Bob Mayer Books in Order

A nuclear explosion in South Africa triggers an unexplained transmission from Australia's Ayers Rock. Captain Robert Hawkins joins a team of specialists investigating an ancient hidden chamber, where a message from humanity's past points toward a possible global catastrophe.

A secret network of Army officers plans to seize power by killing the president on Pearl Harbor Day. Delta Force soldier Boomer Watson and Major Benita Trace must challenge fellow West Point graduates to stop the conspiracy before December seventh.

A renegade general prepares to activate an alien mothership hidden beneath the Nevada desert. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte race to halt the test, while an archaeologist uncovers evidence connecting ancient civilization to extraterrestrial visitors.

Terrorists seize a missile capable of triggering the entire American nuclear arsenal, leaving officials with few options. Special Forces soldier Thorpe and Air Force specialist Parker must stop the launch before the government's proposed counterattack creates another catastrophe.

An alien computer beneath Easter Island sends a message into space, drawing extraterrestrials toward Earth. Lisa Duncan and Mike Turcotte follow clues across ancient sites to determine the visitors' intentions before their return puts humanity's survival at risk.

Former Green Beret Eric Dane survived a mysterious encounter in Cambodia that cost him his team. Years later, disappearances around the world suggest that the force that destroyed Atlantis has returned, drawing him into a struggle against an ancient enemy.

A kidnapped teenage girl becomes central to a plot involving a biological weapon that one person can unleash. Special Forces operative Thorpe must navigate covert operations and betrayal within his own ranks to stop the weapon and rescue her.

A deadly virus spreads through Amazon villages, threatening worldwide contagion after the exposure of Area 51. Lisa Duncan and Mike Turcotte suspect an alien weapon and investigate a mysterious site called the Mission in search of humanity's possible salvation.

As mysterious gates open around Earth, Eric Dane and Sin Fen confront the Shadow threatening the planet. Their struggle connects with a Viking warrior and a seer in the year 1000, demanding cooperation across a millennium to resist the invasion.

Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton joins a covert team able to project avatars into virtual and physical worlds. With stolen nuclear warheads in circulation and a powerful Russian cyborg pursuing revenge, the psychic warriors must prevent an escalation toward global war.

Alien-human hybrids seize a dormant spacecraft and use it to threaten Earth with nuclear missiles. Lisa Duncan and Mike Turcotte follow archaeological clues into the Great Sphinx, seeking the ancient key their enemies demand before the ultimatum expires.

Eric Dane and Sin Fen seek mysterious crystal skulls as the Shadow threatens destruction around the Pacific Ring of Fire. Their struggle connects with Amelia Earhart and figures from ancient history, bringing unlikely allies together against a force spanning time.

Bob Mayer follows the practical process of developing an idea into a novel and navigating publication. Topics include viewpoint, characters, opening chapters, queries, agents, and sustaining a writing career, with discussion of the choices available to individual authors.

Lisa Duncan finds the Holy Grail while an alien force races to recover ancient sources of power. Trapped near the Great Sphinx, she depends on Mike Turcotte's rescue mission, which forces him to weigh her safety against securing the artifact.

A warning from Robert Frost sends a secret mission aboard the first nuclear submarine, while ancient Spartans protect a priestess bound for a mystical gate. Eric Dane's struggle against the Shadow connects these distant events in a battle for Earth.

Two alien factions compete to dominate Earth, leaving Mike Turcotte's team facing a dangerous choice of allies. Their search for the real Excalibur takes them across ancient sites, seeking a weapon capable of unlocking extraordinary power before enemies claim it.

After the Shadow devastates Earth, Eric Dane believes his visions contain instructions for saving it. Joining a Navy research vessel, he travels across time and parallel dimensions in a desperate attempt to change the outcome of the enemy's assault.

The immortal hybrid Nosferatu seeks the alien technology behind the Holy Grail to escape dependence on human blood and regain a lost lover. A rival pursues the same prize, setting up a confrontation with consequences for the entire planet.

With Earth's legendary artifacts uncovered, humans and aliens pursue the location of a mothership that could determine their survival. Mike Turcotte must recover a secret buried in Lisa Duncan's memory as an alien army threatens domination and nuclear destruction.

