Sergeant Mackenzie

USMC Camp Pendleton, 1951. Jackson Joseph MacKenzie, a seventeen-year-old with a calling, enlists in the US Army. He finds himself hip-deep in the muddy trenches, machine gun nests, human wave attacks, and artillery barrages in the Korean War. Does he have the resiliency to keep moving toward his dream after watching his friends die? Is he a leader or a follower? Will he fold under pressure? Or rise to the top? Questions he must answer before reaching for that coveted prize, an appointment to West Point.

A fictional account of just some of the ordinary men and women who fought in The Great War and the extraordinary things they did.

A police diver is involved in an explosion on a routine search of London City Airport Docks. He survives but is badly burnt. because of circumstances he is under suspicion of being involved. The pressure builds and he finally snaps when he finds out his wife has been having a long term affair. He ends up in a hospital for the insane and is chucked out the police force, and the enquiry is nicely closed much to the delight of his senior officers who saw Mac as a thorn in their side. Mac decides to start a new life and see more of the UK and get away from the horrible events that ruined his career and marriage. He buys the largest motor caravan he can afford and heads south towards his routes in Devon. Away from London and seeing life in a new light, the events of the last few months are not what they first seemed. Now for his own sanity and peace of mind he still wants to know the truth.

A mystery. The son of a retired Chicago Police detective is murdered for no apparent reason and Johnny ORourke goes back to Chicago to find the murderer and extract his revenge, and soon finds out that there are more than one that may profit from his sons death. A step by step investigation uncovers clues that lead Johnny and his new partner to the culprits. All the clues are clear in the text and the Reader is challenged to solve the mystery together with Johnny ORourke and Carol Mackenzie.

DIVDetective Masuto reopens an investigation into a murderous film star—with deadly consequences/div DIVOn the day that Eve Mackenzie murders her husband, Masao Masuto is on a plane to Japan. For years he and his wife, both American-born Japanese, have dreamed of visiting their homeland, and though the trip is a delight, the Zen Buddhist detective cannot help but check the international papers for news of murder on his home turf of Beverly Hills. Part of him regrets missing the sensational Mackenzie killing. Once a high-profile film star, Eve faded from the public eye after wedding a wealthy Scotsman—an unhappy marriage that ended in bloodshed. When Masuto returns home, Eve is headed toward an inevitable conviction. Why, then, does he reopen the case?/divDIV /divDIVThe evidence against the Hollywood starlet is so airtight that Masuto suspects a frame-up. As he pries into the closed case, more blood spills. Eve Mackenzie may not have murdered her husband, but she is far from innocent./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

War – What happens to the soldiers who fight them? Do they just go home and ride off into the sunset? Do they return to their families and a normal life? Or do they have an internal war? Trying to come to terms with what happened to them and their buddies in a war that no one wanted. Scars made not only outside but inside. Called baby killer, murderer and so many others vile names. Ignored and sometimes abused by the very system they gave their oath and sometimes their lives to protect. Lt. Colonel Jackson MacKenzie is one of those men. He gave all on many occasions and nearly gave his life to honor his oath and the men with which he served in Korea and Vietnam. Only to be betrayed by those above him. Those who know the truth but refuse to come forward. Honor, Duty, Country, Loyalty aren’t just words to him. They are his life. His problem, does he follow his heart and stand by his duty or disappear into his mind and let his demons take over? His other choice, live the rest of his life as a simple cowboy hiding out on a cattle ranch in Montana? It is a decision both hard and easy. And one he has to make or lose himself entirely.