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The Conquest of Oila    by Tony Christini
Price: Free! 59610 words. Published on November 3, 2009. .

Fiction of US militarism in Iraq and greater Oila.
Border Wars    by Bob Spear
Price: $4.99 USD. 51370 words. Published on February 26, 2010. .

In this 3rd Leavenworth mystery, Allied Army officers who attend our Army's Command and General Staff College come under threat when the officer from India is murdered by a Pakistani bayonet. Protagonist Enos Hobson is hired to clear the Pakistani officer and discover who really did the murder and why before the international incident blows up into war. Meanwhile, Isaac takes on outlaw bikers.
The Years of Walter Gordon Fischer: Fleeting Moments    by Gordon  Fischer
Price: $4.99 USD. 93160 words. Published on April 2, 2010. .

In a life on the front lines of 80 years of political, military and social upheaval Gordon Fischer has done it all: dancing while bombs landed in Damascus, held at gunpoint in Togo, dating Ms India, skiing with the aristocracy during the Korean War and deer stalking in Scotland. Travel the world and go back in time to see the rich and the poor as you have never done before.
China Silk Road Adventures    by Brian Lawrenson
Price: $3.99 USD. 9840 words. Published on June 6, 2010. .

Travelling by train across the Silk Road from Beijing to Kashgar is an established tourist route. It offers adventure, history and an opportunity to meet some of the cultures that you’ll find along the Silk Road. This is the story of a couples quest to meet these people, of experiencing their culture and their foods. The journey ends as they connect up with the Karakorum Highway into Pakistan.
Operation 1420    by David Lema
Price: $9.99 USD. 94190 words. Published on June 25, 2010. .

Operation 1420 was launched along with other plots at the first meeting in 1989 of the al Qaeda Shura Council. A month later on patrol in the Persian Gulf testing new surveillance gear a secret team aboard the destroyer USS John Young uncovers the plan to snatch Kashmiri youth and train them as highly skilled techno-bombers to attack security, financial and air traffic computer systems.
Scimitar    by David Grainger
Price: $4.99 USD. 183260 words. Published by Why Knot Books  on July 29, 2010. .

It begins with a massive series of explosions that distribute biotoxins through a prestigious west coast gathering. Hundreds of America’s elite are killed and maimed but this is just the first stroke of a coordinated terrorist attack that brings America to her knees. America panics as infrastructure is crippled and the nation's place as a world power is threatened by the rising Chinese Dragon.
North Pakistan and Kalashia    by Brian Lawrenson
Price: $3.99 USD. 9220 words. Published on October 18, 2010. .

Join a couples 12 day tour of North Western Pakistan, the Hunza Valley and Chitral in a 1974 vintage ex-army Jeep. Meet the people that they met along the way including the remote Kalashi people, who are believed to be the descendents of the soldiers of Alexander the Great. After you have read this account you’ll feel like you’ve been to these tiny settlements on the Pakistan-Afghani border.
50 Stories for Pakistan    by Greg McQueen 
Price: $7.99 USD. 26400 words. Published on November 28, 2010. .

Look at the cover of this book. A man and a boy knee-deep in water. Father and son? Uncle and nephew? Teacher and pupil? Or perhaps just a kid, lost, tagging on to an adult in the hope that he will be taken somewhere safe, dry? They can’t ask for your help. You must choose to give it. A simple way of doing that is to buy this book. Proceeds go to helping the victims of the Pakistan floods.
Diapers on a Dateline: The Adventures of a United Press Family in India During the 1950s    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 126190 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 3, 2011. .

Pegge Mackiernan was a widow and single mother of twins working as Vice Consul in the American Embassy in Pakistan in 1951. Her husband had been a CIA agent who was killed by Tibetan guards while evacuating newly Communist China. In her work at the embassy, she met John Hlavacek. A passionate international reporter with humble Midwestern values, John convinced Pegge to bring her children to India.
United Press Invades India: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent, 1944-1952    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 127900 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. .

How does a Midwestern boy end up reporting world events from India for United Press? He comes by way of boat, after reporting from China during the Communist takeover. Such is the life story of John Hlavacek, correspondent for NBC and Time-Life. John left his career reporting from China to join United Press as a war correspondent. He reported world events from India from 1944-1952.