Showing results by narrator "Commodore James" in Literature & Fiction

Still reeling from his wife's murder, Joel tries to escape the alien hunter and fulfill a promise he made to her. Years of searching for the fabled planet Aeprion have left the space-freighter captain torn between giving up the search or giving himself up to Kraxem, the alien hunter.

Paul Armstead is your average American senior citizen and electrical engineer. He's 61 years old, unremarkably unattractive, and a self-proclaimed science fiction nut. He's lived the American dream in drab, typical fashion. So how does he end up fleeing from one end of the world to the other, dodging government dragnets; evil, nightmarish monsters known as the Oni; good wizards; bad wizards; beautiful women; spies; and wizardly spells? Well, it is entirely the genie's fault....

In 1978 San Francisco, Will Hessler continues his journey from starving artist to Mossad operative under the watchful eye of Jacob Mitzak. The Hammer of Israel is going to teach Will what it takes to survive in the world of assassination and espionage, but before Will’s training is complete, a shadow from the past returns. Jurgen Steiner seeks to fuse the old-breed Nazi holdouts with the new white nationalist underground and finish what he started in New York City. Has Will learned enough to keep his head above water while putting his enemies underground?

It's 1979, and Will Hessler has found himself in the desert outside of Dimona, Israel, training for operations with a secret division within Israeli intelligence. When a soldier is kidnapped at the Israeli/Palestine border, Will follows Jacob Mitzak on a mission to get him back, but that's just the beginning. A Directorate S agent deployed by the KGB is loose in one of Israel's nuclear reactor sites, and though Will doesn't know it yet, he has the key to finding him. Is Will Hessler ready for the realities of this new world and his place in it?

Two bullies go hunting for trouble but instead find a young boy and his imaginary friend in Jason Parent's Easy Pickings, a short-story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

It’s 1980, and Will Hessler is about to hit the sunny shores of Beirut, Lebanon. One year after the abduction of a Mossad operative by the jihadist group Sword of Allah, Israeli special operations group Shayetet 13 launches a rescue mission to get her back. When things don’t go as planned Will is the only one who can pull the operation out of the fire and root out a traitor in their midst.

A brother and sister creep out of the darkness with bags full of deadly tricks in Gregor Xane's "The Riggle Twins", a short story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

After a rootless childhood, the desire for love and stability becomes both a propelling force and a tender, vacant space in former foster child Easton McNeil's life. Yet the man who keeps moving forward in search of "the beautiful ordinary," is confronted by unexpected curves. He's a virgin who becomes a father. A humanistic dreamer who becomes a business journalist. A practical man who ends up leaving his stable career for a humiliating gig as a sidekick to the notorious shock jock, Cooper Ross.

The KGB thought that there wouldn't be any blow-back after sending a Directorate S agent into Israel to use El Al airlines to detonate a nuclear weapon in New York City. They were wrong. Saul Greenbaum is dead, Marin Sutcliffe and Jacob Mitzak have returned to New York and The Box has been decommissioned. Will Hessler is now alone, out on his own and headed to Moscow to deliver a message to Colonel Sokolov and anyone else who had a hand in an operation that nearly killed thousands.

Zaina Farid and Sword of Allah have obtained a vial of anthrax, and have left the container in front of Mossad Headquarters. Their message is clear: You are not safe. If the operatives of The Box are going to stop her, they'll need help from the last person they would expect: the turncoat Israeli agent Nadir Fox. To stay a step ahead of SOA, Jacob Mitzak will have to break into Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and extract Nadir.

Nadir Fox has rebuilt his network and decided that Will Hessler is going to do his work for him. Starting off with an act of unbelievable brutality, Nadir sends Will on a race against time to accomplish a series of tasks. Meanwhile, Jacob Mitzak, his daughter, Ariel Sutcliffe, and Mike Wurman work together to try and pull the curtain back on Nadir's operation and stop an attack on both New York City and the Israeli prime minister.

The Dark: Horror Anthology Vol. 3 includes three stories: "Wenatchee Forest", "Kabul Night", and "The Gift".

In the future human cloning has been approved, but what consequences does mankind face...when tampering with God and nature?

Peter, a brilliant software engineer, is obsessed with finding the answer to an age old question. Is there something after when we die? He builds a machine that can possibly give him the answer, but soon realizes...some things are better left unknown.

A horror anthology featuring the stories "The Hunter", "Shadow People", "The Harvest Moon", and more.

Includes the stories "The Hunter", "Shadow People", and "The Harvest Moon".

A squad of American soldiers are given orders to investigate a deserted secret Nazi bunker. Nothing could have prepared them for the unimaginable horrors lurking in the darkness below.

When a mysterious, Halloween-themed attraction comes to the town of Bay's End, everyone is dying to pay a visit in Edward Lorn's The Scare Rows, a short-story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

A group of thrill seekers learn that looking for terror is a whole lot more fun than finding it in Adam Light's "Ghost Light Road", a short story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

A boy with a misshapen skull just wants to be normal in Evans Light's "Pumpkinhead Ted", a short story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.