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I have waited for over 45 years to tell this story, initially because I just wanted to forget the war and get on with making a living and raising a family. The other reason is that, 45 years ago, the American fighting man was not held in very high esteem. No one was ready to hear anything good about the Vietnam War or about the men who fought and died there. This book is less about me and more about the sacrifice, incredible hardships, and heroic actions displayed by the Marine grunts that I had the privilege to treat during battles on the demilitarized zone.

A mysterious book on your doorstep, a man trying to outrun an otherworldly horror, an elderly woman who creates strange concrete creatures, a computer that isn’t what it seems, an enigmatic nothingness closing in on someone’s house.... The Last Book You’ll Ever Read is a collection of five macabre tales that you won’t soon forget.

The morning after a birthday party she threw for him, O'Brien woke up in the hospital to learn that his girlfriend was dead, and he might be going to prison for causing the car crash that killed her. With piercing insight and stark prose, Mark L. O’Brien leads us on a deeply personal, intimate, and emotional journey—grappling with loss, regret, and his fragmented memories of the night of the crash, questioning a new relationship fraught with immense shame.

Caught in a whirlwind of adverse publicity following a viewer’s death, the streaming show The Gentleman’s Choice becomes the target for a sadistic killer—and it’s up to PI Vanessa Young to put a stop to it before more young women are murdered.

The story of four generations of the Movi family, who all live in a crumbling Hollywood mansion, is chronicled by their stage acting dog and primary breadwinner Chumley P. Movi. A reality TV show based on their everyday existence appears to be the perfect vehicle to revive their glory days in the entertainment industry, but as the family will soon realize, you have to be careful what you wish for.

Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix are back, 25 years after the CIA faked their deaths when a Soviet deep-cover agent outed the network of world-touring artists couriering sensitive agency documents. Jimi Hendrix is invisible. He was “recruited” for a top-secret Pentagon project after early results suggested marijuana users made the best test subjects.