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BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS. THE STIRRING EPIC OF HIGH ACTION AND BRAVE MEN RIDING INTO HELL. The Crimea, Russia, 1854. The armies of England, France and Turkey join forces against the iron-clad onslaught of Imperial Russia. This will be a battle to decide the fate of Europe, and every man who lifts a saber brandishes history in his clenched fist... THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE pulses with drama and passion of that mighty encounter. Heroes and cowards, madmen and valiant lovers spring to life from its action-swept pages. Here is a novel equaled in power only the legendary adventure which ...

First in the Colonel Tobin covert military mission novels! Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march...against enemies plotting a third world war in the Middle East! Tobin and his army have been hired to stop a potential missile strike against several major Israeli cities. Should it occur the resulting aftermath could very well light the match that will see the start of World War III. And how do the perpetrator’s plan on pulling this off? They will secretly transport a Russian-designed submarine across the desert and launch it into the Dead Sea were it can secretly hurl its explosive...

Novelization of the Academy Award winning screenplay of the epic motion picture starring Charlton Heston and Sir Laurence Olivier. In 1883, a Holy War rages across Egypt. The Mahdi, devout prophet of Allah and leader of countless thousands of armed tribesman, is about to descend upon the city of Khartoum, in the Sudan. A city that has become the arsenal to Egypt and that the Mahdi pledges to kill ever man, woman, and child within it. William Gladstone, Britain's Prime Minister, vows that he will not send British troops to defend the city. Instead he would sacrifice one man and enlists the ...

From writer Alan Caillou, author of the Tobin's War and Cabot Cain series. THERE IS ONLY THE PEARL American David Calib is sent by his father to pursue a man named Smith who has stolen from his father’s San Francisco business. His whereabouts is somewhere on Mindanao island in the southern part of the Philippines. It appeared to be merely a matter of finding Smith in order to have him extradited back to the U.S.. But the situation becomes more complicated when Calib finds out that Smith is on the island of Pangalau, the home of Gaston and Jules Ordue and their beautiful sister Andree. ...

Adapted into a Disney motion picture! A RAW SAGA OF RUGGED AFRICA Aklilu had raised the cheetahs since they were cubs. Together they had hunted the flat, fiery African plains, battling everything in their path—from savage bands of baboons to roaring floods, from warlike Somalis to hot, steaming jungles. Now they faced their deadliest foe of all time—the crafty Indian trader. He had duped Aklilu into trading his prized cheetahs for a bulky and worthless pocket watch, and now Aklilu had to abide by the trade. What could Aklilu do? Sacrifice his honor, or the sleek, young cheetahs that he ...

Second of the Cabot Cain international thriller book series! Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. ...

During World War II Alan Caillou was on a British Intelligence deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert of Africa when he was captured by the Italians in February 1943. This is the story of his capture and subsequent escape after being sentenced for execution for being a spy; brilliantly told as to his experiences during that time. It can be considered not only as an escape book but as a prison book as well. For fans of such prison war films as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and King Rat. "Something very much out of the ordinary run." - Times Literary Supplement "This book is a record ...

In the tradition of espionage thrillers from John Le Carré, Frederick Forsyth, and Ken Follett. "Intelligent and rather shocking thriller by Mr. Alan Caillou who writes about pre-Nassar Cairo and makes it seem dangerous, stimulating, corrupt and altogether credible." - Sunday Times "It is an excellent secret service scamper in its own right, geared to the frightening facts of world affairs." - Spectator Five names were on the list that Perugino found in the apartment of Princess Higran, an exotic Turkish dancer: Oswald Pearman, Ibrahim Shulam, Stefan Bolec, Sergi Reizen, Ahmed Saleh The ...

RULE OF THE SWORD The private army of Colonel Tobin will fight any battle on the enemy’s own terms if need be, even if they have to face a maniacal leader who believes he’s the incarnation of Genghis Khan, hell bent on destruction. The avenging angels launch their current campaign in Afghanistan, a land torn between cruelties of the past and promises of the future, and that has been unconquered for centuries with never-ending tribal strife. It’s going to be hard, brutal combat for a better way of life for its people in the latest mission of Tobin’s war against injustice. So here ...

Adapted into the Warner Brothers action/adventure motion picture of the same name starring Academy Award nominee Robert Mitchum and BAFTA Award Winner Jack Hawkins. The novel contains numerous additional scenes, subplots, and characters not depicted in the feature film. For fans of such films as The Ghost and the Darkness, and Beast. RAMPAGE: Two renowned big-game hunters, a German Otto von Abart and American Harry Stanton, embark on a dangerous mission into the steaming jungles of Malaya. Their assignment: to capture prize specimens for the Munich Zoo in Germany. Neither man realizes that ...

