Discover what it's like to ride with damaged men and sinister night stalkers, tragic doves, plucky homemakers and gun-toting belles. Experience for yourself the harsh reality of birth and death, love and hate, revenge, retribution and robbery. You'll find it all here, penned by a whole posse-full of Western writers old and new. So what are you waiting for? Saddle up for action and adventure ...and grab yourself A Fistful of Legends!
In the aftermath of Mission: Tehran, psychic spy Tana Standish crossed into Afghanistan, accompanied by agent Alan Swann. Their rendezvous with Mike Clayton was delayed and while they waited for him in Herat, Tana befriends a Soviet forces family, intent on discovering details about the presence of General Pavlovsky. They're then caught in a devastating civil uprising.... Inexorably, the Soviets are being drawn into the politics of Afghanistan. And Clayton, Swann and Tana are linked with the heroic Massoud, the tyrant President Amin and the mujahedeen. Tana makes new friends and new enemies in her constant fight against injustice. Professor Bublyk is still trying to locate Tana - and the missing Spetsnaz agent Aksakov. Distrustful of the psychic Yakunin, he recruits killer Klimov. Together, they imprison Yakunin in order to draw Tana out to rescue him. Tana is aware that it must be a trap. But she owes her life to Yakunin, even though they have not met... A tense cat-and-mouse battle of wits stretches the length and breadth of the country - to the far reaches of the Wakhan corridor, the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and ultimately to the Khyber Pass.
GIFTS FROM A DEAD RACE ... and other tales Nik Morton's collected short stories Volume 1 18 tales of horror, science fiction, and fantasy Brave firemen still do their job though suffering radiation poisoning after a nuclear war; but to what purpose? Maybe a simple little thing can save the world from an alien plague. Then again, maybe it can't. The first murder in space - can it be justified? Are dogs and trees and children as innocuous as they seem? You decide. If you're going to burgle a house, make sure you know who lives there - or else. The credit crunch can only get worse - worth an arm and a leg, you say? Hijack that plane? Not a good idea... Stranded on an alien planet, you know there's something familiar about those natives... Criminals should be nice to little old ladies, or else... A birth on the moon? Sounds marvellous, or then again, maybe not. He lost his memory - then found he was buried alive, reliving his life He found that out the hard way that drink and driving don't mix. What if you had to celebrate Christmas two days early? Would the children notice? He had the last laugh when Dr Wiacek misused his incredible discovery. The plague waited thirty-six years to show itself, then went global.
24 tales of crime and adventure Many kinds of crime are committed in these pages. Hijacking a plane - or even a hovercraft - creates problems not only for those hijacked Crooks come in all shapes and sizes - from the petty to the bold. Occasionally, however, the individuals doing the stealing have good motives... Borough council chicanery rubs shoulders with business betrayal. Spies face incapacitating poisons and death. Private eyes tread the mean streets, righting wrongs and investigating dodgy birth rights. Here you'll find Mafia hoods, murderous hoodlums, and disgruntled book critics. Besides death and destruction, you'll encounter humorous and uplifting stories. Beware, though, some of these tales are not for the faint-hearted 'I Celebrate Myself: ... story shares a keen awareness of social and economic plights that are empathetic rather than didactic, as well as a brooding anxiety over the fate of the next generation. In Morton's latest story, a police officer is called to dig through a trash compactor in the projects after someone claims to have heard a baby crying inside. Vividly caressed details make the characters and situation all the more real and relatable.'
Some perpetrators of crime deserve only one fate-no prisoners.When Leon Cazador discovers the body of a fellow investigator who was working with the British National Crime Agency to infiltrate a pedophile group that uses the pursuit of golf as a cover for their organized abuses, he refuses to chalk it up to coincidence.Seeking justice for his fallen friend, Leon is presented with another missing person's case. But this one is decidedly different. Diving deeper, Leon finds himself one step closer to uncovering the deadly pedophile ring that took down his comrade.Finding missing persons is all in a day's work for Leon. But can he fight his ultimate nightmare in a race against time to save a group of innocent children and exact revenge on their abusers?
Organ harvesters are his prime target. Leon Cazador is on FBI liaison duty in Charleston, South Carolina when a dead child is found with a kidney missing. Suspecting an old foe, he jumps into action when a convoy of trucks with kidnapped children hits a snag, and a boy escapes. But what starts out as a simple cat and mouse chase turns into a convoluted web of deceit involving an underground organ transplant ring that surpasses Leon's wildest expectations-and abilities. Years later-and carrying around the weight of unresolved burdens-Leon runs into suspicious activity in C rdoba, Spain that makes his heart stop cold. Organ traffickers are running rampant, and a three-man investigating team has gone missing. Eager to put an end to this corrupt organization's misdeeds once and for all, Leon makes finding its leader his top priority. But will he have what it takes to bring an evil like no other to its knees?
A suspenseful thriller with fast-paced action and intriguing characters...A catacomb is a subterranean cemetery. A place where ancient corpses are found-or new ones are dumped.After their recent success in Barcelona, both Catherine Vibrissae and Rick Barnes are continuing their crusade against Loup Dante and his global company, Ananke, by penetrating the lair of Petra Grimalkin in Nice. But death stalks the pair-as do the dogs of law from the British National Crime Agency-and when Cat and Rick's trail of vengeance leads them to the corrupt organization's health food processing plant in Northwest Africa, Cat comes face to face with an enemy from her past.From the exotic streets of Tangier to the inhospitable High Atlas Mountains, danger lurks and deadly ambushes await.Book two in the Cat's Crusade series, Catacomb follows a strong female character who is no stranger to deadly situations.
Nik Morton has been writing for over forty years, honing his craft. He writes genre fiction, whether that s science fiction, horror, crime, thriller, romance or westerns. To date he has 15 books under several pseudonyms. His westerns are usually written under the name Ross Morton. Within these pages you can discover how to write a western from the initial ideas, through the preparation and research, to those all-important character studies and plots. And you can do it in 30 days!
June 1969: Volatile Pakistan soon after the uprisings that would eventually lead to the splitting of West Pakistan and the formation of Bangladesh.A group of Royal Navy sailors from HMS Zulu, on a visit to Karachi, use their weekend leave to travel up the famed Khyber Pass. For one, young Nik Morton, it is a momentous time. Ten days short of his twenty-first birthday, he looks forward to seeing with his own eyes the land his father fell in love with during the Second World War. Flying for the first time, he finds himself in a strange and wonderful land, oozing history... and danger. This gentle true story introduces the reader to a new insight on one of the most disputed territories on earth.Nik Morton served in the Royal Navy for twenty-three years. He is the author of more than thirty books and is a prolific short story and article writer.
