Reader, writer, martial artist, US Marine, Veteran, Squad Leader, Team Leader, Saw Gunner, Rifleman, Computer Consultant, Security Officer, Dungeon Master, world traveler, Computer Gamer, dreamer, realist, American and best of all Dad!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Gods of War
The mission was supposed to be his last.
After more than twenty years in special operations, USMC Gunnery Sergeant Wolf Mathison wasn’t looking forward to retirement when—implanted with an experimental artificial intelligence—he deployed on his last mission with a platoon of Marine Raiders being sent to the Jovian moon Europa.
The USS Jefferson was destroyed en route, though, and only Mathison and three other Marines survived. Trapped in stasis, they were hurled into the outer reaches of the solar system, where they wouldn’t be found for hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the United States is destroyed and a fascist regime rises to power, expanding into the galaxy to plant its boot heel on the necks of humanity. But SOG, the Social Organizational Governance, is not unopposed, and researchers at a top-secret research outpost are working on a solution that will let SOG reign supreme. Unfortunately for the Marines, they’re awakened from stasis at the same time the researchers awaken a threat that endangers the entire human race.
The odds are against them, but that’s nothing new for the Marine Raiders.
Semper Fidelis and Semper Invictus!
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Darkness Rising
United we stand, divided we fall.
Having escaped execution by the SOG, Gunnery Sergeant Mathison and his Marines are hunted by an elite Governance task force and the entity that escaped from SOG Special Research Base 402-Alpha. If they don’t warn the Republic in time, humanity is doomed.
But the Marines need more information about the entity hunting them, information the SOG doesn’t want them to have, and it’s a race against time as their hunters close in. The hunters can afford many mistakes, but the Marines can’t make a single one.
As the hunters close in on their prey, worlds will burn and ancients will awaken to crawl out of the shadows. The ancients, the Vanhat, are returning, and mankind must unite or perish. Unfortunately, the SOG doesn’t want to unite.
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Gates of Hell
Marines never leave their own behind.
Betrayed by the Republic, Mathison and his Marines are separated. Hunted by the Republic, the SOG, and the vanhat, they have nowhere to turn but to each other.
Having stowed away aboard a Governance troop transport, Mathison and Stathis escape to a SOG planet and discover the Governance has planned an ambush for the Republic. Meanwhile, Levin and Winters clash with Republic hunter-killer teams and barely escape with their lives. Wanted by all sides, the Marines have no allies and no way to find each other.
As the SOG prepares to ambush the Republic in the Zhukov system, the Marines and Aesir clash, and the vanhat prepare to slaughter everyone who survives.
The Marines have set their rally point at the gates of hell, and nothing will stand in their way. Let the bodies hit the floor.
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Revolution Calling
Divided we fall…
Mathison and his Marines have been reunited, and they’ve found unlikely allies in their mission to save humanity, which is currently tearing itself apart. SOG systems are rebelling, the Republic wants to run away… and then there’s the whole invasion of the vanhat they have to contend with.
The Last Marines have a new weapon, but it’s Republic technology, and the Republic forces are going to take it with them when they flee. So even though the Republic has betrayed the Marines, they must find and warn the Republic fleet… and do whatever it takes to get their hands on the technology. The Marines have one chance to save the Republic, but time—and the rest of humanity—is against them.
Surrounded by people he doesn’t trust—including a SOG commissar and troops from the Republic—Mathison will have to forge them into a team and track down the Republic before they leave… or humanity is doomed.
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Genocide of Mankind
Humanity rests on the razor’s edge of extinction!
The odds are against Mathison and his Marines. The Republic has abandoned them, and the Governance has collapsed. The vanhat are sweeping through human space almost unopposed, crushing the few humans still scattered throughout the ruins of the Governance.
While some survivors seek to rally and rescue who they can, the Governance has retreated to Sol, where it cowers behind its countless automated weapons platforms, closing itself off from the rest of the galaxy. Unfortunately, the enemy has already breached the line and is just waiting its time to strike.
But Marines don’t give up. There is a rumor that researchers have discovered a weapon that can be used against the vanhat, and the Marines must infiltrate a vanhat-infested SOG star base to recover the secret location of the research facility.
Hunted, will the Marines discover the weapon they need, or are they running into the trap that will be the end of them?
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Valhalla Awaits
Valhalla Awaits!