Eric Dane travels through time and parallel worlds to gather crystal skulls capable of transforming intense human emotion into a weapon. As the Shadow's campaign reaches its climax, he searches history's fiercest battles for a means of saving every timeline.

Donnchadh and Gwalcmai escape a doomed human breeding colony after rebelling against their alien creators. Learning that Earth faces the same enslavement, they travel to Atlantis and begin a covert campaign spanning millennia to resist the Airlia's control.

Neeley investigates her lover's death while housewife Hannah searches for her vanished husband. Discovering that the men shared a dangerous secret draws both women into the operations of the Cellar, a hidden agency whose interests put their lives at risk.

Disgraced Special Forces captain Jim Vaughn accepts recruitment into Section Eight, a covert unit of skilled, expendable misfits. Their impossible missions offer redemption, but the group's secretive handlers and uncertain loyalties leave him questioning whose interests they really serve.

This guide covers the craft and business of novel writing, from developing plots and characters to revising a manuscript and seeking publication. Self-contained chapters let writers focus on particular problems while building the skills needed to complete their work.

Bob Mayer adapts Special Forces methods to overcoming fear and pursuing personal or professional goals. The book emphasizes practical strategies for taking risks, developing mental toughness, communicating effectively, and leading others when uncertainty makes progress difficult to sustain.

Commercial director Lucy Armstrong takes over the final days of a chaotic action-movie shoot in the Georgia swamps. Green Beret J.T. Wilder signs on as a stunt double and military advisor, then discovers someone is using the production to cover a very real and very deadly operation.

Food writer Agnes Crandall just wants to cater a mob-adjacent wedding at her beloved old house. After a dognapper breaks into her kitchen and bodies start turning up, professional hitman Shane is sent to protect her, and together they juggle gunmen, flamingos, missing millions, and inconvenient attraction.

A captive girl, a murdered teacher, and a kidnapped student draw the attention of the Cellar's new commander. Operatives investigating the apparently separate crimes enlist a profiler, following a trail along the East Coast that may conceal a deadly trap.

A secret Antarctic installation containing an exceptionally powerful weapon has been breached after decades of concealment. Captain Jim Vaughn leads Section Eight into the frozen unknown, confronting a renewed enemy and a threat that could destroy far more than America.

Project manager Mab Brannigan is hired to restore Dreamland, a crumbling amusement park. She soon learns the rides are actually cages for powerful demons, the new security chief is not entirely human, and saving the park may require facing both real monsters and the ghosts of her own past.

Bob Mayer presents a program for developing the writer as a professional author, drawing on his publishing career and Special Forces background. The focus moves beyond manuscript technique toward personal goals, fear, discipline, and the business judgment needed to progress.

West Point cadets Lucius Rumble and Elijah Cord begin a journey through the upheavals leading to the American Civil War. Personal rivalries, military service, and encounters with historical figures test their competing loyalties to country, family, friendship, and duty.

Green Beret Paul Ducharme and former CIA officer Evie Tolliver inherit responsibility for a hidden document tied to America's balance of power. Pursued by an assassin, they must assemble Jefferson's cipher and uncover a secret passed down since the republic's founding.

Bob Mayer applies Green Beret strategies to the transition from writing manuscripts to building a sustainable author career. The guide concentrates on how writers think, plan, and prepare for their future, addressing professional development beyond the words on the page.

Bob Mayer and Jen Talty explain how writers can prepare for conferences and make purposeful use of their time there. Topics include choosing events and workshops, networking, pitching a book, and reviewing results afterward to support longer-term career goals.

A massive object approaches Earth as rival organizations prepare incompatible responses to the apparent apocalypse. One seeks religious salvation and sends assassins after Judas in the Amazon; the other gathers nuclear weapons to divert the object before it reaches the planet.

Staff Sergeant Winthrop Carter joins an eccentric covert unit tasked with sealing breaches that release interdimensional beings into reality. When a rogue scientist triggers an invasion inside a gated community, Carter and the Nightstalkers must contain it and identify its source.

Psychic warrior Jimmy Dalton faces two secret organizations willing to risk humanity in their struggle for power. With technology allowing operatives to leave their bodies and fight on a virtual plane, his team must stop both factions before their conflict becomes catastrophic.

