“What about Sara's baby?”
“Mr. Carlyle has invited Sara to move into the family estate with the baby until things stabilize, and Sara accepted. I think mother and baby will do just fine and so should Mr. Carlyle, once the shock of everything sinks in and he accepts it. That may have happened already.”
Sandy made a purring sound in my arms. A sound that would've warmed any man's heart.
“I hope it works out for them as you say,” she said. Then she brightened as if realizing for the first time that, for us, it really was over. “You speak like a true romantic, Kilroy, do you know that?” She moved her beautiful tight butt in unspoken carnal invitation. “Are all of you tough guys marshmallow soft under the surface?”
I said, unnecessarily, “Nothing soft about this tough guy.”
She giggled. I chuckled. And those were the last non-carnal sounds we made for some time.
Sandy was right.
I am an incurable romantic.
No matter how tired I might be.
A Look at Blood Red Sun
Japan is at the brink of surrender. It is the eve of the Emperor's announcement of his country's acceptance of the Allied terms of surrender. But a core of fanatical extremists in the Emperor's military, descended from the legendary Samurai warriors of feudal Japan--and other, more shadowy factions of power shrouded in the mysteries of this ancient society--vow never to surrender. The overthrow of the Emperor is only the first step in their insane scheme.
Sergeant John Ballard is a battle-hardened commando. The best the army's got when it comes to fighting dirty. Years of surviving on the edge are starting to eat away at him but Ballard can't stop now. General Douglas MacArthur himself has just handed Ballard what may be the most impossible mission of the war.
Keiko Tamura is a young Japanese woman, gutsy, independent; the blood of the Samurai flows in her veins. Educated in America before the war, she is willing to risk her life to end the military madness that has brought her country to ruin.
Unlikely allies thrown together, these two alone stand in the way of one final, sinister, far-reaching plot with millions of American and Japanese lives at stake.
AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON.
Also by Stephen Mertz
Blood Red Sun
Devil Creek
The Korean Intercept
The Castro Directive
M.I.A. Hunter Series
Stone: MIA Hunter
Cambodia Hellhole
Hanoi Deathgrip
Mountain Massacre
Exodus From Hell
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Stephen Mertz is an American fiction author who is best known for his mainstream thrillers and novels of suspense. His work covers a wide variety of styles from paranormal dark suspense (Night Wind and Devil Creek) to historical speculative thrillers (Blood Red Sun) and hardboiled noir (Fade to Tomorrow). Mertz is also a popular lecturer on the craft of writing and has appeared as a guest speaker before writer’s groups and at universities.
Steve’s writing output increased dramatically when he emerged as one of the country’s most in-demand writers of adventure paperback novels, averaging four books per year for ten years. His work on Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan series is regarded by fans as some of the best in that series. He also created the Mark Stone: MIA Hunter and Cody’s Army series, written under the pseudonyms Jack Buchanan and Jim Case respectively.
Stephen Mertz lives in the American Southwest, and he is always at work on a new book.
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