by Ian Redman
AH-6 Little Bird: Small, agile recon and attack helicopter utilised by many of the world’s special forces and armed services.
AK-47: Russian Assault Rifle developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, based on an original design from Germany’s MP44.
BBE: Netherlands National Counter Terrorist Unit
BVD: Netherlands National Intelligence and Security Agency
CEATA: Central European Anti Terrorism Agency. A European, top secret, highly covert agency based underneath NATO’s SHAPE Headquarters in Casteau, near Mons in Belgium.
CEATA Code Alert and Level Status explanations:
For Field Agents:
Code 1: Immediate Action required
Code 2: Immediate Stand-By Alert
Code 3: Alert Notified-Action Pending
For Senior Command and Admin
Level 1: Urgent-Top Secret-Eyes Only (High Command and Field Agents)
Level 2: Important and Urgent (High Command and Heads of Departments)
Level 3: General Admin-Non Urgent (All CEATA Departments)
CIA: United States Central Intelligence Agency
Das Reich: The 2nd Waffen SS Division
DST: French Directorate of Territorial Security
Europol: European Union Law Enforcement Agency.
FSB: Russian Internal Intelligence Service. (Formerly known as the KGB)
GIGN: French Police Counter Terrorist Unit
GSG-9: German Police Counter Terrorist Unit
Interpol: The International Criminal Police Organisation
Kampfgruppen: German word for Battle Group
Leibstandarte: The 1st Waffen SS Division
Mossad: Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service
MP40: German Sub Machine Gun used extensively in World War 2, commonly known as the Schmeisser by Allied troops.
MP44: The first modern Assault Rifle, developed in Germany during the latter stages of World War 2 for use by elite Waffen SS Grenadiers.
NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Nordland: The 11th Waffen SS Division
SAS: Special Air Service
SHAPE: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. NATO’s Military Headquarters based in Casteau, near Mons in Belgium.
Spetsnaz: Russian military term for elite troops specialising in various forms of counter terrorist and general warfare activities.
SVR: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
TASS: Russian News Agency
Totenkopf (Death’s Head): The 3rd Waffen SS Division
Waffen SS: Adolf Hitler’s ‘Armed’ branch of the SS. The Waffen SS were quite possibly the first ‘Elite Force’ in modern warfare, being trained for highly specialised tasks in warfare and combat in general. The Waffen SS utilised the finest equipment available to the German armed forces during World War 2 and had many items of weaponry and clothing manufactured especially for their unique operational requirements.
Waffen SS Ranking Structure:
Reichsfuhrer SS: Commander in Chief of all SS Divisions/Units
Obergruppenfuhrer: General
Standartenfuhrer: Colonel
Sturmbannfuhrer: Major
Haupsturmfuhrer: Captain
Untersturmfuhrer: Second Lieutenant
Scharfuhrer: Sergeant
Rottenfuhrer: Corporal
Sturmmann: Lance Corporal
Wiking: The 5th Waffen SS Division
ABOUT IAN REDMAN AND THE RED HAZE CHRONICLES
“You have to read the first three novels in the series to understand the origins of Piper’s kind and the ongoing, brutal fight for survival which is about to commence. Everything in these storylines is based on fact, including the descriptive elements regarding the pack of werewolves Piper ultimately fights against. The concept behind The Red Haze Chronicles is brand new and totally unique within the werewolf genre as Piper begins a continuous war against his own kind whilst fighting against modern criminal issues such as terrorism, illegal immigration, sex trafficking and arms dealing in a violent, brutal, intensively researched series of novels.”
Ian Redman has three key interests in his life, all of which have helped sow the seeds for the creation of The Red Haze Chronicles. “For many years I have been utterly fascinated with wild grey wolves, their biology, taxonomy and behaviour. Throughout the 1990s I studied wolves intensively. As the main researcher and speaker for British wolf conservation team Wolf HELP, (Helping Education for Lobo Preservation) I lectured throughout the UK and on two occasions in the United States.”
Ian talks passionately about the world’s largest dogs and the world of wolf research in general. “Considering my wolf studies were always on an amateur basis, several of North America’s finest and most respected wolf research biologists fully endorsed my studies and kindly helped provide me with photographic slides of wild wolves in their natural habitat to enhance my presentations.”
Ian is very proud of the steadfast friendships he nurtured with many of America’s and Canada’s foremost wolf researchers. Such notables as L David Mech, Diane Boyd, Lu Carbyn and Steven H Fritts to name but a few gave their full support to Ian’s studies and lectures throughout the 1990s.
Ian’s interest in wild wolves has taken him on two occasions into the heart of Minnesota’s wolf range. He has also studied wolves at Wolf Haven near Seattle and lived for two weeks in Russia, studying the wolves of the Taiga forest.
In 2000 Ian also became fascinated with the world of modern terrorism, covert operations and hi tech weaponry, which he has been studying in depth ever since.
But with this new interest came another; an interest that was to play a key part in his planning for the first three novels of The Red Haze Chronicles. “The history, weaponry and fighting tactics of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS fascinate me, and have done so for several years.”
Over the last six years Ian has utilised the knowledge he has gained from these interests and written the first three in what will be a major series of ongoing, violent but highly entertaining werewolf novels to be collectively known as The Red Haze Chronicles. “I want to share the adventures of Ash Piper with millions of readers, both male and female. I want my readers to believe wholeheartedly in Piper and the world around him and especially in the pack of werewolves within the storylines. I have based the behavioural characteristics, shape and body language of these creatures on my wild wolf studies, thus helping the reader to believe that in the world of Red Haze…werewolves do exist. Piper’s adventures are a very realistic series of adult orientated Horror/Thrillers. Everything from the werewolves themselves to the group of terrorists who bring unholy chaos to Europe, have been thoroughly researched and developed within the series.”
Ian writes in his free time and is currently working on the fourth novel in the series entitled RED HAZE: Lethal Symmetry, which he hopes to publish on the Kindle in March 2013. Further novels are also planned, including RED HAZE: Bloodlines and RED HAZE: Kill Me Again.
