Cold-war Stories

As the years passed on, 2187 hits and before anyone knew it... the system's population exploded from around 35 Billion to 450 Billion people. This massive growth of population was almost entirely because of the Asteroid Belt. The OPE became a much larger power, while the IU lost most of their colonial territories, and only have a handful of Asteroid Bases and Trade Cities. The ECR was in a similar predicament, as their economy peaked in the early 2180's.

The Atlas crew has been torn apart. Most have ETS'd or left the military due to injuries incurred in line of duty. Of the original crew, only a handful remain. Trauma and shared pain have begun to drive apart the surviving members of Echo-Five-Actual. The Atlas Crew, mostly wiped out in a deadly explosion the year before, is fragmenting as promotions, replacements, and drop on requests have left the crew with more new faces than old. Those who remain of Echo-Five-Actual have been split into different work crews, promoted, ETS's, left due to injuries, or died. Accidents and a coordinated strike by the KGB have wreaked havoc on III CosCom, VII Corps and V Corps ability to wage war if the Soviet Union decides to invade Western Europe, and this has hit 2/19th hard. With most of the effective and experienced members dead, missing, or in the hospital, 2/19th's chain of command is shattered and people have slipped through the cracks. Including Stillwater, who is trapped, alone, on the mountain. And Cromwell, who is locked in the War Fighter Tunnels with 18 women, 7 of them pregnant, three infants, and two male soldiers undergoing chapters to put them out of the military. Bomber and Nagle are hospitalized, having barely survived the attacks that killed many other members of the unit. Bomber is comatose, the bullet meant to kill him trapping him in memories and dreams of the past. Nagle is in ICU, unable to speak after having been shot through the throat. Now, they don't even have each other. And nobody is coming to the rescue. Author's Note: Thanks to Twitter user @tikibomber for providing me with a Gaelic/English dictionary. http://www.focloir.ie/

Paul Foster is a 17 year old boy, a white trash high school dropout without even a GED to his name, an adulteress ex-wife he married at 16, uncaring (at best) parents, who's left behind his hometown for what he felt would be an uncaring world. Once finished with Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training, he finds himself assigned to 2/19th Special Weapons Group and figures that nothing in an uncaring world matters. Exposed to nerve agent. Fighting Soviet soldiers over control of a 15 square mile section of Western Germany. Seeing friends die. The crushing weight of his duties in an uncaring military steadily grinds away at him. However, in the fire and blood of the hell of 2/19th he finds a small spark. A dancing firefly in the middle of misery and terror that has wound around him and held his heart in her tiny hands. Amid the blood and gunfire of a war that nobody knows or cares about, he's found friends and his place in the world. But now he has to return home. To a past he tried to leave behind. When everything goes bad, the tormentors of his past quickly discover the simple fact of 2/19th. Like his fellow soldiers, Paul Foster may look like a man, but he isn't. He's a weapon.

First they survived a serial killer in their own barracks. Then they went to the wall against a pre-conflict strike of Soviet Union soldiers attacking them in their own barracks, leaving behind half of their number dead and the survivors of the brutal close quarters combat shell shocked and physically wounded. Criminal Investigation Division, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the CIA are all interested in what went on. Accompanying the members of the Alphabet Agencies is the aide of a member of the House Military Affairs Commission and members of the Secret Service. All of them wanted to know what happened. Unfortunately for them, the blood spilled on the mountain in the name of madness and hatred has woken it from its ancient slumber. And it wants more. THIS STORY IS A ROUGH DRAFT/STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VERSION OF WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE EDITED AND EXPANDED INTO BOOK FOUR OF THE PUBLISHED SERIES.

When high-profile true crime writer, Ben Ogilvie, is persuaded to interview Eleanor Reardon, he gets substantially more than he bargained for. Eleanor is the illegitimate daughter of Gina Lawrence, a woman still in FBI witness protection after an unprecedented thirty-five years. It is now 1997. The horrendous events on Fairport (God's Island) are all but forgotten-indeed virtually obliterated by a zealous cover-up. However, fallen millionaire Sam Godsteen wants the record put straight and knows the elusive Gina Lawrence is the only person alive that can do it. Through Eleanor, Ogilvie meets Gina and the fantastic journey begins. She takes him deep into a world of intrigue and espionage, as seen through the eyes of a woman who knows she is only being used for her memory-faces stored in her brain. Faces of monsters a sane person would want to erase Gina is not allowed to forget. Indeed because of Eleanor, barely a year old at the time, she is intimidated by government agents who indirectly threaten to have her and the baby "thrown to the wolves" unless she cooperates. Her inclusion on an internationally circulated death list leaves her little choice. Ill-trained and poorly equipped, she is flung headlong into a vicious arena where only the most cunning and experienced can ever hope to survive. Her ordeal begins in Hong Kong where she meets Travis the spymaster. She's never sure of the tight-lipped Travis, yet her life soon depends on his every word. Dragon's Island engulfs her and the terror begins once more. Dragon's Island is a standalone sequel to God's Island.

For nearly 200 years, the Solar System tension was building a LOT, and now the pieces fall into place for the single largest conflict the system might ever get to see. A Supercomputer with Quantum Computing found that the specific year of the Great Solar War would start... in the 24th Century. The current date is 2452, as the Topopolis was built in 2409.

