Moros American war tactics.
THE WALLS OF JOLO is the story of what happens to Shay as he matches wits and does battle with Jokiri. His only weapons being courage, and the fearless love of the Spanish beauty who tries to help him, Medina, Jokiri’s beautiful adopted daughter.
First in the Colonel Tobin covert military mission novels!
Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... against enemies plotting a third world war in the Middle East!
Tobin and his army have been hired to stop a potential missile strike against several major Israeli cities. Should it occur the resulting aftermath could very well light the match that will see the start of World War III. And how do the perpetrator’s plan on pulling this off? They will secretly transport a Russian-designed submarine across the desert and launch it into the Dead Sea were it can secretly hurl its explosive deadly cargo at the unsuspecting nation.
So here comes the seemingly invincible Colonel Tobin with his hand-picked, hand-trained collection of the hardest, strongest, most efficient mercenary fighters in the world. Men who live, work, fight, drink, and love like the devil himself; an odd band of angels who fight for their own reasons...and together are the best damn bunch since the dirty dozen!
The world’s toughest fighting force is out to stop a war...or start one...
Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... against enemies plotting to overthrow a South American government!
BRAZIL ERUPTS... A country that finds itself caught up in the throes of a bloody revolution. The regular army cannot cope with the well-armed outlaws, guerrillas, and native tribes with poisoned arrows of this fanatical force.
And so the word goes out: “Get Colonel Tobin!” – and his hand-picked, hand-trained collection of the hardest, strongest, most efficient mercenary fighters in the world. Men who live, work, fight, drink, and love like the devil himself; an odd band of angels who fight for their own reasons...and together are the best damn bunch since the dirty dozen!
The only men on Earth who can stop a revolution...or start one, if necessary.
Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... to take on two armies in central Africa!
JUNGLE SLAUGHTER...It was the only way. Colonel Tobin and his hand-picked warriors bought themselves a job that demanded total victory—the enemy must be wiped out completely...eliminated!
Only one complication in the battle plan: There were two enemies!
One was General Guevara Lincoln, the giant ex-Black Panther and his army of African rebel tribes. The other was Major Dogger, the brutal South African mercenary leader and his legion of cutthroat soldiers.
Tobin. Guevara. Dogger — a triangle of violence that splashes across the Congo with a bloodbath battle seemingly on a primal level. The end results surpassing even the grisly days of Stanleyville and Biafra. With the future of central Africa's people and rich resources at stake.
Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... against a tribal uprising in Afghanistan that will engulf the entire country and region in violence and bloodshed!
RULE OF THE SWORD...The private army of Colonel Tobin will fight any battle on the enemy’s own terms if need be, even if they have to face a maniacal leader who believes he’s the incarnation of Genghis Khan, hell bent on destruction.
The avenging angels launch their current campaign in Afghanistan, a land torn between cruelties of the past and promises of the future, and that has been unconquered for centuries with never-ending tribal strife. It’s going to be hard, brutal combat for a better way of life for its people in the latest mission of Tobin’s war against injustice.
First in the Ian Quayle spy novels series!
Ian Quayle is a low level agent within a branch of MI6. He is a playboy, a gentleman, a lover, and a genius at research. He is totally fluent in five foreign languages and quite comfortable in several others. He expertly handles his beloved Mini-Cooper 'S' at speeds well over 100 and can get a great table at any decent restaurant on the Continent. Of course, he is incredibly handsome, which is why women throw themselves at him constantly, despite the complaint by his sometime lady friend, Wendy, who maintains he hasn't a clue how to satisfy a partner. This natural attraction only helps his inflated ego.
Now after 16 years of being a researcher, Ian Quayle is picked to go into the field to investigate the assassination of a prominent Italian general in Rome, the probable work of a terrorist band. But he soon finds himself on the firing line and in over his head against a secret and deadly organization of information traffickers that has manipulated world events for the last 200 years. And a group that will do anything to maintain its secrecy.
Adapted into the Warner Brothers action/adventure motion picture of the same name starring Academy Award nominee Robert Mitchum and BAFTA Award Winner Jack Hawkins. The novel contains numerous additional scenes, subplots, and characters not depicted in the feature film. For fans of such films as The Ghost and the Darkness, and Beast.
