From the author of Innocent Until Proven Guilty comes a collectioin of stories destined to touch the fears of each and everyone of us, with contemporary storytelling dealing with good vs. evil, vampires, the undead, and several stories that continue his series of "The Runner," an Earth wanderer once known as the only man to ever escape from Hell...repeatedly. Ten dark fantasy/fiction short stories by Duane Gundrum, including: Mapping The Silence of Dreams (a Novella) Postcards From Hell The Dead Of Night Hath Fury You're Never Alone Of Historical Significance (a Novella) Voracious...

The year is 1987, and the Cold War is still raging strong. Steve Darwood is a US Army counterintelligence agent in South Korea, working in Tongduchon, a small city close to the North Korean border and the demilitarized zone, when he stumbles upon a black marketing operation that is blackmailing soldiers for various types of information. Investigating further, he uncovers a network of criminals who appear to be linked to numerous military personnel. As Darwood continues to investigate, he begins to come against resistance from his own chain of command. Soon, Darwood finds himself alone,...

From the author of Innocent Until Proven Guilty and Deadly Deceptions comes a military criminal investigation division thriller.... 20 years ago, Military Police Investigator Derek Thompson uncovered a criminal conglomerate operating within the shadows of the United States Army. Before he could bring the cuprits to justice, Derek disappeared and was declared AWOL, and eventually a deserter.... Never to heard from again.... And his mystery unsolved.... Fast-forward 20 years, Derek's son Mark Thompson, who grew up believing his father disappeared during the Vietnam War, is a Criminal...

The mission was well-planned and intricately carried out. They were going to assassinate the Emperor of Earth. Everything went according to plan. Except one thing. They failed. Now on the run from the Empire's elite guard, Eden System Commander Yeager finds himself on an escape trajectory with a young ensign in his care. Little does he know that this ensign, Laura Bontein, is the reason why Eden is at war with the Empire. Laura may also be the most powerful being in the galaxy. They escape to Reagul, a planet in its middle ages and somehow responsible for keeping the emperor alive. Here,...

The Greeks had their Iliad and Odyssey, the Romans had their Aeneid, and the British had their Britannia and those continuously changing King Arthur stories, starring wannabe Shakespearean actors slumming it until something better came along. But America got nothing. Until now. Finally, an epic has emerged, from the lost annals of time (whatever that means...just go with it...it sounds scholarly), that tells the true story of America's foundation. The Ameriad tells the story of the Trojan warrior Amereaus, who has been chosen by the gods to found a new land somewhere across the Great Sea...

From the author of INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. A ruthless pirate. An English admiral out for vengeance. A Coast Guard cutter out of time and thrust into the middle of a mortal conflict between two very angry men.... Today. Stephen Thompson is a man with a problem. You wouldn't know it by looking at him: A young, brash commander of the Coast Guard cutter USS Melbourne. By all accounts, he should have his whole life ahead of him. 1579. Captain Stone is also a man with a problem. The former XO to a ruthless English captain, Stone is now the captain of his own vessel, the Eustace, a pirate ship...

Glass--The new billion-dollar drug. It's cheaper than cocaine, more addictive...and it's got a secret. Admitting the drug trade was out of control and the War on Drugs a complete failure, a covert collaboration between the DEA and the CIA develops a drug that in only five years has completely devastated the illegal drug market. The first half of the mission a success, the plan to eradicate the drug lords and then focus on treatment has gone terribly wrong. All because someone in the agency doesn't want to relinquish control. Now Daniel Burke is fighting for his life. A double-crossed CIA...

After the collapse of civilization, military governments fight for control of a fractured world. Sergeant Brian Burke, a team leader of the Coloradans Army directs his soldiers through a mop up of Old Francisco, which has devolved into gang warfare between criminals, rogue police officers and remainders of what's left of the National Guard. Separated from his unit, Burke is contacted by a mysterious group of survivors who inform him that he is the mystical "Soldier" who is destined to find the Deck Const, a talisman that may reunite the world in peace again. But someone else is searching for...

In the 22nd century, mankind has solved its problem with poverty: Exterminators hunt and kill those designated as "Losers." Rem Schlock is an Exterminator freshly assigned to the Angeles Sector. All he has ever known is hunting Losers. In Angeles Sector, the ruins of what was once a powerful metropolis housing millions of people, he finds himself on the trail of a mysterious "Leader of the Losers," often considered a fantasy amongst the Exterminator Corps. As he closes in on his prey, Rem begins to discover secrets of the origins of the Losers, their ties to the very fabric of his...