The vanhat are within the walls, and mankind’s days are numbered.
Mathison has a desperate plan. A suicide mission. Infiltrate fortress Sol to shut off the defenses long enough for a d-bomb strike to kill the vanhat invaders.
But time is running out as the vanhat close their trap on the Alliance survivors.
The demon Nasaraf has marked their souls for his master, and he is coming to claim them.
Ragnarök awaits, and Valhalla will not be denied.
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Writing Military Science Fiction: Infantry
A crucial reference for writers of military science fiction and a priceless resource for other writers. What goes on during a firefight? What does a Staff Sergeant do? A Corporal? A Lieutenant? A Captain? How big is a company? How far can troops march in a day? What are the mechanics of an orbital assault drop? Why aren’t all soldiers equipped with machine guns? How many Marines are in a squad and what are their jobs? What is the French Foreign Legion equivalent of a sergeant? What does adrenaline do to a human body? This book also covers things like types of armor, weapons, biotechnology, cybernetics, psionics and so much more.
Over 250 pages of crucial knowledge and numerous links to more detailed information. With some information from www.MilSF.com it contains a very significant amount of new information and updated sections.
This guide can help answer questions you didn’t even know you had.
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The Return
Luke Kishi held the line against crushing odds. Shattering the enemy fleet cost him his wife but before she died, she made him promise to live. Can he keep his promise when he is forced to become a mercenary?
Saved and now alone, the colonists of New Alamo find themselves in a stagnating alien empire called the Conglomerate, a harsh and unforgiving society ruled by the Topa. To survive and keep New Alamo safe, Luke becomes a mercenary, wishing for death, but honor bound to live.
When Luke receives a mission that sends him to a distant corner of the Conglomerate he must find something worth living for besides honor, or the entire human race will exterminated. The Topa have plans for humanity, but can the hero of Naantali keep his promise?
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The Darkness
With his ship destroyed Luke returns to New Alamo while Leonessa returns to Athena to help rebuild her home.
War is coming and the colonies must defend themselves against the religious fanatics of Earth, but there are greater threats, lurking in the darkness and preparing to strike.
Topa Suresh has an even more important task for Luke, a mission that could hasten the death of the Conglomerate and the collapse of civilization, or save it.
The drums of war are beating.
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New Empires
With the Conglomerate shattered and burning, Topa Suresh missing, the Jupiter Alliance and Caliphate preparing for war, and death in every shadow, Luke and Leonessa must take the battle to the enemy and build alliances against an ancient enemy intent on the destruction of civilization and peace.
Luke finds himself pitted against a foe that has been planning the destruction of the Conglomerate for hundreds of thousands of years. Humanity is already enslaved but there is one last hope.
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Threads of the Conglomerate
The Colony of New Alamo find itself trapped in a war torn system at the mercy of aliens who know too much about fleeing humans.
To keep the good will of the alien rulers they must sacrifice the hero that saved them and thus begins the career of Commander Luke Kishi.
This is a stand alone short story in the Conglomerate series universe of Luke Kishi's first mission as a mercenary working for the Topa. It provides some additional detail into the Conglomerate, the Topa and Luke's role as a troubleshooter.
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The Airsoft Bible: Book of Comm
Combat Communications. Not as glamorous or as intimidating as weapons, but without it you are rabble, easy prey for the team of professional warriors who use and understand the art of battle field communications.
This book covers the art of battle field communication at the small unit tactical level and battlefield level. It lists methods, techniques, tricks, equipment and best practices. It covers radios, hand arm signals, hand signals, challenge and passwords, proper and effective radio communications and more.
For the Airsoft and Paintball warrior this books covers simple to advanced concepts, with tips, tricks and recommendations. If you don't have it your enemy probably will. Can you take that chance?
This book is one of The Airsoft Bible series. Do unto others before they do unto you.
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The Airsoft Bible: Book of Tactics
This is not about the ‘basics’ of Airsoft, but is designed for new players and advanced players. It is not a book that promises secret methods of defeating your enemies, what gear or what weapons to buy to be ‘uber’. This is a book on TACTICS. Methods, strategies, concepts, ideas and tricks to defeating your opponents, it is about teamwork and it is about making sense of the chaos.
This book will not teach you how to shoot more accurately or teach you tricks that give you instant battle field supremacy. This is a book for warriors who intend to take the fight to the enemy, who use their brain, their fighting prowess, and skill to defeat their opponent.
