Free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon: (linkage for the lot):
Power Play by Larry Johns, a vintage espionage action thriller originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 1980.
Jackie Ryderbeit, carrying a government licence to kill, is tossed into a cauldron of International intrigue with orders to find and eliminate a double agent. With the help of a booze-sodden ex-courier and an over-the-hill trigger- man he casts for a shark only to find a whale on his line.
The story reaches a shattering climax on the blue waters of the Mediterranean after a chase through the confused currents of cross and double-cross.
A Warrior's Code, a mercenary soldier adventure thriller originally out from Robert Hale in 2011.
Treachery and double-cross are the hallmarks of the mercenary soldier. Can you ever know who the real enemy is? Is it the man in the cross-hairs, or the friend alongside you? Or is it the man who pays your wages? Martin Palmer must fight his war in the grim certainty that a potentially fatal bullet could come from any direction. And yet he must fight, because fighting is all he knows. It is a deadly challenge that will test him to the limits of his endurance and beyond. Because, in a world where change is possible, there will always be another paymaster with high aspirations, and enough money to pursue them. And money, of course, is the mercenary soldier's creed. (description cribbed from the hardcover version, since the e-book blurb is literally just one single really cryptic line)
Johns' two other books from yesterday are still free as well.
Free again from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon:
The Big Goodbye by Michael Lister (
SYKM), 1st in his Jimmy Riley series of Soldier Mysteries set in 1940s Florida, starring the eponymous hard-boiled noir one-armed ex-cop turned PI, originally out from small press Pulpwood in 2011. The blurb indicates that this particular installment may have strong romantic elements, and quotes a favourable Publisher's Weekly review.
Someone is following Lauren Lewis.
She ducks into the office of PI, Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, not to hire him, but to find out if he’s the one following her. Back when they were lovers he told her if he ever decided to, she’d never know he was there.
It’s1940’s Panama City, Florida. The world is at war, and the growing panhandle paradise is doing its part. Tyndall Field is training pilots. Wainwright Shipyard is building battleships. The Naval Section Base is protecting vessels in the Gulf. The Dixie Sherman Hotel is hosting celebrities such as Clark Gable. Harry Lewis, a wealthy banker, is running for mayor, unaware his wife is running for her life.
With a secret to hide and a husband running for mayor in a city exploding and expanding like no other time in history, Lauren doesn’t want trouble, but she’s about to get a double-barrel full of it. Only one man can help her, and though it might destroy him, he doesn’t mind. Better to die than be the walking wounded.