First of the Cabot Cain international thriller book series! Over a half million copies in print! Cabot Cain is a freelance operative who works almost exclusively for Interpol, Department B7, handling tasks that most others would avoid. These assignments are usually presented to him by his close friend, Colonel Fenrek. It is Fenrek that Cain uses to provide needed background information to discern the good guys from the bad. It is Fenrek that sometimes has to prod Cain into taking an assignment if it doesn't sound interesting enough at the outset. Cabot Cain is a big man. A really big man. ...

"An exciting treasure-hunt all the way from Ethiopia to Pompeii, via hell and high water." - Sheffield Telegraph During WWII a British officer was sent to East Africa to align and coordinate with the native tribes a guerrilla campaign to attack and harass the Axis forces. In his possession were secret government documents outlining certain allegiances and a strongbox containing gold bullion to pay for those allegiances. Unfortunately the officer was captured by a group of Italian soldiers and killed; and the whereabouts of those documents and gold undetermined. Now, 13 years later comes ...

Third in the Mike Benasque thriller novel series! Mike Benasque is back—this time living in Rome with two beautiful sisters, one of them his mistress. Out of work and low on cash, Mike, his girl Karen and her sister Simona, are looking for action. They find more than enough when Karen, a free-lance photographer, gets an accidental shot of an attempted murder. This innocently gained photo marks their first step on a trail of international intrigue—a trail that leads to their abduction and to mortal danger. And for Mike and Karen, a Roman romance ends on an inhospitable desert in Israel ...

Alors que tout va de travers dans la vie d’Hugo, il trouve sur un petit sentier, une roche brillante vraiment différente des autres. Elle pourrait même ressembler à une météorite… Comme un trésor, il la conserve précieusement et voilà que sa vie se met à changer. Ce caillou tombé du ciel aurait-il un pouvoir magique ? Celui de réaliser ses rêves…

Colonel Tobin’s private army is on the march... against enemies plotting to overthrow a South American government! BRAZIL ERUPTS... A country that finds itself caught up in the throes of a bloody revolution. The regular army cannot cope with the well-armed outlaws, guerrillas, and native tribes with poisoned arrows of this fanatical force. And so the word goes out: “Get Colonel Tobin!” – and his hand-picked, hand-trained collection of the hardest, strongest, most efficient mercenary fighters in the world. Men who live, work, fight, drink, and love like the devil himself; an odd band...

The Action/Adventure series in the tradition of Don Pendleton's Executioner and Warren Murphy's Remo Williams books continues! FLORIDA EVERGLADES INSURGENCY Simon Kirby, head of the Committee for Anti-American Activity, an anarchist. Carolyne Southby, a radical with violent tendencies, who manufactures bombs. Flagstaff, an unforgiving Seminole Indian, an expert in the Florida swamps. The Old Man, he lives by hunting alligators, thinks he’s still fighting Spaniards.An odd assortment, with this in common: they are well armed, some are well financed by foreign agencies, they have an undying ...

JUNGLE SLAUGHTER It was the only way. Colonel Tobin and his hand-picked warriors bought themselves a job that demanded total victory—the enemy must be wiped out completely...eliminated! Only one complication in the battle plan: There were two enemies! One was General Guevara Lincoln, the giant ex-Black Panther and his army of African rebel tribes. The other was Major Dogger, the brutal South African mercenary leader and his legion of cutthroat soldiers. Tobin. Guevara. Dogger — a triangle of violence that splashes across the Congo with a bloodbath battle seemingly on a primal level. The...

Quand on est un vieux loup et que c'est l'hiver, que faire ? Le loup de notre histoire va de maison en maison avec dans son sac un caillou pour faire... de la soupe au caillou. Mais chacun a une recette différente : le cochon ajouterait bien des courgettes, le cheval et le canard suggèrent des poireaux. Et ainsi de suite... jusqu'à faire une vraie soupe.

THE WHITE HUNTER Tabor fled Europe’s decadent pleasures and his own disastrous marriage hoping to find a new life in Africa. A land that was brutal, primitive, and yet offered unyielding beauty. A land that took the true measure of a man, that made him...or finished him. Here he will become embroiled in the destinies of a handful of men and women who are also trying to flee their haunting pasts only to find themselves barricaded in an ancient slave post, holding off the tiger-taloned night marauders who are sworn to kill the white man. For these desperate individuals are caught between ...

“Fast-paced, tension-filled, provocative” – Los Angeles Times “A sexy novel of intrigue.” – Best Sellers “Explodes into violent, furious action, murder.” – Publisher’s Weekly The bold young geologist, Roger Sequoyah, was on board the luxurious yacht of billionaire oil-hunter Maxwell Christie and his defiantly beautiful daughter, Candia. He was there to take part in secretly locating an expansive untapped oil field that could change the very political and economic course of the Middle East. It was not until they were joined by the exotic and calculating beauty Simone, and...