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WHAT IS WILD INCORPORATED To the world at large, Wild Incorporated is an unusual and mysterious organization whose origin is shrouded in secrecy and lost to human memory. To the members of this strange group - six of the most singularly unique and expert intelligences ever assembled - it is a sacred trust, a lifetime's mission dedicated to the extermination of criminals and evil-doers the world over. Together they form a team of unstoppable heroes whose fantastic exploits are unequaled for hair-raising thrills, breathtaking escapes and pulse-pounding excitement! THE DEADLY MISTER PUNCH ...

Whenever a soldier slides into his BDUs and shoulders an M16, there is another man looking to take both off. Special Forces is set in the heat of battle, where fear, urgency, and uncertainty lead to unexpected intimacy and release. The seasoned authors here, some of whom have served in the military themselves, do not shy away from the hard realities of the fight. They know how anger and terror can fuel desire and attraction.

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space. "Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling. "The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whispers and Ice and Sand. The crew of the Boudicca are after space pirate treasure. "Gideon's Burden" by T. Neil Thomas ...

WILD INCORPORATED is a crime fighting organization whose origin is shrouded in secrecy. Harry Calhoun has become a member of this strange group. Led by the mysterious Morrigan Wild and aided by five talented experts in differing fields, the organization travels the world to right wrongs and battle evildoers. But can Harry Calhoun, a reformed small-time thief, prove to himself that he has what it takes to fight alongside them? MADAME MURDER When a retired mobster is brutally stabbed in his villa in Spain all evidence points to a secretive league of female assassins, the KYRIE DOLOFONIA. ...

WHAT IS WILD INCORPORATED To the world at large, Wild Incorporated is an unusual and mysterious organization whose origin is shrouded in secrecy and lost to human memory. To the members of this strange group - six of the most singularly unique and expert intelligences ever assembled - it is a sacred trust, a lifetime's mission dedicated to the extermination of criminals and evil-doers the world over. Together they form a team of unstoppable heroes whose fantastic exploits are unequaled for hair-raising thrills, breathtaking escapes and pulse-pounding excitement! THE SHATTERED MEN Harry ...

From the southern kingdom of Trigassa come two warriors destined to blaze a path throughout the known civilizations. Sirtago, the Ka of the kingdom and his companion, Poet, battle evil and sorcery throughout the land when it threatens Sirtago’s family. As young men they defend the empress and emperor against a deadly beast whose secrets threaten to topple a neighbouring kingdom. With Sirtago’s mighty sword and Poet’s deadly twin daggers, these two adventurers travel the land, plying their trade as hired swords to the Kajaghn fighters and outsmarting a sorceress who plans to raise an ...

A SPACE SHIP IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS GEAR CREW That is the mantra that itinerant ‘gears’ − starship engineers − Franklin and Sri live by. They’ve just been hired to work aboard a prestigious luxury liner, but their plans are disrupted when an unknown fleet presses a ruthless attack. Fleeing to safety, they and their semi-sentient toolbox organism known as the Quiddle, wind up aboard the Alizarin Crimson, a ship that is barely holding itself together and run by a dysfunctional crew led by the bullying Captain Boris Tankready. Turning the Crimson from space junk to shipshape is a ...

These are tales of the darkest fantasy. “These are the literary spawn – bastards though some may be – of the stories that one would have read in the pages of Weird Tales, that venerated pulp magazine of the early part of the twentieth century. That pulp rag that birthed the stories of Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, C. L. Moore, and many others. These stories have percolated in those pages as well as through the fiction of Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock. They have been steeped in heroic fantasy fiction, sword and sorcery, and outright ...

FROM THE DARKEST RECESSES OF THE MIND TO THE DARKEST CORNERS OF THE GALAXY These are tales of the future twisted and turned by the trends of the present. Like a funhouse mirror that reflects imperfectly, these are tales seen through a glass darkly. From a new consciousness birthed in a glitchy computer program, to a warning of the future unheeded by the first emperor of Rome. From the events of H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine told from the Morlocks’ point of view, to a look at the Beatles if they had never become famous. From a brain in a jar who solves galactic mysteries, to a space ...

A FORGOTTEN WORLD, A POWERFUL ARTIFACT AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR Solis DeLacey, captain of the ACSC ship BOSTON, has been sent to a newly discovered world rich in natural resources. But one ship and her crew has already gone missing while surveying the planet and the finger of suspicion is pointing directly to the ACSC`s sworn enemy, the Orion Hegemony. DeLacey, her crew and a ship full of scientists find a world teeming with life including the enigmatic natives, the Shum. But with the arrival of a Hegemony vessel crewed by Da'baa'kh, ruthless, animal-like soldiers, the game changes....

He was a soldier without a war, alone and unwanted, until he discovered an alien enemy... Jefferson Odett found a skull on a blasted world on the edge of human space, just before the campaign against the rebel stationers was called off. A skull that was not human. When the transport taking him home is attacked by a strange alien vessel, crewed by fearsome creatures, Odett barely manages to escape with his life. Convinced the skull he found was from the same species as the aliens who attacked his transport, Odett believes they represent a deadly threat to humanity. The commanders of Earth's ...

SOME ENEMIES DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT The long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity has won. The Fleet is victorious. Everything has changed. Kent McLennan commands the Fleet ship Meritorious on a mission to accept the Kreoch surrender. But the Kreoch are not taking defeat so easily. Twenty years ago the greatest hero that the Fleet had ever known, Jack Church, was killed by a misguided assassin. Jack Church’s tactical genius was an integral part of the eventual downfall of the Kreoch. If Jack Church had never existed, how different would the outcome have been? ...

PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS - WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Pirates have targeted the world for plunder, a race of wandering alien nomads have made themselves at home and the colony’s new governor seems intent on making enemies of just about everyone. Jefferson Odett would rather be out on the rim, fighting the war for humanity, but a misadventure has landed him here. Now he has to try to secure a planet that does not want its new governor, the aliens who have moved in, or the platoon of undisciplined soldiers under Odett’s command. The only thing the ...

THREE HEROES - THREE TIMES - A SINGLE DEADLY FOE In a world of magic one city is the focal point for a desperate struggle that is fought through all of time. Mages harness the powers of different elements – air, fire, ice, metal, even death – and wield that power in their struggle to survive. But one powerful mage can control time itself. Now mages and mortals alike find themselves allied against that power and three heroes, separated by vast gulfs of time, must find a way to save the magic, the great city and existence itself. From the author of Debt's Pledge comes a novel of magic and...

Join Garrett Ross and Jack Mackenzie as they dive into the latest in college football and basketball! Quick hits, deep insights, and fun banter every week! A 365 Sports Podcast.

Welcome to the Stages of Sound podcast! Each episode, your hosts Mackenzie and Jack will walk through the dazzling world of video game music, and shed new light on all of your favourite OSTs. You can find us on YouTube, Spotify, and pretty much anywhere you get your podcasts! New episodes every Thursday!