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BURKE’S MANDARIN, Bob Burke Action-Adventure Thriller is Now Available on Amazon

September 14, 2021 by William F. Brown 1 Comment

BURKE’S MANDARIN Now Available on Amazon

Bob Burke #5 in Kindle E-Book and Paperback, Hardback will be Available Next Week

Bullets, Bombs, and Mayhem!

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A Chinese spymaster in DC stealing US Special Ops war plans, a nest of Chinese agents inside Fort Bragg, a Chinese Navy task force headed into the South China Sea to create mischief, and they just shot up Bob Burke’s new pickup truck. Trouble’s brewing in Sherwood Forest, and it isn’t a pot of green tea.

Mild-mannered and slight of build, this telecommunications company executive is easily dismissed as the “phone guy.” But after four tours running ‘special operations’ missions in Iraq and the rugged mountains of Afghanistan as an Army Ranger and Delta Force commander, he’s one of the most lethal killers the US government ever produced.

A young Chinese American Captain’s family is under the gun and there’s little the Army or the FBI can do about it, when The Ghost gets the call, he and ‘Ace’ Randall don’t hesitate. Time to bring out the Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifles, turn The Geeks loose, and call in some Delta pals from Fort Bragg. This time, a possible world war is at stake in the South Pacific and it wouldn’t be fair to leave The Merry men out of the fun, would it?

Burke’s Gamble, #2 in the Bob Burke Action-Adventure Series is on a $0.99 Kindle Sale Today.

September 2, 2018 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

With 4.7 Stars on 158 Kindle Reviews, Burke’s Gamble always been a reader favorite.

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Think the ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ or Round #2, or Bob Lee Swagger takes on the New York City mob. Bob Burke is a former Army Ranger and Delta Force commander, one of the quickest, most lethal forces of nature this country has ever produced. When one of his former NCOs is tossed out the fifth story window of an Atlantic City casino run by the infamous Genovese and Lucchese NY mob families, someone’s going to answer for it, They started it, and he intends to finish it; and when Bob Burke needs help, he knows just the guys to call. This time he’s cleaning them out, taking all their loot, and payback’s gonna be a hoot!

And if you haven’t checked out my new non-fiction book, Our Vietnam Wars, click here and take a look. it contains personal interviews with 100 Vietnam vets and could be the most important and riveting book you’ll read this year.

Thanks, Bill Brown

Cold War Trilogy – My Three-Book Boxed Set of Spy Versus Spy Action-Adventure Thrillers is on a Kindle Sale Today.

January 6, 2018 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

They are three of my best-selling, historic, thrillers for the price of one. Over 1200 pages of exciting reading at two-thirds off. It’s the best deal on the web. They have three novels have almost 300 Five-Star ratings on over 500 Reviews, an average of 4.4 Stars.

You’ll get Winner Lose All, Amongst My Enemies, and Thursday at Noon. Together, they can give you more than enough action and suspense the next time you curl up in front of the fire, need to tune out a long airplane flight, or head for one of those tropical beaches.

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Set in the spring of 1945, “Winner Lose All” features American, Russian, British agents fighting themselves and the Gestapo over the new German Wonder Weapon Technology, which will determine the world’s balance of power for years to come. At the center of “Amongst My Enemies” is a rusting German U-boat lying on the bottom of the Baltic. Inside is a fortune in gold and stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. In “Thursday at Noon”, reviewed in The New Yorker and set in Egypt in 1962, a burned-out CIA agent is all that stands between German rocket scientists, the CIA, KGB, a coup in Cairo, and a new Middle-East war.

Need a pool book, beach book, or some good reads for a long plane ride? These fast-paced spy stories are known for their pacing, twisting plot lines, and some deliciously evil bad guys. See if you don’t agree.

Thanks, and have a great new year, Bill Brown

Burke’s Gamble, #2 in the Bob Burke Series is on a Special Kindle Sale Today. Grab One

December 25, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Since it is Christmas, I’ve put Burke’s Gamble, book #2 in my popular Bob Burke series on a special $1.99 Kindle Christmas Sale today. Many of my readers took advantage of the sale copy of book #1, Burke’s War, last week and I thought you might want to pick up Book #2 while it is still half off.

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It has a 4.7 Star Rating on 144 reviews on Kindle and remains a reader favorite. Click on this link and it will take you straight to the Kindle book page.

Thanks, and have a Happy Holiday, Bill Brown

October 13, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

THURSDAY AT NOON: Treachery and double-dealing are the rule in this spy vs spy thriller. A dead Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists, the Moslem Brotherhood, a corrupt American ambassador, and two missing Egyptian tank regiments – somebody’s trying to start another Arab-Israeli war.

