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Retirement. Publishers, thank you for the many years of reading pleasure you gave me, but all good things must come to an end. Due to failing eyesight I am forced to retire. I can no longer review your books, and any that you send will be donated to the local library, unread. Do not send any more. I can only read for a couple hours every day, and this does not allow me to finish a book in reasonable time. I will be devoting time to my own books from now on, and reading on a personal level. Books that interest me. I prefer paperbacks and hardbacks, not eBooks. My eyesight has been failing the last few years, and I cannot handle hundreds of review books any more. My books are still available for review. Anyone interested in reviewing any of them, they are found in the Link to Tom’s Books On Amazon. Contact me for pdf copies at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Showing posts with label Boxing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boxing. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Cold War Heroes

COLD WAR HEROES by Tom Johnson, with a great photo cover by Teena Modgling, is now available through FADING SHADOWS: Top Secret action in this military satire set in Europe during the height of the Cold War. A group of misfit MPs must confront spies and the black market while dealing with a boxing tournament on Post! Not since M*A*S*H* and SOLDIER IN THE RAIN have we been treated to an inside look at military life with a touch of humor by a soldier who actually experienced it.


Loosely based on the author’s memories of Poitiers, France, and the American Army military Post where he served from 1963 to 1966 with the military police. A detachment stuck miles from headquarters, where there was sometimes a lack of military discipline, too much cognac, and some very beautiful French girls. This is available in Hardback from the author for $24.95, and paperback for $13.95, plus postage. It is also available on Kindle for $3.99

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Cold War Heroes

 COLD WAR HEROES by Tom Johnson Pulp goes Top Secret in this military satire set in Europe during the height of the Cold War. A group of misfit MPs must confront spies and the black market while dealing with a boxing tournament on Post! Not since M*A*S*H* and Soldier In The Rain have we been treated to an inside look at military life with a touch of humor by a soldier who actually experienced it. Loosely based on the author’s experience with the 202nd Military Police Company in France during the 1960s. Available for Review in PDF. Paperback available from NTD and Amazon for $13.50 at http://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Heroes-Tom-Johnson/dp/0982679564/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444693290&sr=1-2-fkmr1&keywords=cold+war+heroes+by+tom+johnston

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Cold War Heroes Now Available


Tom Johnson's best selling novel, Cold War Heroes is now available in hardback. NTD recently renewed the contract with Tom for his best selling boxing novel set in Cold War France of the 1960s, complete with spies, blood, and hard fist. Available from Lulu at $23.90 http://www.lulu.com/shop/tom-johnson/cold-war-heroes/hardcover/product-20583278.html It may take awhile for it to be listed on Amazon and elsewhere.

Pulp goes Top Secret in this military comedy drama set in Europe during the height of the Cold War. A group of misfit MPs must confront spies and the black market while dealing with a boxing tournament on Post! Not since M*A*S*H* and Soldier In The Rain have we been treated to an inside look at military life with a touch of humor by a soldier who actually experienced it.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Cold War Heroes In Hardback


Coming Soon Tom Johnson's best selling novel, Cold War Heroes now in hardback. NTD has recently renewed the contract with Tom for his best selling boxing novel set in Cold War France of the 1960s, complete with spies, blood, and hard fist.

Pulp goes Top Secret in this military comedy drama set in Europe during the height of the Cold War. A group of misfit MPs must confront spies and the black market while dealing with a boxing tournament on Post! Not since M*A*S*H* and Soldier In The Rain have we been treated to an inside look at military life with a touch of humor by a soldier who actually experienced it.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Golden Gate Gloves


Golden Gate Gloves (Fight Card)
By Jack Tunney (Robert Evans)
Kindle
ASIN #B009V2WQBE
Price $2,99
Rating 5 Star

A beautiful girl, and loaded gloves brings T.N.T. to Fight Card!

The San Francisco docks in 1951. Conall O’Quinn is dock champion, but for some unknown reason his boss wants him to lose. They bring in the Union boss’s son to beat him, but when O’Quinn still wins against loaded gloves, he is accused of having the metal in his gloves and fired. He and his old friend, Benson leave, but they want to know why they were fired. Breaking into the warehouse that night, they discover a treasure map in the company safe, but someone sets fire to the warehouse and they have to get out. Now they are being blamed for the fire, and figure it’s too hot to stay in town. They follow the treasure map to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and a little town named Jamestown where the abandoned mine with the treasure is supposed to be. More trouble. An old man and his beautiful daughter, Maggie, own the mine. But the father has bet his boxer against another mine owner’s boxer, and may lose the mine. Things get even worse when the mob runs them down in Jamestown, and forces them back to San Francisco for a final match with the Union Boss’s son.

This is a busy story, but has some great boxing highlights. Although I was left a little confused why the warehouse was burned down, it was a good plot overall. These Fight Card novellas are filled with men and women strong on moral responsibilities, and though things may look pretty bad for the protagonists we know that good will always triumph over evil in the end.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fight Fictioneers V #2


To promote fight fiction, and the FIGHT CARD productions, Paul Bishop and Mel Odom have assembled the quintessential magazine on the new pulp fight genre. Boxing magazines were very popular five or six decades ago, and this new eBook magazine attempts to bring that focus back to the fans of the sweet science.

From the Fight Card team of Paul Bishop and Mel Odom comes Fight Fictioneers Magazines V #2. In the issue, we have interviews with Henry Brown (Tomato Can Comeback), Brian DeVido (Las Vegas Soul), Eric Beetner (A Mouth Full of Blood), Heath Lowrence (Bluff City Brawler), Kevin Michaels (Hard Road), and David Foster (King of The Outback). Also in the issue is The Fight (Book Review by David Foster), Rocky Novelization (Book Review by David Foster), The Fight Comics Review by Paul Bishop), and Facing Ali (Film Review by David Foster). Plus, contains a very informative Editorial by Paul Bishop on fight fiction in pulps, books, and movies. Nicely done, folks!