Under Siege (Battleground Vietnam Book 1)

Under Siege (Battleground Vietnam Book 1)

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

Under Siege is an incredible fictional story based on the events surrounding the Siege of Khe Sanh. A story of heroic Marines, tough, brave men fighting for their lives in the middle of the dense, hostile Vietnamese jungle.US Army Warrant Officer Carl Yeager, on his second tour of Vietnam, reaches Khe Sanh in late January 1968. His mission is to arrest an ARVN officer, guilty of murder and selling stolen weapons to the Vietcong. Things start to go wrong when the aircraft on which is due to fly back with the prisoner to Tan Son Nhut, outside Saigon, is destroyed by enemy shellfire. The shells do more than damage the aircraft. They uncover the body of an American officer in a hastily dug grave. A murder has been committed on the Combat Base, unusual even in this place where imminent death is every Marine's constant companion. The troops blame ARVN for the murder, threatening the morale of the defenders.Ordered to investigate, Yeager refuses. His orders are to return...
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Black Ops Heroes of Afghanistan

Black Ops Heroes of Afghanistan

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

Life is short and justice a rare commodity in the harsh wastelands of Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Rafe Stoner is about to encounter this cruel truth the hard way. An operation goes tragically wrong, and a Taliban sniper team ambushes a UNHCR ambulance. One of the dead is the woman with whom he intended to start a new life.Life is short and justice a rare commodity in the harsh wastelands of Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Rafe Stoner is about to encounter this cruel truth the hard way. An operation goes tragically wrong, and a Taliban sniper team ambushes a UNHCR ambulance. One of the dead is the woman with whom he intended to start a new life. Stoner turns his back on civilization, and begins a new career as a gun for hire in the bitter land ruled by the bomb and the bullet.With a growing reputation as a man who gets results, the former SEAL agrees to locate the murderer of a young boy's father. This time he is up against overwhelming odds, so he recruits a former friend, Greg Blum, as an extra gun. Blum is a talented shooter, the son of a Russian who fought in Afghanistan during the Russian invasion. He is also the man Stoner once threatened to kill.The operation becomes a desperate fight for survival. Battling drug-traffickers, murderers and warlords, Stoner has to employ all of his SEAL skills just to stay alive. The two men fight their way through ambush and the bitter snows of winter to reach their target. Standing in their way is a vicious warlord, Massoud, who counts among his ranks a psychopathic American sniper. The battle becomes a bloody and ferocious duel to the death. This is a spectacular story of a fight for justice in a ruined and war-torn land. Black-Ops: Lions of Afghanistan is by the bestselling author of many Spec Ops war stories. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo titles, the Raider series, as well as the Echo Six, Raider and Devil's Guard series.
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Counterattack

Counterattack

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

The biggest airborne landings of WWII are underway. Thousands of airborne troops drop on Holland, an audacious plan to seize the many bridges across the country and hold them until Allied armor and infantry arrive.Company B of the 82nd has taken the bridge at Nijmegen, but the Germans launch a fierce counterattack. At the forefront of the fighting, 1st platoon engages in a desperate scramble to defend the bridge at all costs from infantry and artillery. And from tanks. PFC Ray Cassidy and his buddy Harry Byrd, armed with a borrowed bazooka, embark on a mission to take on two Tigers that threaten to wipe them out. The destruction of one Tiger is cause for celebration, but the second is commanded by a wily German, not likely to allow them to get close enough to use the bazooka. Yet the alternatives are grim. Do or die. And neither man is planning his funeral. They press on, battling overwhelming odds and German ambushes, and the end is, literally, explosive.Heroes...
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Under Attack (Battleground Vietnam Book 3)

Under Attack (Battleground Vietnam Book 3)

