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Black Death: A Joshua Martin Special Forces Novel

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Inactive Special Forces Sergeant Joshua Martin (Josh), owner of an ultra-high intensity Special Forces training center, is called up to lead an elite interdiction team to stop a heinous attack on a Saudi crude oil distribution center. If this suicide attack is successful, it would cause disastrous consequences for all Western Democracies. However, what seems to be a straightforward search, locate, and destroy mission turns into a nightmare of twists involving clandestine nuclear waste, the involvement of Yemeni rebels, and a shocking participation by North Korean forces to assure the suicide attack is successful. The five person team of three top Special Forces soldiers and a crack female Ranger, led by Special Forces Sergeant Josh Martin, parachute into the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, which begins a search for the deadly bomb. The mission takes them across the Middle East culminating in a daring, suspenseful assault by the team.

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Published June 5, 2021

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Richard Mason

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Richard Mason has always managed to incorporate writing into his accomplished life, whether writing professional reports as a geologist, books in the Sahara Desert, or columns about environmental issues. But it wasnt until six years ago that he started writing seriously when he heard Studs Turkle remark that more writers should write about life. Mason took this comment to heart and began writing remembrances from his childhood in the 1940s and 50s.

As a young boy Mason lived on a small farm in southern Arkansas. He is able to vividly capture an era of American history, before air-conditioning, television and modern technology. His writings reflect a time of brown sunburned feet, shirtless summers and very special country Christmases.

Mason earned both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in geology from the University of Arkansas. He worked for the King Ranch in South Texas, followed by an overseas assignment on well-sites deep in the Libyan Sahara Desert. Thirty years ago Mason started his own company, Gibraltar Energy in El Dorado, Ark. of which he is currently CEO and President.

In the early 1990s he was the president of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation and wrote a monthly column covering state environmental issues. Mason also wrote an environmental column which ran in newspapers around the state and hosted an environmental radio show, both called Natural Solutions.

Additionally, he and his wife, Vertis, enjoy restoring historic buildings and have restored 17 buildings where they reside in El Dorado, Arkansas. As a result, the National Main Street organization named it one of the top 15 Main Street communities in the country.

Masons love of writing has become one of the most fulfilling things he has ever done. He reflects on his start many years ago, As I think back to the time, when I sat in a hot trailer in the Libyan Desert writing my first novel, I can truly say my interest in writing, which expressed itself under such meager circumstances, continues today.

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