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John Ward

A curated story collection featuring fifty terrifying and disturbing dark fiction drabbles.

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John Ward

Book 1 -

Amir Duran

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

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Rene Gutteridge, John Ward

Faith and Luke Carraway have it all. Faith is a beautiful singer turned socialite while Luke is an up-and-coming successful businessman. After taking his inheritance from his father’s stable, lucrative business to invest in a successful hedge fund with the Michov Brothers, he’s on the fast track as a rising young executive, and Faith is settling comfortably into her role as his wife.When rumors of the Michovs’ involvement in a Ponzi scheme reach Faith, she turns to Luke for confirm...

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John Ward

Book 3 -

Amir Duran

After a bloody stint abroad, onetime spy Amir Duran, has returned home to the British colony of Granada, Spain, to do what he does best: police work.But it’s a bad time to be a cop in Granada. Climate change has ravaged the colony’s all-powerful agricultural industry and its unscrupulous plantation owners have resorted to farming the most lucrative—and addictive—crop their hothouses can produce.With half the city hooked on plantation dope, crime is abundant...

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Aimé Forest

Translated by

Bruce K. Ward

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Veritas

Aimé Forest (1898–1983) was a French metaphysical philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy who taught at the universities of Grenoble and then Montpellier. Consent to Being,published in 1936,was his first book, and it, along with the ones that followed, such as Consentement et Création (1943), La vocation de l’Esprit (1953), and L’avènement de l’âme (1973), established him as a leading figure among the twentieth-century French Catholic “philosoph...

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John Ward

Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred, and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants. Many things have happened since which seem to show that we were not always right in our estimate of the forces at work around us. Things are not always what they se...

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John ward

The narrative focuses on the British forces' time in Siberia, where they were tasked with assisting the White Russian army against the Bolsheviks. Ward, a participant in this mission, provides detailed accounts of the harsh conditions, the terrain, and the local populations. He describes the camaraderie between the soldiers, the brutal cold of the Siberian winter, and the complex political and military situation of the time. Throughout, he emphasizes the "Die-Hards"—a nickname for the Brit...

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John Ward

Book 1 -

Amir Duran

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

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John R. Bruning, Jack Coughlin

Narrated by

Tony Ward

Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy to take an insider's look at the dark and misunderstood world of America's sniper force. Long considered the redheaded stepchildren of the infantry, snipers have been loathed by their fellow warriors, called "ten cent killers" by our media, and portrayed as unbalanced psychopaths by Hollywood. Coughlin and Bruning explore the lives and careers of some of America's most effective snipers during key mission...

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John Montgomery Ward

The author ventures to present this book to the public, because he believes there are many points in the game of base-ball which can be told only by a player. He has given some space to a consideration of the origin and early history of the game, because they are subjects deserving of more attention than is generally accorded them. His principal aim, however, has been to produce a hand-book of the game, a picture of the play as seen by a player. In many of its branches, base-ball is still ...

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T John Ward

An author's note sets the period in which the events take place.Thanks to the intervention of Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Jack Dawkins, is saved from being transported to a penal colony, but he soon finds himself back on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with the Peninsular War veteran, turned smuggler, Abel Garnett. A sinister psychopath out of Abel's past, a devastating flood and Napoleon's escape from Elba, all serve to wreck their plan to recover a wagon load of sm...

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John Ward

When former US Army captain Eric Tucker decided to visit Old City in Jerusalem with his daughter and granddaughter, he thought it would be a chance to get some family time with his girls and enjoy his retirement. But when a terrorist organization threatens his family's safety, Captain Tucker must reach into his past in order to survive. Can he do so without becoming the cold-blooded killer he once was?Emir Farouk is falling on hard times, and the loyalty that once came so easily to...