The Black Berets have fought for their country, for money, and for thrills ... now theyโre fighting for cold vengeance, as the classic series of wartime adventure continues.
Theyโd survived everything the Vietcong could throw at them. Now theyโd throw it back ... at the American renegade whoโd betrayed them.
The Black Berets had to hand it to Parkes, their former CIA case officer. First heโd sent them on a suicide mission to Vietnam. Then heโd sent some CIA hit men to finish them off when the enemy couldnโt. And the moment they set foot stateside, the worldโs meanest mercenaries found that Parkes had arranged another lethal welcome.
Well, theyโd never liked Parkes much. But how were they going to tell him? First they had to find him, and that would take Beeker, Rosie, Cowboy, Harry, and Marty, from the bayous of Louisiana to an academy of terror in the Libyan desert, where theyโd get a chance to say just what they had in mindโwith bullets and a body bag.
John Preston was a pioneer in the early gay rights movement and publishing initiatives and the author or editor of more than twenty-five acclaimed books. Along with the Black Berets series, he wrote numerous entries in Gold Eagleโs Soldiers of Barrabas series under the pseudonym Jack Hild. As Preston McAdam, he wrote the three books in the Michael Sheriff: The Shield series.
Michael McDowell wrote a number of well-received horror novels, including The Amulet, The Elementals, and the Blackwater series, as well as historical fiction. With Dennis Schuetz, he cowrote four detective novels under the pseudonym Nathan Aldyne and was also active in screenwriting such movies as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, and Thinner. He provided episodes for a number of television horror anthologies, among them Tales from the Darkside.