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Novelization of the Academy Award winning screenplay of the epic motion picture starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1883, a Holy War rages across Egypt. The Mahdi, devout prophet of Allah and leader of countless thousands of armed tribesman, is about to descend upon the city of Khartoum, in the Sudan. A city that has become the arsenal to Egypt and that the Mahdi pledges to kill ever man, woman, and child within it. William Gladstone, Britain's Prime Minister, vows that he will not send British troops to defend the city. Instead he would sacrifice one man and enlists the ...

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS One of the bloodiest “little wars” in American history, that saw the deaths of 4,200 U.S. soldiers, serves as the background for this story of high adventure and brutal combat. The year is 1898 and the setting is the island of Sulu in the Philippines. The Spanish-American War has just ended and with its victory over Spain, the United States has gained possession of the islands. However, American troops are now fighting a series of savage and brutal guerrilla skirmishes with rebellious local tribes who wish independence. The most feared and fearless of these are the ...

Second novel in the Mike Benasque thriller series! What you don’t know may kill you. Intrigue and adventure were Benasque’s specialties—whether at glittering embassy balls or in the treacherous shadow-world of the waterfront. So when the debonair publisher of The Outspeak asked him to get a line on a vicious group called the Companions, he accepted. The pay was good and the prospects were fascinating. He knew, for instance, that his contact in Marseilles was the same man he had suspected of betraying their underground unit to the Nazis during the war. And he knew that his own ...

The Action/Adventure series continues! In the tradition of Don Pendleton's Executioner and Warren Murphy's Remo Williams exploits! ONE MAN’S WAR It hadn’t been planned that way. But in a war, plans don’t always work out—even Colonel Tobin’s plans. Kidnappings of American businessmen in South America have increased. If the demands for ransom money and release of political prisoners were not met, the victims are brutalized and executed. It could not go on. Foreign investment in South America was dropping off, economies were teetering... Colonel Tobin is called in—for a secret ...

Adapted into the Warner Brothers action/adventure motion picture of the same name starring Academy Award nominee Robert Mitchum and BAFTA Award Winner Jack Hawkins. The novel contains numerous additional scenes, subplots, and characters not depicted in the feature film. For fans of such films as The Ghost and the Darkness, and Beast. RAMPAGE: Two renowned big-game hunters, a German Otto von Abart and American Harry Stanton, embark on a dangerous mission into the steaming jungles of Malaya. Their assignment: to capture prize specimens for the Munich Zoo in Germany. Neither man realizes that ...

BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS. THE STIRRING EPIC OF HIGH ACTION AND BRAVE MEN RIDING INTO HELL. The Crimea, Russia, 1854. The armies of England, France and Turkey join forces against the iron-clad onslaught of Imperial Russia. This will be a battle to decide the fate of Europe, and every man who lifts a saber brandishes history in his clenched fist... THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE pulses with drama and passion of that mighty encounter. Heroes and cowards, madmen and valiant lovers spring to life from its action-swept pages. Here is a novel equaled in power only the legendary adventure which ...

During World War II Alan Caillou was on a British Intelligence deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert of Africa when he was captured by the Italians in February 1943. This is the story of his capture and subsequent escape after being sentenced for execution for being a spy; brilliantly told as to his experiences during that time. It can be considered not only as an escape book but as a prison book as well. For fans of such prison war films as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and King Rat. "Something very much out of the ordinary run." - Times Literary Supplement "This book is a record ...

First in the Colonel Tobin covert military mission novels! Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march...against enemies plotting a third world war in the Middle East! Tobin and his army have been hired to stop a potential missile strike against several major Israeli cities. Should it occur the resulting aftermath could very well light the match that will see the start of World War III. And how do the perpetrator’s plan on pulling this off? They will secretly transport a Russian-designed submarine across the desert and launch it into the Dead Sea were it can secretly hurl its explosive...

