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Johann Gunther is a German immigrant, a West Point graduate, ex-US Army officer and former Texas lawman. He fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War in 1898 and in the Great Game in Afghanistan in 1906. Now Gunther, with the help of his life-long friend Jefe, runs Remedies Detective Agency. During a routine mission to purchase guns for a security job, Gunther, Jefe, and the Whittle boys head to Tremboro, Texas, near the Rio Grande. In Tremboro their paths collide with Pancho Villa and his band of revolutionaries who are in town to recruit mercenaries. As events unfold, Gunther discovers Villa's plans to steal much-needed guns and supplies. Villa is angry about the American Government's rejection of him and has revenge on his mind. In Tremboro, with his activites cloaked by the Day of the Dead Celebration, Villa and his band of outlaws and misfits threaten, blackmail, rape, shoot, and steal. They plan to take whatever they want and leave a wave of destruction and dead bodies behind. It's up to Gunther to stop Villa and save Tremboro. But to stop Villa, Gunther must uncover and then foil his plans. Gunther battles Santa Muerte witches and their magic, revolutionaries, and mercenaries to save the innocent citizens of Tremboro. Can he stop Villa and save the town? Or will he fail? Will his efforts label him as Villa's assassin decades later?

Former NYPD detective, Rusty was a rising rock star in the Organized Crimes Unit. Then, Mob members and corrupt cops lured Rusty to Grant's Tomb and shot him in the head. The detective in Rusty died.All that remains of Rusty is a brain damaged, paranoid, criminal, psychopath terrorizing the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Now, years later, Alphonso "The Crepe hanger," one of the hit men who lured Rusty to Grant's Tomb, reveals the old China Doll case Rusty solved was an elaborate con. Soon the State of Connecticut will execute Steverino Downing, the man convicted for a crime he didn't commit. This news ignites something deep in Rusty's exploded brain. He must find a way to free Downing. Rusty's quest will take him from New York to the shipyards of South Africa and Shanghai. Can Rusty nail the pieces of his shattered mind back together? Can he beat the Mafia, corrupt cops, a Chinese Triad and Somalia pirates in time to save Downing's life, and still somehow redeem his own?"Blood Rust is a must have for any action and adventure junky who loves a quick roll in the bloody guts of hard crime."

GUNTHER RIDES AGAIN.A young Johann Gunther becomes a Lawman in Paris, Texas. Then he joins the army, fights in Cuba, The Philippines and China. But 23 years later he must return to Paris, Texas yet again and fight an international gang war, vendetta, and save his old French police chief while attempting to save the whole city from a fiery destruction. "When you put on that badge, remember this. Every country has its medieval times. Murders, rapes, robberies, crime, war, slavery and horrors. When you put on that badge, you take all this on. These are America's medieval times..." - Chief Gustav Henri

Whether he is fighting American western outlaws, suicidal Filipino warriors or crazed Boxer Rebellion Chinese, former Texas lawman, Johann Gunther is your man. It's 1900 - three young doctors celebrate their graduation from medical school with a dinner on the San Francisco docks...until they're kidnapped and Shanghaied to China. The doctors' families are rich, and they entice Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into organizing a secret, rescue mission. Teddy dispatches his former Cuban War veteran officer, Major Gunther from the Philippines to run the top-secret mission, but not without first destroying the rotten shanghai operation on the bay. Once in China with the doctors rescued, the full-blown Boxer Rebellion erupts and Gunther's ragtag team must flee for their lives, run the gauntlet into Peking and into the surrounded, besieged embassy fortress, caught in a last stand Alamo of life and death.

In the 1980's a recession stampedes Texas. The oil industry dries up, laying high rollers low and sending the entire state of Texas into a tornado-like downspin. Northern mobsters invade these cracks in the Lone Star State. Their schemes: corruption, loan sharking, gambling, extortion, drug and human trafficking, and murder for hire.

For more than 4 decades I've worked to create a program that constituted the essence of combat. Style-free. Arts-free. Sports-free. The essence of hand, stick, knife and gun fighting. I envisioned a person skilled in unarmed combatives, yet armed with a rifle, or a pistol, or a stick or a knife, or all of them. Someone that could fight standing, seated, kneeling and on the ground, utilizing their "hands," or whatever weapon they had. And they could do it in a way that was morally and legally necessary to win and survive the crime or war situation. These Training Mission books document my mission." - Hock Hock's Training Mission One is an unarmed and multi-weapon collection of his Force Necessary, Level 1 hand, stick, knife and gun course materials. The Stop 6 training program provides the skeleton for the organization of this material. Stop 1 contains all the vital, pre-fight, pre-crime moves, interview and ambush, counter-stalking information and intelligence, plus the stress drills and scenarios of weapon, quick draws. The unarmed level covers all the Level 1 strikes, kicks and grappling. A practitioner may choose to study one or all of those 4 courses. The book is divided into two parts.Part 1 covers the pre-crime, pre-fight criteria of Stop 1 of the Stop 6. Part 2 covers the physical and mental requirements, skills, drills and scenarios specific for hand, stick, knife and gun level 1.

Hock's Training Mission One is an unarmed and multi-weapon collection of his Force Necessary, Level 1 hand, stick, knife and gun course materials.

