Matt Jenks, one of the Merc's old Army buddies, is missing... behind Soviet lines in Afghanistan. When Hank Frost agrees to go in looking for him, he stumbles onto a U.S. intelligence operation and becomes the sudden target of a KGB hit team. Jenks wasn't just a volunteer; he was a CIA contract employee, and he had uncovered a Soviet weapon of such frightening potential it could bring the West to its knees. Now, The Company wants Frost to take on his buddy's job Bloodbath after bloodbath, firefights with Soviet Alpine troops, and a pathologically violent, excitingly beautiful rebel girl who will kill Frost if she has to in order to get her job done, all bring the one-eyed mere closer to the tightly-secured Soviet base where Jenks is being held and the weapon is being readied for "testing" against Afghan freedom fighters. A simple rescue is turning into much more than Frost bargained for-and maybe more than he can handle

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed merc certainly hadn't expected the attack in the peaceful woods north of Atlanta, but he managed to take out a few of the men before he fell. Even more surprising was his condition when he awoke: straitjacketed in a ward somewhere deep inside the Soviet Union. He didn't need two eyes to see to the heart of what the Russian doctor was telling him-they were going to plant electrodes in his brain and turn him into a weapon for the KGB Frost shakes off the effects of the drugs they've been using and manages an escape that takes him through the bitter Siberian winter toward the Baltic, accompanied by a stunning language teacher whose naked body conceals a deadly secret. Mind control, political intrigue, bloody violence and murder-Hank Frost is in it up to his eyepatch

The wise-cracking, one-eyed mere captain was just planning a little vacation with his lady, Bess, while she worked up a story on devil cultists and mutilation murders. Then he runs into the enigmatic assassin who iced his old C.O. back in 'Nam, and finds a tie-in between the disappearances of top-ranking U.S. scientists and a hellfire-and-brimstone TV evangelist. It was supposed to be a simple vacation, but before it is over, the merc is fighting for his life and country as a bizarre Soviet plot explodes in the middle of Georgia. A vacation... but Hank Frost should have known better... THEY CALL ME THE MERCENARY.

Frost finds himself in a deadly game of who do you trust when he's forced to work his way across mainland China-with a Chicom secret agent It is one of those times when a man's got to do what he's got to do-even if it goes against everything he believes in. With China and Russia moving closer to a shooting war, Hank and Mike O'Hara have to go into action between the trigger-happy forces on both sides to find a tape that could throw America into the middle of a war we shouldn't be in. The only thing that makes the merc happy is Elizabeth Chu'an, a beautiful and seductive operative assigned by Peking to accompany him. Or is she a double? Hank's been dodging bullets since arriving in Hong Kong; now, in the cold of Nepal, he finds himself the bull's eye in a Commie shooting gallery-and he still can't be sure of who he can trust

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed merc captain, is hired by the hot-tempered and incredibly desirable daughter of the assassinated patriarch of Miami's anti-Castro underground. The mission: cut the three-way connection between Havana, Columbia's M-19 terrorists and the Florida drug smugglers. But Frost discovers that more than drugs are being smuggled-arms and explosives are being traded off to the M-19 for military protection and to pro-Castro terrorists in Miami. And as Frost fights against Castro death squads, M-19 guerillas in the South American jungles and murderous professional hit men, it's hard for him to figure if the fiery beauty who hired him wants him more as a lover-or as a target...

Holden is the only man that can stop the FLNA's master plan to take over America, leaving him to be the most hunted man in America. And, while the U.S. President lies wounded in a secret hideaway, even Holden can't stop the FLNA from putting their puppet in the White House. Now, with the most skilled commandos in the U.S. fighting at his side, Holden must rescue the President before the FLNA's deadly assassins close in... or America is doomed.

IT'S TIME TO DO OR DIE... TO KEEP FREEDOM ALIVE HE'S OUR #1 HERO... FACING THE ULTIMATE TEST OF COURAGE As ruthlessly as Nazi storm troopers, the terrorists have seized control of America's military and imprisoned the nation's best and brightest officers in a brutal Montana death camp. Freedom's beacon will be extinguished in the USA unless David Holden and his tough resistance fighters, the Patriots, can come to the rescue. But is the enemy luring Holden into the ultimate trap to finish him off-for good? About the Series THE DEFENDER A patriot in the truest sense, David Holden was a law-abiding citizen-until the laws proved powerless to protect the innocent, to stop an invader hell-bent on America's destruction. With an army of renegade cops and ex-vets, he's fighting back with all the cunning, expertise, and brute force at his command. Anytime, any place, Holden and his warriors are ready to defend their country from the enemy-the enemy outside and the enemy within.

Hank Frost, the one-eyed merc captain, is trailing the Black Market arms buys of Eva Chapmann, "The Deathwitch." From the high seas of the Mediterranean to Sicily to the Greek Isles and the Pillars of Hercules, Frost, with a force of Cosa Nostra hitmen for his "commando team," battles time and superior odds to put a bullet through the heart of The Deathwitch before she plunges the world into nuclear war. And then there's the exquisite Constanza who handles a ship or a subgun as good as a man-and she's with Hank Frost all the way...