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Richard Thomson is a burnt-out CIA agent who the Agency dumped in Egypt because they couldn’t think of a worse place to send him. Already gnawed on by Langley and set-up by the Cairo police, 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.

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, 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, 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 was in the White House, Nikita Khrushchev ruled the Kremlin, and Abdel, Gamal Nasser sat precariously in Cairo, threatened by the radical Islamist fringe of the Moslem Brotherhood.

If you’re looking for a good beach book or something to curl up with in front of the fire, this fast-moving conspiracy thriller is from the author of Burke’s Revenge, Burke’s Gamble, Burke’s War, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Winner Lose All and Aim True, My Brothers, with over 500 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Enjoy!

Bill Brown

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Amongst My Enemies, one of My Best Thriller Novels is on a Kindle Sale Today

May 21, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Today, you can grab a copy of Amongst My Enemies, my best and highly-rated, spy versus spy action-adventure thriller novel, which is on a special Kindle $0.99 sale. The sale won’t last long, so check it out on the link below.

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Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. The KGB, the CIA, Nazi SS hit men, even the Israeli Mossad – everyone is willing to kill for it, but only former US Airman Mike Randall knows the truth in this Cold War spy versus spy thriller. Some want the gold, some want Randall dead, and some want proof that there is a high-ranking spy inside NATO itself. What Mike Randall wants is much simpler. Caught between the Kremlin’s spies, the CIA, the Mossad, and a new, deadly, 4th Reich, all he wants is to pay an old debt with a steel-jacketed bullet.
Looking for a good beach book or a great thriller novel to curl up with in front of the fire? This fast-moving conspiracy thriller is from the author of Bob Burke action adventure series — Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and Burke’s Revenge, plus The Undertaker, Winner Lose All, Thursday at Noon, and Aim True, My Brothers. In total, they have over 500 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Grab one and Enjoy!

“The Undertaker” reader favorite thriller novel is on a Kindle sale today

April 27, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

One of my reader favorite e-books, and one of my own favorites, The Undertaker, is on a Kindle Sale today, 75% off! Grab a copy. It features the ever-popular Pete and Sandy, and with 4.4 Stars on 250 Kindle Reviews, it is easy to see why.
Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names.

Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

Sandy Kasmarek is a kick-ass art gallery attendant on Chicago’s stylish North Michigan Avenue, and her late and un-lamented husband is also featured in another of the bogus obituaries.

With a photographer’s sharp eye and the quick feet of a black belt, she and Pete are soon embroiled in government corruption, organized crime, and an FBI undercover shell game.

From a funeral home in Indiana, to car chases on the Dan Ryan Expressway, a bloody townhouse in Boston’s Back Bay, snipers in New York’s Washington Square, the cramped lower bunk on an AMTRAK train, they find themselves knee-deep in sleazy lawyers, corrupt County sheriffs, the FBI, and Mafia hit men. And if Pete and Sandy can’t stop him, they know they will be next on the Undertaker’s list.

If you are looking for a good beach book, a thriller novel to curl up with in front of the fire, or one to take on a long plane flight (especially if it’s on United or American and you want to zone-out all those pushy Flight Attendants) this fast-moving conspiracy thriller from the author of Burke’s Gamble, Burke’s War, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, and Aim True, My Brothers, is just what you need. Enjoy!

Burke’s Revenge – My Next Thriller Novel Is Coming Soon!

December 18, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

MY NEW THRILLER NOVEL – COMING SOON TO A KINDLE NEAR YOU (MAYBE IN 60 DAYS, BUT NOT QUITE YET!)

HERE’S THE COVER FOR BURKE’S REVENGE, BOOK #3 IN THE BOB BURKE ACTION ADVENTURE SERIES

I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and finishing the final 4-5 chapters of what I think is a really good Bob Burke story. I hope you will too. When those are finished comes a whole bunch of editing, proofing, and post-production uploading work. Believe me, this e-book thing is nowhere near as easy as it looks! In Burke’s Revenge, Bob doesn’t run into trouble with the Chicago or New York mobs. Trouble comes looking for him in the form of a home-grown ISIS cell that has set up shop just down the road in Fayetteville North Carolina and Bob’s beloved Fort Bragg. As you can expect, that’s something no self-respecting Delta or the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest are going to put up with for very long.

Three more new book covers – Bill Brown suspense novels

October 31, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

NEW COVERS! I decided to put some new covers on some of my suspense novels and had my wonderful cover designer, Todd Hebertson, come up with some new ideas and he came up with some really neat ones. I put the first three out last week. Here’s the last three. Let me know what you think.

You can check out my other suspense novels, read a few chapters, see some of my other writing, and the status of my next book at my web site http://box5462.temp.domains/~billbro4 Check ’em out!

