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Happy Veterans Day! Audible finally released Our Vietnam Wars, Vol 3 Audio Book

November 11, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Want to know what Vietnam was really like?

Real stories told by real people, in their own words. US, Australian, and New Zealand veterans, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t, grab a copy and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few and you won’t be able to stop.

The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive. Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy, or Coast Guard, American, Australian, or New Zealanders, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad. And there were hundreds of different wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race. Whether we were nurses, helicopter pilots, infantryman, Rangers, clerk typists, combat medics, engineers, MPs, Platoon Leaders, sailors on riverine patrols up the rivers, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.

CHECK IT OUT AND GET A COPY HERE

Unfortunately, what little our kids and grandkids know of the war comes from books that only focus on one soldier, one unit, and one year, or movies like Oliver Stone’s Platoon and Hamburger Hill, leaving people to think that all we did was crawl through the jungle on the Cambodian border smoking dope. But that wasn’t how most of us spent our year. Hopefully, these books will help correct that narrative.

William F Brown is the author of nine action adventure and suspense novels on Kindle, including the highly successful Bob Burke series, and Our Vietnam Wars, Volumes 1 thru 4, personal stories of the veterans who served there. His ministry and suspense novels include ‘The Undertaker,’ ‘Amongst My Enemies,’ ‘Thursday at Noon,’ ‘Aim True, My Brothers,’ ‘Winner Lose All,’ and ‘The Cold War Trilogy,’ as well as Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and Burke’s Revenge. You can them out on my web site and enjoy!

Aim True, My Brothers, my FBI counter-terror thriller is now out in paperback

September 4, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

In addition to Kindle e-book and Audible audiobook, you can now enjoy Aim True, My Brothers in Amazon paperback.

CHECK IT OUT HERE

Terrorism explodes on American shores in this FBI counter-terror thriller. A shadowy Hamas legend is on a blood hunt, and his target is the President of the United States. Smart, skilled, and determined, he is a rogue lone-wolf ─ the FBI and Secret Service’s worst nightmare. The only thing that stands in his way is one smart-ass rogue FBI agent, a cerebral Egyptian security agent, and a hard-edged, female Mossad agent. When he strikes, he will unleash a firestorm that will decapitate the US government and kill dozens of international leaders on national television. From the White House to Newark New Jersey, from Beirut to Tel-Aviv, and to the grassy fields of an old Colonial Battlefield in Virginia, can their dysfunctional alliance hold together long enough to stop Al-Bari before they kill each other.

Looking for a good beach book or something to tide you over through the lockdown? This fast-moving conspiracy thriller is from the author of Burke’s Gamble, Burke’s War, Burke’s Revenge, and Burke’s Samovar, as well as The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, and Winner Lose All has over 700 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Enjoy! Bill Brown

BURKE’S GAMBLE, THE AUDIOBOOK, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIBLE!

August 29, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Derek Magolski, an excellent Canadian narrator and I have produced the audiobook digital version of Book #2 in the Bob Burke action adventure series through Amazon’s ACX and Audible subsidiaries. Burke’s War, Burke’s Revenge, and Burke’s Samovar are in the production and approval stages and should be available over the next few months. With the recently produced paperback versions, they will then be available in all three media. Audible has many different membership and pricing plans. If you like to listen to a good book while driving, workign out, or just relaxing, here’s the link to the Audible recording page here BURKE’S GAMBLE AUDIO BOOK PAGE.

Bob Burke is back in Burke’s Gamble, or the ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ Round #2, an action suspense thriller novel. Bob Burke is a retired Delta Force commander. When one of his men is thrown out the fifth-floor window of an Atlantic City casino run by the New York mob, he’s going to hit them where it hurts the most, and payback’s going to be a hoot!

The Bob Burke Action-Adventure Series is now in Paperback!

August 20, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

If you are one of those people who like a real, tactile, physical, Johannes Gutenberg-type paper book in your hands, I have come over from the “dark side” and published my four Bob Burke ebooks in PAPER, just for you. The Great Goddess Amazonia makes them available on each of the book pages and you can order them and she’ll have them printed and shipped to your door by her Kindle minions. Won’t that be fun!

Who is Bob Burke? An undersized former Army Delta Force Major who served four tours in Special Ops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a telecommunications company executive dismissed as simply the “phone guy.” But whether he’s carrying a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, a tactical knife, or just his bare hands, he’s the most lethal killing machines the US Government ever produced. While he’d like nothing better than to kick back on his North Carolina farm, trouble has a way of seeking him out. First the Chicago Mob, then the New York Genoveses and Luccheses, a home-grown ISIS cell, and most recently the Russian Mafia, payback is always a hoot!

