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Author S. Evan Townsend

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About the Author

 

S. Evan Townsend has been called "America's Unique Speculative Fiction Voice" and writes thrilling science fiction and mind-bending fantasy novels. After spending four years in the U.S. Army in the Military Intelligence branch, he returned to civilian life and college to earn a B.S. in Forest Resources from the University of Washington. In his spare time he enjoys reading, driving (sometimes on a racetrack), meeting people, and talking with friends. He is in a 12-step program for Starbucks addiction. Evan lives in central Washington State with his wife and has three grown sons and one cute and smart grandson. He enjoys science fiction, fantasy, history, politics, cars, and travel. He currently has fifteen published fantasy and science fiction novels. You can learn more about him at his website sevantownsend.com.

Hammer of Thor

 

Book 1

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Print ISBN:     9781937593049

E-Book ISBN: 9781937593056

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date 9/1/2011

They live among us.  We know they are there.  No government can control them; no authority can stop them.  Some are evil.  Some are good.  All are powerful.  They inhabit our myths and fairy tales.  But what if they were real, the witches, wizards, and fairy godmothers?  What if they were called "adepts" and used talismans to increase their power? The most powerful talisman in the world is The Hammer of Thor and Hitler stole it from its rightful owners, the Valkyrie.  When American adept Francis Kader is reluctantly drawn into the effort to retrieve the Hammer from the Nazis, he begins a journey that leads him to a confrontation with Thor himself.  Can a mere human hope to defeat an immortal god?

Agent of Artifice

 

Book 2

Author: S. Sheldon Townsend

Print ISBN:     9781937593186

E-Book ISBN: 9781937593193

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date 11/15/2011

They live among us.  We know they are there.  No government can control them; no authority can stop them.  Some are evil.  Some are good.  All are powerful.  They inhabit our myths and fairy tales.  But what if they were real, the witches, wizards, and fairy godmothers?  What if they were called "adepts" and were organized into guilds for mutual protection and benefit?  And what if they started mucking around with the affairs of "lessers" (that is, those humans not able to match their powers)?  During the height of the Cold War, Michael Vaughan is a rogue without a guild.  He survives by working for the CIA as NOC (Non-Official Cover).  Shortly after the funeral of President Joe Kennedy, Jr., he is sent to Cuba to assassinate Castro.  There he finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with adepts working for Fidel. 

Book of Death

 

Book 3

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Print ISBN:     9781938961267

E-Book ISBN: 9781938961274

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date 9/15/12

They live among us.  We know they are there.  No government can control them; no authority can stop them.  Some are evil.  Some are good.  All are powerful.  They inhabit our myths and fairy tales.  But what if they were real, the witches, wizards, and fairy godmothers?  What if they were called "adepts" and were organized into guilds for mutual protection and benefit?  And what if some of them discovered a power that other adepts could not match.

During the turbulent 1960s, when American adept Peter Branton agrees to go to Transylvania for the CIA, he suspects it's not about ball bearings as he was told.  What he finds is a plot that could kill millions of people and plunge the world into eternal tyranny and bloodshed.   Branton doesn't know it, but he's about to face the adept guilds' worst nightmare: practicing necromancers with a taste for human blood.

Gods of Strife

 

Book 4

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Print ISBN:     9781629890982

E-Book ISBN: 9781629890999

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date 5/15/2014

They live among us. We know they are there. No government can control them; no authority can stop them. Some are evil. Some are good. All are powerful. They inhabit our myths and fairy tales. But what if they were real, the witches, wizards, and fairy godmothers? What if they were called "adepts" and an ancient evil stalks them?

An assassination attempt on the head of the American Meta Association guild sends adept Peter Branton looking for who wants him and his leader dead. Finding the beautiful, shape-shifting assassin leads him to his real enemy, an enemy that is much worse and much more dangerous: living gods of Atlantis. Branton must team with up with his would-be killer and a mysterious warrior to defeat the gods of strife that are intent on starting a war that could devastate all mankind.

The Terror of Tombstone

 

Book 5

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Hardback ISBN: 9781629892603

Print ISBN:         9781629892610

eBook ISBN:       9781629892627

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Release Date 05/15/2015

Abel Lewis is a city slicker and a dandy and completely out of his element in the frontier of 1881 Arizona, nursing saddle sores and wishing for a soft bed. But Lewis hides a skill, and as he seeks to find an evil power in the deserts and small towns of the Southwest, he'll need all his abilities and all his cunning to survive. And a friend with a Winchester is mighty useful, too.

From Tombstone to San Francisco, Lewis is on the trail of a dark force that has its own devastating plans for the Old West. Will Lewis survive his confrontation with the over-powering malevolence of the terror of Tombstone?

Rock Killer

 

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Print ISBN:     9781937593452

E-Book ISBN: 9781937593469

Genre: Sci-Fi Suspense

Released Date 3/1/2012

Space Resources, Inc. (SRI) mines asteroids for the riches a populated Earth needs without degrading the planet.  Yet there are those opposed to progress in whatever its form such as the Gaia Alliance, a front group for eco-terrorists.  During a violent attack on the Moon, the terrorists steal an exploration ship, arm it, and rename it the Rock Killer. Charlene "Charlie" Jones of SRI security is trying to infiltrate the Gaia Alliance's cabal to find evidence linking them to the murder of her fiancé.  But a run-in with the law threatens to reveal her identity to the dangerous men of the Alliance. Simultaneously, SRI Director Alexander Chun is traveling to the asteroid belt to bring a kilometer-long nickel-iron rock back to Earth orbit to mine for its valuable metals.  Following him and his multi-national team is the Rock Killer.  Without armaments, millions of miles from help, Chun must stop those who threaten him and the lives of his crew.

 

Forces

 

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Paperback ISBN: 9781629894539

eBook ISBN: 9781629894546

Genre: Science Fiction Suspense

Release Date: 05/16/2016

Captain Olly Johnson has twice used his stolen Bussard ram jet, the Longboat, to blackmail human colonies into giving him large amounts of gold. That makes him humanity's first interstellar pirate, even though his ship travels slower than light. One more profitable raid, and Johnson thinks he, his family, and his First Mate John Larsen can retire, and never have to worry about money again. 

Approaching a third star system after an eight-year (ship's time) journey, the pirates have found mysteries they cannot solve: an entire population of a human colony missing and an unknown, alien-looking ship in orbit. When the alien ship comes after them and they can't outrun its superior technology, they have to decide to fight or surrender. And Johnson isn't the type to surrender. 

Have they stumbled into a galactic war, or are they about to start one?

Annihilation from Above

 

Author: S. Evan Townsend

Hardback ISBN: 9798393576134

Paperback ISBN: 9781960076663

eBook ISBN: 9781960076670

Genre: Science Fiction Suspense

Release Date: 5/30/2023

Mining asteroids with robots is common and sometimes the orbit of the rock is changed to facilitate extracting the valuable metals.

One Monday morning, a car bomb detonates in Manhattan. As law enforcement officials scramble to find who's responsible, it becomes clear that it was a distraction. Terrorists have hijacked an asteroid and put in an orbit to hit the Earth. Suddenly the race is on to stop it.

While FBI agent Juanita Flores pursues the bombers, astronauts Howard Drayden and Johnny Park put their lives on the line to save millions. Can Flores find who is responsible while Drayden and Park endeavor to avert the disaster in time?

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