Bøger af E W Farnsworth

Vigilante? Hero? Madman? Criminal? Urban Legend? When it comes to Al Katana, it all depends on who you ask... On account of their resentment and jealousy of him and his "katanas," Ritchie Walgreen has made enemies of the major intelligence agencies of the world powers. Increasingly pursued by teams of assassins, he continues to prove himself superior to the world's best counter-intelligence agents as well as evil perpetrators, whose headless bodies and severed heads form his signature configurations after they inevitably fail in their missions. Meanwhile, the man, the myth, and the legend of Al Katana grow in the popular imagination and culture in films. books and comic books while his martial arts studios draw the most promising disciples into his network. Increasingly, Walgreen assigns leading roles to his talented protégés and protégées so he can devote time to his current and former wives and families. AL KATANA IV by E. W. Farnsworth features the following stories: "Blood of the Katana," "Neena Solo Katana," "Daimiyo Katana," "Homeland Katana," "Zara Katana," "Miata Katana" and "Al Katana Adamantine." AL KATANA IV. From Pro Se Productions.

This month, a chef becomes morbidly fascinated by a repellent new employee. The army is called in on Picklock Lane after a terrifying new discovery. A new drive-in is in town, but the films it shows are out-of-this-world. The master tailor of Hedgeville has a strange new commission for the local sculptor. And Lu makes the lamentable mistake of buying a new scooter on Halloween. Kassi, alone, reaches the edge of the desert. Candace is visited by an ominous red crow. A cowardly lieutenant discovers there are worse horrors than the front line. Nadja tells Robert why her pubic hair is blue. And Art is blown into a strange new dimension.Meanwhile, the Florentine Vampire remembers the vampire who bit him. And finally, Ted gets on with the job.

Ritchie Walgreen, a former Special Forces operative turned CIA assassin and son of a former CIA assassin, inherits from his slain father a matchless Japanese katana sword. Wielding the katana as if it were a magic wand, Walgreen hews a reputation as "Al Katana," a ruthless enforcer against ISIS and other evil powers in the world, from Africa to the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Japan. Assisted by a succession of beautiful and brainy women in the intelligence business, Walgreen eludes hit teams and traps set by his nemesis, the vengeful Sheila McCaw, Deputy Director of the CIA, the Director of the Israeli Mossad, and other traditional intelligence agencies. Al Katana's unmistakable "signature" is that of decapitated victims, with their severed heads tucked between their legs. As the carnage of his blade grows and heads fall, the international press and entertainment industries make the insuperable, almost god-like Al Katana a global superhero through articles, books, films and even action figures. His imitators help spread the legend while Walgreen trains his own army of katana-brandishing clones. The World Has a New Hero to Fear. AL KATANA: VOLUME ONE by E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions.

Al Katana is an international pariah with disciples and imitators throughout the world. Using martial arts studios as his cover to develop assassins, he must maintain legitimacy for his studios while continuing to perform illegal enforcement against malefactors. Ritchie Walgreen, believing in absolute equality of the sexes in the martial arts, has planted martial arts studios in Africa which purport to foster the best martial arts training in the world. Al Katana's brilliant plan to challenge all martial artists to games that will prove (or disprove) his assertion pit the vigilante's studios against primarily the Japanese, who presume they are the world's finest fighters. Al Katana racks up new and old enemies, including his nemesis, the Deputy Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency. He also reinforces his alliance with his sometime patrons, the Emperor and Empress of Japan. His contacts often help him, but in the end, he will stand alone against all opposition, forced to prove once and for all he is the invincible protagonist the world has been looking for or die trying.AL KATANA III by E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions

Ben Dauber had much to learn about the newspaper business. And about being a man. He found himself in a place and time some would call Heaven, others Hell to learn both. Desert Sun, Red Blood by E. W. Farnsworth is a collection of tales during the time of the Indian wars in the lawless Arizona Territory. Ben Dauber found himself among a rough-and-tumble group of renegade Apaches, range settlers, saloon girls, professional gamblers, seedy lawmen, a hanging judge, gunslingers, desperate thieves and murders, con men, land-grabbing ranchers, ruthless claim jumpers, steely-eyed railroad operatives, dashing cavalry officers and spirited frontier women who knew how to ride, track, and use weapons as well as men. While Dauber gradually traces the secret activities of moneyed railroad interests in the Territory, he learns what it takes to live...and die like a man in the Territory from all around him, including his mentor Judge Richard Hastings, the renegade Apache Durang, and a young frontier girl in buckskin and lace known as Nance, the Bottle Blonde of Albuquerque, the only love of Kit Carson, a dandy and gambler. Desert Sun, Red Blood by E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions.