Compelling action in the spirit of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK The Pressure Builds... Josh Culhane, two-fisted adventurer who'll go anywhere, do anything, teams up with the sexy scholar Mary Mulrooney in a breathtaking pursuit of the satanic Steiglitz and his slinky, psychotic daughter. The boldhearted couple races to grab a power so great that world leaders would risk death to get it. Culhane and Mulrooney battle halfway across the globe, through all the labyrinths of human history and myth, to a last stand beneath the Antarctic ice cap, where they find an ancient starbase whose builders had never gotten home

Hank Frost, the one-eyed merc Captain who fires off eye patch jokes almost as fast as the 9mm slugs from his pistol, gets an offer he can't refuse. The exquisitely-beautiful daughter of a New York Mafia capo has been kidnapped by white slavers in the Middle East and sold into the harem of a militant Arab oil sheik. The capo and his own crime syndicate "soldiers" are powerless to get her out. If the girl fails to please her "master" she'll be butchered. Frost mounts a mercenary strike force to penetrate the sheikdom. But rescuing the capo's daughter is just the beginning of Frost's troubles. The sheik and his neo-Nazi advisors are plotting to assassinate the President of Egypt, putting the blame on Jewish extremists and making the Middle East explode in all-out war

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, suddenly becomes commanding general of an anti-Communist Mercenary Army doubling as admiral of a moth-balled invasion fleet. And there's also a $100,000 payoff in the bargain. All Frost has to do is invade Monte Azul, a country lost to Communist terrorists, and oust Castro's murderous puppet dictator, who's backed by a Castro Army of 4,000 shock troops. But if he survives that, there's Marina, the daughter of the dead anti-Communist president, who wants Frost as her lover-and the vengeance-bent right-wing Army leader who wants Frost dead. Assassination, piracy commando raids and pitched battles lead Frost ever near the final one-on-one death-duel with the dictator

America Has a New Policy For Dealing With Terrorists. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIREPOWER... Four men. Hand-picked specialists from America's military elite. Their mission: A daring raid on a Mideast terrorist stronghold. It's a covert operation to introduce America's new fight-back policy on terrorism. If they're successful they'll crush the back of the world's most murderous terror network... trigger a bloodbath that will cost innocent lives. SURGICAL STRIKE-America's New Terrorist Negotiation Team

A TRIAL BY FIRE AND ICE... It started as a simple military exercise. A NATO counter-terrorist squad takes on Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, who are holding volunteer "hostages" in a remote Alpine village. But what was supposed to be a war of fancy maneuvers, smoke bombs, and blanks turns deadly when real-life terrorists crash the games. The NATO squad is slaughtered. A busload of schoolchildren is seized. And the men of Surgical Strike-barely armed-must save themselves and panicked civilians from bullets, bombs, and worse. Night is falling. The temperature is dropping. And for Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, the heat is on...

HANK FROST- THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAIN Hank Frost, the one-eyed mere Captain with the mile-long string of eye patch jokes, the overused 9mm and a low-budget bank account, loses the commission on a multi-million-dollar deal and to keep on eating, hires out for a vendetta against the Burmese drug warlords. With a mercenary commando team, Frost penetrates the steaming Southeast Asian jungles to knock off the kingpin of the raw opium trade and avenge a savage murder. From New Orleans to Upstate New York, from Miami to Thailand, Frost is duking it out with the billion-dollar drug business, a Cosa Nostra capo who wants to corner the market and power-mad warlords at the head of the opium pipeline. Then he has to deal with the girl from the drug awareness political action group who wants to get the hard facts on opium smuggling and could wind up a high-priced harem slave. And the one-eyed man is sentenced to an execution that might just switch him over to headless jokes...

Assasination in the Swiss Alps... terrorism in the Central American jungle... Treachery in Washington... and Hank Frost is right in the middle The wise-cracking mercenary captain is up to his eyepatch in brutal violence.

TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY, HE GAVE UP EVERYTHING EXCEPT FREEDOM-AND HIS WILL TO FIGHT On every street, in every major city, the battle for America is raging, and one man is caught in the killing crossfire. To the FLNA terrorists he is the deadliest of enemies. To a gutless government he is a dangerous fanatic. Only one thing is certain: All that stands between America and total chaos is David Holden and the Patriots. Now the ex-SEAL commando is leading his special team of freedom fighters on a blood-soaked mission to stop a sinister conspiracy. For a master assassin has America's last hope in his lethal cross hairs. All that stands between victory and death is the pull of a trigger and... About the Series THE DEFENDER A patriot in the truest sense, David Holden was a law-abiding citizen-until the laws proved powerless to protect the innocent, to stop an invader hell-bent on America's destruction. With an army of renegade cops and ex-vets, he's fighting back with all the cunning, expertise, and brute force at his command. Anytime, any place, Holden and his warriors are ready to defend their country from the enemy-the enemy outside and the enemy within.

The wise-cracking, one-eyed merc is in England to keep an eye on his journalist fiance, Bess... until someone orders her death and leaves him broken and bloody in a London alley with his brains so scrambled he can't remember his name. Unfortunately, Frost also forgets his discovery of a brutal terrorist plot. The only thing on his mind now is finding out who he is. What he doesn't know is that a secret organization known as The Legion Of Death is getting ready to write down Frost's name for him-on a gravestone The Legion Of Death is planning something that will make the PLO and the Red Brigade look like a couple of church groups. And Hank Frost-an amnesiac, unaware of his own fighting skills-is caught right in the middle