RAMPAGE: Two renowned big-game hunters, a German Otto von Abart and American Harry Stanton, embark on a dangerous mission into the steaming jungles of Malaya. Their assignment: to capture prize specimens for the Munich Zoo in Germany. Neither man realizes that the trip is to prove the ordeal of their lives, an ordeal inflamed by the presence of von Abart's beautiful mistress Anna.
As the trio battle their way through the treacherous jungle, what began as a professional rivalry soon turns into a personal rivalry as well, and the two men engage in a strange combat that can end only with the destruction of one of them. Always between the two men is Anna, watching, waiting as much the prize as is the black killer leopard both hunters covet and pursue.
In the tradition of Blade Runner, Robocop, and I, Robot. In mid-21st century America – over-populated cities harbor ordinary citizens who are oppressed by money manipulators, drug pushers and daily violence. And beyond the cities lay vast wastelands of chemically polluted regions teaming with outlaws and mutants. Law enforcement, as it has always been, is seemingly on the brink of collapse against the ever increasing tide of lawlessness, corrupt political officials, and a system that favors the criminal and not the victims. However U.S. Justice Marshal Thomas Jefferson Cade is one of a new breed of law enforcers. Teamed with his Cyborg partner, Janek, an infuriatingly logical masterpiece of engineering, they take on the criminal elements and deal out sentences that the rules of the law does not find so black and white. Book 1: Cade investigates the rumored disappearances of the Darksiders in New York City. A population of people that have shun society and moved to live underground. But the stakes are raised when a female investigative reporter, and Cade’s sometimes companion, also disappears the case becomes personal.
In mid-21st century America – over-populated cities harbor ordinary citizens who are oppressed by money manipulators, drug pushers and daily violence. And beyond the cities lay vast wastelands of chemically polluted regions teaming with outlaws and mutants. Law enforcement, as it has always been, is seemingly on the brink of collapse against the ever increasing tide of lawlessness, corrupt political officials, and a system that favors the criminal and not the victims. However U.S. Justice Marshal Thomas Jefferson Cade is one of a new breed of law enforcers. Teamed with his Cyborg partner, Janek, an infuriatingly logical masterpiece of engineering, they take on the criminal elements and deal out sentences that the rules of the law does not find so black and white. Book 2: Cade and Janek investigate a series of murders and discover a conspiracy involving a multi-billionaire industrialist and military renegade with visions of taking over the U.S. Government. Amos Sinclair is a powerful enemy and has an army of combat androids doing his dirty work. In a high-speed death race the bad guys play very dirty but Cade has something new to teach them.
In mid-21st century America – over-populated cities harbor ordinary citizens who are oppressed by money manipulators, drug pushers and daily violence. And beyond the cities lay vast wastelands of chemically polluted regions teaming with outlaws and mutants. Law enforcement, as it has always been, is seemingly on the brink of collapse against the ever increasing tide of lawlessness, corrupt political officials, and a system that favors the criminal and not the victims. However U.S. Justice Marshal Thomas Jefferson Cade is one of a new breed of law enforcers. Teamed with his Cyborg partner, Janek, an infuriatingly logical masterpiece of engineering, they take on the criminal elements and deal out sentences that the rules of the law does not find so black and white. Book 3: Cade and Janek are assigned to nail Loren Brak, a renegade drug dealer who is eliminating the competition to become number one and heading West from New York City to create his own empire. With Brak’s shock troops facing them, mutants roaming the wastelands in-between, the Marshals follow the corpse laden trail to LA – and enter the kill zone with guns loaded.
Nature gone Wild! Les Mason, reporter for the Long Point News, is close to finishing an explosive expose on the Long Point Nuclear Plant. But before he can slot the final piece of the jigsaw into place, he dies an agonizing death as the result of some sort of strange sting. The local doctors are baffled — and suddenly there are similar cases that follow. Now Chris Lane, Les's girlfriend, and organizer of the Long Point Protestors that oppose the operation of the nuclear plant, discovers Mason’s notes, and decides to find out for herself what the plant could possibly be hiding...