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

Vietnam in 1968 is a hotbed of turmoil and death. Some as a result of the war, others not. Some are planned assassinations yet to happen.A C-130 transport aircraft flying close to the DMZ crashes in deep jungle. The aircraft was carrying a squad of Army CID experts on a confidential mission to investigate rumors of a planned assassination of the Saigon President., yet the investigation ended when the crash resulted in the deaths of all aboard. The South Vietnamese insist the plane was brought down by a North Vietnamese missile. The Communists agree and even admit to shooting it down. An open and shut case, and MACV dispatches Warrant Officer Carl Yeager along with a female officer from the Saigon Police to sign off on what is a routine casualty of war.Things go wrong from the start. Yeager stumbles across a dying survivor, and his story is at odds with the official version. The evidence stinks, and while the war rages Yeager starts to dig further into the reasons...
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Adventure Pack One Free RPG Adventures

Adventure Pack One Free RPG Adventures

David Dostaler

Fantasy / Reference / Games

These adventures are all free to download, as is the game system itself. Enjoy.Adventure Pack One contains seven complete adventures for use with the Challenger Roleplaying Game system a Free Roleplaying Game. These adventures are relatively short, can be easily adapted to other game systems including Of Mice Men and Wizards and are designed to take a band of 1st level heroes to 100th level+.Adventure Pack One contains seven complete adventures for use with the Challenger Roleplaying Game system a Free Roleplaying Game. These adventures are relatively short, can be easily adapted to other game systems including Of Mice Men and Wizards, and are designed to take a band of characters from 1st level to 100th level and beyond.These quests are also designed to get you started on creating your own epic, Challenger campaigns.This adventure pack contains:Into the North: an assault on Saint Nick the Dwarf Thief's evil fortress.Secret Agent Caper: a portal teleports the heroes to the 1950s on an alternate earth where they appear to be prominent spies working for her Majesty, the Queen of Scotland.A Marvelous Time: the heroes must now take on a band of annoying super heroes and unravel the diabolical scheme of a mad villain to return home.The Quest for the Holy Grail: When the Mouse Queen recruits the PCs to recover the Holy Grail not all is it seems in this adventure of intrigue, riddles, and diabolical princes.The Fugitives of Monster Land: the PCs must recover a giant demon skull to prove their innocence to the king after killing his son in The Quest for the Holy Grail.Wrath of the Gods: The PCs must go in and whoop all the famous deities arses on Mount Olympus and it so happens the Norse Gods are visiting too. However, there's two slight problems: first they'll have to visit the land of the dead and Hades, and next find a way to reach Mount Olympus.And, Killer Dungeon: Bored with their many accomplishments the heroes decide to set out to hunt down a giant killer dungeon who's famous for eating whole kingdoms. If they can survive they'll be famous, but it's tough to kill something you're inside of capable of crushing you between walls, melting you with stomach acid, and messing with your brain...Now also includes vehicle combat rules and rules on heavy weapons for Challenger (at the back of the book) and vehicle stats in the adventures. Thanks Curt!If you enjoy this product, be sure to check out the free game system for this adventure pack: "Challenger RPG" available on this site and other e-book retailers across the internet.Thanks,David L. DostalerAuthor, Challenger RPG
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Under Fire

Under Fire

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

PFC Carl Yeager, a rookie infantryman, is on his first Tour of Vietnam. Like most new arrivals to war-torn South Vietnam he has no idea of what he’ll be up against. Going on his first patrol with mixed feelings, his platoon runs into a VC ambush. Fighting off an enemy who appeared from nowhere, he gathers together a scratch unit and pursues the Vietcong ambush party deep into the jungle. Until they disappear, melting into the gloom like ghosts.   Where did they come from, and where did they go? Desperate for tunnel ‘experts’ the Army Commander in South Vietnam assigns him to a recon unit. Their task is to enter the Iron Triangle and search for the elusive tunnels. Despite his terror of dark, cramped and enclosed spaced. A terror he must overcome if he is to fight and defeat the Vietcong on their own ground.   Soon he discovers a shocking and gruesome discovery. The bodies of his former platoon mutilated and dismembered in a gruesome attempt to undermine American morale. Yeager is now a man with a life or death mission. To find and kill Commissar Trinh Tac, the man who ordered the massacre. He is reported to be hiding inside the Iron Triangle just as Operation Cedar Falls begins. The plan is to wipe out the nest of VC dug into the subterranean maze. Yeager’s unit is tasked to go in and wipe out one man. Commissar Trinh Tac.
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Strike on Iran

