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After the events of 2020, all of us were glad to move on. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn't known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more. It was our common interests that sent us on vacation together to my remote cabin.What we didn't, couldn't know, was that we were on a collision course with the end of the world as we knew it. There was a new virus in town, and it was just making itself known when we left civilization behind. While the world was reeling from its effects, we were completely unaware of what was happening. For a couple of weeks life was great. Driving too fast on the side-by-side, loud music, great food, a little alcohol, and casual conversation distracted by beautiful scenery. About the only thing that would slow us down was the occasional deer in the road. By the time we figured out something was wrong, it was too late?..

"The way I looked at it was Paul had to be pretty damn awesome to do the stuff he did in the ring and remain undefeated for so long with all of his issues. The man had all kinds of things going on outside the ring that should have stood in his way, but he still kept winning. God had to be watching out for him." -Roy Jones Jr."Paul was one of the best. And without the drugs and alcohol, he would have been unstoppable." -Tom YankelloPittsburgh's Paul Spadafora defeated Israel Cardona to capture the International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight belt and the heart of a city that had not boasted a world champion prizefighter in over a half-century. Outside the ring, Paul's irrepressible dependency on drugs and alcohol marred his legacy and bore tragic consequences. Paul's narrative was one of brilliance, crippled by madness, a dichotomy of in-ring savant and out-of-ring calamity. Fighting Till the End is a candid examination of a flawed champion determined to conquer his demons and come out on top in the final round of his life.

Colonel Levi Levins retires from the Army and is off on vacation before starting his new job in the civilian world. After serving all around the globe during his military career, he is ready to finally live the good life with his beloved wife, Sarah. But fate has other plans and when a solar flare knocks out the grid, Levi must not only survive, but find a way to help humanity to keep his own sanity. Since he is on vacation, Levi has no bug out bag, no hidden weapons cache, no transportation. What does he do, and how does he do it? Levi will walk us through his path to survival. Perhaps it may also be yours... Vigilante: Into the Darkness takes us on a journey to try to stave off the New Dark Age brought on by a worldwide EMP apocalypse. Can Government survive when no food is being trucked to the masses? Can our military survive without the tons of food needed each and every meal? The answers are here. Vigilante: Into the Darkness pulls no punches when it comes to the horrific details of a worldwide grid down situation, from the effect on the food chain from ants to rats. With so many dead, how do the survivors deal with rotting corpses, diseases, and villains? Will good triumph over evil? Maybe...

On 6 March 2116, a comet was discovered hurtling toward the Earth. With only a two-year window, the USUG-C (U.S., U.K., and German Confederation) sent a three-ship flotilla of Asteroid Belt Mining Ships to begin pushing this comet named Holley Thorne out of its potentially disastrous trajectory. Using mining lasers, the mission was completed. Holley Thorne, however, had a stinger in her tail, and the Earth had to pass through that tail. Following Holley Thorne's passing, the Earth was subjected to an immensely deadly pandemic. Book two, THE OORT PLAGUE begins two years later, on 7 March 2118. The entire world is now an absolute shambles, many cultures have simply disappeared from the Human Lineage. There are so many deaths and so few survivors that it is impossible to pick up the bodies. Animals must clean up the dead. Disease will now have its turn...One should never say, "At least, things can't get worse," because things can always get worse. Humanity is about to discover that things are about to get much, much worse.

Science Fiction from Lt.Col. Cliff Deane (ret) The year is 2116. Man has successful colonies on both Luna and Mars. The Asteroid Belt is has been successfully mined for twenty-five years. Three-hundred and forty-five years before the birth of Christ, a comet was bumped out of the OORT Cloud and began it's journey around the sun. A journey that endangers both Luna and Earth. The Space Defense Force is sent to use lasers to change the course of the Comet named Holly Thorne. Other Super Powers want to blast the comet with nuclear tipped missiles. This book has space battles, military battles, spies, saboteurs, assassins, a religious fanatic who claims to be the embodiment of Jesus Christ, and more; plus, a comet named Holly Thorne has a surprise in her tail, in which the Earth must spend four days.