E. W. Farnsworth's Al Katana, Volume I, appeared from Pro Se Productions in 2017 debuting a new kind of superhero, one striking fear into the hearts of the most hardened terrorists and miscreants.The second volume continues Ritchie Walgreen's saga as he forges relationships and builds martial arts studios on four continents as fronts for the work he does, along with his various proteges.Relentlessly pursued by numerous, jealous national intelligence agencies-most notably the American CIA and Israeli Mossad, the man known in urban legend as Al Katana keeps one step ahead of his adversaries while performing his self-given mission to rid the world of heinous crime and corruption.In a bloody wake of decapitations, Al Katana expands his cadre of admiring ace investigative reporters as well as capitalists looking to make big bucks through selling Al Katana action figures, complete with their Japanese katana swords.In the press and online the hero's message grows, the facts and disinformation blending to make Al Katana seem superhuman. Whether legend or psychotic avenger, Al Katana believes his methods are genuinely effective in a world that has lost its soul. Yet, even though he gathers followers daily, others believe he is a monster and intend to end his reign of justified terror. Al Katana Volume II by E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions.

Among brilliant agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Kenneth Mander (aka Salamander) and Sheila McCaw (aka Crow) stand out for their daring and ingenuity successfully fighting the most difficult and dangerous enemies of America. Even if that does mean going rogue more than not. Having come up through the Agency "Farm" in the same year group, Salamander's and Crow's talents and training make them ideal clandestine warriors against "untouchable" targets, like Islamist extremists, clandestine assassins and dangerous sleeper agents of enemy nation states. THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF AGENTS SALAMANDER AND CROW documents the two agents' exploits as Crow ascends the ranks from legendary field agent to CIA Deputy Director for Operations while her sometimes lover and partner Salamander remains in the field as Crow's 'go-to' agent for dangerous black operations. THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF AGENTS SALAMANDER AND CROW by E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions.

A Consulting Detective with the Brilliance of Holmes...and An Insanity All His Own!D. L. Champion's twisted, yet genius investigator, Inspector Allhoff makes a dark, exciting return in DEAD CAT BOUNCE, an all new novel by E. W. Farnsworth. Originally appearing in Dime Detective Magazine in the 1930s and 40s, Allhoff was a detective like no other. Mangled and left without legs after leading a failed police raid, Allhoff found himself an unofficial consultant to the New York Police Department. Kept in a rundown tenement across from headquarters, Allhoff is assisted by two men, both of which he tortures with his aggressive nature and abrasive words. One, the rookie responsible for bungling the raid which left the great detective an invalid and the other, a career cop going through hell just to get to his retirement. Three men who stew in a cesspool of hate, self doubt, and anger, and yet, led by Allhoff, they solve the strangest cases the NYPD has ever faced!In DEAD CAT BOUNCE, wealthy collectors of weapons are dying in locked rooms and the NYPD cannot stop the rash of murders. That means that Inspector Allhoff and his assistants are on the case. But can they stop the phantomlike killer before more noted citizens die or is this the case that will put an end to their careers? And will Allhoff's men rise to meet the challenge of the mystery while being beaten by his acerbic attitude and caustic attacks or will they simply leave the broken man to twist in the proverbial wind?DEAD CAT BOUNCE. From Pro Se Productions. Licensed from Steeger Properties, LLC.

