Sean Mclachlan: 20 books

A Confederate guerrilla and a Union captain discover there’s something more dangerous in the woods than each other. Jimmy Rawlins is a teenaged bushwhacker who leads his friends on ambushes of Union patrols. They join infamous guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Anderson on a raid through Missouri,...

A rat hunter on the Western Front suspects his prey are plotting against him…A routine trip through the trenches leads to an unexpected insight…A soldier discovers the most dangerous enemy can't be killed…A bereaved woman performs a forbidden ritual to avenge her father’s murder…A doomed...

No Man’s Land—a hellscape of shell craters and dead bodies. Soldiers have fought over it, charged across it, and bled on it for a year of grueling war, but neither side has dominated it.Until now.An elite German raiding party is passing through No Man’s Land every night, attacking the British...

A spectral dinner party goes horribly wrong. . . An immortal warrior hopes a final battle will set him free. . . A big-game hunter preys on endangered species to supply an illicit restaurant. . . A new technology soothes First World guilt. . . Here are four dark tales that straddle the boundary between reality and speculation. You better hope they don’t come true.

What does it take to write 100 books? What about 500? Or 1,000? That may sound like an impossibly high number, but it isn’t. Some of the world’s most successful authors wrote hundreds of books over the course of highly lucrative careers. Isaac Asimov wrote more than 300 books. Enid Blyton wrote...

September 1914: The British Expeditionary Force has the Germans on the run, or so they think. After a month of bitter fighting, the British are battered, exhausted, and down to half their strength, yet they’ve helped save Paris and are pushing towards Berlin. Then the retreating Germans decide to...

Christmas 1914:In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As the men of a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they begin to call out holiday greetings to their enemies on the German line. Soon men are fraternizing in No Man’s...

October 1914: The British line is about to break.After two months of hard fighting, the British Expeditionary Force is short of men, ammunition, and ideas. With their line stretched to the breaking point, aerial reconnaissance spots German reinforcements massing for the big push. As their trenches...

In the waning days of the Civil War, a secret conflict still rages. . . Lieutenant Allen Addison of the USS Essex is looking forward to the South's defeat so he can build the life he's always wanted. Love and a promising business await him in St. Louis, but he is swept up in a primeval war between...

Can a drug-addicted sorcerer sober up long enough to save a kidnapped girl and his own Duchy? In an alternate 18th century Germany where magic is real and paganism never died, Lothar is in the bonds of nepenthe, a powerful drug that gives him ecstatic visions. It has also taken his job, his...

Arizona 1846 Nantan, a young Apache warrior, is building a name for himself by leading raids against Mexican ranches to impress his war chief, and the chief’s lovely daughter. But there is one thing he and all other Apaches fear—a ruthless band of Mexican scalp hunters who slaughter entire villages. Nantan...

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

From the 1840s onward, United States military forces clashed with the Apache, a group of Native American peoples associated with the southwestern part of North America. US territorial expansion and conflict – first with Mexico and then during the Civil War – led to an escalation of hostilities...