Radio Hope (Toxic World Book 1) (29 page)

S
ean McLachlan worked for ten years as an archaeologist in Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and the U.S. before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, listed below. When he’s not writing, he likes to hike, read, travel, and most of all, teach his son about the world. He divides his time between Madrid, Oxford, and Tangier.

To find out more about Sean’s work and travels, visit him at
midlistwriter.blogspot.com
. He also runs a blog dedicated to his Civil War fiction,
civilwarhorror.blogspot.com
. Feel free to friend him on Goodreads at
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/623273.Sean_McLachlan

A Fine Likeness

A Confederate guerrilla and a Union captain discover there's something more dangerous in the woods than each other.

Jimmy Rawlins is a teenaged bushwhacker who leads his friends on ambushes of Union patrols. They join infamous guerrilla leader Bloody Bill Anderson on a raid through Missouri, but Jimmy questions his commitment to the Cause when he discovers this madman plans to sacrifice a Union prisoner in a hellish ritual
to raise the Confederate dead.

Richard Addison is an aging captain of a lackluster Union militia. Depressed over his son's death in battle, a glimpse of Jimmy changes his life. Jimmy and his son look so much alike that Addison becomes obsessed with saving him from Bloody Bill. Captain Addison must wreck his reputation to win this war within a war, while Jimmy must decide whether to betray the Confederacy to stop the evil ari
sing in the woods of Missouri.

Available in print and electronic editions!

The Night the Nazis Came to Dinner and other Dark Tales

A spectral dinner
party goes horribly wrong. . .

An immortal warrior hopes a fina
l battle will set him free. . .

A big-game hunter preys on endangered species to su
pply an illicit restaurant. . .

A new technology soothes First World
guilt. . .

Here are four dark tales that straddle the boundary between reality and speculation. You better hope they don’t come true.

Available in electronic edition!

The Quintessence of Absence

Can a drug-addicted sorcerer sober up long enough to save a kid
napped girl and his own Duchy?

In an alternate 18th century Germany where magic is real and paganism never died, Lothar is in the bonds of nepenthe, a powerful drug that gives him ecstatic visions. It has also taken his job, his friends, and his self-respect. Now his old employer has rehired Lothar to find the man's daughter, who is in the grip of
her own addiction to nepenthe.

As Lothar digs deeper into the girl's disappearance, he uncovers a plot that threatens the entire Duchy of Anhalt, and finds the only way to stop it is to face his own weakness.

Available in electronic edition!

Wild West History

Tombstone—Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Rid
e
(Osprey Publishing: 2013)

The Last Ride of the James-Younger Gan
g
(Osprey Publishing: 2012)

Civil War History

Ride Around Missouri: Shelby’s Great Raid 1863
(Osprey Publishing: 2011)

American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics
(Osprey Publishing: 2009)

Missouri History

Outlaw Tales of Missouri
(Globe Pequot Press: 2009)

Missouri: An Illustrated History
(Hippocrene Books: 2008)

It Happened in Missouri
(Globe Pequot Press: 2007)

Medieval History

Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons
(Osprey: 2010)

Byzantium: An Illustrated History
(Hippocrene Books: 2004)

African History

Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: the Italian Disaster in Ethiopia
(Osprey: 2011)