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Bloodshot Stories
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Jeff P Jones; Contributions by Sunshot Press
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The Fifth Column is a thrilling novel about the only man who can
thwart a Nazi sympathizer uprising in New York during the Second
World War, from bestselling author Andrew Gross. A Man in Trouble
February 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Charles Mossman is
in a bar in Hell's Kitchen, New York, reeling from the loss of his
job and his failing marriage, whilst outside thousands of Nazi
sympathizers are attending a hate-spewing rally. As he confronts
one, Charles makes a horrendous mistake with deadly consequences. A
City of Secrets Two years later, Charles is released from prison
and tries to make amends with his wife and daughter. America is
wrestling with whether to enter the war but support is growing,
driving Nazi sympathizers underground. Charles begins to understand
that surrounding them there are forces that will use any means
necessary to bring about the downfall of his nation. The Enemy
Within When Charles's daughter is befriended by a seemingly amiable
Swiss couple, it brings to the surface his fears of a 'Fifth
Column' of embedded German spies in their new neighbourhood. All
Charles wants is to redeem himself as a husband and father, but
sometimes a man must do whatever it takes to stand up for his
family and what he believes, even sacrificing his life to do so . .
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As the Doomsday Clock inches closer to midnight, ten men sit at
a meetings table underground and prepare to launch a nuclear attack
against the world. With a goal of using missiles to scourge the
earth of unbelievers, the men all agree that whatever happens from
this point on us the will of God. As their evil plan falls into
place, no one in the United States has any idea in just two weeks,
their nation will be destroyed.
From a bunker deep beneath Jerusalem, the order comes to attack
and everything changes in an instant. As mushroom clouds hang over
Israel, Mike; his wife, Brie; and their daughter Claire watch the
news in their San Diego home-unaware that in a matter of hours,
they too will be on a perilous quest for survival. As the gates of
hell openup and obliterate everything around them, Mike his family,
and a few other survivorshave no choice but to steal across the
border into Mexico, beginning an odyssey of violence and death that
leads them straight to a small island in the Gulf of Cortez.
In this gipping tale with unanitcipated twist and turn, Mike and
his family embark on a dangerous journey to find a batter life and
soon discover that they will do anything to stay alive.
When Frank Barrett meets Ramsay Davis at Ft. Walton Beach,
Florida, he begins the next chapter of his life and marries her,
quickly finding himself deeply in love and committed to his wife.
But Frank must leave Ramsay behind when he reports for duty as a
pilot in the US Air Force in December of 1970.
When Frank-nicknamed "Bee Sting" Barrett in the service-returns
home to Florida as an ace captain, tragedy strikes. He is a witness
as his beloved, pregnant wife is killed by a drug runner named
Little Eddy. Revenge ravages Frank and compels him to pursue the
man to Panama. Driven by grief and rage, he commits an unspeakable
act, leaving Little Eddy for dead. Frank then returns to Florida to
train for a second tour in Vietnam-only to see Eddy show up as
well. Eddy is a loose cannon and the Mafia wants him dead, but he
may get to Frank before they find him.
A story of love, loss, and revenge that travels from Florida to
Panama and Southeast Asia, "Hollow Vengeance" follows Frank as he
tries to find peace and get retribution for his wife's death-a
quest that involves the trenches of the Mafia's drug ring in
Tampa.
'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. Rudi Graf used to dream of
sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the
world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile,
capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of
sound. In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944,
Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing
these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. Kay Caton-Walsh is an
officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of
WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little
more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues
will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. As the death
toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until
one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to
collide... 'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily
Telegraph 'Supremely readable' Observer 'Delivers one hell of a
punch' Express 'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben
MacIntyre
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings'
compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the
Second World War.
RAF Bomber Command’s offensive against the cities of Germany was one of
the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British
and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the
RAF’s attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939
with a few primitive Whitleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons, and ended six
years later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes razing
whole cities in a single night.
Max Hastings traced the developments of area bombing using a wealth of
documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving
witnesses. Bomber Command is, in turn, a fascinating,
meticulously-researched, and vivid assessment of the RAF's integral
role in the Second World War.