This practical handbook covers preparing for and responding to emergencies of varying severity, using military experience, humor, and case studies. Mayer discusses survival priorities, teamwork, equipment, home and vehicle readiness, and scenarios ranging from ordinary accidents to disasters and imagined threats.

Bob Mayer and Jen Talty describe how they built an independent digital publishing business from modest ebook sales. The guide covers publication choices, editing and covers, uploading, pricing, branding, marketing, and discoverability as parts of an author's career strategy.

This writing collection brings together guidance on developing an author career, completing a novel, and navigating digital publishing. Combining Mayer's writing and publishing manuals, it addresses both the manuscript process and the professional decisions involved in bringing books to readers.

The Nightstalkers join the Cellar after a dangerous pathogen infects the president and a military cabal threatens nuclear war. They must locate a hidden missile stockpile while a rogue general controls the operations center beneath the White House.

Paul Ducharme and Evie Tolliver uncover a secret arrangement made by Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cold War. Its lingering machinery could trigger a nuclear catastrophe, forcing them to unravel the agreement before an obsolete safeguard becomes a present-day threat.

Bob Mayer examines catastrophes as chains of preventable decisions rather than random misfortune. Using examples including the Titanic, Little Bighorn, the Donner Party, financial bubbles, and Apollo 13, he considers leadership, preparation, accountability, and lessons that can interrupt future failures.

This nonfiction volume examines major disasters, including the Challenger explosion, the sinking of the Kursk and the Sultana disaster. Mayer uses these cases to explore how organizational decisions and preventable failures contribute to catastrophic outcomes.

Deadly energy beings emerge through new rifts in Tennessee, drawing the battered Nightstalkers into another mission. To close the breaches permanently, the covert team must confront the origins of a threat that seems to be learning from them.

The Shadow targets October 29 in six different years, threatening to erase the present by altering history. Time Patrol agents have twenty-four hours at each destination to protect pivotal events against unfamiliar enemies and alternate possibilities.

Grace has thirty days until her assigned death, while her twin Millay belongs to a privileged class without such a deadline. Their divided lives and a memoryless stranger challenge the computer-controlled society that dictates their fate.

Separated twins Grace and Millay must reunite as their world's computer ruler faces renewed conflict with cyborgs. Discovering the truth behind society's assigned lifespans becomes essential to understanding their own role in the approaching crisis.

When the secret Time Patrol disappears, the Nightstalkers have twelve hours to prevent the destruction of Earth's timeline. Rifts in their own lives and a missing colleague turn the search into a personal battle against forces manipulating history.

The Time Patrol sends agents to six versions of June 6 to stop the Shadow from altering reality. Missions involving Normandy, ancient Greece and a nuclear weapons depot demand that they preserve history within twenty-four hours.

The Shadow threatens events occurring on March 15 across six different years, from Caesar's fate to political upheavals centuries later. Time Patrol agents must prevent the changes before their combined effects erase the present timeline.

Time Patrol agents travel to six July 4 destinations to defend history from the Shadow. Their missions reach the American founding, Civil War battles and ancient Greece, where apparently local changes could destroy the modern world.

The Shadow attacks September 11 events across centuries, threatening everything from Roman campaigns to the Time Patrol's own existence. Agents must protect separate historical moments while tracing a plan capable of wiping out their present reality.

This preparedness guide organizes emergency planning into practical tasks and checklists for individuals and families. It addresses potential disruptions such as storms, earthquakes, fires and power outages, emphasizing actions taken before disaster and the confusion that follows.

This compact handbook focuses on coping with an emergency already underway, complementing Mayer's preparation guide. It emphasizes practical survival knowledge and the use of available resources, including scavenging, when ordinary services and supplies have become unreliable.

Lara escapes a mental institution uncertain which of her conflicting memories are real. A would-be bomber who suddenly perceives other people's lives shares her DNA, drawing both into secret experiments involving consciousness, time and parallel realities.

Time Patrol agents defend six Halloween dates against the Shadow's interference, confronting threats around Luther, Salem and a wartime naval sinking. One unusual mission reaches the team's own technological vulnerabilities as the larger timeline comes under attack.

Time Patrol agents visit six February 14 events, including a Chicago massacre, wartime diplomacy and the unveiling of ENIAC. Preserving history becomes more complicated than expected, demanding difficult choices as the Shadow threatens the present.

