Men of War (2013) (49 page)

The Meridian
Series –
Alternate History & Time Travel

Book I:
Meridian
– A Novel In Time

ForeWord
Magazine’s “Book of the Year”

2002 Silver
Medal Winner for Science Fiction

The adventure
begins on the eve of the greatest experiment ever attempted—Time travel. As the
project team meets for their final mission briefing, the last member, arriving
late, brings startling news. Catastrophe threatens and the fate of the Western
World hangs in the balance. But a visitor from another time arrives bearing
clues that will carry the hope of countless generations yet to be born, and a
desperate plea for help that leads the team on a mission to the Jordanian
desert of WWI, where they are entangled with fabled exploits of Lawrence of
Arabia.

Book II:
Nexus
Point

The project team
members slowly come to the realization that a “Time War” is being waged by
unseen adversaries in the future. The quest for an ancient fossil leads to an
amazing discovery hidden in the Jordanian desert. A mysterious group of
assassins plot to decide the future course of history, just one battle in a
devious campaign that will span the Meridians of time, both future and past.
Exciting Time travel adventure in the realm of the Crusades!

Book III:
Touchstone

When Nordhausen
follows a hunch and launches a secret time jump mission on his own, he uncovers
an operation being run by unknown adversaries from the future. The incident has
dramatic repercussions for Kelly Ramer, his place in the time line again
threatened by paradox. Kelly’s fate is somehow linked to an ancient Egyptian
artifact, once famous the world over, and now a forgotten slab of stone. The
result is a harrowing mission to Egypt during the time frame of Napoleon’s 1799
invasion.

Book IV:
Anvil of Fate

The cryptic ending
of Touchstone dovetails perfectly into
this
next volume as Paul
insists that Kelly has survived, and is determined to bring him safely home.
Only now is the true meaning of the stela unearthed at Rosetta made apparent—a
grand scheme to work a catastrophic transformation of the Meridians, so
dramatic and profound in its effect that the disaster at Palma was only a
precursor. The history leads them to the famous Battle of Tours where Charles
Martel strove to stem the tide of the Moorish invaders and save the west from
annihilation. Yet more was at stake on the Anvil of Fate than the project team
first realized, and they now pursue the mystery of two strange murders that
will decide the fate of Western Civilization itself!

Book V:
Golem
7

Nordhausen is
back with new research and his hand on the neck of the new terrorist behind the
much feared “Palma Event.” Now the project team struggles to discover how and
where the Assassins have intervened to restore the chaos of Palma, and their
search leads them on one of the greatest naval sagas of modern history—the hunt
for the battleship
Bismarck
. For some unaccountable reason the fearsome
German battleship was not sunk on its maiden voyage, and now the  project
team struggles to put the ship back in its watery grave. Meet Admiral John
Tovey and Chief of Staff “Daddy” Brind as the Royal Navy begins to receive
mysterious intelligence from an agent known only as “Lonesome Dove.” Exciting
naval action and top notch research characterize this fast paced alternate history
of the sinking of the
Bismarck
.

Note:
Golem 7
is the book that led author John Schettler to continue his exploration of
alternate history naval fiction in the breakthrough Kirov Saga. Fans of
alternate history / time travel adventure will enjoy all five books in the
award winning Meridian series.

Historical
Fiction

Taklamakan ~
The
Land Of No Return

It was one of
those moments on the cusp of time, when Tando Ghazi Khan, a simple trader of
tea and spice, leads a caravan to the edge of the great desert, and becomes
embroiled in the struggle that will decide the fate of an empire and shake all
under heaven and earth. A novel of the Silk Road, the empire of Tibet clashes
with T’ang China on the desolate roads that fringe the Taklamakan desert, and one
man holds the key to victory in a curious map but from a trader in the Bazaars
of Kashgar.

Khan Tengri
~
Volume II of Taklamakan

Learn the fate
of Tando, Drekk, and the others in this revised and extended version of Part II
of Taklamakan, with a 30,000 word, 7 chapter addition. Tando and his able
scouts lead the Tibetan army west to
Khotan
, but they
are soon confronted by a powerful T’ang army, and threatened by treachery and
dissention within their own ranks. Their paths join at a mysterious shrine hidden
in the heart of the  most formidable desert on earth where each one finds
more than they imagined, an event that changes their lives forever.

The
Dharman Series: Science Fiction

Wild Zone ~
Classic
Science Fiction – Volume I

A shadow has
fallen over earth’s latest and most promising colony prospect in the Dharma
system. When a convulsive solar flux event disables communications with the
Safe Zone, special agent Timothy Scott Ryan is rushed to the system on a navy
frigate to investigate. He soon becomes embroiled in a mystery that threatens
the course of evolution itself as a virulent new organism has targeted mankind
as a new host. Aided by three robotic aids left in the colony facilities, Ryan
struggles to solve the mystery of Dharma VI, and the source of the strange
mutation in the life forms of the planet. Book I in a trilogy of riveting
classic sci-fi novels.

Mother Heart
~
Sequel to Wild Zone – Volume II

Ensign Lydia
Gates is the most important human being alive, for her blood holds the key to synthesizing
a vaccine against the awful mutations spawned by the Colony Virus. Ryan and
Caruso return to the Wild Zone to find her, discovering more than they
bargained for when microbiologist Dr. Elena Chandros is found alive, revealing
a mystery deeper than time itself at the heart of the planet, an ancient entity
she has come to call “Mother Heart.”

Dream Reaper
~
A Mythic Mystery/Horror Novel

There was
something under the ice at Steamboat Slough, something lost, buried in the
frozen wreckage where the children feared to play. For Daniel Edwards,
returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he taught school a
decade past, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by the
village elders. In a mystery weaving the shifting imagery of a dream with
modern psychology and ancient myth, Daniel struggles to solve the riddle of the
old wreck and free himself from the haunting embrace of a nightmare older than
history itself. It has been reported through every culture, in every era of human
history, a malevolent entity that comes in the night…and now it has come for
him!

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person
who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time
a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its
spirit grows and strengthens.”

―
Carlos Ruiz
Zafón
, The Shadow of the Wind

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