“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long.A year later, after boot c...

This is third volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: School Education. The series is used today by many homeschoolers around the globe and is considered a classic reference by the founder of the homeschooling movement. Volume 3 of 6.

Dirty Noir is ten stories of the riptide in human affairs, for those of us who are magnetically drawn to the passionate, strange and dreadful.Get ready to meet the honeymoon couple who encounter grief in Mexico; Zack, the schoolboy assassin in love with a circus beauty; Miguel, who proves to be unexpectedly dangerous; the Giant Rat of Sumatra, cruellest contract-killer in the business, and Phoebe, perhaps the strangest, and surely the sharpest, woman in fiction.These and ma...

In a world ravaged by environmental disaster, retired hitman Zack must take on a dangerous mission to rescue his friend's son... or die trying.Young Tom has been kidnapped by the Kwanon: a ruthless group of extremists who plan to use him as a victim for human sacrifice. Seeing their captives as no more than objects, the Kwanon delight in inflicting pain on their victims.Outnumbered, outgunned and facing both natural and unnatural dangers, Zack sets off on his mission toward...

Fascinating journey about a Marine grunt's quest for healing the wounds of his war and how he discovered the best medicine of all was tracking down and reuniting with his fellow survivors and with the families of the fallen.

Fascinating journey about a Marine grunt's quest for healing the wounds of his war and how he discovered the best medicine of all was tracking down and reuniting with his fellow survivors and with the families of the fallen.

"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. "Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war," he writes. It didn't remain that way for long.A year later, after boot camp at Par...

After unscrupulous young Lawrence is recruited as an assassin for the British Secret Service, he accidentally uncovers a terrible secret.Lawrence’s newfound knowledge forces him to choose between going on the run, or engaging in a life and death conflict with his employers.This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

After a dramatic change in character, a rather usual middle-aged man begins carrying out a series of rather unusual murders.Meanwhile Brad Shape, a crime beat reporter for the Manchester Daily News, is looking for the big scoop to revive his flagging career - and his crumbling marriage.But when he finds one of England's most notorious serial killers, it will be Brad's biggest break... in more ways than one.Note: this taut, edge-of-your-seat thriller contains...

Floyd Rampant is ready to cook – and humanity is on the menu.After the celebrity chef rises from his grave, he aims to create a zombie army of chefs who will rule the world, using the human species as the main ingredient in their cordon bleu meals.Can Floyd be stopped before it’s too late, or will we all end up roasted, then drizzled in a rich chasseur sauce?Part horror story, part social satire, this novel gives you a fast-paced entrée of dread, followed by a main ...

Cats and their humans have always lived peacefully together: ancient Egyptians worshiped them, musicals have been written about them, the internet goes gaga for them.Zomcats! dumps all that into the litter tray of life. This ain't no cute, cuddly kitten zombie story. Jack D. McLean's Zomcats! does for cuddly felines what James Herbert's horror classic, The Rats, did for rodents. It's violent, horror-laced mayhem with savage satire and devilish dark humor.The action starts o...

In Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse, Professor Ted Forsyth created the Lazarus Engine, which could bring the dead back to life.Now, Wally Pratt - a distant relative of Professor Forsyth - has inherited his house ... and the Lazarus Engine. A member of an extreme right-wing political party and desperate for advancement, he puts together a creature from recycled body parts who looks very much like Margaret Thatcher.The former great leader is reborn, but now ... she's known as...