The explosive sequel to Neil Hunter's Scorpion novel! The colony of deadly scorpions at Long Point Nuclear Plant that killed scores of locals was eradicated. Or so people thought. Over a year later, entomologist Miles Ranleigh receives a worrying telephone call. A man has been fatally poisoned by toxic venom, identical to the Long Point scorpions’ — but far more powerful. Miles and his companion Jill Ansty must race to destroy the fresh infestation. But this is a new strain of scorpion. Mutated and irradiated. They’re larger, more savage—and infected with a deadly virus fatal to humans. And they’re breeding...
Based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells. Sherlock Holmes is called out of retirement to London in 1908 to solve a most baffling mystery: The British Museum is missing a perfect specimen of a Martian from the failed invasion of 1899. Did it walk away of its own accord or did someone steal it and if so, why? Holmes ponders the facts and remembers his part in the war effort alongside Professor Challenger during the War of the Worlds invasion which were chronicled in H.G. Wells’ classic novel. Meanwhile, Doctor Watson has problems of his own when his wife, Jacqueline, steals a scalpel from his surgical tool kit and returns to her old stomping grounds of Whitechapel, the London area of the infamous unsolved murders of Jack The Ripper!
"Doug Murray and Topper Helmers bring us a ripping yarn combining some of the most beloved characters to ever come out of turn-of-the-century London.” - AtomicAvenue.com
Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for nationalistic pride, and fight for personal glory. Based on historical facts and well researched, each individual pilot’s story is thrillingly told in this volume series that serves both as an astonishing read and a fitting tribute to courage, audacity and sacrifice; capturing the kinetic mayhem of the dogfight while briskly illuminating life on the ground on and off the base. Each story becoming much more than the number of victories scored, as vital as that might have been to the final outcome of the war. Volume ONE features the true exploits of England’s Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock, Ireland’s George ‘McIrish’ McElroy, and India’s Lal ‘Laddie’ Roy.
“Chris’s gorgeous art is complimented by great scripting that captures the danger of air warfare perfectly, and pulls no punches when many of the pilots make their final sortie….International Aces is, quite simply, one of the best produced independent war comics I have ever seen.” - John Freeman, Downthetubes
Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for nationalistic pride, and fight for personal glory. Based on historical facts and well researched, each individual pilot’s story is thrillingly told in this volume series that serves both as an astonishing read and a fitting tribute to courage, audacity and sacrifice; capturing the kinetic mayhem of the dogfight while briskly illuminating life on the ground on and off the base. Each story becoming much more than the number of victories scored, as vital as that might have been to the final outcome of the war. VOLUME TWO features the true exploits of Italy’s Francesco Baracca, France’s René Fonck, and Belgium’s Willy Coppens.
Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for nationalistic pride, and fight for personal glory. Based on historical facts and well researched, each individual pilot’s story is thrillingly told in this volume series that serves both as an astonishing read and a fitting tribute to courage, audacity and sacrifice; capturing the kinetic mayhem of the dogfight while briskly illuminating life on the ground on and off the base. Each story becoming much more than the number of victories scored, as vital as that might have been to the final outcome of the war. Volume THREE features the true exploits of Russia’s Aleksandr Kozakov, Austro-Hungary’s Godwin Brumowski, and Germany’s Manfred Von Richthofen.
Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for nationalistic pride, and fight for personal glory. Based on historical facts and well researched, each individual pilot’s story is thrillingly told in this volume series that serves both as an astonishing read and a fitting tribute to courage, audacity and sacrifice; capturing the kinetic mayhem of the dogfight while briskly illuminating life on the ground on and off the base. Each story becoming much more than the number of victories scored, as vital as that might have been to the final outcome of the war. Volume FOUR features the true exploits of Canada’s William Bishop, South Africa’s Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, Australia’s Robert Little, New Zealand’s Keith Caldwell, and the United States’ Edward Rickenbacker.
From Harvey-nominated writer/artist Don Lomax, creator of the award-winning Vietnam Journal series comes Fire Team.
