No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781521887721)

12 short stories of horror, irony, the supernatural & the human capacity for evil:

1. An Old Wound: An aging Detroit cop trying to escape his past faces a delayed justice...
2. Bloody Olde Knife: Jack-the-Ripper is dead, but his knife has a life of its own...
3. Christmas Bells: A lonely lighthouse keeper about to commit suicide discovers intruders on Christmas Day...
4. Fear of Darkness: Chained to a wall, a nameless prisoner is helpless to avoid a shapeless terror floating towards him...
5. Freedom Has A Price: Humans born in an alien prison camp learn that freedom has a price...
6. Never Let Them See You Cry: What do you say to two small children whose father has just been murdered? Especially when their father is the President of the United States...
7. No Place For Mercy: The leader of a pack of wolves being hunted leads his pursuers to the point of no return, then turns back to face them...
8. One Justice: It's World War II France, and four Nazi war criminals at a university are missing, and one American sergeant knows why...
9. Soldier-Boy: World War II on the Eastern Front, where the last surviving Russian soldier has the approaching Germans in his sight, but his hands are frozen to his weapon and he can't pull the trigger...
10. The Other Side of the Night: World War II on the Eastern Front again, this time the retreating German troops look to their teenage sniper to rescue them. The war is lost for Germany, but these soldiers have one chance to escape, if they can just make it back home...
11. The Rider: A dying old man recalls his part in killing the Czar of Russia and his family...
12. Toy Soldiers: There are survivors defending the Bosnian village a former schoolteacher-turned-soldier has been ordered to destroy - two small children.


Author: Gary R. Walsh,Brian G. Walsh
ISBN-10: 1521887721
ISBN-13: 9781521887721
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2020
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d