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Lt. Col. Cliff Deane (ret) Vigilante: Into the Fray finds Colonel Levi Levins, commanding ROA forces, ready to leave the safe confines of Defiance and the new Republic of America (ROA) to return to his original path of a vengeful Vigilante bent on seeking justice for those unable to protect themselves from evil. Alas, the best laid plans of mice and men oft do go astray and Levi finds himself embroiled in leading the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment of the ROA into combat against both MS-13 and a rogue U.S. President protected by three battalions of mercenaries.. For the ROA to survive, Levi must lead a massive deployment of nearly all of the ROA combat forces, both men and equipment to West Virginia to face, and defeat, combat hardened veteran mercenaries. Levi's hard headed adopted daughter, Katie must play a pivotal role for this mission to be successful. Will she be up to the task?. Levi, along with daughter Kate, Gus and Darren Murtaugh have not given up on their plan to become the epitome of Michael, the Archangel.

When Horatio Billings returned from a trip, and first met Penny, she was sitting behind a desk in his office. He had absolutely no idea why she was there instead of his girlfriend who was also his current receptionist/paralegal. After coaxing a very short explanation out of her loud enough for him to actually hear, the surprises just kept coming. Some he found were actually quite nice. But some of the others definitely not so much. Regardless, Penny turns out to be far more than what he thought initially and as the two begin to get to know each other, he finds she is turning him into just as much of a prepper as she is. Like her, he also begins to realize...and resent...the country's march towards a police surveillance state. So, Horatio decides to ponder those first thoughts she offered to him, and any additional ones he could get her to share with him, because even those first thoughts she shared with him were worth far more than any Penny coin.

After seven years of exile, Justin Hacker returns to his hometown of Nogales, Arizona to try and break his younger brother out of a Mexican prison where he awaits to be hung for crimes he didn't commit. But first, Justin must overcome certain obstacles - such as, a town bully, a Mexican bandito and his gang, being stranded naked on the desert, an Indian attack, a father who has vowed to shoot him on sight should he return to Nogales and match wits with a maniacal prison warden who hates gringos. And if that isn't enough, after several twists of fate, Justin has to lead the whole town of Nogales, back across the border where his father and uncle now await the hangman's noose in the dreaded Mexican prison.Hacker's Raid is a fast moving page turner with non-stop action that keeps you asking what's going to happen next.----

After the death of their uncle, a brother and sister learn that their ancestors were notorious pirates that sailed the ocean on the feared warship The Irish Rose. The subsequent investigation into their family reveals some interesting secrets and leads them into danger they could have never imagined.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY In 1946, a letter-to-the-editor appeared in the USMC Leatherneck Magazine asking if other Marines recalled the "Mad Ghoul" on the island of Pavuvu, 65 miles off the coast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Sea. The subscriber was attacked, as were others who responded in later 1946 issues to his query. The attacks were true events, holding 16,000 Marines of the 1st and 3rd Divisions "hostage" while resting, refitting, and recuperating after 10 months fighting for Guadalcanal. The mysterious Ghoul would cut square holes in the tents while the Marines within were sleeping, then reach down and fondled their throats. When awakened, the Marine would see a huge K-Bar fighting knife in the moonlight about to plunge into his face. Everyone was scared -- there were no Japanese on the island, no one was killed, and the Ghoul was never found -- the activity started when the Marine divisions arrived and stopped when they left five months later. "Leatherneck" editors searched the military archives for reports of the incidents -- but no files, no records, no reports, nothing was present except that 6 or 8 Marines wrote in swearing it had happened to them.

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY N.C. REEDFriendly fire. Two words no soldier ever wants to hear.Having ended the threat of his father's oldest enemy and the group he controlled, Clayton Sanders believes he can finally put his feet up a bit and relax. Figuratively of course, since there is no relaxing on a farm and ranch. But some peace and quiet will be greatly appreciated and welcome.Too bad he won't get it.With the remainder of his old team on their way, Clay starts to think he might be able to breathe easier. Sure, they did say they were running from a big problem out west, but that's out west, right? No reason to worry about that. True, there's still that nutty end times guy on the radio, but he's more comic relief than anything else at this point. Still, it does remind him that he has heard no news from outside their immediate area, forcing him to rethink his initial plans for isolation of the farm from others. On the whole, however, it seems that trouble is a distant problem for the moment.But his friends find trouble much closer to home as they make their journey to join Clay and the rest at the ranch, uncovering a threat that Clay hadn't known existed. Their arrival also awakens old prejudices and attitudes that will lead to a fracture among the ranch residents, and that fracture will in turn bring vicious enmity among people who had been friends only days before.That fracture will do what multiple attacks by greater numbers has failed to accomplish; divide a strong and independent group of survivors while taking their attention from the real threats to their safety, even as the farm takes the first steps in reaching out to others, attempting to help the town of Jordan to get on its feet, able to feed and defend itself once more. After all they've been through, after all they've endured and dealt with, conflict from within may well be what breaks them. The damage that comes from within, friendly fire, could well do more to cripple them than anything that has come from outside thus far. One thing is universal it seems; friendly fire. . .isn't.

