SENTINELS OF THE SEA Chapbooks now available individually on Amazon

These two novellas make up the SENTINELS OF THE SEA chapbook set and are now available through Ghostwriter Publications on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk as Kindle editions. If you like historical naval horror fiction you can download samples onto your Kindle for free to "try before you buy".

GEMINI...available on Amazon Kindle April 2011

Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson has to stop an elusive assassin from murdering the American President, but there's a terminal order out on him.

Identical twin boys are born to the wife of the Deputy American Ambassador to Palestine and her illicit lover, a local businessman and a high ranking Palestinian activist in 1963. The twins are separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence…until now.

Emil Hamad is reared in Palestine against the backdrop of the political unrest and is hell bent on restoring Palestine to its rightful owners. Jack Lawson is raised as the son of a prominent American Ambassador and chooses a career as a caretaker of American freedom and democracy. Each would see himself as a patriot.

The American Ambassador to Ireland is murdered while retrieving his young daughter from a kidnapping in Dublin. The White House Chief of Staff is found dead in his private swimming pool. Intelligence from Iraq has identified a $20 million per head contract for the five architects of the political and economical systems in post-Hussein Iraq. One of those architects is the President of the United States.

GEMINI is a fast-paced espionage thriller about a race against time for Military Intelligence Officer Jack Lawson to stop the elusive assassin known as The Hangman from murdering the remaining three. But now there’s a Terminal Order out on Lawson – DNA evidence places him at the scene of the kidnapping in Ireland. The hunter becomes the hunted. Lawson is on the run to catch The Hangman, prove his own innocence and stop the assassination of the President.

VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE - second diary extract now up

The second diary extract is now up and it's from the year 1699 (I've written five in total) at www.derekgunn.com. I hope you enjoy it!

Behind the scenes of the Vampire Apocalypse series...

The main kernel of this series came from the proliferation of ‘nice’ vampires that are so popular in fiction today. I never saw the vampire as an aristocratic figure, noble to a fault and lonely for a good woman’s, or man’s love. I always saw them as creatures who had moved on from being human over the centuries. They do not consider themselves human, most have probably forgotten they ever were. They are creatures ruled by base hunger. For all their power they are slaves to a gnawing hunger that rules there very existence.

I have written some diary extracts recently as part of a back story to the VA series. Over the course of the centuries we can see the changes going on inside the head of a vampire, how his thoughts of humanity, religion and his place in the world change him. I have tied this into the ‘real’ history of the world, offering a different view of how some of history’s events actually happened and the impact this had on the mindset of the vampire. They are short vignettes that try to go some way to explain how these creatures can change so drastically. Even the most noble would change their attitudes over centuries and humans are food after all. How often do you have to eat meat to no longer consider the source as intelligent? These extracts are available for free on my website with the first instalment up already - it's a vignette from the year 1590. Hope you enjoy it!

Derek Gunn

New VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE fiction online

Documents recently discovered would indicate that certain events in history did not happen as recorded but were in fact controlled from the shadows...

Read the first in a series of forthcoming excerpts from a diary that survived the centuries and form the basis of my VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series of books at www.derekgunn.com

THE ESTUARY - Kindle edition now available for £7.22 at Amazon.co.uk. Plus 2 great new reader reviews!

Here's the direct link to the Kindle edition available to buy at Amazon.co.uk
- price is £7.22.

I've recently come across two new (and great) reader reviews posted at Amazon:

"The protaganists are all well detailed and intresting to read about, you do feel for them and hope they make it through to the end. This book manages to create and capture the survivers sense of dread and horror at the zombie plauge. It is a well contained novel and manages to create a good zombie story without the entire world going into apocalypse mode. In conclusion I would say that it is definatly worth a look if you are a zombie fan."

"Leave it to Derek Gunn to write "The Estuary" and make keep zombies exciting. Gunn really knows how to grab his audience. His action scenes were intense, full of detail and suspense as well as clever ways to meld characters and events together. The story was good as well, contained, but emotional and rich in development."


Thanks to both readers for buying the book and taking the time to post their helpful reviews at Amazon:-)

What's New at derekgunn.com

October's newsletter is now online (finally!). Check it out HERE

A new Zombie anthology - BEST NEW ZOMBIE TALES VOL II, A new book trailer for FALLOUT, Bitten by Books review all three Vampire Apocalypse books and my International Thriller Writers Association feature on award-winning thriller writer, John Lutz and his latest release, MISTER X.

Derek