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You've cheated death before, and you're about to do it again... --Jack Sharpe, The Cursed Squadron

Writing

I have occasionally written some action-adventure fiction, usually in the pulp genre. Check it out here:

Mike Cribb Pulp Novellas Pulp novellas in the style of "Doc Savage" Action-packed, thrilling, and mysterious   Curse of the Blue Gem    The debut of Mike Cribb and his engineers extraordinaire. Released in 2022   The Battle for Nowhere    Mike and his team try to save a secret civilization under Antarctica. Released in 2025   Temple of the Viper    The dark, exhilarating conclusion to the Mike Cribb trilogy. COMING SOON!

Jack Sharpe WWI Short Stories Pulp WWI aviation short storys in the style of "Flying Aces"   The Cursed Squadron    Jack Sharpe's debut appearance Released in 2020   The Scourge of the Witch Doctors    Thrilling sequal to the original Jack Sharpe mystery Released in 2021

Curse of the Blue Gem: A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD sets off a quest leading Mike Cribb and his team of engineers extraordinaire deep into the arctic circle to stop a destructive operation before it wipes out a life form capable of saving humanity. Their only certainty is treachery and peril at every turn as they are haunted by a menace that leaves men dead with metallic gray stains on their fingers.   View PDF   The Battle for Nowhere: A CORPSE THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST leads Mike Cribb and his team to a secret civilization underneath the frozen continent of Antarctica. But not all is as it seems in the underground utopia. Can Mike and his team untangle a web of deception surrounding the base, and catch a traitor before he discovers the dark secret – a way to turn the fruits of their scientific genius into the most terrible weapon of war ever devised?   View PDF   Temple of the Viper: AN EVER-TIGHTENING WEB OF DOOM entangles Mike Cribb and his team. Their only hope of escape: defeat the wicked incarnation of Death known as La Vibora – diabolical genius who can seemingly mold the minds of men. Their only clue: the rumor of a lost temple, deep in the Honduran rainforest. The trail leads to combat in the bowels of the Earth, and a race against time to stop La Vibora from unleashing the ancient evil from below.   COMING SOON!

The Cursed Squadron: FOUR PILOTS HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED in the air during the sortie of their fifth kill. The 10th Pursuit was cursed! But Jack Sharpe was on the case, and something seemed fishy about the ghastly Hun and his ultimatum: NO MORE ACES.   View Publication   The Scourge of the Witch Doctors: G-2 WAS FACING A MENACE that threatened its very existence: Mysterious ships, piloted by witch-doctors that could shoot down a man without a single bullet. Jack Sharpe knew something was amiss – and it had something to do with those long-range Gothas!   View Publication