Dancing with the Bear

Billy Ray McBride was a guy who had it all worked out. He had a future planned after college, a great girl, loving parents, the works. That is, until his twenty first birthday, when all of that was taken away. On this fateful day, his father was murdered, setting a string of events into play that will change his life forever.

Walter McBride is a career man with the FBI, and is ready to walk away. Retirement is calling to him, and he is more than ready to heed the call. For too long, there have been too many long nights, too many fatherless occasions, too much strain on his life and marriage. The time has come for him to close his records and file them away. The announcement of this glorious decision is his gift to his son, on this fateful day.

Over twenty years with the FBI gives a man a chance to make enemies. Walter?s was a mobster who was in his sights for most of Walter?s career. He should have informed the Callistone syndicate of his decision. Too close for comfort, a price was put on Walter?s life. Billy Ray McBride sat and watched, as his father was gunned down right in front of him, on this fateful day.

Love, hope and happiness are replaced by anger, hate and vengeance. His father?s murder case was being swept under the carpet, giving him the self appointed duty of serving justice. Billy becomes a driven man who will not stop until the death of his father is avenged. This brings on a constant battle raging inside him, with morality as the subject. To overcome this and save the innocent, he must cast away his rage, putting others first, before himself.

This is Billy?s story?

 Twenty-five hundred years ago a small Mediterranean community defended itself from an invasion by the most powerful empire in the world and won a singular victory of arms for themselves and for a civic idea.  The community was Athens; the victory was at Marathon, and the civic idea was democracy. 

The struggle was not over.  War and civic struggles continued for the following generation of Athenians.  This is their story and the next chapter of democracy.

We were all touched by the Vietnam War in some way.  Veterans, their families, friends and a whole new generation still have unanswered questions about that turbulent time.  ?Not Enough Tears? lets you see the good and bad through the eyes of a young army draftee sent to fight for his nation.

Duty and patriotic pride quickly degenerated into a fight for survival.  Taking one of the most dangerous jobs in an infantry company, Dave came home with hardly a scratch.  There were no odds to explain the supernatural protection he received.  After two months, that covering extended to everyone around him when he walked point.  Over time, that unbelievable ?luck? turned into a curse as walking point and going home became vexing choices between life and death.

Like most vets, Dave thought he buried the war after coming home.  Surviving the horrors of Vietnam meant he could handle anything.  Thirty years later his life was falling apart.  He?d given up.  Leaving his family seemed to be the only way to stop the pain.  Learn the lessons in ?Not Enough Tears? which can bring healing to tens of thousands who are still hurting and don?t understand why.

?Poignant, and scary? - Norman Bates, editor.

?It made me cry, it made me laugh.  I couldn?t put it down.? ? Jackie Arnold, editor.

?Baby!  What BABY?!? ? Marisha Hall, the author?s wife - overheard as she proofread one of the chapters.

 ?I see you tomorrow Beeelle, you Number One Beeelle!  You bulletproof GI! Beeelle? ? Lum, hooch-maid, Quang Tri Combat Base, Vietnam, 1970.

?You boom-boom, GI?  . . . .  Or, maybe you ?Funny-Boy??? ? The Pimp, pimp age six, DaNang, Vietnam, 1971.

The writing started as a simple answer to a cousin?s emailed question about the war.  It was sort of like someone had distracted the little Dutch boy and caused him to pull his finger from the hole in the dike thus letting the flood waters flow.  That was the story of Lum, the first chapter written.  Then, much later, after I had called the book finished the first time, I awoke in the middle of the night one time and realized that I had finished the whole darned book without having written the first chapter yet.  I think you can read it in most any order you want, if you are somewhat familiar with the jargon.  Each chapter pretty much stands on its own.

From the NY Times Bestselling Author of the million copy selling Area 51 series

“A background in Special Operations gives Mayer credibility.” Airpower Journal

“A masterpiece of technology and suspense.” Library Journal

Mind control is only the first step...
World domination is the next...

Much like Men Who Stares at Goats, Psychic Warrior is a fictional tale taken straight from the pages of the once classified Trojan Warrior Program in Special Forces and written by someone who was in the unit and went through the training. Bob Mayer, former Green Beret understands first hand how the results of taking warfare into the virtual plane through avatars and then reinserting covert operatives into the real world can be devastating.

Bright Gate. HAARP. Remote Viewers. U.S. military operations so top secret that not even the president knew they existed. Now they have produced an elite group of commandos able to leave their bodies — and their souls — to fight anywhere, anytime, using the persuasive power of the human mind.

Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton is one of them. An ex-Green Beret, a man with no family, no ties, and nothing to lose, Dalton knows the most dangerous weapon in any arsenal is the mind.

Among the first Psychic Warriors to be battle tested on the virtual plane, Dalton has seen up close the damage and destruction the new weapons can cause. The memory will haunt him the rest of his days.

However, Dalton has a new set of enemies. Enemies that have existed for millennia. First, the Mithrans hiding in the peaks of the Himalayas and the other, the Priory, manipulating mankind in the shadows of the power elite. The technology that allows Dalton to be a Psychic Warrior gives these two groups the opportunity to battle each to the death. If they happen to wipe out mankind in the process, so be it.

The race is on to seize power and it falls to Dalton and his team to stop both the Priory and the Mithrans before they destroy all of humanity.

ALTDORF (Book 1 of The Forest Knights Duology)

A wild land too mountainous to be tamed by plows...
A Duke of the Holy Roman Empire, his cunning overshadowed only by his ambition...
A young Priestess of the Old Religion, together with a charismatic outlaw, sparking a rebellion from deep within the forests...
And an ex-Hospitaller caught between them all.

Re-imagining the William Tell legend--without William Tell

At the end of the thirteenth century, five hundred orphans and second sons are rounded up from villages in the Alpine countryside and sold to the Hospitaller Knights of St John. Trained to serve as Soldiers of Christ, they fight in eastern lands they know nothing about, for a cause they do not understand.

Thomas Schwyzer, released from his vows by the Grandmaster of the Hospitallers, returns to the land of his birth a stranger. Once a leader of men, and captain of the Order's most famous war galley, he now settles into the simple life of a ferryman. He believes this new role to be God's reward for years of faithful service fighting the Infidel in Outremer.

Seraina, considered a witch by most, a healer by some, is a young woman with a purpose. A Priestess of the Old Religion, and the last Druid disciple of the Helvetii Celts, she has been gifted by the Great Weave to see what others cannot. Her people need her guidance and protection now more than ever. For Duke Leopold of Habsburg, in his efforts to control the St. Gotthard Pass, builds a great Austrian fortress in Altdorf. Once finished, the Habsburg occupation will be complete, but the atrocities visited upon her people will have just begun.

Set in medieval Switzerland, ALTDORF, a novel of The Forest Knights, is the first book in a two-book series.

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