BURKE’S SAMOVAR IS NOW OUT ON KINDLE – BOB BURKE ACTION-ADVENTURE BOOK #4

August 1, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

This time he’s tusslin’ with the Russian Mob and ‘The Czar’ himself in the Kremlin!

When the Russian Mafia in Brighton Beach steals his company’s Army software contract, blows up his office building in Chicago, and attacks Sherwood Forrest, enough is enough!

Time to take break up their operation in Brooklyn, take their ‘lunch money,’ kick some butt, and make a house call on their boss in his Dacha back in Moscow.

Undersized, underestimated, and now a telecommunications company executive, Bob Burke is often dismissed as simply the “phone guy,” but as his former Delta sergeants will attest, whether he’s carrying a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, a tactical knife, or just his bare hands, he is one of the most lethal killing machines the US Government ever produced. Here’s the Link:

BURKE’S SAMOVAR KINDLE PAGE

With the help of the Merry Men, a Russian Army Colonel, Sasha the Mad Russian, sniper rifles, of course, and plenty of plastic explosives, for Bob Burke’s it is Game On!

Like Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and Burke’s Revenge the action is nonstop! It’s time for some serious payback and a taste of revenge.

All 4 Volumes of Our Vietnam Wars Are Now in the Amazon Vietnam Wars Top 50

May 29, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Volume 4 of Our Vietnam Wars has now joined the first three volumes in the top 50 of the Amazon and Kindle books on the Vietnam War. That is a real plus and shows the extent to which these stories of now 240 Vietnam veterans contained in the four volumes have resonated with readers, both veterans and nonveterans. These are not “war books.” They are the stories of the men and women who served, where they came from, their background and training, their experiences and memories during their time in Vietnam, and most importantly, but they did after they came home.

These are real stories told by real people, in their own words, 100 veterans, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t, grab a copy and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few and you won’t be able to stop.

The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive. Most books on the war, and there are many good ones, only tell one persons experiences in one unit during one year. These books do much more. Army, Marines, Air Force, Navy, or Coast Guard, American, Australian, or New Zealanders, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad. And there were hundreds of different wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race. Whether we were nurses, helicopter pilots, infantryman, Rangers, clerk typists, combat medics, engineers, MPs, Platoon Leaders, sailors on riverine patrols up the rivers, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.

Check them out. I think you’ll find them the most important books will read this year.

Our Vietnam Wars Vol 4, the final volume, is now out on Kindle and paperback – Grab One!

May 1, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Want to know what Vietnam was really like?
Real stories told by real people, in their own words, 100 veterans, men and women, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t, grab a copy and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few and you won’t be able to stop.

Check out my “Winner Lose All” Cold War Suspense Novel with a New Cover.

March 26, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

The third new cover we designed this week was for “Winner Lose All” my spy-versus-spy action-adventure cold war thriller.

As WW II grinds to a halt in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next ‘cold’ one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British know the future belongs to whoever can grab Hitler’s ‘Wonder Weapon’ technology, because his new rockets, jet fighters, and submarines will shape the balance of world power for decades to come.

Old enemies become tomorrow’s allies, old friends can’t be trusted, and lies and double-dealing are the norm in this spy vs spy thriller.

But some times, love is not enough. Caught in the cross-fire is the torrid but impossible love affair between Ed Scanlon, a brilliant American OSS agent and Hanni Steiner, the gritty, street-smart leader of the communist resistance cell in Leipzig, who find themselves in a tug of war over the plans for Germany’srevolutionary Me-262 jet fighter that is now sweeping the skies of American B-17s. To succeed, they must outwit each other while staying one step ahead of OttoDietrich, the sadistic Gestapo Chief of Leipzig, who has his own plans for the jet fighter plans. So does Scanlon’s perfidious British handlers and Hanni’sKGB masters in Moscow.

Driven by the uncompromising dictates of Josef Stalin, Lavrenti Beria, Allen Dulles, Heinrich Himmler, and Winston Churchill, Ed and Hanni must succeed or die, and the winner will indeed lose all.

“Thursday at Noon” has a new look

March 24, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Being in a graphic binge with my fantastic cover designer Todd Hebertson in far away Salt Lake City, I just put a colorfuil new lid on Thursday at Noon, my exciting Middle East suspense thriller. Take a look. A dead Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists in Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood, a corrupt American ambassador, two missing Egyptian tank regiments, and Richard Thomson, a burnt-out CIA agent who is dumped in Egypt because the Agency can’t think of a worse place to send him.

Already gnawed on by Langley and set-up by the Cairo police, Thomson thinks his day can’t get much worse, until someone leaves a dead body on the rear steps of his hotel with its head lopped off like a ripe melon. A message? No doubt about it. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and wannabe spy who is peddling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. Someone is trying to start another Arab-Israeli war, and it’s all going to start at Noon on Thursday unless Thompson can stop them. This Cold War spy thriller will sweep you back to when John Kennedy is in the White House, Nikita Khrushchev rules the Kremlin, and Abdel, Gamal Nasser sits precariously in Cairo, threatened by the radical Islamist fringe of the Muslim Brotherhood.

