For my Spanish readers, Burke’s War book number one in the Bob Burke Action-Adventure-Series is now available on the various Kindle sites in Spanish. If that is your native language, I’m sure you’ll find a much better experience than slogging your way through it in my language. Hopefully, the rest of the series will be coming out in future months. Enjoy!
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MY BOB BURKE ACTION-THRILLER SERIES IS NOW OUT IN GERMAN
For my foreign readers, I’m having the series translated into several foreign languages. First up is German. I had a few initial problems with some bad translations, but I have given them to a new excellent, German translator, Johanna Pruller, and the first three, Burke’s Mandarin, Burke’s Gamble, and now Burke’s Samovar, are up and running on the German Kindle site. The German translations are available on all of the other Kindle sites as well. They are available in Kindle e-book, paperback, and hardback formats. Over the next two months, Burke’s War and Burke’s Revenge will join them. If you happened to have downloaded one of these books last January-February, downloaded again and get Johanna’s excellent translation.
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Happy Veterans Day! Audible finally released Our Vietnam Wars, Vol 3 Audio Book
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!
Our Vietnam Wars Vol 4, the final volume, is now out on Kindle and paperback – Grab One!
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.
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.
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!
Check out my “Winner Lose All” Cold War Suspense Novel with a New Cover.
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
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.
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
THE AUDIOBOOK EDITION OF OUR VIETNAM WARS VOLUME 2 IS NOW ON AUDIBLE.
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.
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“Our Viet Nam Wars” is #1 in Vietnam War History Again on Amazon
When it was released last year, Volume 1 immediately shot up to the number 1 ranked new book in US military history. Since then, and after the release of Volume 2, it has been consistently ranked in the top five books on that war and Veterans Affairs.
If you want to see what the war was really like, as told by real soldiers, men and women, who served there, pick up a copy and see what it was like. The response from veterans and their families has been phenomenal.
From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory,” truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, Coast Guard “Jolly Green” search and rescue helicopters pulling downed pilots from the jungle, tank platoons in an all-out armor assault, Loach pilots in hunter-killer teams, and many more — from the Delta to the DMZ, this book puts you in their boots.
Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some were true war heroes, but most were just trying to survive. As everyone “in-country” knew, Vietnam was all about 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 and you won’t be able to stop.
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 and 2, 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!
Want to know what Vietnam was really like? Volume 2 of Our Vietnam Wars, the Kindle Edition, is now Out. Grab One!
From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory,” truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, Coast Guard “Jolly Green” search and rescue helicopters pulling downed pilots from the jungle, tank platoons in an all-out armor assault, Loach pilots in hunter-killer teams, and many more — from the Delta to the DMZ, this book puts you in their boots.
Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some were true war heroes, but most were just trying to survive. As everyone “in-country” knew, Vietnam was all about 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 and you won’t be able to stop.
The Vietnam War was the seminal event of my generation and affected so many lives. Over 58,200 of us paid the ultimate price, but the war didn’t end when the last US helicopter lifted off from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. It continues to take its ugly toll on many who did come home. Instead of bands and parades, we got PTSD and Agent Orange, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, neuropathy, leukemia, Hodgkin’s Disease, and prostate cancer, and many more. As they say, “Vietnam is the gift that keeps on giving.”
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. In February, I published Volume 1. Due to the amazing response it received from vets and their families, I’m publishing Volume 2, with even more interesting, exciting, and informative stories. Hopefully, they 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 and 2, 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!
“OUR VIETNAM WARS,” MY NEW BOOK ON VIETNAM AND VIETNAM VETS IS OUT ON KINDLE. GRAB ONE!
This is a non-fiction book about Vietnam, not one of my suspense novels. It could be the most important book you’ll read this year and the best thing I’ve ever written. It isn’t just another war book. It contains personal reminiscences of 100 of my fellow Vietnam vets and has some truly memorable stories in it, with 250 photos.
They served from 1955 to 1975, men and women, black and white, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, they were infantry grunts, truck drivers, medics, helicopter pilots, jet pilots, mechanics, staff officers, MPs, and doctors; and their stories continue to resonate. They 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.
Unfortunately, all that most of our kids and grandkids know about that war is what they see in the Oliver Stone movie, Platoon, or in the handful of better novels, all of which center on an infantry unit in the jungle on the Cambodian border in 1968. That was Oliver’s war. He was there, bless his Hollywood heart, but it wasn’t mine. In fact, there were hu
ndreds of different wars, depending on the year you were there, the service you were in, your branch, location, job, and your rank.
For the next week I have it discounted on Kindle for only $2.99. Check it out on this link:
There is also a paperback edition for those who like the feel of paper. Grab a copy, I guarantee you won’t regret it.