Cam Ky MacMurphy is half-Vietnamese, half- American, and feels as if he doesn’t belong to either race. His uncle, Nguyen Van Tan, raised him from birth and the two live in an area of LA that is controlled by a skinhead gang called “Future Shock.” The neighborhood lives in fear as the gang forces them to pay “protection” money. When Nguyen refuses, he and Cam are beaten and their store is burned to the ground. The police, for their part, don’t even bother to file a report. Then hope appears in the form of a ghost from the past. When Nguyen was younger, right after Cam was born, he worked with a U.S. Fire Team deployed in the last days of the Vietnam War. The team was comprised of six brave men who ended up sacrificing themselves trying to evacuate women and children from an about to be overrun command base. Now the Fire Team has come back from the dead to not only save Nguyen and Cam but to tell Cam that his American father is alive and fighting a guerrilla war in the Vietnamese jungles!
The acclaimed comic book war series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is now presented as a series of graphic novel volume collections.
Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a war journalist Scott Neithammer, a freelance reporter the troops have nicknamed "Journal". As an embedded reporter, Neithammer has a single minded focus and obsession to report the controversial war from the "grunt’s" point of view and to hell with the consequences. It chronicles the lives and events of soldiers on the front line during the Vietnam War. BOOK ONE collects issues 1-4 plus short story "The 5.56 Blues".
Picked by Entertainment Weekly as "a graphic novel you should own" and recommended by the Military History Book Club
The acclaimed series from Don Lomax continues in this second trade paperback collecting the entire series. The four issues contained in this volume were originally published by Apple Comics (#5-#8) and issue 8 and 9 have never been reprinted before so this volume is a chance for long time fans to finally get the whole saga of “The Iron Triangle” in its entirety.
In BOOK THREE, Scott ‘Journal’ Neithammer returns to Vietnam, having recovered from his war injuries, but his expectations of being assigned to a safe area dissipate as he is dropped into the middle of a firefight in the Mekong Delta. Neithammer joins up with a new group deployed in the Vietnam War by the US Navy...the Seals. They’re not exactly happy with the older 'Journal' tagging along but orders are orders. The problem is 'Journal' can’t really figure out what the Seals’ orders exactly are. As preparations get underway for the Dak To engagement, 'Journal' ventures out into the jungle but ends up escorting a pregnant villager to safety only to discover she’s really with the enemy. And afterwards, as a battle rages towards occupying a hill that has no significant value, 'Journal' finds he has to deal with both choking gas and Vietcong snipers. Collects issues 9-12. Plus a short story titled “Dustoff” is included.
In BOOK FOUR, Scott 'Journal' Niethammer, lost in the jungle and on his own, sees firsthand the terror the Vietnamese villages contend with on an almost daily basis. But he comes across an U.S. army dog named Luther who faithfully serves. And as Operation Pershing unleashes 'Journal' hears a tale from a young soldier about an action soldiers didn’t usually talk about, especially to a reporter. It is a grey line between morality and loyalty and 'Journal' is also forced to deal with that situation. He also begins to put to paper the struggles of American prisoners of war held by the Viet Cong, as an American soldier, after brutal imprisonment by the Viet Cong, recounts his tale and 'Journal' finally understands how resilient the American soldier can be even at such a young age. BOOK FOUR collects issues 13-16.
In BOOK FIVE, the story of the Tet Offensive is chronicled by ‘Journal’. It is the biggest push the Viet Cong launched during the Vietnam War and one that almost brought them immediate victory. The American command realizes that the latest assault s a massive one as multiple targets are all hit at once. This escalates the war to an entirely new level. And with the Tet Offensive in full force, ‘Journal’ finds the civilian population are more than just tools in the war. As he, along with most of the other press covering the war, realize that although America are winning the battles, they were losing the war. And it is obvious that the Viet Cong would do anything to succeed….anything. And with U.S. troops making their push to Khe Sanh, ‘Journal’ gets a taste of the politics that have taken over the American involvement in the war as it cements the insanity of the entire conflict. Collects entire Vietnam Journal Tet '68 series.