Parno McLeod has managed to stave off disaster for now, but his kingdom is still besieged by the Imperial forces of the Norland Empire. Assuming command of the entire Soulan military in place of his deposed brother, Therron, Parno must turn Soulan's fortunes around before his home is completely overrun and his people destroyed or enslaved. His ailing father has placed a great burden on his youngest son because he simply doesn't have anyone else that can do the things that Parno can get done. But Parno has enemies at home as well as abroad, and some of them are much closer than anyone realizes. . . .

Legendary Sheriff Bill Tilghman is approached by a Hollywood film crew and asked to film a jail break with real outlaws for a Hollywood film. The producers want men as famous as Tilghman to make the movie more exciting, which leeds to including men like the notorious outlaw Cole Younger. Only Younger and his fellow felons have their own ideas about this opportunity and TIlghman quickly discovers he has his hands full with a real bank robbery.

"The legend of Joe, Willy & Red," a story of the outrageous thirties - august of 1933 in fact, and the unlikely friendship of three men who choose the hobo trail rather than face the consequences of crimes the were accused of, but did not commit. They find themselves in a harrowing adventure of epic proportion and in a fight for their very survival.

The Chisholm Trail was the original "Cowboy Highway" stretching hundreds of miles from the ranches of Texas to the Cattle markets in Kansas. This classic work chronicles in vivid detail the entire journey of the trail and is complete with descriptions of actual incidents and events that occurred along the trail as well as stories of famous and infamous cowboys, outlaws, rustlers, Indians, and lawmen who made the journey. This story includes character studies and descriptions of many frontier characters from Jesse Chisholm, a western man and the trail's namesake, to the notorious gunslinger Billy the Kid, to countless other lawmen, Native Chiefs, and other western characters, this book leaves no detail uncovered as the author, who himself traveled the trail during its golden era, shares his story. The Chisholm Trail is a must read for anyone interested in discovering the true history of the American West so saddle up your horse and begin your journey on the World's Greatest Cattle Trail!

Five hundred years after the Dark Times, the descendants of those that lived through that era have reached the stars and find new challenges awaiting them. One young man, living legend Johnny Oneshot, and a very inquisitive and resourceful young woman, Willi "Marilyn Monroe" McKindrick, are more than willing to take on the situation to make the cosmos safer for those less able to fend for themselves. At great risk to their health and well-being, not to mention their emotions. Could they actually prevent another Dark Times, the way their ancestors had prepared for and survived the original?

Rancher turned Texas Ranger Clay Brentwood takes on a routine assignment escorting a prisoner from the Dallas jail to the prison in Canon City, Colorado. He's looking forward to an easy job, and then settling down for a bit. At least that's the way he had it figured. What he hadn't considered was how plans could change in a heartbeat, bringing him closer to deaths door than he ever wanted to be.

Parno Mcleod has enough problems for three people. A brother trying to steal the throne. A former fiance who has ripped him apart emotionally, and an enemy army twice the size of his own camped out on millions of acres of prime farm land he needs to feed his people. The last thing he needs to add to all that are assassination attempts, his surrogate mother meddling in the relationship or lack thereof with his 'fiance', and word that his traitorous brother, unaware of the death of his twin, is trying desperately to reach the Coastal Province government for 'help' in 'restoring' him to the throne.

"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." For no man does this famous line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance apply more accurately than it does to Johnny Ringo. He is a man whose true story has been gravely misunderstood. He has been portrayed in movies as the heroic outlaw who was fast with a gun, and struck fear in the hearts of those who challenged his skill. To the early twentieth century writers, he was the anti-Earp gunman who led the cow-boy faction of southern Arizona. But now, using primary sources, Cold West Detective Kevin Hogge takes the reader into the world of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, and the Shootout at the OK Corral to consider Johnny Ringo, a man who led a tragic life, and died a mysterious death committed by a man no one ever suspected.