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A rogue nation decides to take advantage of worldwide chaos to attack America with nuclear weapons. The American intelligence network learns of the plan and the government decides to launch a first strike at this rogue nation. This information leaks out to other nations and soon the world is poised on the brink of all out nuclear conflagration as the nuclear nations choose sides in the coming conflict.

In the mid-nineties, my wife was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which had metastasized to her lymph nodes. The essay “Coping with Breast Cancer” details what happened in the wake of that diagnosis. We decided to release this composition in the hopes of helping other couples confronted with this terrible disease. Here is a brief excerpt from Coping with Breast Cancer. In the fall of 1994 we were living the good life. We’d just bought our dream house and moved in the previous July and were looking forward to our first holiday season in our new home. Only one thing placed a cloud...

Newly edited by Frankie Sutton. The peacekeepers travel to Hannibal Missouri to the site where the development team did their original work on their ship. They hope to find the components needed to build additional lasers for their base. While there they also pick up the two small scale models of the Peacekeeper which Pol uses to create drones that can be controlled by operators aboard the ship. Lina and Robert are waiting at the base when the crew returns. The crew of the Peacekeeper soon discovers that the pair had run from Texas to Alabama fleeing slavers who operate slave farms in that ...

A small group of survivors makes radio contact with the refuge requesting help escaping Newport, Arkansas. Herb leads a team of men on a rescue mission, but it’s complicated when they meet other people who need their assistance. Compounding matters is a woman who was brought into the refuge by the team before they left. She wants to run the camp herself, and she knows just how to make that happen.

Seeking allies for her murderous plots against the people of the refuge, Dana Rainey encounters Shaunna, an Alpha female zombie, and her anizombie Yorkie named Lily. What happens next sets in motion a long chain of events culminating in a savage confrontation between Dana and the people of the refuge. Can Herb Bennett’s fledgling group survive that encounter, or will Dana have her vengeance?

This set contains both Claws and Claws 2. The total word count of the two books is 196,000. Claws is horror slash technothriller oriented. Claws 2 is more post apocalyptic in nature, and is heavily illustrated with photographs.Review of Claws:"This is the sort of book that sets a new standard for horror novels. The question though one must ask themselves is which is the greater monsters, the mutant cats rats and dogs or the humans that developed the food? The greatest compliment i can give this book is that when i stopped by my sisters house and her cats came running up i had to tell myself...

A meteorite fell into the Tennessee River in Decatur, Alabama. A fissure inside the lump of stone contained parasitic microbes that were released into the water. Small fish ate the parasite colonies. They were in turn eaten by larger fish, which were caught by a local fisherman. This introduced them into the human food chain and initiated a zombie apocalypse.It began with a 911 call in Decatur. When the caller didn’t speak to the dispatcher she sent the police, who called an ambulance after finding Roy Akins unconscious on the floor. Patient zero died in the Emergency Room of Decatur ...

As the plague ravaged America, the peacekeepers were forced to go into isolation to protect themselves from the dread disease. In the absence of the peacekeepers hundreds of outlaws flocked to the standard of a man forming an organization devoted to their annihilation.To make matters worse, the world now blames the United States for the spread of the disease and rumors suggest an attack may be imminent.This time the peacekeepers face a foe dedicated to their extermination. Soon the slogan, “Death to all Peacekeepers,” is seen from the west to east coasts. Then it is found on a sign tied...

Even if you never do a single exercise in this book, the information contained within its pages could save your life. The author is a master in the arts of Wing Chun Kung Fu and Chinese Ninja. He studied martial arts from 1980 to the early 1990s under the private instruction of Grandmaster Tony Ragasa Fong. In the mid 1980s, the author decided to teach a women’s rape prevention seminar. As he delved into research to utilize during the course of that seminar, the author discovered the true scope of the problem women faced. He decided it was time for him to take a more active role in ...

During a patrol over the Atlantic Ocean, the Athens is attacked by Russian fighters and ships. Russia has declared war on America, and the crew of the battleship find themselves in one of the most difficult scenarios they have ever encountered when their air and weapons superiority are tested to the limit. For the first time in many years, Evan finds himself confronted by a superior enemy.

The people of the small farm community of Arley Tennessee are attacked by a well organized group of Marauders who plan to return in a few days and annihilate the men and take the women captive as sex slaves. But the sophisticated radio equipment aboard the Peacekeeper intercepts a message detailing the plot. The men and women of the newly christened Peacekeeper face their first real test. A routine call causes a six man team to be dispatched to deal with a rogue bully who is tormenting the residents of Jewel Mississippi. But when the team arrives they find no ordinary bully. As a sniper ...