Strike on Iran

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

When the US learns of a planned genocidal attack by Middle East terrorists, Bravo Platoon is called in. They must fight their way through to a besieged Syrian town to bring out the Israeli agent who first flagged the threat. Leaving behind a long, bloody trail of Syrian bodies, they battle their way out to carry the data back for analysis by NSA.The recovered decrypts show a rogue element of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, is building a dirty bomb, to be used on Israel and the US. Bravo Platoon is sent back into action, this time to Iran, the terror capital of the world and America's sworn enemy. They must locate and destroy the bomb making facility before the weapons can be deployed.Faced by overwhelming odds, their task becomes a fierce struggle to complete the mission before the weapons of mass destruction can be used to devastating effect, and before they are themselves destroyed. Black Ops III is an action packed sequel to the best selling Seal Team Bravo –...
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Devil's Guard- The Complete Series Box Set

Devil's Guard- The Complete Series Box Set

Eric Meyer

Professional & Technical / Reference

The complete SIX-BOOK bestselling series that has sold over a million copies. Devil’s Guard traces the exploits of a German who fought in World War II on the Eastern Front, and went on to fight for the French and then the Americans in Vietnam. This massive volume includes the complete text of the novels DEVIL’S GUARD: BLOOD AND SNOW, DEVIL’S GUARD: BLOOD AND IRON, DEVIL’S GUARD: THE REAL STORY, DEVIL’S GUARD: VIETNAM, DEVIL’S GUARD: COUNTERATTACK, AND DEVIL’S GUARD: AFGHANISTAN. These epic novels are a breathtaking account of the harsh, brutal reality of one man’s war. Jurgen Hoffman’s grueling career takes him from the vast snowy wastelands of the Russian Steppes, all the way to the steaming jungles of Vietnam. His enemy shouts the same, shrill slogans, and uses the same weapons. On the Eastern Front in Russia, they call themselves communists. In Vietnam, they are the Vietcong. Their motivation is the same. Killing, and more killing. To subdue and terrorize those who would challenge their absolute authority. This is a fictional tale of the part one man played in the long, bloody battles. It is also the story of millions of fighting men. Of their guns, their tanks, their airplanes, and for some, their women. Six full length novels. A rip roaring read from the first page to the last. This box-set includes every book in the bestselling Devil’s Guard series: DEVIL’S GUARD: BLOOD AND SNOW It is February 1943 in the snowy wastes around Kharkov, in the Soviet Union. Stalingrad has fallen and a resurgent Soviet army is pushing the German forces back. Newly commissioned Jurgen Hoffman takes up his posting with SS Division Das Reich, part of von Manstein's Army Group South. He soon displays formidable military talents in a series of brutal, hard fought actions, but he finds his enemies do not all wear Russian uniform. DEVIL’S GUARD: BLOOD AND IRON The second thrilling book in the Devil's Guard series. The SS Officer Jurgen Hoffman has another battle to face. Kursk, the showdown between German and Soviet armor. The story begins before the battle when the commanders of both sides are fighting an intelligence war. Sent on a mission behind the lines into the heavily defended Kursk salient, Hoffman and the remnants of his platoon fight their way back to their own lines. DEVIL’S GUARD: THE REAL STORY The French Foreign Legion recruited widely from German soldiers left unemployed and homeless by the defeat of Germany in 1945. They offered a new identity and passport to men who could bring their fighting skills to the jungles and rice paddies of what was to become Vietnam. They were ruthless, trained killers, brutalized by the war on the Eastern Front, their murderous abilities honed to a razor's edge. DEVIL’S GUARD: VIETNAM There is to be no respite for the Waffen-SS veterans who fought for the French against the Vietcong. Some of the veterans still fight the communists, but this time for the Americans. Jurgen Hoffman and Paul Schuster are compelled to use their brutal fighting skills and expert knowledge of the terrain to once more wage a secret war in the steaming cauldron of the South East Asian jungle. The Devil's Guard is on the march again. DEVIL’S GUARD: COUNTERATTACK It is 1968, and the fighting in Vietnam escalates. Body counts continue to rise, and the fighter-bombers and gunships prowl the skies in the relentless hunt for their elusive enemy. Jurgen Hoffman is no longer in uniform. He runs a small civilian airline, with other old comrades from his time with the French Foreign Legion.
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The Hound of Kemamonit

