Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 149764271X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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With a life as wild as his fiction, the award-winning sci-fi screenwriter and novelist serves up an “addictive” anthology of short stories (Andrew Kaplan, author of the Homeland novels). A larger-than-life character before picking up the pen, Ib Melchior fought the Nazis as a counterintelligence officer and decoded Shakespeare’s tomb. He was an actor in Paris and a Nordic student of Viking history. He honed his craft at the dawn of television’s “golden age” in the 1950s, imagining the realms beyond as a writer and director of some of the most memorable science-fiction cult films of the 1960s, including Robinson Crusoe on Mars and The Time Travelers. In this rich volume, Melchior draws on all these life experiences to deliver a literary epicurean’s smorgasbord of short fiction—historical, speculative, and visionary. One story explores a woman’s reawakening in post-war Europe; others investigate the war zones of Iraq; expose the backstage havoc of a television quiz show; and cover the life-and-death challenge in a dystopian future—and more. Melchior serves up an addendum of “desserts” in which he reveals the inspiration for each story, from the debatable identity of the Bard, to a Gestapo dog, to Hans Christian Andersen. Featuring twenty-one stories in all, Melchior À La Carte “is more than a potpourri of delicacies—it is a feast of literary delights, reminiscent of the tales told by those master storytellers, Conrad and Maugham. In short . . . Melchior’s book is a must have” (S. L. Stebel, author of Spring Thaw). “The Racer,” featured in this collection, was adapted twice for film as Death Race 2000 and Death Race. “An extraordinary storyteller . . . always provocative and wise, as he lays out the stuff of which dreams are made.” —Mann Rubin, screenwriter of The Best of Everythin
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642655 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Our top-secret weapon is missing. And America’s top test pilot is missing too. Full of a fierce, obsessive will to live, Tom Darby is about to test-fire the USA’s ultimate weapon—when something goes tragically wrong. His F-15 fighter explodes in a ball of fire. He ejects into the killing heat of Death Valley. Crazed by injuries, he becomes a wild beast running for his life from unseen enemies—and from his rescuers. Even from his beautiful wife. American teams want him. So do sinister East German agents, headed by an ex-Nazi. Because they believe he possesses . . . The Marcus Device
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642744 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 344
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The specter of Armageddon looms in Melchior's eighth novel Its agent is the V-3, a poisonous exsiccating gas developed by Hitler to succeed the V-1 and V-2 rockets. In the present, aging but still fanatic Nazis plan to unleash the gas and kill millions. Army intelligence reactivates chemist Einar Munk, who, as a wartime operative for the OSS, first learned of the gas’s manufacture. His orders: Find it and contain it. In this desperate mission, Einar is aided by his wife, Birte. Einar discovers the V-3 in a sunken U-boat, the canisters dangerously near final corrosion and each of them booby-trapped.
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642620 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
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Hitler’s desperate plot to save his longtime mistress . . . Counter Intelligence Corp agent Woody Ward uncovers evidence that it might not have been Eva Braun on Hitler’s funeral pyre. Indeed, at that very moment, Eva is being escorted along the top-secret route mapped for the escape of the Nazi elite. It is a tortuous path where disaster appears at every turn to thwart their arrival at the Italian port of Bari. Ward persuades his superiors to let him go underground and pursue Eva in an attempt to prevent her escape. The chase that ensues holds constant deadly dangers for both fugitives and pursuer, as they make their way from the eerie caves of the Harz Mountains in Germany to a startling and spectacular climax in Bari. There, a ship is waiting to carry Eva to Argentina, where she will nurture the seed of the Fourth Reich. Only CIC Agent Ward has any chance of stopping the second coming of Hitler’s Third Reich!
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642736 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 296
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Is another Hitler rising to power? Tom Jaeger’s war with the Nazis began the day World War II ended . . . During those last days in the bunker, Hitler and Bormann created a plan that would perpetuate the cause of Nazism long after they were dead. A small band of highly trained agents were to be planted all over the world, someday to come together and bring final glory to the Fatherland. Rudolph Kessler was one of those sleeper agents. He was letter-perfect in English, incredibly smart, and highly resourceful. All he had to do was get through the enemy lines once the war was over, make his way to the United States, and then prepare incognito for the precise moment when the worldwide Fascist movement would once again rear its ugly head. And only one man stood in his way: Tom Jaeger. Only Tom understood the lethal, far-ranging depths of this daring plan. And he couldn’t get anyone to listen—except for one woman . . .
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642809 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 361
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Hitler’s minions live in Los Angeles A brutal street killing. A tough LA cop. A faded snapshot. A poster adorned with a swastika. A cruel nightmare of bloody intrigue. A sensational thriller, violent as a burst of machine gun fire. Hitler’s evil is reborn. The Third Reich will rise again!
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497642590 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 303
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British Intelligence had learned on the eve of D-Day that the Nazis were racing to complete some sort of secret weapon that would threaten the destruction of the whole invasion operation . . .
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004613463 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 529
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With contributions on geography, travel, rare books, booktrade, collectors and libraries by C. Koeman, G. Schilder, R. Breugelmans, K. van der Horst, F.A. Janssen, C. Reedijk, J. Storm van Leeuwen, E. Braches, E. Cockx-Indestege, I.H. van Eeghen, H. de la Fontaine Verwey, L. Hellinga-Querido, P.F.J. Obbema, B. van Selm, a.o
Author: Ib Melchior Publisher: PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING ISBN: 1938582217 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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New short stories from the master._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ "Melchior Á La Carte is a delight. These engaging stories are filled with wonderful, original characters and unexpected turns of events. In each one of them one learns something new about the world and about oneself. Melchior's characters enter your mind and stay there. Uniquely, Melchior tells not just the story itself, but in an addendum, what inspired each of them, the precipitating event that is often as interesting as the story itself. Dip into these surprising tales as into a box of great Belgian chocolates. You'll find them addictive."—Andrew Kaplan, author of Scorpion, Dragonfire _x000D_ _x000D_ "Ib Melchior's Melchior Á La Carte collection of short stories is more than a potpourri of delicacies - it is a feast of literary delights, reminiscent of the tales told by those master story tellers, Conrad and Maugham. In short, for those readers who delight in looking for wide ranging story turns and subjects, for meaningful entertainment, Melchior's book is a must have."—S.L. Stebel, author of Spring Thaw, The Boss's Wife _x000D_ _x000D_ "Ib Melchior is an extraordinary story teller. His writing is always provocative and wise, as he lays out the stuff of which dreams are made."—Mann Rubin, screenwriter of The Best of Everything, Brainstorm_x000D_
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