Years have gone by, the Cold War is over, the Special Weapons Program has been shut down along with the old Continuity of Government Program, and the USSR is a fading memory. Old weapons have been set aside, shelved, and largely forgotten. One such weapon is Anthony Stillwater, a relic of the Cold War, trained to bring about the end of the world and fight in the rubble. However, relics are shelved when they have no use. After being put out the military, Anthony Stillwater thought he had left it all behind. Living in the woods with his wife and four children, he's known around town as a relatively quiet man who dotes on his young wife and children when he isn't tending bar at the local seaside tavern. Although he bears scars from his time in the military, beyond nightmares he has left behind the dark, cold, and horror of his military service. A buried secret has been found, and events are in motion to remind Stillwater that no matter what lies he tells himself, no matter what masks he wears, he will always be nothing more than a weapon and Property of the U.S. Army.

Set during the 1940s the start, of the cold war, the story shows the reader how much the following events, affected the characters life. Koyla, a fourteen year old Russian soviet soldier, persits throughout the story, right till the very end.

It was just supposed to be a quick training flight to Denmark...

Callum O'Donovan, trained in the intelligence corps of the British army, travels the globe guest starring in the pivotal events of the cold war. It is a life of mystery and excitement, yet he longs for the lovely Scottish school girl he once left behind. Clandestine is a mixture of Forrest Gump and James Bond set against the political backdrop of the late twentieth century.

Canada, a NATO ally known for attention to population safety and cutting edge biowarfare programs, has recently finished their newest P3 lab. State of the art, with cutting edge tech from multiple NATO members, this facility is the latest weapon of the Cold War. Anthony Stillwater, just returned from SERE and Jungle Warfare training in Panama, has been tasked with escorting members of a NATO ally's Biowarfare team to the newly constructed facility. It's a cakewalk, just escort biowarfare samples from the CDC in Atlanta to the new Canadian biowarfare facility, and then return to Europe. But it's Special Weapons. And nothing is ever easy.

as the Second Solar War ended in 2456, Kodiak would have fought all across the system from the Asteroid Hopping Front to the main front. He has at least 50,000 kills to his name, and was known as "The Spirit" by his men. He was such a dangerous man by 2476, and by this point he served as an important Spec Ops Agent, while also finally creating a business before all this, after serving for 26 years straight.

Currently focussing on one difficult week in the 20-year Angola Civil War. David is a 19yr old conscript, part of an elite fighting unit who go into battle against an overwhelmingly large opposition who're equipped with some of the Cold War's most fearsome military material. This is a story of the bravery, fear and anxiety which co-exist during war. In the coming months he'll tell the whole story of how a gentle boy is transformed into a government sanctioned killer, then returned to civilian life at the end of his 24-month national service, the long-term effects on him and those around him.

Survival through the winter on Alfenwehr requires luck, toughness, adaptability and intelligence. Snow, darkness, sub-zero temperatures, low air pressure, madness, and the evil of the mountain are pitted against the men and women of 2/19th Special Weapons's Rear Detachment. Colonel John Henry (NR) has decided to try a bare bones Rear Detachment. Four men. Alone. In the barracks. At winter. The plan is to keep the entire force from succumbing to cabin fever and slaughtering one another, but enough people to handle any problems that come up. Four men. A Staff Sergeant, a Sergeant, a Specialist, and a Private Second Class. Three of them have never spent a winter on the slopes of Alfenwehr. One has. A three time survivor. And he has rules that the others can follow: Or die.

No one would describe Gina Lawrence as a sweet and blushing girl-next-door. But even Gina, so worldly and street-wise, had to admit God's Island went way beyond anything she could have imagined. It existed at a time long before the dawning of Club Med and the free-loving hippie anything goes movement--a time when global tensions had reached breaking point. Amid terrifying nuclear brinkmanship, Sam Godsteen's Island promised Club Med and more-much more. And like all forbidden fruit, it was bound to end. Gina thought she'd found heaven on earth. Even when things started to fall apart she tried to ignore the signs. She'd drawn about herself a cocoon of indulgence-a personal paradise on a tropical island- where only a select few would share a wild ride of emotion-filled excitement. A deceptive place, devoid of law and social structure, that would quickly and violently transform, leaving only a vast ocean in which to run and hide. Sheer survival quickly replaces her blinkered fool's paradise, culminating in a hellish ordeal of death and deprivation, leaving her little choice. Gina must kill or be killed. God's Island to Devil's Island in the blink of an eye.

The world is changing in ways some could never imagine. Masked men and woman have begun soaring the skies and battling crime on the streets. With their emergence and the threat of nuclear war looming, some believe the world will come to an end. A man sits in a bar wishing he could forget the horrors of war. A school teacher berates herself for abandoning the love of her life. A lounge singer struggles to gain a foothold in the music world. A model struggles to submerge herself in a strange world. Each of them carries the same secret; they have a mask in their pocket.

It's 1969... August and Astrid were one minute, hugging their father then the next.. a bomb explodes. Five years later, August and Astrid believe they are the last ones alive.. until they get kidnapped and learn that they weren't the only ones. Will they escape and find out the truth or will they never see the lights of day again? Me and my friend are making this so- it's gonna be weird-