Showing results by narrator "Arthur Morton" in All Categories

US Marine Colonel Robert Buckner, passed over for a coveted command, takes a post working for Vice Admiral Falkner on his way to retirement. As the world is lurching towards World War Ill, he finds his way towards a panoramic view of the unfolding crisis with a pivotal role to play. War breaks out across the globe, but the pin falls in the far north, where soldiers and civilians alike must battle not just the enemy, but the unforgiving elements. With arsenals of high-tech weapons loosed in both directions, the ultimate reward may not be victory, but survival.

Sixteen thought-provoking short tales that will make you question everything. Take a trip through alternate realities and into many possible futures. Your view of the world will never be the same again.

Jackson Ford’s a disgraced former governor who recognizes a second chance when the president’s chief of staff dangles it. The president needs an ambassador in a third-world nation. Someone to help local tyrants stamp out insurrection while keeping violence out of the election-year news. Ford is a tough idealist, but this administration makes it clear that they don’t want idealism. When a rebel leader shows up outside the embassy gates with a wounded child in his arms and soldiers closing in, Ford can watch the girl bleed out or invoke the wrath of dictators and the president.

Reagan Prefontaine anticipates a great week of diving off Tulum while visiting her brother. When he turns up missing, it mobilizes Reagan’s passion to find answers...at all costs. One memorable dive following an unprecedented tropical storm changes the trajectory of her life. Something gold shimmers in the distance. A mackerel? The tank of another diver? What she discovers will weave together the lives of two young girls born centuries apart.

Meet Nick Remke, a damaged former Notre Dame football star desperate for a job and, maybe, redemption. It’s 1997. Longview, Ohio, USA. Nick finally gets his chance when he’s hired to run Made Right, a family-owned clothing factory severely threatened by offshore competition. The entire town depends on the fragile fortunes of the overworked factory. All eyes now turn to Nick. t it. Still, Marie is forced to admit that Nick the newcomer suddenly has the townsfolk feeling inspired.

In the Spiral Gap sector of our galaxy, hope could be reborn.

Raised to hate people, especially women, Mers avoids them by wandering the desert, scavenging as winds shift the sands. Upon witnessing a fight far off, he waits for the outcome. When all three people fall to the ground and don’t rise, Mers races across the desert to collect their now-relinquished panel truck and motorbike. He and Teah, his cow-like whake, reach the machines only to find the woman who owned the bike isn’t as dead as he’d hoped. Forced to obey the one rule of kindness his father taught him - hospitality - he agrees to hide her from the men who hunt her.