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“You should join our crew,” said Rex as he sat nursing a beer. Rob was asleep nearby, his wound cleaned and dressed. Asger sat in solemn silence, staring at his broken sword.
“No, I have a business to run,” smiled Matthew. “Makes me a pretty penny nowadays.”
The Englishman shrugged. “Suit yourself. We collect our money at sunup, three gold pieces each. Then we leave this place. In four months, we are due one thousand miles north of here.” Rex looked across at the Highlander. “He should be healed by then,” he said, taking a swig of beer. “Or dead.”
Matthew’s breath caught in his throat, although he tried to keep the surprise from his face. Three gold coins! That would take him three years or more slaving behind the bar at The Eagle and Rabbit.
“Interested?” Rex’s eyes glinted.
“Perhaps.”
Rex nodded and remained silent.
“How much will you be paid up north?”
“Seven gold coins each,” smiled Rex. “Five gold each if you decide to join us. I’ll even give you one gold right now to help you buy weapons and such.”
“What’s the job?” asked Matthew, his interest now obvious.
“I say chap,” Rex leaned forward, his eyes burning into Matthew. “Do you know what a vampire is?”
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Novels by Keith McArdle
The Reckoning: The Day Australia Fell
The Unforeseen Series Book One
Australia has been invaded.
While the outnumbered Australian Defence Force fights on the ground, in the air and at sea, this quickly becomes a war involving ordinary people.
Ben, an IT consultant has never fought a day in his life. Will he survive?
Grant, a security guard at Sydney's International Airport, finds himself captured and living in the filth and squalor of one of the concentration camps dotted around Australia. Knowing death awaits him if he stays, he plans a daring escape.
This is a dark day in Australia's history. This is terror, loneliness, starvation and adrenaline all mixed together in a sour cocktail. This is the day Australia fell.
Aftermath
The Unforeseen Series Book Two
Mick and his family have returned home to the farm following Indonesia’s withdrawal. But thousands of battle-hardened enemy soldiers remain hidden in the forests and hills, ready to strike when they are least expected. This fight will take Mick to the limit, and protecting his family will require all his strength and determination.
Jimmy and Spud lead a platoon through the Australian scrub on relentless guerrilla strikes. But when they find themselves outnumbered and outgunned, it might have all been for nothing.
Tour To Midgard
Tasked with a mission in Iraq, an Australian SAS patrol deploy deep behind enemy lines. But when they activate a time portal, the soldiers find themselves in 10th century Viking Denmark, a place far more dangerous and lawless than modern Iraq. The soldiers have no way back. Join the SAS patrol on this action adventure and journey into the depths of a hostile land, far from the support of the Allied front line. Step into another world…another time.
Short Stories by Keith McArdle
Assassin
Vyder Ironstone is an assassin with a troubled past. At the order of his king, Vyder must undertake his most dangerous mission yet. A mission from which he may never return. If he is successful, it might just be enough to alleviate war tearing the kingdom apart. The prospect of failure is not worth considering.
Ground Zero
Generations after a bloody nuclear civil war, the United States is not as we know it. The inhabitants of the Northern states live as normal, but the South, after being decimated during the Second Civil War, are a changed people. Nuclear fallout has stolen any vestige of humanity. When the aircraft carrying the President of the Northern United States takes an erroneous detour, it is shot down somewhere over the south.
Now Brek and his small team of Delta Force soldiers must infiltrate enemy territory to save the president. But outnumbered and with time rapidly running out, they will be hard pressed to fight off the onslaught about to surround them. Can they survive?
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