In BOOK SIX, war correspondent Scott 'Journal' Neithammer arrives in Khe Sanh at the beginning of the bloody siege. American troops are completely isolated and under constant bombardment from North Vietnamese troops for over two months as the First Air Cavalry struggles to arrive on the scene to reinforce the exhausted Marines. The siege is ultimately broken as North Vietnamese troops withdraw with heavy American reinforcements on the way. But the aftermath signals a shift in U.S. policy and the Khe Sanh base is closed and dismantled. And in a surprise move to the American troops, President Johnson announces a restriction in bombing of North Vietnam. Aside from the Khe Sanh series, Book Six also includes two short stories titled "Special Ops: Phoenix" and "Zippo Raid".
In BOOK SEVEN, the United States military decides to launch an offensive into the A Shau Valley near the Laotian border. This has been a long time staging area that the Viet Cong have used for years to send men and supplies into South Vietnam from the enemy’s sanctuary in Laos. Meanwhile 'Journal' becomes fascinated with the story of a prisoner of war who belonged to a small tribe that has lived in the A Shau Valley for centuries. They have no sense of country, politics or ideology, only for their local people, but they are dragged anyhow into a war they couldn’t even comprehend. And as the battle at A Shau Valley continues even though Nixon has taken over as President of the United States, ‘Journal, always trying to stay as impartial as possible, can’t contain his rage when he finds the Viet Cong receiving medical supplies from United States protesters back home against the war. Also included in BOOK SEVEN is the collected Hamburger Hill serial series that appeared in Gallery Magazine.
In BOOK EIGHT, assembled here is the series story run BRAIN DEAD HORROR as it had originally appeared at the online site VIETNAM JOURNAL CONTINUUM. Featured are four tales depicting the full nature of war soldiers faced in Southeast Asia.
After 25 years Don Lomax's critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal series is back with all new tales of Scott ‘Journal’ Neithammer as he reports on the heartache and headache of the forgotten young soldiers on both sides of the Vietnam War. VOLUME ONE takes ‘Journal’ from late 1969, the Monsoon season, to May of 1970, and the beginning of the Cambodian incursion. As the war officially spreads into that neighboring country it tests the South Vietnamese Military on their capabilities of sustaining the war against the North Vietnamese Communists on their own. Along the way ‘Journal’ finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a juvenile sniper, and a private war for his own sanity as he is forced to fight a plague of rats at a forward firebase. And from a bitter sweet tryst in a back street bar in Saigon, to rolling into Cambodia with an untrustworthy cameraman new to his craft...the action never stops and questions about Neithammer’s career choice continually lay just below the surface.
VOLUME TWO. It is 1969 and Scott “Journal” Niethammer returns to report on the seemingly endless conflict and this time he heads into Cambodia as the incursion of that country is well underway by United States and South Vietnamese military forces. He is accompanied by a slightly erratic photographer with the unhealthy attitude that he is impervious to enemy fire when behind the camera’s lens. While in Cambodia they meet a pistol packing, single-minded Nun and dozens of ethnic Vietnamese orphans who have been delivered a death sentence by Cambodia’s new acting Prime Minister, Lon Nol. With Journal’s help they make a desperate race for the border and salvation. Now wanted by the Judge Advocate General’s office for questioning, Journal retreats back into Cambodia hoping the farce will all blow over. But he meets a female reporter as much an outcast from the mainstream media as he. Their similarities create a bond until the war finds a way to force the heavy hand of horror into their fledgling relationship. And lastly, racism and drugs rear their ugly heads as rear echelon United States troops are moved forward in a support capacity for the line troops. Their real world prejudices and minimal training threaten to rot the core of the effort from the inside out. And the ever present enemy awaits any opportunity to hand the Americans a sound defeat should there be a misstep in their favor. Collects Vietnam Journal: Series Two comic issues #6-10.
