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David Alexander is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over five million copies. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Paris Sorbonne. David Alexander's novels and nonfiction titles have won critical acclaim from USA Today, The New York Times, The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal and many other venues in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. His prizewinning thriller, Threatcon Delta: Assault on the Pentagon, reached first place on numerous bestseller lists.

The classic View to a Dave -- and funny too. "The galleys arrived a few days before 911," Dave explained. "Proofreading the pages was an eery job.". As reviewer John Zupansic wrote in Fate Magazine: "Conspiracies and Cover-ups is a well-written journey through conspiracy theories past and present. The book is set forth in a conversational, sometimes playful tone, making this one of the least heavy-handed and therefore most enjoyable books on conspiracy I've ever encountered." This Kindle edition is now the official Dave-Certified version.

Odds Are You Won't Live to See Tomorrow by award-winning author David Alexander is powerful, gripping short fiction. Alexander has written rings around short fiction's top contenders with the stories in this exceptional collection. In Odds Are You Won't Live To See Tomorrow, David Alexander has put together a winning combination of stories that all share the themes of mystery, mayhem, suspense, intrigue and adventure -- as well as a few undefinable somethings that are unique to Alexander's short fiction writing. The stories in this group are also exceptional in that they are virtually ...

A novella by David Alexander. Praise for David Alexander's Short Fiction "There are few story writers working today more vibrant, innovative and exciting than David Alexander. His stories jump off the page in fits of sensory attack, spiritual complication, emotional trouble. I don't know where he came from, but I know where he's going -- to the front rank of American storytellers." -- Frederick Barthelme "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borgesque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. ...His stories transcend interpersonal ...

In the North African desert, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a warrior chieftain appeared from out of the sands themselves, claiming to be the incarnation of the Prophet. He called himself the Mahdi, and he pledged to sweep the Infidel English colonizers of the Sudan and their Egyptian allies from the land, to scourge the land by fire, blood and steel until not a single interloper was left among the living. At the head of his minions, called Ansari or believers by the Mahdi but Dervishes and "Turks" -- a name for all outsiders -- by the British, the Mahdi rode, wielding ...

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of crimes and their punishments. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job. Community Of Peers: A foreigner wanders into a remote village just before a convicted criminal is about to be punished and is asked to throw the first stone. Form Seven...

HABU PATCH It's the year 1992, the end of the Cold War. Yet danger rides the skies over Russian airspace as a last-ditch military action takes place below. The stakes have never been higher as reactionary forces, led by a powerful rogue general, prepare a counter-coup to oust President Boris Yeltsin from power and make the red flag, emblazoned with hammer and sickle, again fly above the Kremlin. War and peace hinge upon the successful completion of a reconnaissance mission conducted by a veteran US pilot and a legendary spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. Both plane and pilot have been taken ...

A Guided Tour of the Digitized Battlefield "You are tomorrow's soldier. You will play your part in the next major war America will wage." From these opening lines of Tomorrow's Soldier, David Alexander's excellent book on 21st century warfare, the author builds on this theme in a series of eight carefully researched and well-written chapters on combat in the combined arms battlespace of near-future conflicts. Sometimes in clear and concise descriptions of complex weapons systems such as stealth aircraft, main battle tanks and nuclear submarines, at other times in fast-paced narrative that ...

Chaos rules when an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon is set off in orbit, triggering the most massive power failure and blackout in history. The blackout, whose epicenter is New York City, is far more serious than any ordinary mass power outage, since EMP destroys unprotected electrical and digital systems, including computers, automotive systems, radio and cellular communications, public transportation switching and control systems, street lighting and other vital infrastructure without which civilization can't function. The EMP death pulse triggers multinational military and civil ...

When a threat emerges that's too big for the CIA, too dangerous for MI6 and too frightening to contemplate, there's only one secret agent who can prevail against it. When he joins forces with a talented group of covert action operators, this impossible mission becomes just another day in the spy business. I Kinda Spy is a global superthriller that pits masters of espionage and mandarins of supercrime against each other in a winner-take-all fight to the finish. SUPERSPIES VS. SUPERCRIMINALS A deadly terrorist organization threatens global security and a deep black espionage agency tasks its ...

