Deadly Payload

Don Pendleton

Gold Eagle, Feb 1, 2008 - Fiction - 320 pages

Stony Man

Unflinching duty and patriotism stand at the core of the covert operations group known as Stony Man. Answering only to the Oval Office, and with a mandate to strike before the world suffers, the clandestine field and cyber operatives work without a warrant and outside the law, enabling them to strike down those who obey no law.

Lethal Solution

A powerful U.S.-based consortium has begun a full-scale assault to take over the world. Attacking on multiple fronts, this secret cadre has enough high-tech weaponry to push nations to an apocalyptic standoff—and now China, Russia and the Middle East are poised to unleash swift, savage and bloody nuclear retaliations. Stony Man teams are spread thin, racing to stop the unthinkable as the world is pushed over the edge of reason, and an unseen, perhaps unstoppable, enemy brings the planet seconds closer to flash point.

Contents

• Prologue: 7
• Chapter One: 14
• Chapter Two: 21
• Chapter Three: 35
• Chapter Four: 49
• Chapter Five: 64
• Chapter Six: 80
• Chapter Seven: 93
• Chapter Eight: 107
• Chapter Nine: 122
• Chapter Ten: 136
• Chapter Eleven: 154
• Chapter Twelve: 169
• Chapter Thirteen: 184
• Chapter Fourteen: 199
• Chapter Fifteen: 209
• Chapter Sixteen: 223
• Chapter Seventeen: 237
• Chapter Eighteen: 254
• Chapter Nineteen: 268
• Chapter Twenty: 282
• Chapter TwentyOne: 298
• Chapter TwentyTwo: 313
• Chapter TwentyThree: 327
• Epilogue: 344
• Copyright Page: 347

About the author

Don Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927. During World War II, on December 7, 1942, days before his fifteenth birthday, Don enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Radioman First Class until November of 1947. He served in all the war theaters, receiving various medals. He received his GED certificate of high school equivalency while in the Navy in 1947. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean conflict, Don returned to active Naval service for two years. His skill as a radioman during World War II led him to the railroad after the war where he was employed as a telegrapher for Southern Pacific Railroad until 1957. For the next four years, he worked for the CAA/FAA as an air traffic control specialist. In 1961, his career turned toward aerospace engineering where he served in management positions during Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs, as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program, and with the United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy program. He began writing in 1957 and his first short story was published that year, followed by a first novel in 1961. But it was not until 1967, at the age of forty, that his attention turned to full-time writing.After producing a number of short stories, science fiction and mystery novels, he launched, in 1969, the phenomenal Executioner Series. The first Executioner novel, War Against the Mafia, was followed by an additional thirty-seven sequels during the ensuing twelve years. The Executioner: Mack Bolan series has been published around the world in more than twenty-five languages with close to two hundred million copies in print. In 1980, Don franchised his Executioner characters to Harlequin's Worldwide Library of Toronto, Gold Eagle Imprint. Until his death, Don served as Consulting Editor on the Gold Eagle Program, although was not directly responsible for any of the Mack Bolan novels written since 1981. Their team of writers have produced close to four hundred novels based on Don's original works and use his names as a house pseudonym. In addition to being a novelist, Don was a poet, a screenwriter, essayist and metaphysical scholar. In 1990, he turned to nonfiction with the publication of To Dance With Angels, written with his wife, Linda Pendleton. The book, a definite study of life after death, is currently in its fourth edition. Don's nonfiction books now include three manuscripts published posthumously as ebooks. A Search for Meaning From the Surface of a Small Planet by Don Pendleton; The Metaphysics of the Novel, the Inner Workings of a Novel and a Novelist by Don Pendleton with Linda Pendleton; Whispers From the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness by Don and Linda Pendleton. A Search for Meaning From the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent Ebooks Award for the Best of Nonfiction, 2002. Pendleton was a member of the Authors Guild, Inc.; The Authors League; The Writers Guild of America, West; a past West Coast Director of the Mystery Writers of America; NAPRA; International Platform Association; and a frequent speaker on school and college campuses and at writers' symposiums. In 1992, Don received the Lifetime Achievement Gem Award presented by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc., a leading Comic Book distributor. Don Pendleton died October 23, 1995 at the age of sixty-seven.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deadly Payload; Gold Eagle StonyMan Series
• Author: Don Pendleton
• Publisher: Gold Eagle, 2008
• ISBN: 1426812868, 9781426812866
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; Fiction / War & Military