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The complete epic fantasy adventure trilogy following a once-fallen knight and his friends as they fight to restore peace and hope to a broken land.Renowned knight Allystaire Coldbourne grows weary of all he has seen in a land without a king, where brutal warlords battle for dominance. Thieves, slavers, and servants of dark gods and dark magic plague the fractured and scarred countryside. One war has lasted forty-one years, and little hope remains.Allystair...

**"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."****—**Glen Cook, author of The Black Company"These books are addictive and I can’t wait to see what Aelis and the gang get up to next.”—C.L. Clark, author of The UnbrokenWineshops on every corner.Assassins in ever...

A jaded knight is chosen to be a champion for peace in this epic fantasy adventure trilogy opener from the author of The Warden and the Jack Dixon series."Ford's debut offers compelling characters and sharp dialogue. . . . Allystaire is a believable hero with an interesting past, and a future that promises plenty of action and adventure." — Publishers WeeklyIn a land wit...

"These books are addictive and I can’t wait to see what Aelis and the gang get up to next.”—C. L. Clark, author of The UnbrokenHundreds of skeletons.One Necromancer.No wine in sight.Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain.To protec...

A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus and a Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors' Pick for AmazonA Reactor Magazine Best of the Year Pick**"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."****—****Glen Cook, author of The Black CompanyFor fans who have always wanted their

An ancient goddess has chosen five heroes to serve her—and deadly enemies have taken notice—in this epic fantasy sequel to Ordination ."[A] gripping second installment. . . . Ford completely banishes all thoughts of middle-book sag. This is heroic fantasy far above the usual hack-and-slash, raising compelling questions about morality and belief in a tale full of excitement and high-stakes action." —

The Paladin rallies the Mother's surviving followers to battle against a vengeful deity in this dramatic conclusion to the epic fantasy adventure trilogy."Ford brings the Paladin trilogy to a triumphant conclusion, wrapping up a memorable tale of duplicitous diplomacy, dangerous magic, and stealthy intrigue. . . . Ford's saga of warring faiths draws the reader into a vivid world brimming with fascinating characters: some good, some bad, and some just determ...

While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, tells the story of those momentous forty-eight hours. Revised and expanded for e-book publication, including: a portfoli...

A remarkable memoir of growing up poor during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Dan Ford was the first member of his family to go to college, working his way and winning the occasional scholarship. Next came four years in Europe as a student, vagabond, soldier, and newspaperman, then a hard patch while he struggled to establish himself as a writer. These were, he recalls, America's golden years, from triumph in one war to humiliation in another, 1945-1975. Now...

When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot whose name happens to mean "tree of the sun"--they clash at Rangoon, while the British empire falls about their ears. Here is a story of the Flying Tigers, immortalized by their exploits in Southeast Asia in the opening mo...

In December 1941, the Japanese Imperial Army came ashore on the British colony of Malaya. In support of that invasion, its air arm soon began to raid neighboring Burma and especially its seaport and capital city of Rangoon, protected by a weak squadron of Royal Air Force Brewster Buffaloes and an untested squadron of P-40s flown by the American Volunteer Group of mercenary pilots in the employ of China. The battle of Rangoon would soon make them famous as the "Flying Tigers." Beginning in ...

A missing teen, a PI with a past, and a web of small-town secrets. Ex-cop Jack Dixon takes on what seems like a simple missing person case: a teenager disappears from an elite boarding school. But the investigation quickly spirals, pushing Jack into the path of Nordic biker cultists and vicious drug dealers.The houseboat-dwelling PI is determined to find the truth—and the missing kid—even though his persistence leads him into a thorny tangle of drugs and violence t...