This follow-on to E. W. Farnsworth's action-filled spy novel, Engaging Rachel, brings super spy Rachel into an action of her own though, to be sure, her husband and "partner-in-crime" Anderson and his team are in the wings to support her. Rachel has discovered a new wrinkle in THREAT cryptography, so her access must derive from a special source at the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. Once she has enough on the man to blackmail him, her real mission begins, taking her around the world to exotic places where espionage has always thrived. As she goes from America to Austria and Turkey, the plot thickens and the dangers multiply. The denouement is a race against time with Anderson and the Deputy Director of the Agency frantic to assure this is not Rachel's last mission. If they cannot extract her, they must kill her for what she knows before the Russians use implemented interrogation to empty her mind and make her a useless vegetable.

Words mean nothing in a land where bullets fly and red blood flows. And even bullets don't kill like the red sun does.Ben Dauber continues to fight his way through the west as a reporter, taking on injustice and evil from all sides. The sinister machinations of the railroad combine, Dauber finds, extend to the highest levels of American government. Fortunately, Naud Dauber, Ben's wealthy mother, can help when powerful figures try to silence the young reporter on the fast track to modernize the frontier press. Gunfights, fisticuffs, ambushes, bushwhacks, skirmishes and intrigue erupt on both sides of the Indian Wars. Action rides hard from Mexico to the Rocky Mountains across the west in Desert Sun, Red Blood Volume Two by author E. W. Farnsworth. From Pro Se Productions.

A wormhole casting a malicious pall over a once normal life. A secret safe haven for those seeking shelter from deadly superbugs. Billionaires greedily latching onto money making schemes at the crux of the new millennium. A resource for the truth behind September 11th, 2001. A massive multiplayer game that takes cute fairy tales to the dark, dangerous level. A website that brings your written fantasies to life—but are they the fantasies you really want? The mysterious offering of a life that answers the question, “why”—and the dangerous actions that must precede this life.Seven writers dive into their own interpretation of the world of W.com.Maybe you’ll log off, maybe you won’t.Featured ContributorsTodd SalviaJoshua WilliamsE. W. FarnsworthErin Darby GesellKyra LerouxLuis Manuel TorresandAspen Beaulieu 

1929 was the end of a golden age. Six aspiring writers spin tales set in a time in history when changes were afoot. While some sought the American Dream, others had to deal with vampiric siblings. Facing lost loves and gaining new freedoms define the beginning of a new age. Of course, the government was going through some changes itself in The Black Chamber, while everyday heroes could be confused with the Devil. Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:A. FarrierBen FineCarol-Louise McPhersonE. W. FarnsworthJames Pylesand Matt McGee

Baro Xaimos: A Novel of the Gypsy Holocaust follows the almost miraculous survival path of a group of Roma, led by Tobor Mericano, through the Nazi years, including World War II.The novel opens in the 1930’s on the eve of the formation of the Marzahn Camp.  This camp is the prototype for a system of concentration camps designed to contain, oppress and ultimately kill all Roma within Nazi occupied Europe.  The gypsies manage to escape the traps set by the German government to find a base of operations in the USSR.  From there, gypsies are dispatched by Moscow Center to operate as intelligence gatherers and assassins against the Nazis.These brave souls achieve a semblance of normalcy while in a Russia full of intrigue, by marrying, having children and staying on the move.Baro Xaimos focuses on the love of Tobor Mericano for Drina Mettbach and on the exploits of Tobor’s sister, Nadya Hanstein, a widowed fortune teller who encounters both Hitler and Stalin in her professional role and accidentally changes the course of history.

John Fulghum Mysteries presents neo-noir short stories dedicated to the Private Investigator, John Fulghum, that just happens to be a decent, brilliant former war hero and gumshoe. Working out of an unlikely second-story office in Greater Boston, he solves crimes that no one else will handle because they fall outside the parameters or jurisdiction of normal police work. They're dirty crimes, involving savage methods and little-understood societal forces most people would rather ignore than address. In the process of solving his crimes, Fulghum, often at the risk of his life, works with his like-minded friends, Officer Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, Randy Mortenson-the ex-Special Forces soldier, or Kenneth Mander-the shadowy clandestine CIA operative. Fulghum operates on the edge of the law and always beyond the limits of propriety. While his solutions do not extend to politically-correct society, they're the ones that condone and often harbors the evil criminals that Fulghum hunts down. His solace for being a cleaner-up of filth lies in his racing forms, his Jack Daniels whisky, and his Marlboro cigarettes. His life is a series of journeys and returns, but the center of his universe remains the same: honor and justice in a world without either.

