Max August was a point man when he served during the Vietnam War, the guy who had to lead his patrol through dangers he couldn't possibly anticipate. Now he's a disc jockey, at one with the music and his faithful audience . . . until the day when he is swept into a battle invisible to all but the participants.
For nearly five centuries, Cornelius Agrippa has fought against an evil that has threatened to corrupt and destroy everything good and untainted in the world. Now, Max has joined the battle. It wasn't his idea to fight a demonic entity that can become anything it wants: an undying monster or the most desirable woman in the world. Max has been chosen by fate to fight those who would use magick to destroy freedom and wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. Along with Agrippa and Valerie Drake, a beautiful, talented singer, Max is the only hope of the free world.

When a young American couple on vacation arrive on the Mediterranean resort island of MAJORCA, they become involved in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the local colony of expatriates that involves clandestine affairs, bondage - and murder Under the island's searing sun, finding out who's the victim and who's the perpetrator quickly becomes a game of life and death. Steve Englehart is a prolific author of books and comic books, including The Point Man and Countdown to Flight (a biography of the Wright brothers), and dozens of popular characters such as The Batman, Captain America, The Silver Surfer, and his own creation, Coyote. His Night Man became a television series. Englehart has also worked on animated series such as Team Atlantis and GI Joe, and as a game designer for Disney, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Sony. In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts.

It's December 17, 1903, and Wilbur and Orville Wright are about to do what man had dreamed of for centuries -- fly! They have worked for five years, studying, trying new ideas, and testing their inventions on a lonely spot of sandy beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Finally, after many setbacks and disappointments, they are ready to launch their engine-powered aeroplane -- and this time it works. With Orville in the pilot's seat and Wilbur running alongside holding on to the bottom of the wing, the Kitty Hawk Flyer is in the air. The flight lasts just 12 seconds, but it is the beginning of a new era of the amazing flying machines that now take us all over the world.