This book covers the art of tactics as they apply to firefights. Drawn from decades of experience, numerous manuals, guides and interviews (AKA BS Sessions). This book covers US Marine, US Army, Special Operations, British, French Foreign Legion, Soviet Tactics and more. With information and unit organization, tactical doctrine, methods and weapon load out oriented toward Airsoft.
For the beginning or advanced Airsoft and Paintball warrior this book this book will help make sense of some of the chaos on the battle field, provide ideas, insight and methods and increase the lethality of your team.
If you don’t have it the enemy probably will. Can you take that chance?
This book is one of the Airsoft Bible series.
Do unto others before they do unto you!
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Aelfsward
Waking up naked on a rock in the middle of a natural pool is bad, not remembering your name or your past is even worse. The hungry looking cat the size of a bear on the shore watching you is not a comforting assurance that you bad day will end soon in a good way.
Sometimes, when a good soul is so tortured, world weary and seeking oblivion an ancient forest will take in that lost soul, love it, nurture it and heal it. Once healed these formerly broken souls become the most valiant defenders of the forest and the realms.
This is the story of Aelfsward, the incidental elf.
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Under Realms
Hunted by dark ones, a vengeful demon and a dragon Aelfsward follows his companions into the under realms. . . .
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Dragon’s Mouth
With the legions of Chakal closing in they must flee the dark elf city and escape to the underground wastelands. With death ahead of them and an unpassable chasm in front of them the companions find new allies and new enemies.
With secret legions lying in wait to spring their ambush, the Dwarven kingdom of the Ruskan allied with dragons and the dark lord they may never see the light of day.
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Fortress Basilisk
Hunted by dragons, dark ones, blood masters and more, they must stay ahead of the legions of dark ones that are conquering everything in their path as they pour out of the Skull Mountains.
With the loss of a companion this book is a little on the dark side. They are not winning the battle as the legions of Vakar invade the surface kingdoms, putting everyone and everything to the torch.
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Fall of Shenaren
With the Mage Council slaughtered, the Dragon Sword in the hands of the enemy and Vakar’s army marching on the magical city the Alliance is all but forgotten.
Aelfsward must help regain the initiative against Brathius or civilization is doomed.
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Haberdash
The Social Organizational Governance has many black projects, but this one has the potential to annihilate the Vapaus Republic.
Skadi must discover what is going on and stop it.
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Colonel Commissar
Set in the Last of the Leathernecks world, this story takes places before the collapse of the Governance.
Colonel Commissar Shing Feng left home to be a warrior of the fledgeling Social Organizational Governance. To escape his fathers grasp Feng joins the ODT, Orbital Drop Troopers and fights his way to glory and honor for the glory of Humanity.
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Fall of Asgard
This event chronicles the fall and flight of the Vapaus Republic and the loss of their homeworld.
The legendary Sif. The mysterious Aesir warrior who led the attack through the gauntlet of Earth to avenge the Republic home world. Her name is a curse word on the lips of every Governance citizen.
SOG calls her the ogre. If they only knew.
This is her story.
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Wait for me Dragon
An ancient prophecy, a deadly dragon and a kingdom in Peril. The greatest knights and mages have fallen beneath the claws and spells of the dragon but one young mage with a score to settle takes on the ancient dragon. Is this mage the one who will give the Dragon what it wants?
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Republic of Lions
The Socialist Union has declared war on the Leonis Republic and it is a war the Republic knows it can't win.
The last time a large empire declared war on the smaller Republic an uneasy truce was reached. This time lines may have to be crossed that will cost the soul of those warriors.
Eric Spears is the nephew of the great Colonel Mike Spears. Hero of the Han war. Can he follow in his uncle's foot steps?
The Socialist Union might be the least of the Republic's worries. Something else lurks in the darkness, something that has destroyed space faring nations in the past and the drums of war are awakening it.
This story will also be published at Royal Road, Inkitt and Wattpad (more locations may follow)
Wattpad
Inkitt
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Huntress
The LRS Huntress is the first of a new type of vessel. Designed to fight in enemy space for years, or decades, the crew prepares for a long fight. However, are they fighting the right enemy?
Eric Spears is a commando aboard the LRS Huntress and finds himself on the front line as a new enemy is discovered.
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