A fast-unfolding, untold tale of deception, betrayal and romance
leading to a tense life-or-death climax in occupied France. The
strange brigadier who hardly speaks... Leo, his feisty pilot
daughter... Labrador, the vengeful Pole... Henry Dunning-Green,
Leo's boring suitor... Adrian Russell, the treacherous master
spy... ... All linked by SOE Somerville, the top secret Second
World War finishing school for spies on England's south coast, and
its local community: A melting pot of intrigue and
counter-intrigue. This is the first fictional treatment of life at
the famous Special Operations Executive 'finishing school' for
spies, SOE Beaulieu in the New Forest (renamed SOE Somerville).
It's also the first fully realised fictional portrait of master spy
and traitor Kim Philby (renamed Adrian Russell) who lectured at SOE
Beaulieu. Many of the events actually took place.
Over two and a half million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Of
those who served, 58,148 gave their lives. Tyler Taylor is a
complex and angry young man who drops out of college after he is
kicked off the USC football team. His life is falling apart, his
parents are separated, and he is in pain and has lost interest in
nearly everything. Almost immediately, though, he is drafted into
the army. Once in the army, he begins to see his life in a new
light, particularly after experiencing the horrors of combat in the
Vietnam War. Tyler and his two friends, John Raab and Mike Petrov,
go from basic training to medical studies and into the airborne.
Each of them comes from a different background, but they form a
friendship that is united by their shared experience of war. They
quickly learn how to be soldiers and in the process discover their
own identities. His transformation from a troubled, angry youth
continues when he meets Maggie in Australia while on R&R. Now
all he has to do survive the jungles of the Vietnam War, so that he
can return to the love that he has been missing in his life.
Gregg Thompson doesn't plan on going to war, but that quickly
changes when he's drafted and sent to Vietnam. The young private
finds that he's a fine soldier, but the military values him even
more for his strategic thinking and smarts. He's promoted to
captain and becomes a lawyer, defending the innocent and
prosecuting war criminals. Thompson becomes a critical player in
cases that reflect the social issues and problems affecting not
only the military but the entire country including desertion, rape,
armed robbery, conscientious objectors and much more. Justice is
not always easy to interpret. When two soldiers get in a fight and
an onlooker kills one of the fighters, it's up to Thompson to get a
murder conviction. Other tough cases include a war hero who goes
AWOL in Vietnam, a decorated major accused of selling high-ticket
items on the black market and a soldier who disobeys an order that
doesn't make much sense in the context of jungle warfare. Victories
are not always won on the field of battle. Follow a master lawyer
as he seeks justice in Boots and the Law, a portrait of American
life during Vietnam.
History comes alive in God's Perfect Scar. A survivor of the 1944
Warsaw Uprising finds himself in Auschwitz, working with a woman
prisoner to plan and implement a harrowing mass escape. A former
Polish lancer turned airborne trooper turned English instructor at
the University of Warsaw finds himself targeted by the
Kremlin-controlled secret police. Two brothers find themselves
conscripted by a pair of ambitious rulers, each itching to fire the
first shot in a war that will ensnare soldiers and nurses from
America, Britain, New Zealand and Korea. An American priest, a
former World War II chaplain, finds himself playing street soccer
in Rome and plotting a rescue in Warsaw. Bullets and shrapnel leave
lasting scars - as do polio, treachery and guilt. Painstakingly
researched, God's Perfect Scar is the story of ordinary people
swept up in extraordinary, history-changing upheavals, contending
with unrelenting stresses and making life-altering choices. During
his research, Johnson learned about Aline Gartner, lost in the
mists of time and history. In the pages of God's Perfect Scar, he
"brings back to life" this remarkably courageous woman. From
Auschwitz to Cracow to Warsaw, London, Moscow, Beijing, Kaesong,
Seoul and small town America, God's Perfect Scar takes readers on a
journey that provides a different and broader perspective on major
happenings that have been shaping history for the last 60 years. As
with Johnson's earlier works, Warrior Priest and Fate of the
Warriors, the pacing in God's Perfect Scar is brisk, the tension
palpable and the outcomes unpredictable.
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