VOLUME THREE. July 1970. Scott "Journal" Neithammer has been reporting first-hand on President Nixon’s military incursion into Cambodia to root out the North Vietnamese Army’s. However, this all comes to an abrupt end when he is kidnapped by over-zealous Military Police and returned to South Vietnam to face the Provost Marshall’s wrath. The incident sparks Neithammer’s unexpected journey back into the dreaded A Shau Valley where the 101st Airborne Division, once again, attempts to bloody the noses of the NVA. Just one year earlier, their Brothers had fought a prolonged and divisive battle in the A Shau Valley on Hill 937, Dong Ap Bia Mountain—aka Hamburger Hill. This brings us to the siege of Fire Support Base RIPCORD. This is a story of over-confidence, arrogance, and revenge on the part of Military Assistance Command Vietnam in Saigon, coupled with an under-strength U.S. force sent to face an enemy who outnumbers them ten to one. RIPCORD was the final large unit battle in the waning days of the Vietnam War for the United States. The troops were expected to face a massive enemy presence, have minimal or no casualties, and receive limited ordinance and support, while vanquishing a highly motivated and well supplied enemy. RIPCORD is also the story of the senseless waste of young American lives. Nevertheless, it recognizes the extreme heroism of the lowly infantry grunt, average age 18-years-old, who was expected to complete an overwhelming task. Collects Vietnam Journal: Series Two issues #11-15.
HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Desert Storm Journal comic series and brings back his central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books.
August 1, 1990, Saddam Hussein, with his eye on the rich oil fields of Kuwait rolled his army into that neighboring country with the intention of annexing Kuwait as a province, while claiming its riches for himself. War was brewing once again on the American horizon. Scott 'Journal' Neithammer comes out of retirement to cover the first Persian Gulf War. He finds himself also caught up in the war between the Pentagon and the press! Fed up with press restrictions, he heads off into the desert on his own - and gets an unwelcome firsthand taste of the full fury of modern American firepower! Collects issues 1-4 of DESERT STORM JOURNAL.
HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Desert Storm Journal comic series and brings back his central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books.
January 1991. The ground war to oust Saddam Hussein by United States and coalition forces from Kuwait has begun. Scott 'Journal' Neithammer has come out of retirement and finds himself and his photographer lost in the desert and many miles behind enemy lines. It soon becomes evident that danger takes more than one form as they are captured by Iraqi forces. But with escape comes the realization that friendly fire can make you just as dead as Saddam's army. Collects comic book issues 5-9 of DESERT STORM JOURNAL series.
Based on the true story of an American spy in Vietnam as told to Don Lomax by agent Robert Durand who chronicles the tale.
Durand was a member of a black-ops team, code-named "Shining Brass." This graphic novel depicts the horrific atrocities witnessed and performed by the once naive special forces member as he attempts to perform his duties and understand the true meaning behind the madness. Durand’s group was under the command of a combined force, comprised of every branch of the services, and headed up by the ever-popular Central Intelligence Committee. This book is a journey into a shadow world of treachery and deceit—and reveals the way lives of Americans were traded about carelessly during the war in Vietnam.
For those that enjoy the world of model railroading!
THE BOYS IN THE BASEMENT cartoon strip was conceived, written, and illustrated by award-winning comic book creator Don Lomax. Don made a career of working in the train industry and with Burlington Railroad before and after serving his country with a tour in Vietnam. THE BOYS IN THE BASEMENT strip appeared as a series within the pages of Model Railroading magazine. It takes a humorous look at the world of model trains from the perspective of three men, Merle and his friends Lenny and Earl, and their obsession and love with the hobby. As they attempt to build the perfect model railroad layout in Merle's basement. Rail enthusiasts and those who love them will appreciate Lomax's talent to humorously depict what it is like to be a train aficionado.
Survive! is a grim look at life after the events of a Third World War. Nuclear fallout has hit the U.S.A., and the Miller family were prepared...they have an underground bunker, and plenty of food and supplies. But they must protect themselves against the less fortunate, who are proving to be more and more desperate as starvation and radiation effects take hold, becoming literal zombies before their very eyes.
"Don Lomax's writing is excellent and extremely detailed, and I imagine this is one of the better takes on the reality of a post-apocalyptic society." - comicclassics.org
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