Bøger af David Mark Brown

Punching history in the face and kicking injustice in the nuts. When a pentavorite of megalomaniacs attempt to pull the strings of nations, they fail to account for Cosmo and Chancho. One's from the Burmese border of India. The other's from the Texas border of Mexico. From opposite ends of the earth, the'll unravel the threads of a plot so diabolical it will take more than their combined cunning to save the day.

The war defines the warrior. Born into a tribal war with India, trained as a black belt and street fighter from the age of nine, tortured and left for dead at the age of seventeen, Cosmo Zimik has an intimate, working knowledge of violence. During his long weeks of recovery, nursed to health by a total stranger deep in the jungle, the seed of the Empty Hand Revolution germinated in Cosmo's mind. Four years of underground fight clubs, multiple contracts on his life and another near death experience forced Cosmo's Empty Hand Revolution into full fruition. In a world hungry for power and drunk on violence, what does it mean to be a warrior? True greatness requires humility. Courage requires surrender. Developing into a warrior on such terms has been Cosmo Zimik's life quest. Born a Naga and forged a warrior, Zimik became a missionary and then finally a revolutionary of a new breed. From the jungles of Manipur to the streets of Delhi to the countryside of Idaho, his extraordinary journey will inspire and convict. Empty Hand Revolution invites the reader to experience Cosmo's sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, yet always incredible world through his own eyes. And may the bold in spirit discover first-hand where empty hands can lead.

Killing the bodies is easier than keeping 'em buried.J.T. McCutchen, known as the Reefer Ranger or the Angel of Death, isn't used to doubt and regret. But when he's busted down From Texas Ranger to private security for an oil company in a muddy boomtown, he struggles to hold his life together via discipline and sheer will. McCutchen has built his life around two things: hating his father and everything being black and white.When attempts on his father's life combine with a plague ravaging the Texas countryside, can he once more bury his past and do what needs to be done? With the fate of his only remaining family and his beloved state of Texas hanging in the balance he'll need to question everything he's ever believed to unravel the conspiracy behind the plague and bury the bones of his past, once and for all.McCutchen's Bones draws upon spaghetti westerns of old as well as more recent influences such as Firefly, The Mandalorian and No Country for Old Men to create a haunting beauty framed by mud-encrusted gore. These episodic stories will take you back to the Saturday matinee serials of your youth (or before your time) without holding back on the over-the-top, killer action scenes that never stop coming.Check out McCutchen's Bones, and all of the Lost DMB Files, for new pulp fiction tales that will keep you turning the pages from beginning to end.MORE ABOUT THE LOST DMB FILES:Some conspiracies remain theories. Others become obsessions. Exhumed 100 years after their penning, the Lost DMB Files will reinterpret the way you perceive the world…and possibly the way it perceives you.Dime novelist and pulp fiction writer, David Mark Brown, mysteriously disappeared during the 1930s. Until recently, his obscure writings had all but been forgotten. Violent conspiracy theorists contend his fiction preserves a secret history, a history able to reclaim our future, if the war it unleashes doesn't destroy us in the process.Ranging from steampunk westerns to campy horror, these lost files harken back to an age of dime-store novels and over-the-top stories full of anti-heroes, complex villains, nightmarish monsters, conspiracy theories, shootouts, and explosions."Sergio Leone would have killed to film Fistful of Reefer. Harry Turtledove would admire the way history has been skewed. Others will love the notion of the Lost DMB Files. The estimable Mr. Brown has really latched onto something here." ~ Mike Resnick (The Godfather of Weird Western)OTHER SCHISM 8 SERIES and SUGGESTED READING ORDER Start with either Lost DMB Files or The Green Ones. Do not attempt reading Relic Hunters Before reading De Novo and The Green Ones. Read Lost DMB Files before reading De Novo. Feel free to read Rx Empire at any point...once it is published.Find out more about Fiction Vortex and our StoryVerses at www.fictionvortex.com

Welcome to publishing in the era of the information dealer. Just as the arms dealers and profiteers of the past stirred up murder and chaos for the purpose of profit, so too the information dealers pander to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of profit. Their weapons of choice are link-bait, fake news, click farms, fake reviews, and spammy content.The golden era of the information dealer has been ushered in via the sudden rise of big data and large information brokers such as Facebook, AT&T, Google, and Amazon. This matters to storytellers because Amazon now makes the rules for how readers discover and consume story (as a commodity!). This could end up being a VERY BAD THING if we storytellers don’t rise up as Pirate Authors to defend the trustworthiness of our industry and the security of our livelihoods.

Where reefer and el chupacabra merge in a life-and-death fight against the Man. Viva this!In the summer of 1918, Chancho Villarreal finds himself spit out by his once-beloved revolution. His ideals dashed, he crosses the border into Texas and starts a new life as a goat herder and marihuana farmer with his friends, Muddy and Nena. When Chancho and Muddy inadvertently create the legend of El Chupacabra in an elaborate scam to protect their cannabis crop, they draw the ire of Texas Ranger J.T. McCutchen, soon to be known as the Reefer Ranger.Fugitives from McCutchen's brand of justice, victims of racial prejudice, and pitted against the wilds of a Texas haunted by rumors of chupacabras behind every bush, Chancho and his friends are forced out of the frying pan into the fire. Chancho will need to outrun his devils, past and present, if he's to save his friends and rediscover his passion for revolution.When it comes down to a high-noon standoff between Chancho and the Ranger in the small village of Santo Poco, Chancho gets one last chance to fight for the ideals of his youth-one last chance to stand up against the Man. In the end, only one will stand.Fistful of Reefer delivers a surge equivalent to a cocktail of one part serotonin, two parts adrenaline, with a dash of grenadine served over ice. This over the top, steampunk western resides between No Country for Old Men and The Three Amigos.*Newly Re-released and Edited with Bonus Episodes: Reefer Ranger and Del Rio Con Amor!MORE ABOUT THE LOST DMB FILES:Dime novelist and pulp fiction writer, David Mark Brown, mysteriously disappeared during the 1930s. Until recently, his obscure writings had all but been forgotten. Violent conspiracy theorists contend his fiction preserves a secret history, a history able to reclaim our future, if the war it unleashes doesn't destroy us in the process.Ranging from steampunk westerns to campy horror, these lost files harken back to an age of dime-store novels and over-the-top stories full of anti-heroes, complex villains, nightmarish monsters, conspiracy theories, shootouts, and explosions.OTHER SCHISM 8 SERIES: The Green Ones De Novo Relec HuntersFind out more about Fiction Vortex and our StoryVerses at www.fictionvortex.com.

Reality is broken.In a world where senses perceive a fraction of reality, every conspiracy should be taken seriously and the impossible considered probable. From secret histories to alternate futures, to paranoid thriller, pulp western, and dystopian fantasy, Schism 8 pieces together a vast reality that eventually pits its central characters against each other as they attempt to assert their personal views of reality as correct. In the end, whose image will the universe reflect? Only those who envision the Schism will survive.