A Swarm battle core arrives above Earth, preparing a devastating invasion that scattered survivors barely understand. Mike Turcotte attempts to strike its center while people shelter underground or prepare to resist creatures beyond their worst legends.

After Earth's costly victory over alien domination, Mike Turcotte returns to Area 51 carrying disturbing knowledge about humanity's origins. The arrival of an ancient enemy threatens a disaster greater than the war humanity has just survived.

This emergency handbook breaks preparation into manageable steps for readers overwhelmed by the prospect of planning. Checklists, equipment references and an assessment of personal circumstances help organize readiness, while survival information supports responses when a disaster occurs.

Bren and Markus have spent millennia undermining the alien rulers of Earth15, where humans were bred for war against the Swarm. Meeting a man who claims to predate those rulers challenges everything Bren understands about humanity's origins.

Covert operative Lake races rival factions to find a Japanese atomic weapon hidden beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Events in wartime Manchuria illuminate the bomb's history as terrorists, foreign agents and betrayal threaten a present-day nuclear catastrophe.

This guide combines preparation tasks with information for surviving accidents and disasters. Numbered activities and checklists help readers assess their circumstances, while a second section addresses responses to specific emergencies and threats in different environments.

Earth lies devastated by nuclear war, an alien invasion and a deadly virus, with survivors scattered across a darkened landscape. Mike Turcotte and others face lingering monsters and mysterious human transformations as ancient forces begin to stir.

This portable reference gathers emergency information for use when ordinary support is unavailable. Its topics include first aid, water, food, shelter, navigation and scavenging, with guidance for deciding whether to remain in place or leave.

A failed Organization mission brings operative Shane together with sword-wielding Phoebe, then connects them to an apparently intimate wedding at Two Rivers. Rival assassins, aristocratic conflicts and an internal traitor threaten Shane's future with Agnes.

Bob Mayer gathers practical advice for everyday problems and emergencies, covering household safety, travel, digital security, and basic survival. Short entries offer ways to prepare for unexpected situations and handle common difficulties with greater independence.

Bob Mayer explores New York City's geography, overlooked history, unusual buildings, and transportation. Brief chapters connect familiar streets and landmarks with forgotten disasters and surprising stories, offering a different perspective on the city for visitors and residents.

While Shane and Agnes prepare to marry, Phoebe pursues a traitor through a circle of dangerous and eccentric assassins. Violence interrupts Lisa Livia's romance, and unexpected allies complicate a hunt that becomes more than a quest for revenge.

Bob Mayer examines mistakes that hinder writers, from unfinished manuscripts and ineffective work habits to misunderstandings about publishing. Drawing on his career, he offers practical approaches to developing craft, managing time, and building a professional writing life.

Bob Mayer combines survival techniques with accounts of real emergencies to explore preparation, first aid, shelter, water, and rescue. The guide also considers how clear priorities and mental resilience affect decisions when ordinary support systems fail.

Bob Mayer introduces the periodic table through the properties, uses, and histories of its 118 elements. Stories about discoveries, technological applications, and dangerous accidents connect basic chemistry with the materials and forces shaping everyday life.

Retired Green Beret Dave shelters survivors in a Smoky Mountains cave after America’s collapse. Winter brings dwindling food, untreated illness, and grief, while a well-supplied billionaire nearby complicates the difficult choices needed to keep the group alive.

During Sherman’s March to the Sea, a murderous band operates in the Union army’s shadow. Sherman recruits three men to hunt its ruthless leader, forcing them to confront atrocities and the uncertain boundary between wartime strategy and evil.

Newly married Shane is pulled out of retirement to work with Phoebe on recruiting surviving assassins. The targets depend on a controlled antidote, but a rival recruiter offers a different bargain that threatens the mission and their loyalties.

As civilization gradually collapses around Knoxville, five groups struggle to recognize the danger and reach safety. A retired Green Beret, a greenhouse worker, and other survivors must decide whom to trust and how much they can sacrifice for others.

Bob Mayer examines the American Civil War through short questions about its people, battles, inventions, and daily hardships. Accounts of soldiers, civilians, spies, and medical practices reveal lesser known details behind the conflict's familiar leaders and events.