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Why have we always been fascinated by Mars? Can we build a ship to get to Mars? If the robots do not want us to get back, we are screwed!

When a stolen “Atlas” Intermediate range ICBM is lost in the Baltic Sea, Steve Steele must find the mastermind behind the attempt to steal American nuclear secrets. Steele and his associate Lieutenant Lennox Bird travel to Malmo where she is captured and flown to Riga.There follows a sea battle during which the Russians use an ex-Kreigsmarine...

A solder of the French Foreign Legion is ‘summoned’ to an office in Lisbon. The mission is not one he wants.When he meets up with other agents in Portugal it emerges that he is not French, nor is he a Legionnaire, but the British secret agent Steve Steele.He again gets together with his secret lover, Autumn Rae.The bad guys, led by the Kommisar,...

How would you cope without electricity?
The World is threatened with a weapon that kills all electronic equipment - and it is unstoppable.Special agent Steve Steele retired from the service a long time ago.He finds out about the weapon when on a cruise with his family.Soon it is realized that the threat is much more than inconvenience when a...

Based on what we have now, and what is in development; no super-heroes, death rays or figments of a favoured imagination - the Laws of Physics are sacrosanct.
”... the appearance of a man in t-shirt and jeans on the outside of the spacecraft is alarming, so he tends to stay inside.” I repeat - The Laws of Physics are sacrosanct.
Mary-Jo and Ash...

The astronauts on the Orion Program though they were alone building a spaceship that can go to Mars and back. When they began working on it, they found that the ship was being designed by minds far bigger than theirs.The appearance of a men working on the outside of the ship without a spacesuit can be alarming, so he tends to stay inside.This...

An astronaut has to be sent back to Earth after a strange incident rendered her of little use on the re-building of the Phoenix.With everything that has happened, the Chinese decide to withdraw from the program. This causes panic within NASA because without the Chinese, there was a very good chance of other contributory nations withdrawing,...

The Mars landing is followed by the establishing of an encampment - there has to be, the Earth will not be in a position to return to for 18 months. Whilst on the surface of Mars the intrepid explorers find the secret of why we have always been interested in Mars. But once they find out they cannot be allowed to come back.

Astronauts and androids are now on the Martian surface. But things are not quite right. The search for life brings up some surprises, but none bigger than finding out why we are in constant awe of Martians. ‘The fiery entry into the ochre atmosphere above the red planet meant that the three re-entry vehicles had turned their heat shields to face...

Continuance from book IV, ‘The Way Home.’
The astronauts from Mars have returned to the Earth only to find devastation caused by the Tsunami from the Canary Isles – the Capital had to be moved to Chicago. Most of Florida was wiped out – including a lot of NASA. The re-entry was difficult to say the least. Now they are pretty well alone.
The A-10...

If you are reading this as a stand-alone novel, you might find the following information of interest. Five people landed on Mars: Colonel Preston Ashton, NASA. (Ash.) Friends with Jake Jensen, they had served in a squadron of F-22 Raptors before leaving the USAF for NASA. Colonel Jake Jennings, NASA, an ex-Raptor pilot. Svetlana Danilenko,...

Coniston Fowler and his pal wanted to leave the Ozarks in 1940, so they went to Canada to learn to fly and fight.
After the USA joined the fray, Connie spotted the Germans’ invasion fleet, and was involved in a dog-fight with two Messerschmitt 262s.
After the war he joined the CIA, and was tasked with finding an aircraft capable of discouraging...