The Hound of Kemamonit

Paul Edwards

Philosophy / Reference

Pregnant and miserable, Kemamonit is forced to deal with a powerful sorcerer from the past.The only way to become incredibly rich and sit in your underwear on the beach all day, is to write conspiracy theories. That's right. There is no other way...unless you want to work for an evil boss. All those other gurus have been lying to you. You know why; to keep you a slave in your own mind. And to keep you buying their books.All is revealed in this book. Which is free, by the way.By publishing this book and exposing their secrets, the writer is probably already in the torture chambers of the Illuminati right now. So the only thing you can do for him is to at least download his book and read every word in it. And then spread the word.Remember, all I can offer is the truth. You are not going to like it, but swallow the red pill and see how deep the mole hole really goes...If, after reading this book, you are not at least a multi-millionaire by twelve o clock tomorrow, write me an email immediately. I promise I will feel so bad for you, that I will go out and spend five hundred dollars on myself. I will then sent you the photos of me enjoying myself to make you feel better.What are you waiting for...
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Tank Top 01: The Crossroads Cell

Tank Top 01: The Crossroads Cell

James Lynch

Poetry / Reference / Anthologies

The TankTops are short stories or extracts from longer books where you can be introduced to the author’s writing style, and see if you are interested in reading more of his books. We call them TankTops because they’re smaller than normal books. And of course, when you go in the “think tank”, you can read them in one sitting without making people mad at you for taking too long.A young man lands himself in jail in an unfamiliar town only to find himself incarcerated with a mysterious woman and a whole lot of destiny.
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Prophets and Loss (A Johnny Ravine Mystery)

Prophets and Loss (A Johnny Ravine Mystery)

Martin Roth

Language / Writing / Reference

Forgiveness is the most attractive of the virtues. Until you actually have someone to forgive.And when Melissa Stonelea’s born-again Christian husband Grant is found strangled in the bondage room of the city’s classiest brothel she needs revenge.This acclaimed Christian thriller is the first in the private eye Johnny Ravine series.Praise for "Prophets and Loss":"Roth, an accomplished financial writer, takes his readers on a thrilling ride that begins as a story of murder and revenge and ends as a reflection on loss and forgiveness....Fast-paced and edgy."- SydneyAnglicans.net"Wow! .…When 'Prophets and Loss' arrived…I certainly wasn’t expecting a meaty murder mystery cum terrorist plot. And when I realized that’s what it was, I certainly wasn’t then expecting Roth’s Johnny Ravine mystery to deliver such a fabulous gospel message….This is a great book for a Christian or as a starter for a non-Christian. A fabulous surprise." - The Presbyterian PulseBook Description:Forgiveness is the most attractive of the virtues. Until you actually have someone to forgive.When Melissa Stonelea’s born-again Christian husband Grant is found strangled in the bondage room of the city’s classiest brothel, a page of the Bible stuffed in his mouth, she doesn’t need to hear more of her pastor’s sermons on the healing powers of forgiveness. She needs revenge.Enter private detective Johnny Ravine, seeking the quiet life in Australia after more than twenty years as a freedom fighter in East Timor. The murdered man was his best friend. But, as he starts to investigate the slaying, a mysterious phone call and then a bullet through his window plunge him into the heart of a deadly terrorist conspiracy.Suddenly he finds himself locked inside a shady world of stock market manipulators, sex workers and underground militia, while desperately hunting the killers. But Johnny is concealing a violent past and demons of his own. Can he crack the mystery before he himself cracks?In Johnny Ravine we have a brilliant but flawed hero who is plunged into the far reaches of the human psyche - forced to confront a cycle of evil that could destroy him and all he loves. But also forced to confront the evil that lurks in his own heart.This exciting book is everything a hard-boiled, private eye thriller should be - relentlessly powerful, fast-paced, full of twists and with a climax that will leave you gasping.About the Author:Martin Roth (www.authormartinroth.com) is a veteran journalist and foreign correspondent whose reports from Asia have appeared in leading publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. He is the author of many books.The first three thrillers in his Johnny Ravine private eye series are “Prophets and Loss,” “Hot Rock Dreaming” (Australian Christian Book of the Year finalist) and “Burning at the Boss.” He is also the author of the Brother Half Angel series, with "The Coptic Martyr of Cairo," "Festival in the Desert," “Brother Half Angel,” “The Maria Kannon” and “Military Orders.” The first two novels in his Feisty Ferreira series of financial thrillers are "Tokyo Bossa Nova" and "The Kalgoorlie Skimpy."He lives in Australia with his Korean wife and three sons.
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Into the Valley