But while the world focuses on Russian missiles in Cuba, no one notices the ones being rolled out in the Egyptian desert pointed at Israel, no one, except Thomson. Alone and on the run, treachery and double-dealing are the rule. No one believes his story — not the CIA, the US Ambassador, and most assuredly not Captain Hassan Saleh, Chief of the Homicide Bureau of the Cairo Police, who wants to hang Thomson for murder. Like Night of the Generals, this is a murder mystery wrapped inside an international political thriller. Tick Toc, Tick Toc…

SOMETIMES EVEN A GOOD BOOK NEEDS A FACELIFT AND REFRESH.

March 21, 2020 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Here’s the new cover designed by Todd Hebertson for The Undertaker, my very popular Pete and Sandy suspense thriller. 4.4 Stars on 334 Kindle Reviews

Someone is planting bodies under other people’s names. From the cornfields of Ohio to the gritty south-side slums of Chicago, the bloody kitchen of a Back-Bay townhouse in Boston, the tree-lined sidewalks of Washington Square in Lower Manhattan, and the power corridors of the Nation’s Capital itself, the hunt is on. Chased by an army of Chicago cops, Mafia gunmen, thick-skulled County Sheriffs, and pin-striped lawyers in government-gray sedans, if Pete Talbott, a Boston computer wonk, and Sandy Kazmarek, his quirky kick-ass girlfriend can’t stop the Undertaker, they’ll be next on the killer’s list. Here’s the Link to the Kindle Book Page

Our Vietnam Wars Vol 3 is on a Half-Price Sale Until Saturday

October 30, 2019 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Want to Know what Vietnam was really Like? Real stories, real people, caught up in an all-too-real war. 35 stories, 175 photos. $2.99 until Friday. Half Price

Volume 3 Kindle Book Link

The #1 New Book in Vietnam War History. Volume 1 has 4.7 Stars on 181 Reviews, Volume 2 has 4.9 Stars on 58 Reviews.

Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some were legit war heroes, but most were just trying to survive. As everyone “in-country” knew, Vietnam mostly came down to luck, good or bad. If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t, grab a copy and start reading anywhere in the book. The stories are like Doritos. Try a few. I guarantee and you won’t be able to stop.

From a Marine ambulance driver at Khe Sanh, Special Ops troops fighting a guerrilla war against the VC and NVA, Recon pilots, artillerymen on Christmas Eve, a Navy seaman below decks fighting a catastrophic fire on the USS Oriskany, a New Zealand artillery unit firing round after round to stop an NVA assault, Marine Corpsmen saving the wounded under fire, patrolling the jungle with New Zealand infantry, walking into Khe Sanh with the 1st Cav as they broke the siege, riding in an APC with the armored cav across the hills in I Corps, being shot down in Cambodia with a Huey pilot, plus cooks, clerks, truck drivers, and gunship pilots, combat medics, and Marine grunts and many more — from the Delta to the DMZ and Thailand to the South China Sea, this book puts you in their boots.

Bill Brown

THE AUDIOBOOK EDITION OF OUR VIETNAM WARS VOLUME 2 IS NOW ON AUDIBLE.

September 27, 2019 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Volume 2 of Our Vietnam Wars, the Audiobook, narrated by the incomparable Hollywood voice actor Eddie Frierson is finally out on Amazon’s Audible site and available for purchase and download. It is over 15 hours long, with many interesting stories from Vietnam Vets about their experiences, who they were, their memories, and what they did after they came home. I know many of my readers listen to audiobooks while they are commuting, traveling, or working out, and is a great companion piece to the Volume 1 audiobook. Here’s the Link:

Volume 2 Audio Book Link

Eddie is absolutely amazing as he slips from voice to voice, capturing the spirit and background of each one. To the right is the cover of Volume 2, me, the cover of Volume 1, and Eddie, the star of many cartoons, voice-overs, and audiobooks, who narrated Volume 1 & 2.

If you aren’t familiar with Audible, it is another Amazon subsidiary that produces and sells downloadable audiobooks, not the DVD kind. You can buy a single copy, the price of which is set by Audible, not me, based on the file size and production costs. Or, you can subscribe month-to-month at a much lower price. Or, you can join Audible on a trial basis, take a free download or two, and quit at any time. It’s pretty flexible, like Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Amazon Prime, but for audiobooks.

THE AUDIOBOOK EDITION OF OUR VIETNAM WARS VOLUME 2 IS NOW ON AUDIBLE.