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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 ...

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 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...

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?

It started in Mexico when a man found a silver metal briefcase on a beach. Thinking he’d found drugs being smuggled into the country, the man who found the vial of fluid inside the insulated attaché case threw it down and broke it in disgust. He didn’t notice the droplets of fluid that landed on his sandaled feet. That man carried the cartel’s plague back to his village where the latest strain of the flu was running rampant. The plague mutated, joining with the flu, thus becoming airborne. It had now become the deadliest plague the world had ever faced. Soon, a flood of refugees ...

Artificial Intelligence was created to assist mankind. Since the first of its kind was created, major changes have taken place. Some say the results of those changes could prove disastrous for our existence. Captain Jim Wilison and the crew of the Lina make an amazing discovery at the South Pole on Mars while on a terraforming mission and they unearth what could and probably would alter the future of mankind. The questions to be answered are how the world will change when word gets out that modern Earth men and women weren't the first Earthlings to visit the red planet? And what role will ...

Two peacekeeper ships are dispatched to New York City to organize the evacuation and resettlement of the survivors. The peacekeepers soon find themselves facing a myriad of problems. Wild animals roam the streets of the city, and the tunnels beneath it are home to millions of starving rodents. The underground is also home to cannibals who prey on other humans as a means of survival. Compounding matters is the hatred and mistrust the above-grounders have for the people who live beneath the city streets. The peacekeepers must somehow prevent the different factions from fighting long enough to...

The peacekeepers intercept a message from a Chinese troop transport ship that originated near Alaska. A task force of several ships is sent to investigate. They also have to deploy a string of communications buoys to establish a link with the state. When they arrive, they learn that the Chinese have established bases in the state, which they are claiming as an official province of the Imperial Empire of China. They also learn that China now has an emperor. Qin Shi Huang plans to use the seizing of Alaska to galvanize the Chinese people and rally them to his standard in his civil war with ...

Division within the ranks of the peacekeepers threatens to tear them apart as they battle the Colombian drug cartel and a mystery enemy. Adding to their growing list of problems is the fact that the unidentified enemy is attempting to master the technology that permits them to travel submerged in their ships, which appear to be clones of those of the cartel. If ships can approach the coastal cities of America undetected, it would be all but impossible to stop them from attacking.

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. ...

A small Peacekeeper Armada goes to Mars where their terraforming efforts have begun to make the red planet habitable. Not long after they arrive, they are informed that a large Russian fleet, along with the remnants of the Colombian drug cartel’s pirate ships, is headed for a showdown with the American forces working to prepare a colony site for the first colonists.Knowing they will be outnumbered almost three to one, and that it will take a miracle for their forces to defeat those arrayed against them, the Peacekeepers in the Mars planetary system call on their secret weapon to help them...

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?

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 ...

Five years have passed as the peacekeepers continued to develop their spacecraft and build the new Guardian. That megaship will be placed in orbit to become the largest and most advanced space station in the history of mankind. It’s being positioned there to protect the United States from foreign aggression.The Chinese and the Russians are committed to the destruction of the Guardian and are building massive fleets to accomplish that goal.Beth convinces Gabe that they need to steal an APC from the Guardian and make an unauthorized round trip to the moon. What follows is a harrowing ordeal...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 large group of peacekeepers on their return trip to Base One stopped to camp for the night just south of Birmingham Alabama. These men and women had been serving as guards and in other support duties for the temporary peacekeeper airbase in Mobile Alabama. In the middle of the night these peacekeepers are attacked, but the lieutenant in charge of the unit gets a message to the base and activates the unit’s emergency beacon. The Peacekeeper and a squadron of fighters head for the location at top speed. When they arrive they find an incredible nightmare awaiting them as they investigate ...