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I hope you enjoy these updates about my books, the free articles about Cold War history and Science, and my blog posts.

Click HERE for my Books … and Click HERE for my Short Stories …


My Novels and Other Books

My current project is a trilogy of action-thriller stories starring Lissa Blackwood.
Blackwood is a UK Special Forces operator now working in a covert team called the “Special Investigations Group” (SIG), reporting directly to the Prime Minister. Totally deniable, SIG deals with threats to the realm in the grey space between politics and war.

Book 1 – ‘Evil Eye’
Malocchio‘, a member of the global terrorist group known only as ‘The Players’, is trying to take control of Europe through a wave of bio-attacks that will throw the continent into chaos…

only Lissa Blackwood can stop him,

and time is running out….

Book 2 – ‘Whispering Death’
The power vacuum left after The Players are defeated at Severnaya Zemlya has been filled by a traitor in the UK government.

Buying in help from the Italian mafia, they plan to destroy SIG and take total control of the country…

and Blackwood is their #1 target.

Book 3 – ‘Savage Heart’
Blackwood has risen to the highest ranks of SIG after foiling a nuclear attack on London.

The remaining Players make a desperate bid to destroy both her and SIG…

… they’ve kidnapped her family… and there is nothing she won’t do to get them back.

Status:
‘Evil Eye’: Writing is completed. Book is awaiting formatting, covering and publication.
‘Whispering Death’: Writing is completed. Book is awaiting formatting, covering and publication.
‘Savage Heart’: Writing is in progress.



A collection of six Lovecraftian cosmic horror stories set during the Vietnam War. Blending grounded military realism with cosmic horror, they follow a covert reconnaissance unit working in the A Shau Valley area, as modern warfare collides with forces older than humanity itself.

This is a war that cannot be won, only endured — where the true battle is to delay an awakening, and keep something ancient asleep just a little longer.

Available now as a series of free articles on this website.
or
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As time passes we are forgetting what the Cold War was like. We are forgetting what it means to live in a country under the threat of a four minute warning before the bombs start to hit. We are forgetting how dangerous nuclear weapons are to both our individual survival, and the survival of every living thing on the surface of this planet. We are forgetting that these weapons are not toys to be played with as counters during political negotiations.

These articles present some key facts and stories from the Cold War, both to ensure that they are still talked about and to provide context for the New Cold War which seems to have already started.

No longer in print.

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This dossier collects four exciting stories drawn from S.I.G.’s archives. The New Cold War is hotting up, and the United Kingdom’s Special Investigations Group are on the front line.

* Underwater espionage in the Black Sea.

* Cross-border raids into the Ukraine Occupied Territory.

* The daring extraction of a defecting Russian colonel, code-named Malachite, from under the noses of her FSB handlers.

In the New Cold War world, peace is earned in blood.


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The United States and Russia remain ideologically opposed behind arsenals containing thousands of nuclear warheads. But now they also contend with the emergent strength of China as another Superpower, as well as considering the possible actions of smaller powers caught up in the struggle between them.

Set between 2070-2071, the five short stories in this collection explore a fictional road to war and a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom.

When tensions run high between the major powers, what would it be like to endure a thermonuclear attack?


… previously published as Lee Russell:

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After three hundred years of conflict, global leaders have deliberately stalemated the New Cold War. They now enjoy the world’s few remaining comforts while the rest of humanity lives in slums outside the huge Mega-Plex buildings, dreaming of their chance to become a `Plex-man.

Then Mertin Dourif, a dead ‘Plex scientist now living on the bio-web, discovers that the stalemate can be broken if a bio-weapon called ‘Dead Snow’ is used against “the ’Commies” in Antarctica…

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In 2122 a spacecraft is detected, approaching the Earth from inter-galactic space. Called ‘Charybdis’, it is so massive that its arrival will destroy all life in the solar system.

Only one small group of workers at a mining station on Titan stand a chance of reaching it and finding safety.

Can they find a way to make Charybdis their new home? And what will the the mysterious ‘Pilot’ do if they succeed?

Readers are saying…

“Think The Matrix meets David Cronenberg’s Existenz. Great premise, set in a dystopian future… a few good plot twists and a few unexpected surprises. Recommended as a Sci-Fi Thriller.”
‘Dead Snow’ : Amazon UK, 4* review



If you liked the Matrix, you will love this book.. Really well written & original. Give it a go!”
‘Dead Snow’ : Amazon UK, 5* review



“Great story set in a dystopian future. Fantastic plot kept me reading to the last page.”
‘Dead Snow’ : Amazon UK, 5* review

“… cold war… cyber-punk aspects… Let’s have another one soon please, Mr Russell!”
‘Dead Snow’ : Amazon UK, 4* review