Seven Deadly Sons
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"Where am I?" he asked.
"Mr. Greenberg," Mark Kenslir said, stepping forward. "You're still in Miami. We've treated your injuries."
"My injuries?" Yadid Greenberg seemed to finally notice his hands. Hands that weren't wrinkled and covered in age spots. He reached up and touched his face. "What the-?"
Dr. Guerrera stepped forward and handed Greenberg a mirror. "You've been resurrected, Mr. Greenberg. This is the Fountain of Youth."
Yadid Greenberg turned, following Dr. Guerrera's hand as she pointed to the water he'd just emerged from.
"How could you?" Javan Wallach said angrily, stepping up close to Colonel Kenslir. "You had no right-"
"To bring a man back to life?" The Colonel smiled. "I had a feeling that was going to be your reaction. But I went ahead and put it to a vote."
He nodded, indicating the other members of the Detachment that were watching Wallach.
"You're free to return to Israel, Ms. Wallach," the Colonel said. "After Mr. Trumball has had a chance to eliminate any after effects of the Fountain."
"What about him?"
Yadid Greenberg was looking at his reflection in the mirror again, running a hand over his cheeks. "Me? This can't be real—can it?"
"We'll explain everything in good time, Mr. Greenberg," the Colonel said. "But we were hoping you might consider serving your country."
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STONE SOLDIERS: SEA OF MONSTERS
READ THE NOVEL THAT STARTED THE SERIES!
MYTHICAL
Colonel Mark Kenslir is the last of the Cold War supersoldiers–and he’s just come back from the dead. Unable to remember who, or what killed him, the Colonel sets out to regain his memories, aided by two teens that find him lost in the Arizona desert. Returning to a modern civilization he does not remember, the Colonel slowly pieces together his past and vows to complete his last mission—stop a prehistoric, heart-eating shapeshifter rampaging in the southwest.
BROTHERS IN STONE
A second prehistoric shapeshifter is loose in the modern world, joining his resurrected brother in ripping out and consuming the hearts of victims to steal their power, their memories and their form. Colonel Mark Kenslir came back from the dead to defeat one shapeshifter. Can he hope to defeat two, or will he need help from an FBI psychic?
BLOOD AND STONE
Dr. Laura Olson dreamt of freedom for over forty years, serving an eternal sentence behind bars, imprisoned because of what she was—a vampire. But when a prehistoric shapeshifter comes to Alcatraz and begins stealing the hearts and powers of the inmates, the undead Doctor gets a chance at freedom. Joining the men and women of Detachment 1039, Dr. Olson sets out for Mexico, to stop the shapeshifter’s reign as the legendary Mayan god, Kukulcan. But can the good doctor help her new team, or will she give in to her blood lust and join the shapeshifter’s new empire?
SHADES OF WAR
Colonel Mark Kenslir has defended America from the supernatural for over fifty years. In that time, he's killed many men. Now one of those vanquished enemies has come back from the grave—and is raising a spectral army from Civil war battlefields for revenge.
Kenslir must find a way to stop an army that is already dead, before they reach Washington and plunge the country into chaos. Aided by his cryokinetic granddaughter, an amorous vampire M.D. and his stone soldiers, can the Colonel stop the forces of darkness or will Washington fall to the shades of gray?
BLACK KNIGHT DOWN
Orbiting the earth for millennia, a strange, black construct hangs silently in space, its purpose and creators unknown. Governments of the world have feared the implications of the construct and have kept its existence a secret.
When the artificial satellite, code-named Black Knight, is brought crashing to down to Earth by a coven of witches, the Stone Soldiers must spring into action to keep those responsible from unleashing the ancient horrors it contains.
ARMAGEDDON Z
If you knew the end of the world was coming, who would you tell?
Kenji Nakamura has seen the end of the world—and it is not pretty. Trapped repeating the same events over and over, Kenji has witnessed the fall of humanity at the hands of the undead many times. All hope seems lost until during one awful glimpse of the future, Kenji meets the Stone Soldiers, struggling against their newest supernatural enemies. Joining up with the men of living stone, Kenji sets out to learn the future, warn the past and stop the end of the world. But can even the men of living stone stand against a mysterious opponent who can raise the dead?
Before the shapeshifters, the Stone Soldiers kept America safe from the supernatural…
Three stories of supersoldiers battling the supernatural!
Starting in 1962, with the accidental creation of the first man of stone in a secret government lab, then jumping ahead to 2008 and a Fire Elemental killing American soldiers in Afghanistan, this trilogy of short stories climaxes with a supernatural plague in Africa that only the Stone Soldiers can resist.