First in the Ian Quayle spy novel series! Ian Quayle is a low level agent within a branch of MI6. He is a playboy, a gentleman, a lover, and a genius at research. He is totally fluent in five foreign languages and quite comfortable in several others. He expertly handles his beloved Mini-Cooper 'S' at speeds well over 100 and can get a great table at any decent restaurant on the Continent. Of course, he is incredibly handsome, which is why women throw themselves at him constantly, despite the complaint by his sometime lady friend, Wendy, who maintains he hasn't a clue how to satisfy a ...

First of the Cabot Cain international thriller book series! Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. ...

Fourth novel in the Mike Benasque thriller series! When you want to move diamonds you don’t hire an army, you hire a woman. From Paris to Athens—A life and death race across Europe. Christine Andress was the courier, as beautiful and hard as the gems she carried, as ruthless and cunning as the master criminals she was up against, and as passionate and vulnerable as a woman in love can be. Michael Benasque was the journalist along for the ride. But with twelve million in diamonds strapped to his crotch it was going to be the wildest ride of his life.

Second novel in the Ian Quayle Spy Series! An upcoming summit of Intelligence leaders from all over Europe has attracted the attention of a particularly deadly terrorist group calling themselves the Swords of God and their mysterious leader who has vowed to destroy the proceedings and eliminate the participants. It is the job of Ian Quayle, a researcher within the bowels of MI6, to discover the identity of this leader and help keep them from succeeding. But this time Ian Quayle has stuck out his neck too far and the Swords of God have targeted him and those closest to him for termination ...

Third in the Mike Benasque thriller novel series! Mike Benasque is back—this time living in Rome with two beautiful sisters, one of them his mistress. Out of work and low on cash, Mike, his girl Karen and her sister Simona, are looking for action. They find more than enough when Karen, a free-lance photographer, gets an accidental shot of an attempted murder. This innocently gained photo marks their first step on a trail of international intrigue—a trail that leads to their abduction and to mortal danger. And for Mike and Karen, a Roman romance ends on an inhospitable desert in Israel ...

Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. He stands 6'7" and weighs in the neighborhood of 230 lbs. He ...

Second of the Cabot Cain international thriller book series! Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. ...

3rd Book in the Cabot Cain Series. Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. He stands 6'7" and weighs ...

JUNGLE SLAUGHTER It was the only way. Colonel Tobin and his hand-picked warriors bought themselves a job that demanded total victory—the enemy must be wiped out completely...eliminated! Only one complication in the battle plan: There were two enemies! One was General Guevara Lincoln, the giant ex-Black Panther and his army of African rebel tribes. The other was Major Dogger, the brutal South African mercenary leader and his legion of cutthroat soldiers. Tobin. Guevara. Dogger — a triangle of violence that splashes across the Congo with a bloodbath battle seemingly on a primal level. The...

High Octane World War II Action! First in the Dekker's Demons Series. It was a mission even Colonel "Wild Bill" Donovan called suicide! It called for parachuting behind enemy lines, into a country crawling with Nazis, and bringing out the man code-named Catinat - the mysterious leader of the French Resistance. Allied troubleshooter Josh Dekker had handpicked the squad: an Algerian murderer with an appetite for unwilling women; a young hashish smuggler on the run; a British weapons whiz expelled from the army for an unmentionable offense; a sullen Pole with a deep and deadly anger. And Jill,...

Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... against enemies plotting to overthrow a South American government! BRAZIL ERUPTS... A country that finds itself caught up in the throes of a bloody revolution. The regular army cannot cope with the well-armed outlaws, guerrillas, and native tribes with poisoned arrows of this fanatical force. And so the word goes out: “Get Colonel Tobin!” – and his hand-picked, hand-trained collection of the hardest, strongest, most efficient mercenary fighters in the world. Men who live, work, fight, drink, and love like the devil himself; an odd band...

Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. He stands 6'7" and weighs in the neighborhood of 230 lbs. He ...