Dean Ing Books in Order

Terrorist leader Hakim Arif identifies the United States as a vulnerable target and plans to demonstrate its weaknesses. This thriller follows the threat to a country confident in its safety but reluctant to accept the security measures that might protect it.

Parasitic aliens arrive in the ancient American Southwest and seek human hosts among the Anasazi. Their need for children's bodies gives the title story its threat; the volume also contains two additional science-fiction stories by Dean Ing.

A nuclear attack by China and India devastates the United States and leaves survivors struggling through lawlessness. Young Ted Quantrill learns that staying alive may require violence, beginning his transformation in the first installment of this postwar science-fiction trilogy.

Science fiction stories and essays examine the pressures of technological change and the dangers of modern war. Alongside imagined futures, Ing considers military vehicle design, nuclear attacks and the practical problems people might face in trying to survive them.

A fictional account of surviving nuclear attack is paired with a substantial practical section on preparedness. Ing discusses shelter construction, ventilation, fallout measurement, supplies, and other problems facing survivors, combining a survival narrative with illustrated explanations of protective measures.

After nuclear war leaves the United States devastated, a government focused on survival takes control of the remaining society. This sequel to Systemic Shock continues the Quantrill story amid the political and social consequences of rebuilding a shattered country.

Space settlements face unrest after their founding ambitions give way to stagnation, and armed factions threaten neighboring asteroid colonies. Investigator Rex Bader is drawn into efforts to trace gunrunning and resist forces seeking control of humanity's growing communities beyond Earth.

Alex Germain visits the Mexican village of San Raphael and recognizes people from his past who have not aged in decades. Seeking an explanation draws him into a violent struggle over a secret that promises far more than ordinary longevity.

After uranium discoveries displace the Apaches from ancestral land, they challenge the United States government. Their cause converges with that of reformer Ross Prager and the unconventional Chutzba family, producing an alliance that unsettles Washington's plans for the future.

Private investigator Rex Bader is hired to protect the leader of the first colony at the Earth-Moon L-5 point. Attempts on the director's life threaten a project intended to bring prosperity, forcing Rex to identify and stop its hidden enemies.

Archaeologist Dan Fielding steps through an invisible barrier into sixteenth-century Mexico and is captured by Hernando Cortez. Revealing the territory north of the Rio Grande risks changing history, leaving Fielding to seek Indigenous allies against further conquest.

Dean Ing and Leik Myrabo examine technological possibilities for future air and space travel. This nonfiction survey ranges from ultralight aircraft to antimatter and laser propulsion, presenting ideas that might transform flight beyond the aircraft and rockets familiar at publication.

America's first space colony suffers mysterious failures, accidents, and declining morale. Sent to investigate, secret agent Peter Kapitz uncovers Soviet involvement but discovers a wider conspiracy, turning a technical and political crisis into a struggle for his own survival.

Government assassin Ted Quantrill tries to leave killing behind and settle in the American Southwest. His former profession offers no easy retirement, however, and staying alive means facing another highly trained killer who was once his friend.

On a future Earth plagued by shortages and conflict, Roy Cos purchases a Deathwish Policy that promises a comfortable life. The arrangement instead makes him a target for killers working for Worldgov, turning privilege into a threat to his survival.

Teenager Mark Paladino escapes an attempted kidnapping and finds refuge with his teacher, Stu Ransome. Pursued by Chinese and Russian agents, the pair must discover how Mark's father's mysterious history connects their danger to wartime gold and international espionage.

Dean Ing examines how emerging technologies could transform future battlefields. Self repairing armor, specialized biological weapons and vehicles that tunnel underground illustrate a changing military landscape, raising questions about the equipment and tactics soldiers might need to survive.

Engineer and businessman John Peel develops Delta One, an experimental airship designed to carry heavy loads. Its disruptive potential draws opposition from the trucking industry and unions, while terrorists add a deadly threat to the struggle surrounding his new technology.

This nonfiction survival book considers how people might cope after nuclear war or the collapse of essential systems. Ing covers escape planning, crisis skills, fallout measurement, civil defense, and small-scale farming as parts of preparing for disrupted everyday life.

Black Stealth One, an advanced aircraft whose secrets American intelligence is determined to protect, disappears despite elaborate safeguards. The apparent thief is a man the CIA believes it killed years earlier, deepening a crisis already shadowed by Soviet interest.

Human prisoner Carroll Locklear finds himself stranded among prehistoric Kzinti, the formidable feline aliens of the Man-Kzin universe. Surviving requires finding allies within an unfamiliar society, where cooperation with the females may offer possibilities the hostile males do not.

American agents use the solar-powered surveillance aircraft Nemesis to disrupt a drug cartel's plan to move cash and hostages from Las Vegas to Mexico. A crash in the jungle puts its pilots between rescuers and guerrillas pursuing revenge.

A nearly undetectable aircraft equipped with a precision laser weapon appears in the United States. Its ability to kill individual targets from high altitude creates a threat at the center of this espionage sequel to The Ransom of Black Stealth One.

Hidden escape kits give undercover agents money, weapons, transport, and new identities when a mission goes wrong. Thieves target these unreportable caches for their wealth, but their willingness to murder makes the scheme more dangerous than a secret robbery operation.

A group of aging Pacific pilots hears a story about valuable Japanese warplanes concealed on a remote island. With a hand-drawn map as their guide, they set out to recover the aircraft and attempt one final flight across the ocean.

Schoolteacher Teresa Contreras interrupts a kidnapping in Puerto Vallarta and flees with the intended child victim. Pursued into the United States by mercenaries, she turns to an old friend whose failed effort to save her own child links their painful histories.

Aerospace engineer Rob Tarrant builds a miniature unmanned aircraft as a hobby and presents it to his employer. Instead of the career opportunity he expects, the invention's security potential draws dangerous attention and forces him to evade people determined to stop him.

Bounty hunter and racing driver Harve Rackham has prepared his California home as a survival shelter. With a hunting cheetah as his companion, he faces the prospect of terrorist attacks and nuclear threats determined to survive whatever catastrophe may come.

Hollywood freelancer Max Wald is hired to locate missing footage from an unreleased 1930s film. Reconnecting with his Romany grandfather and the film's former star changes his outlook, while Mafia interest makes the search dangerous for Max and his friends.

During the summer of 1942 in Austin, teenager Charlie Hardin tries to obey his parents' instruction to avoid trouble. Adventures involving his dog, improvised inventions, and a storm culvert instead draw him toward a criminal scheme connected to Nazi ambitions.