William F. Brown is the author of 8 suspense novels with over 500 Five-Star Reviews: Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, and Aim True, My Brothers, and The Cold War Trilogy. They are all available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and now on Audible Audio Books. You read about them and the author’s screenplays and other writing at billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com

Book Review – Daniel Silva’s The English Spy – 5 Huge Stars!

May 28, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

The English Spy – Frankly, I did not find the last two or three of Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon novels to be up to his very high standard. However, whatever faults they had, The English Spy more than makes up for in spades. It’s is one of his very best — a complex, fast moving, character driven page-turner that

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continues and advances plot threads in a number of the recent books. As such, it brings back most of Allon’s old enemies, the Russians, the IRA, and the Iranians, as well as his old friends and allies. It also sweeps us back through familiar settings in London, the rocky coast of Cornwall, Belfast, “Bandit Country ” in Northern Ireland, Vienna, Lisbon, Corsica, Hamburg, and Israel, with lots of gunshots and bomb blasts in between. There’s enough story and real-world geopolitics in this book to provide four or five novels if he had wanted to structure it that way. Instead, Silva provides a roller coaster you really can’t miss, if you’re one of his big fans, which I am.

The author is obviously a strong supporter of Israel, and provides a very accurate picture of what’s happening in the Middle East today, particularly regarding Iran. It’s interesting to note that all of Allon’s closest allies are Brits. They are the story, as are the Russians in the Iranians. Nowhere in this mix, do we find a single American politician or spy, and Silva does not pull his punches about the current American administration, the mess it has created in the Middle East, and the simple fact that they have become both incompetent and irrelevant. That’s not fiction, and few people who have followed events over the last five years or so, could do anything but agree. But politics or not, The English Spy a great suspense novel. While Silva wraps up a number of plot threads, he leaves enough others alive and kicking to make us hope the next one be just as good as The English Spy.

William F Brown is the author of eight of his own action, suspense novels on Kindle, the latest of which are Burke’s War and Burke’s Gamble. See the book review tab on my website for more book reviews.

“Burke’s Gamble” Book #2 in the Bob Burke Thriller Novel Series

January 26, 2016 by William F. Brown

“Burke’s Gamble” – It is the ‘American Sniper’ meets ‘The Godfather,’ Round #2, or Bob Lee Swagger takes on the New York City mob. In last year’s best selling “Burke’s War,” Bob Burke witnessed a woman being murdered, and ends up butting heads with the Chicago Mob. In “Burke’s Gamble,” this year’s action adventure thriller, one of his old friends is thrown out a fifth story window in an Atlantic City casino run by New York City’s infamous Genovese and Lucchese mob families.

Someone’s going to answer, and ‘the telephone guy’s’ payback is going to be a hoot! This time, it will not be a simple ‘Gumbah’ hunt with sniper rifles in a Chicago Forest preserve. The target is a Mafia Don holed up in the penthouse of a large hotel casino complex in Atlantic City, backed up by a dozen of his own gunmen plus, an elite team of foreign Special Operations mercenaries brought in to take down Bob Burke and his men. In addition to own Delta Force sergeants, Bob calls on two baby-faced computer Geeks, a three-star Army General, a Chicago police detective, a female Air Force Captain, Bob’s new wife, a Russian computer programmer, and one of the world’s best pickpockets on an overnight.’ pass from Cook County Jail. From stealth helicopters to luxury yachts, and bodies in 55-gallon oil drums, the action is non-stop. This time, Bob and his ’s Merry Band of Rascals aren’t going to out shoot them, they’re going to take the Mob’s money, all of it!

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If you like a good best seller thriller novel, put this fast-moving Bob Burke series Delta Force thriller into your Cart. It is another war and military best seller novel from the author of “Burke’s War,’ ‘The Undertaker,’ ‘Amongst My Enemies,’ ‘Thursday at Noon,’ “Aim True, My Brothers,’ ‘Winner Lose All,’ and ‘Cold War Trilogy.’ Enjoy!

The Heist – Book Review – Daniel Silva’s spy novel

April 26, 2015 by William F. Brown

The Heist – Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon stories are always entertaining and he’s one of the best writer of spy novels in the business, but I’m beginning to have three bones to pick with his story telling. First, too many of his books have the same “let’s get her alone and talk her into betraying her boss and her country” scenes. Second, Allon is becoming the Hamlet of Jerusalem. And third, his endings — this one

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in particular – are wholly unsatisfactory. Who would go to all that trouble, have $8 Billion in hand, enough to ruin the Assad regime, and just walk away and let him stay in place. If I were his boss, I’d fire him. The end of the Heist needs to build to a more significant climax than that. Still, I gave it 4 Stars and intend to read the next one.

William F. Brown is the author of 6 suspense novels with over 500 Five-Star Reviews: The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, Aim True, My Brothers, and his newest, Burke’s War. You can check them out at http://box5462.temp.domains/~billbro4