Author: RJM

Nominated for the Pulp Factory Award for Best Anthology of 2024!

In the years leading up to the Second World War, the fiendish “Sonderstaffel,” the Nazi Special Squadron, uses fringe science, the occult, and the supernatural to create super weapons and monster soldiers in Hitler’s evil quest for world domination. To protect the nation and the world from these unnatural threats is a unique task force made up of highly- skilled military and civilian daredevils, code name: Intrepid.

Seven action-packed adventures from seven “intrepid” authors: Robert J. Mendenhall, Michael A. Black, John C. Bruening, Nancy Hansen, Ray Lovato, Jonathan W. Sweet, and George Tackes.

The stakes are high; the risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

Nominated for the Pulp Factory Award for Best Anthology of 2023!

The 1930s. A turbulent and perilous time for America as it faces destruction from a fiendish, shadow organization using fringe science, the occult, and the supernatural in its evil quest for world dominance. To protect the nation from these unnatural threats, a unique task force consisting of highly-skilled military and civilian daredevils is formed, code name: Intrepid.

Five action-packed adventures from five “intrepid” authors: Robert J. Mendenhall, Bobby Nash, Charles F. Millhouse, Teel James Glenn, and Wayne Carey.

The stakes are high; the risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

In the turbulent 1930s, a madman begins a calculated and ruthless rise to power that would, in the span of a decade, plunge the entire world into global conflict. In his quest, he deploys a secret squadron to exploit the occult and supernatural, develop devastating weapons of war, and create bizarre, unnatural soldiers. To protect the United States from these terrifying threats, an elite task force is formed, code named Intrepid and led by Lieutenant Colonel Rick Justice, U.S. Army Air Corps.

Secret Missions: five stories of the Intrepid team as they battle mutants, witches, werewolves, and more.

The stakes are high. The risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

August, 1932. Rick Justice and Intrepid search western Europe for an ancient weapon with magical properties: the enigmatic Black Axe. But they’re not the only ones on the hunt and Intrepid must race against time to find the deadly axe before their shadowy adversaries do.

A new member joins the team, two lost loves are reunited, and fierce internal conflicts erupt. For Intrepid, it’s a dangerous time. But for Rick Justice—it’s his darkest hour.

BLACK AXE. Book three in the Code Name: Intrepid adventure series. 

The stakes are high. The risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

In the years preceding World War II, a secret Nazi organization delves into dark magic, employs the occult and supernatural, and exploits the mysteries of fringe science to further their evil aim of global domination.

May, 1932. Newly minted as a team, Rick Justice and Intrepid encounter a fantastic weapon that generates artificial earthquakes. Their investigation points to a secret organization led by a new adversary, the treacherous and deadly woman known only as Scarlet. But, as Justice discovers, there’s more to her plan than just shaking things up. The lives of thousands depend on what Intrepid does next. Action. Intrigue. Betrayal. DEATH IN SCARLET. Book two in the Code Name: Intrepid adventure series.

The stakes are high. The risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

June 1934. A British Royal Air Force pilot enters a strange, spatial rift near the Scottish coast and comes out near Florida—more than 3600 miles away. A U.S. Navy submarine is sucked into the same anomaly and lost with all hands.

When Rick Justice and Intrepid enter the rift in search of the sub’s crew, they encounter characters and creatures straight out of Greek mythology and two enemies from their past bent on stealing a mythological weapon capable of shifting the balance of power in the real world. Unless Intrepid can stop them in time.

In the pulp tradition of Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Indiana Jones–HADES’ GATE. Book four in the Code Name: Intrepid adventure series. 

The stakes are high. The risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

May, 1935. From the icy shore of Greenland to the lush rain forest of Brazil, Rick Justice and Intrepid are hot on the trail of a Nazi organization creating a gruesome superweapon capable of inflicting unimaginable agony and a slow, grizzly death. But each time the team closes in on them, the villains escape.

All signs point to the deployment of the weapon against Americans on U.S. soil. But where? And when? Unless Intrepid can find a way to neutralize the threat in time, tens of thousands will suffer an agonizing end.

The stakes are high. The risks are great. The consequences for failure… catastrophic.

Titan. The largest moon of the planet Saturn and second in size only to Jupiter’s Ganymede. Bigger than the planet Mercury, with an atmosphere, ice, and stable bodies of liquid, some have said it may be more viable for colonization than Mars. But is it?

What would be the socio-economic impacts of such a colony? What about the political dynamics? The military implications? The scientific potentials? Will it be the romanticized experience popularized in film and fandom, with state-of-the-art equipment; clean, orderly habitats; and meaningful experimentation? Self-sufficient systems? Supportive efforts and mutual cooperation for the common good?

In Far Futures Book Four, science fiction authors from around the world suggest how unlikely that is. They write of the distant future. Tales of grit and ammonia, methane rain, hard-boiled private eyes, murder, deception, social breakdown, and disastrous first contacts. Stories that stretch the imagination and test the limits of human endurance.

Tales of Titan by Zachary Taylor Branch, G.C. Byrne, Stephen W. Chappell, Isabel McKeough, James Palmer, Diana Parrilla, James Pyles, and Katrina Schroeder, with a poem by Mark Hendrickson. Edited by Robert J. Mendenhall.