Impact Weapon Combatives 2nd edition is a groundbreaking, incredibly detailed and inclusive go-to book on Impact Weapons. This volume adds approximately 80 additional pages to the first edition and has been updated to more effectively address training needed for our times. This is the training course about you holding a stick in your hand and blocking, striking and grappling against empty hand attacks, against other impact weapons, against edged weapons and against some gun threats. Hock's involvement with the stick/baton spans five decades dating back to the early 1970s when he first entered the U.S. Army Military Police Academy. His book covers history, theories and science about the impact weapon, stress quick draws, using the closed expandable baton as a weapon, all single-hand and double-handed strikes, all single and double-handed blocks, both old-school and new military and police baton defensive tactics, skill drills, stick ground-fighting. This book also includes a very special section on impact weapon retention covering everything from the carry site to use. Plus, it has more than 40 stick takedowns starting from the head on down to the ankle. This is the complete quide to the use of the "stick" as a tactical tool. It does not detail stick-versus-stick as a Filipino martial arts weapons or course of study. This is completely practical, tactical training and reference manual. The material focuses on tactics not on the martial artsy segment of this material. If you are interested in the art only, this is not the book for you. But if you are interested in tactics, strategies, history and application of impact weapons, this book was written for you.

In Dead Right There, Hock Hochheim stops a jail break, narrowly avoids being shot in his car, and hunts down a vindictive killer who shot a man through his own dining room window as he ate dinner with his family. And that's just for starters. In this sequel to Don't Even Think About It Hock Hochheim investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and testifies at their trials. Dead Right There reads like fiction but it's all based on Hock's life investigating crime and bringing criminals to justice. In a time before SWAT, Hock himself has climbed in windows with gun drawn, busted down doors and collected evidence that put many a criminal behind bars. Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad. He shares how he discovered his first dead body, first mass killing, and the story of a psycho who just couldn't quite identify the men who robbed her and nearly killed her husband. For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Dead Right There is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

This book is designed to teach people how to move when in a fight, with or without weapons, standing, seated, or on the ground wearing regular clothing. This is how the world functions in a fight beyond boxing ring footwork and wrestling and "practice". --when it gets real. The material covers how to function, standing, crouching, kneeling and on the ground on different surfaces, different environments.

This book is designed to teach people how to move when in a fight, with or without weapons, standing, seated, or on the ground wearing regular clothing. This is how the world functions in a fight beyond boxing ring footwork and wrestling and "practice". --when it gets real. The material covers how to function, standing, crouching, kneeling and on the ground on different surfaces, different environments.

Johann Gunther is a German immigrant, a West Point graduate, ex-US Army officer and former Texas lawman. He fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War in 1898 and in the Great Game in Afghanistan in 1906. Now Gunther, with the help of his life-long friend Jefe, runs Remedies Detective Agency. During a routine mission to purchase guns for a security job, Gunther, Jefe, and the Whittle boys head to Tremboro, Texas, near the Rio Grande. In Tremboro their paths collide with Pancho Villa and his band of revolutionaries who are in town to recruit mercenaries. As events unfold, Gunther discovers Villa's plans to steal much-needed guns and supplies. Villa is angry about the American Government's rejection of him and has revenge on his mind. In Tremboro, with his activites cloaked by the Day of the Dead Celebration, Villa and his band of outlaws and misfits threaten, blackmail, rape, shoot, and steal. They plan to take whatever they want and leave a wave of destruction and dead bodies behind. It's up to Gunther to stop Villa and save Tremboro. But to stop Villa, Gunther must uncover and then foil his plans. Gunther battles Santa Muerte witches and their magic, revolutionaries, and mercenaries to save the innocent citizens of Tremboro. Can he stop Villa and save the town? Or will he fail? Will his efforts label him as Villa's assassin decades later?

Lt. General Mordecai "Swoop" Swellen was once known for his violent raids and attacks on any and all enemies. Some were criminals, but many were raiding, warring American Indians. When so ordered, he would "swoop" in and decimate any declared enemy. He was also known for his tactical brilliance and sudden viciousness, and his branding iron, red hot anger But in 1890, Swellen had a change of heart. He was faced with enraging the local Lakota Indians near his fort, which he knew would lead to disaster, or disobeying orders. He walked away from his command just before the massacre at Wounded Knee; disobeying all orders, he disappeared. AWOL. His vindictive superiors branded him a coward, a traitor to the United States and issued a wanted dead or alive $1,000 bounty on his head. The military orchestrated a massive hunt for him. Swellen struggles to stay one step ahead of his many bounty pursuers and the United States Army. In Swellen's Reckoning, we learn his origin story, and how as a fugitive he became involved with a new invention, a mountain-climbing, cog and rail train system, and its company from Sicily, working in Pikes Peak, Colorado. He's hired by the Sicilian owner-inventor Arturo Zapello to thwart sabotage, theft, and murder within his own company, and further foil one of his sinister crew chiefs, Carlo Greco, also a renowned swordsman obsessed with challenging the locals to sword duels to their death. Many reckonings befall Swoop and all those around him in this, his first adventure, as the trap closes in and in..."