Finding Harry Diamond, John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume V continues with the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum.Fulghum must track down Harry Diamond, an infamous and ruthlessly effective CIA assassin, before the man decides to make Fulghum his next target. Tracking down his ‘double’ with the help of his friend, CIA agent Ken Mander, leads Fulghum into close quarters with beautiful women, secret engagements with the Mob, and the horrors of advanced black technology that can get a man killed just for holding a thumb drive.E. W. Farnsworth continues to write John Fulghum, PI mysteries. In John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume 6, he returns to the tradition of a short story collection.

The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, by E. W. Farnsworth takes you through the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum with the services of his friends, Ken Mander of the CIA, and Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, to unravel the secrets of Fulghum’s latest case. Fulghum, and his long-time girlfriend, Boston Globe archivist Sylvia Blackwood, go undercover to solve a murder at a small Catholic college in the Greater Boston area. The case puts both their lives in danger as their performances in their respective classrooms earns them respect and even adulation among their students, fellow faculty and the administration alike. From this experience, Blackwood sees the path to her third Pulitzer Prize, while Fulghum returns to Jack Daniels and Marlboro cigarettes in his smoky office above Joe’s Ice Cream Shop in Bedford. Can Fulghum’s longstanding relationship with Blackwood be sustained after their trial by fire? Or will the dark facts of life as a private investigator overshadow their bond?

Private Investigator John Fulghum knows it is more than good fortune that brings a beautiful, intelligent Korean woman to his seedy second-story office above Joe’s Malt Shop. The executive assistant and unlikely wife of a wealthy Boston centenarian -that just happens to be a Korean War hero, and now a murder victim- Kim Su Baek spins Fulghum an incredible tale with roots in the ancient Korean royal family. Yet Fulghum believes her incredible tale and accepts the case to prove her innocent of murder.To solve this case and exonerate his client, the Jack Daniels-loving gumshoe’s investigation must balance relationships among his Pulitzer-Prize winning girlfriend/reporter, Sylvia Blackwood; his friends-Boston Homicide Officer, Nigel Pounce, and CIA Agent, Ken Salamander; and his client, as they become drawn into a deadly labyrinth designed by both sides of the conflict on the Korean peninsula. The plot finally focuses on a plethora of suspects at the deceased man’s estate in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The murky intrigue of this case causes a nail-biting succession of horrific deaths, culminating in attempts on the very lives of all our major characters. Who will survive and who is guilty?E. W. Farnsworth, creator of the John Fulghum Mysteries series, a noir detective collection of short stories, presents Blue Is for Murder, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. III, his first full-blown John Fulghum novel. His fans, clamoring for more John Fulghum, are thrilled to know that three more novels are coming soon.

John Fulghum Mysteries presents neo-noir short stories dedicated to the Private Investigator, John Fulghum, that just happens to be a decent, brilliant former war hero and gumshoe. Working out of an unlikely second-story office in Greater Boston, he solves crimes that no one else will handle because they fall outside the parameters or jurisdiction of normal police work. They're dirty crimes, involving savage methods and little-understood societal forces most people would rather ignore than address.In the process of solving his crimes, Fulghum, often at the risk of his life, works with his like-minded friends, Officer Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, Randy Mortenson-the ex-Special Forces soldier, or Kenneth Mander-the shadowy clandestine CIA operative.Fulghum operates on the edge of the law and always beyond the limits of propriety. While his solutions do not extend to politically-correct society, they're the ones that condone and often harbors the evil criminals that Fulghum hunts down. His solace for being a cleaner-up of filth lies in his racing forms, his Jack Daniels whisky, and his Marlboro cigarettes.His life is a series of journeys and returns, but the center of his universe remains the same: honor and justice in a world without either.

