Sea of Fire

OTHER KIROV SERIES BATTLE BOOKS

In a move that stunned Great Britain in 1940, the Germans launched a daring operation to seize the vaunted Rock of Gibraltar and Malta. Now Erwin Rommel leads the Afrika Korps in a bid to conquer all of Egypt and knock England out of the war. But a strange event in the year 2021 sends the Great Grandsons of the Desert Rats back through time to pose a bold new challenge. Soon the hunter becomes the hunted, as the Desert Fox struggles for his very survival in this exciting alternate history of WWII. Loaded with action, this book presents 58 chapters of all the action from the German Operation Felix attack on Gibraltar, the daring attack on Malta, the opening moves in North Africa with O'Connor's Raid, the Battle of Beda Fomm, and Operation Sonnenblume, Rommel's first offensive. Then, in the midst of the fighting, General O'Connor goes missing, and a desperate search and rescue operation is mounted. Fate takes the search team to a unexpected rendezvous in the deep desert, where a strange event in the midst of a new war in 2021 has displaced the modern British 7th Armored Brigade back in time to 1941. As Rommel drives east towards Alexandria, he is soon confronted by a powerful new enemy that becomes the bane of the Desert Fox from that day forward. At the battle of Bir el Khamsa, modern day Challenger II tanks and Warrior AFVs confront the cream of Rommel's Afrika Korps. But we're just getting started! Foxbane then continues as Rommel receives powerful new reinforcements to launch a bold attack on Tobruk. The fighting continues as the British launch their own counteroffensives in Operation Crusader, and finally Operation Supercharge, where the Desert Rats seek to push Rommel back to Tripoli. Here is all the great desert war action extracted from the massive 24 volume Kirov Series novels by John Schettler, re-edited by the author and presented in one continuous file spanning 58 chapters. (Over 175,000 words). This is military fiction at its absolute finest, an alternate history so convincing that you’ll believe it actually happened!

Available now: Foxbane

5.5” x 8.5” Quality Trade Paperback – 550 Pages – $19.99

Kindle File – $4.99

Vladimir Karpov… surely irrepressible, deceitful, conniving, duplicitous, egocentric and yes, disloyal. His inner drive to make something greater of himself, whether bordering on the maniacal or not, has also made him a formidable ally in the war against the dark forces of the Axis powers. In combat he can be heartless, even cruel, and coldly heedless of the consequences of his own actions. To those that make him an enemy, beware.

Ivan Volkov was one such man. An officer in the modern Russian Naval Intelligence service, he stumbles down a stairway in an old railway inn at the village of Ilanskiy, and finds himself marooned in 1908! There he slowly rises to power in the White movement of the Russian Revolution, forging his private little empire in Central Asia which he comes to call the Orenburg Federation. Now the two great villains of the Kirov Series meet as arch rivals in a long vendetta and struggle to control one of the most strategically important sites on earth… Ilanskiy.

The material that creates this novel was extracted from their long running subplot in the Kirov Saga, spanning 17 different books, and assembled and re-edited here into one continuous and uninterrupted narrative, with “outtakes,” extended scenes, and occasional new material. Consider it the “Director’s Cut” for this long intriguing subplot, all things Ilanskiy, the mystery, the mayhem, the parachute jumps, commando raids, ground assaults, and oh yes, the Zeppelins!

Available now: Vendetta

5.5” x 8.5” Quality Trade Paperback – 524 Pages – $19.99

Kindle File – $4.99

The odyssey of the long running series subplot involving the Argos Fire is now concentrated into one interrupted story line, but with major new additions. Elena Fairchild, the keeper of the mysterious keys that seem to secure entrances to hidden fissures in time, is joined by Captain MacRae, Mack Morgan, and the crew of the Argos Fire as they skirt the edge of war in 2021, and find themselves delivered to the heart and fire of WWII by the workings of a strange device they recover from an ancient shrine.

This volume will also include a great deal of all new material never published in the main Kirov Series, including the continuation of the mystery involving the Keyholder’s Saga featuring the story of the Duke of Elvington’s surprising quest to the eve of the Battle of Waterloo that began on Lindisfarne Island. That narrative is extended to reveal true goal of the Duke’s journey to 1815. It soon dovetails into Fairchild’s desperate search to find the key that was lost on the Battleship Rodney, including the return of Professor Paul Dorland, and the secret that lies beneath St. Michael’s Cave on Gibraltar will soon be revealed. Mystery and intrigue are interspersed with more all new scenes, making this volume a must have for all series fans. Coming Soon…

The Kirov Battle Book Series will also present all the action from the east front, beginning with the German sortie by the Admiral Scheer into the Kara Sea that precedes the outbreak of hostilities. Then Operation Barbarossa begins, leading eventually to the battles of Smolensk, the Kirov Pocket, Operation Typhoon, Mtsensk, Tula, the advance and battle for Moscow. The Russian Winter counteroffensive of 1941 continues the action, and subsequent volumes will present all of Operation Blue, the Drive on Volgograd, action at Voronezh, and the Russian Winter Offensive of 1942.