An NYPD detective is recruited as a rail marshall by a brother cop on the police force of Paris, France, and gets caught up in the crime of the century. Trainjack is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander takes the railway thriller to places that it has never gone before. SUPERCRIME MEETS SUPERTRAIN. Trainjack barrels along at a breakneck pace. The faster this high-speed thriller goes, the better it gets. SUPERCRIME MEETS SUPERTRAIN. Written with daring verve and accomplished skill, plotted with the deft touch of a master prose stylist, packed with surprises at practically every turn, ...

In his novel Brothers of the Gun, David Alexander has redefined the technothriller. What is more, he has succeeded in writing a novel that is not only a fast-moving adventure tale that stands on its own merits, but which has unearthed the story of an incredible array of pre-20th century military technology that has, in its totality, never before seen publication in fiction or nonfiction. The way he tells the story, these weapons might well give anything in today's 21st century arsenals a run for the money. But as incredible as these early superweapons appear, Brothers of the Gun is no mere ...

Machine Breakers is the story of the notorious Luddite Rages Crusoe, "as told in his own words." It takes place at the turn of the 20th century, but history has gone berserk and the era is not the prewar world as we know it. Instead it is a strange, dark, post-Orwellian world in which an almost 21st century technology is linked to a social organization that exemplifies the worst of the abuses of the 19th century's Industrial Revolution, and in which the teeming masses of Europe and America spend most of their lives slaving in mega-factories. At the top of the social pyramid is a relative ...

God Bless America ... before it's too late! Germany to the rescue when Alt-Nazi threatens the US. David Alexander has penned the ultimate technothriller, a groundbreaking new vision that will set the trend for military action fiction for years to come. Alexander may be the first to credibly outline how why and when a crippling blow to cyberspace could be dealt by hybrid forces with destructive cascading impact on the United States in an unprecedented act of war. The New York Times called POTUS by David Alexander "...perhaps the best thriller of its type to have come along all year!" USA ...

In Under Attack David Alexander tells the story of the next phase of the continuing war against international terrorist forces. As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. Under Attack is not only an unforgettable page-turner ... it is also a warning of what might happen tomorrow if America grows careless again. David Alexander -- dubbed "the best damn action writer in the business" -- has a gift for extrapolating tomorrow's history from today's...

When a billion dollar diamond deal cut by one of New York's heaviest crime families goes sour, and the consignment of rare gems is lost overseas, a crew of wise guys straight out of Brooklyn is ordered to get it back -- any way they can. This is an international caper novel to end all caper novels, a nonstop page-turner jam-packed with action from start to finish and one of Alexander's boldest books ever. This edition has been newly reformatted for the Kindle reader.

He called himself the Mahdi, and he pledged to sweep the Infidel colonizers of the Sudan and their Egyptian allies from the land. A secret desert war fought by few against many. A mercenary band of brothers pitted against a nation of warriors. In the North African desert, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a warrior chieftain appeared. He called himself the Mahdi, and he pledged to sweep the Infidel colonizers of the Sudan and their Egyptian allies from the land. At the head of his minions the Mahdi rode, wielding his trademark, a jewel-encrusted sword whose origins lay...

Threatcon Delta: Assault on the Pentagon tells the story of how terrorism, treason and global organized crime converge to place the most potent symbol of American military power under the control of a determined and ruthless group of heavily armed and extremely dangerous men who can’t be stopped, yet who must be stopped. This global superthriller is based both on author David Alexander’s extensive and detailed research into the history of the Pentagon, combined with first-hand knowledge of the Pentagon's most closely held secrets by this veteran defense insider, all of which has been ...

When the lights go out, the crime goes down. High-tech criminals devise a method of blacking out the entire City of New York by securing control of the national power grid. Their target has never before been so much as touched. This time will be different. Way different. The heist will go down among the greatest robberies in the history of criminal enterprise.. The cops will be put out of action. The military will be out of gas. Emergency first responders will be stalled. The city of New York will be out of the vital electrical power its millions of inhabitants need to stay safe and secure....

"The Mezzatestas, David Alexander's fictitious crime family in The King of West Brooklyn, are the new Corleones." -- USA Today. "If mob-related hits haven't already put Gravesend, the crime capital of West Brooklyn, on the map, The King of West Brooklyn is destined to do so." -- Daily News. Dominick "Dee" de Venise's textile warehouse has been in the family for generations, but he'll have to torch it for the insurance money. De Venise has no other choice. The Mezzatesta family is into him for boo-koo bucks and if he doesn't pay off, he's history. The only other option de Venise has is to ...