During a war, bad things happen to good people. That point is driven home repeatedly in this book. Without warning, the peacekeepers are attacked by a relentless foe bent on their destruction. This time they face a foe that can match and defeat their armada. Suffering one defeat after another, the council tries to adapt and overcome an enemy that has spies working in Washington to turn the new government against them. The enemy intends to defeat them in war or have the American government seize their assets.A peacekeeper fighter squadron goes missing and El Morro, the Cuban peacekeeper base...

The Guardians: A team of talented individuals dedicated to investigating the paranormal and combating it when necessary. The mansion headquarters of the Guardian team: Each team member has their own private room, complete with en suite. It is managed by a cleaning staff, cooks, grounds keeper, and a butler. The butler and the morning cook both have rooms in the mansion and live there. The rest of the staff lives elsewhere and is not always on site. The two story structure contains a large kitchen, huge dining room, a conference room, and a study, which doubles as a library and is filled ...

When Rex, the loyal service dog and companion of combat veteran and Deputy Sheriff, Ray Nix, is killed by a large strange flying creature, no one believes it really happened. Ridiculed for the story, Ray finds himself terminated from the department. Now begins the quest to find who or what took his friend from him. During one such hunt, he is approached by a group of three strangers seeking to recruit him, but what were they asking him to do?

I'd like to give special thanks to Jason Merrick for the great cover. Alcorn Pet Food Corporation is working with an experimental cat food laced with hormones and appetite enhancers. The special food causes cats to add muscle, gain weight, and exhibit extremely aggressive behavior. When an employee threatens to expose the pet food as a threat to public safety, she finds herself out of work, her home ransacked, and all her carefully gathered proof missing. Meanwhile, animal rights activists release the cats involved in the testing because they are scheduled to be euthanized. These bigger, ...

The government makes the Peacekeepers an offer. Help us perfect our space drive system that’s similar but more powerful than your own so we can replace our failing satellites, and we’ll outfit your fleet with our upgrades. This would remedy the crippling altitude disadvantages the Peacekeepers must deal with when fighting conventional warplanes. The Peacekeeper scientists rise to the occasion. Soon, the Athens is being refitted and her crew trained for their first mission in orbit. However, the Russians are also racing to get into space for reasons of their own, and their plans don’t ...

When Russian Special Forces troops penetrate the security at Area 51, they pull off the biggest defeat of a peacekeeper ship in history. Fourteen men succeed where the Chinese base ship and the Russian navy failed. They manage to down the Guardian, trapping dozens of crewmen in the corridors of the ship. Time is running out for the trapped survivors. The peacekeepers are reeling from the devastating blow that has slaughtered hundreds of their number. Captain Evan Wilison is charged with the task of using the Athens to lead a peacekeeper armada in a strike to retaliate against Moscow. ...

When the crew of the Athens lays a string of communications buoys to the islands, the Peacekeepers reconnect with Hawaii. Evan and his crew discover the remnants of America’s, Hawaiian based, fleet that has survived the cataclysms leading up to the night of the quakes and the quakes themselves. What they found wasn’t very promising. The nuclear carrier, Ronald Reagan, and the submarine, Houston, had been maintained to the best of their diminished crews’ capability, but neither was seaworthy. Evan must convince the men and women to return to the waters off the coast of the America ...

From California to the east coast, it rained across most of the continental United States. From Los Angeles to New York City, residents reported an odd, whitish-grey residue that coated everything.Cats groomed the residue from their bodies, because that’s what cats do, and then they turned to their feed bowls with increasing hunger.The most deadly biological weapon ever created had been unleashed. It was one that would effectively pit most forms of animal life against mankind.Humanity was immune to the growth hormone. However, exposed to massive doses, mankind was not immune to the ...

The Delphi, under the command of Captain Beth Mitchell, is sent to Mars on humanity’s first terraforming expedition to another planet. Young Hunter Wilison, the son of the Peacekeeper Councilman Admiral Tim Wilison and the brilliant computer expert Patricia Huxley Wilison, stows away aboard the ship where he must escape detection until they are past the point of no return on their voyage to the red planet.However, the crime cartel of Juan David isn’t finished with the Peacekeepers. In his quest for revenge, the drug lord turned pirate, decides to attack the Delphi as she makes her way ...