Christopher Westhoff

Swords, spaceships, grizzly bears, even a collection of old Irish jokes - this book has it all. Perfect for anyone who likes cool stories that don't require a graph at the end to explain all the characters. Two authors, a book or two under their belts, present a collection in the grand tradition...

Sean O'Connor, a former Union soldier turned gunslinger, is running from his past. In the dead hours of night, he is visited by the Devil himself, offering the deal of a lifetime; the power to cheat death and become the most deadly man on the planet. The price? Once a season for a hundred years...

He is trained and ready for war. Instead of leading the Marines into combat, a Marine captain is given the mission of advising an Iraqi army battalion in one of the most violent cities in Iraq. The collected stories span seven months of nearly constant combat in 2006 and 2007, at the height of...