Finding Harry Diamond, John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume V continues with the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum. Fulghum must track down Harry Diamond, an infamous and ruthlessly effective CIA assassin, before the man decides to make Fulghum his next target. Tracking down his 'double' with the help of his friend, CIA agent Ken Mander, leads Fulghum into close quarters with beautiful women, secret engagements with the Mob, and the horrors of advanced black technology that can get a man killed just for holding a thumb drive.  In Finding Harry Diamond, Farnsworth begins to blend mystery with science-fiction and shows how it will soon be science-fact as a world containing this black technology is on our doorstep. E. W. Farnsworth continues to write John Fulghum, PI mysteries. In John Fulghum Mysteries, Volume 6, he returns to the tradition of a short story collection.

The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, by E. W. Farnsworth takes you through the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum with the services of his friends, Ken Mander of the CIA, and Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, to unravel the secrets of Fulghum’s latest case. Fulghum, and his long-time girlfriend, Boston Globe archivist Sylvia Blackwood, go undercover to solve a murder at a small Catholic college in the Greater Boston area. The case puts both their lives in danger as their performances in their respective classrooms earns them respect and even adulation among their students, fellow faculty and the administration alike. From this experience, Blackwood sees the path to her third Pulitzer Prize, while Fulghum returns to Jack Daniels and Marlboro cigarettes in his smoky office above Joe’s Ice Cream Shop in Bedford. Can Fulghum’s longstanding relationship with Blackwood be sustained after their trial by fire? Or will the dark facts of life as a private investigator overshadow their bond?

Private Investigator John Fulghum knows it is more than good fortune that brings a beautiful, intelligent Korean woman to his seedy second-story office above Joe's Malt Shop. The executive assistant and unlikely wife of a wealthy Boston centenarian -that just happens to be a Korean War hero, and now a murder victim- Kim Su Baek spins Fulghum an incredible tale with roots in the ancient Korean royal family. Yet Fulghum believes her incredible tale and accepts the case to prove her innocent of murder.To solve this case and exonerate his client, the Jack Daniels-loving gumshoe's investigation must balance relationships among his Pulitzer-Prize winning girlfriend/reporter, Sylvia Blackwood; his friends-Boston Homicide Officer, Nigel Pounce, and CIA Agent, Ken Salamander; and his client, as they become drawn into a deadly labyrinth designed by both sides of the conflict on the Korean peninsula. The plot finally focuses on a plethora of suspects at the deceased man's estate in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The murky intrigue of this case causes a nail-biting succession of horrific deaths, culminating in attempts on the very lives of all our major characters. Who will survive and who is guilty?E. W. Farnsworth, creator of the John Fulghum Mysteries series, a noir detective collection of short stories, presents Blue Is for Murder, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. III, his first full-blown John Fulghum novel. His fans, clamoring for more John Fulghum, are thrilled to know that three more novels are coming soon.

The Perfect Teacher, John Fulghum Mysteries, Vol. IV, by E. W. Farnsworth takes you through the intriguing exploits of hard-boiled Boston area private investigator, John Fulghum with the services of his friends, Ken Mander of the CIA, and Nigel Pounce of Boston Homicide, to unravel the secrets of Fulghum’s latest case.Fulghum, and his long-time girlfriend, Boston Globe archivist Sylvia Blackwood, go undercover to solve a murder at a small Catholic college in the Greater Boston area. The case puts both their lives in danger as their performances in their respective classrooms earns them respect and even adulation among their students, fellow faculty and the administration alike. From this experience, Blackwood sees the path to her third Pulitzer Prize, while Fulghum returns to Jack Daniels and Marlboro cigarettes in his smoky office above Joe’s Ice Cream Shop in Bedford.Can Fulghum’s longstanding relationship with Blackwood be sustained after their trial by fire? Or will the dark facts of life as a private investigator overshadow their bond?

In his childhood, Wiglaff's qualities were different from those valued by his father. His insight into the natural world set him apart. As he develops his shamanistic skills, his sister is trainng to become a leader of female warriors.Wiglaff is protected by his mother Onna as she arranges his tutelage with Ugard the Shaman, her former suitor.As his sister recruits those who will form her secret army, Wiglaff comes to understand the scope of the Roman effort to contain and conquer Caledonia. Festus, a Roman slave, helps Wiglaff clarify the Roman threat and ultimately sacrifices his life for the Caledonian cause.Will Wiglaff ultimately emerge as the shaman Caledonia so desperately needs?