Into the Valley

E. David Anderson

Reference / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lieutenant Aurelian finds himself lost in the jungles, and following a brush with death, the soldier is captured by bandits. He is led into a subterranean valley ruled by Lord Abraham, the master of a forgotten technology. Aurelian must summon the will to overcome his physical limitations and utilize a curse of blood in an attempt to escape from the valley and return to the surface world.Aurelian, an exile from the militaristic nation of Akkahellonia, finds himself lost in the jungles of a rival nation and, following a brush with death, is brought into a subterranean world where the residents have all been changed by a machine thought lost a millennia ago. After falling victim to the machine and its possessor, Aurelian must summon the will to overcome his physical limitations and utilize a curse of blood in an attempt to escape from the valley and return to the surface world.Here is the first story set on the water planet Triton and its Celestial Isles. Inspired by the myths and legends created by pulp fiction masters Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.P. Lovecraft, the Triton Tales blend science, magic, and adventure as they tell the stories of the heroic men and women who struggle against extra-natural forces seeking to corrupt their world.
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Australis Incognito, Book 1: Bus Bait Blues

Australis Incognito, Book 1: Bus Bait Blues

Brad Mengel

Reference / Culture / Pop Culture

A hero known as The Question Mark follows in her predecessor’s footsteps trying to protect the common people of the city. Witnessing what appears to be the pick up of a young girl for a life of prostitution on the streets, the Question Mark uncovers something much more heinous. Can she survive the gauntlet she must run to save a girl and herself?Masked men and mystery women from the Land Down Under explode to life in author Brad Mengel’s Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series- Australis Incognito! Crime is alive and well in Australia and thankfully so are several Pulp Heroes ready to take on evil! Brad Mengel’s own creations, including The Question Mark, The Cutlass, The Aggressor, Sai, Risqué, The Bushranger, and others will stand alone and combat thugs, crooks, and psychopaths in their own stories. But behind the scenes, a puppetmaster of Machiavellian proportions is yanking the strings, jerking the world toward the brink with every tug, and pulling Australia’s heroes closer together. Closer to the answer. And to the final battle. In the first stand alone short story, ‘Bus Bait Blues’, a hero known as The Question Mark follows in her predecessor’s footsteps trying to protect the common people of the city. Witnessing what appears to be the pick up of a young girl for a life of prostitution on the streets, the Question Mark uncovers something much more heinous. Can she survive the gauntlet she must run to save a girl and herself? Or will she be the second bearing the name The Question Mark to disappear? Find out in ‘Bus Bait Blues’ by Brad Mengel. Brad Mengel’s Australis Incognito- a Pro Se Single Shot Signature series from Pro Se Productions.
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