U.S. Air Force pilots are becoming reluctant to fly missions into North Vietnam from their bases in Thailand because the North Vietnamese are shooting them down from a missile site they cannot find. Together with the unexplained loss helicopters on deep penetration missions lead Josh Haman and his friend Marty Cabot, the leader of SEAL Team Sierra Six, to suspect a leak in the Navy's secure communications. No one believes them until Cabot aborts a reconnaissance mission after capturing several maps that that has their insertion and extraction landing zones plotted. At the secret missile base, Colonel Alexei Koniev, one of the Soviet Army's leading experts in surface to air missile warfare is testing his theories. His napalm scarred counterpart, Colonel Nguyen Thai, is being pressured to force Koniev to shoot down more airplanes while the Russian wants to be more selective to preserve the element of surprise that has helped them bag almost sixty airplanes. Both know that it is only a matter of time before the Americans find and attack the hidden missile base, but how and when? Ride with Josh Haman as he flies an HH-3A with the call sign BIG MOTHER 40 on combat search and rescues. inserting and extracting SEAL teams in the hunt for the secret missile base.

Big Mother 40

Literature & Fiction

Liebman, Marc

Genre Fiction

Fireship Press

Deadly mix of Fatah, Stasi, KGB and Nazis who want to create a Fourth Reich threaten West Germany...Car bombs set by a group called Red Hand are going off all over West Germany, killing American, British and German citizens. Red Hand's manifesto reads as if it was copied from Nazi propaganda. Now, just four years after the 1972 Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes and three decades after the Holocaust, the West German government is facing its worst political nightmare: Germans are once again killing Jews - and former Nazis who want to create the Fourth Reich may somehow be involved. The West German police can't find the shadowy members of Red Hand, so the American and British governments decide to act covertly. Josh Haman, part way through an exchange tour with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, joins the team led by his friend and SEAL Team Six member Marty Cabot. The hunt takes their team into East Germany to execute their written orders, which tell them "to find, neutralize and render harmless to the United States and her allies the members of Red Hand." About the Josh Haman Series Cherubs 2 is the first book in the series JoshHaman's first aircraft commander is a coward and leads to Josh being accused of leading a mutiny. He meet's Marty Cabot and they become life longfriends. #2 is Big Mother 40, Josh and Marty are tasked shut down a secret North Vietnamese missile base. Big Mother 40 was ranked #47 in the top 100 war novels by the readers of Amazon in June, 2013. In#3, Render Harmless, Josh Haman joins a team hunting a terrorist organization whose manifesto reads as if it was written by Adolf Hitler. Their mission - "find, neutralize and render harmless to the United States and her allies the members of Red Hand." Book four - Forgotten- tells the story of six Americans held by a corrupt North Vietnamesecolonel who wants to ransom them. Two men - one in the CIA and one former POW -want them dead so they can't tell their tale. Forgotten was a National Finalist in Historical Fiction in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a Finalist in Fiction in the 2017 Book Excellence Awards. It is rated Five Star by Book Favorites. Inner Look,number five is an espionage thriller about revenge. It was rated Five Star by Book Favorites. The sixth - Moscow Airlift - should be released early in 2018. The last novel, The Simushir Island Incident - is written and will be submitted to a publisher later this fall. The books do not have to be read in sequence. Each has enough of the "back stories" so the reader understands the past.

Render Harmless

Mutiny and cowardice are two words no service manwants associated with his name... Newly designated Naval Aviator, Josh Haman arrives in the Philippines and is thrown the first curveball. Instead of flying the HH-3A on which trained, he is told he will fly the HH-2C. Twenty flight hours later, oral, written tests and a check ride later, he joins Detachment 104 led by Lieutenant Stephen Higgins on the U.S.S. Sterett. After just a few flights with his detachment officer-in-charge, he suspects something is horribly wrong. When Higgins waves off a rescue and leaves a man inthe water, Josh realized his aircraft commander and detachment officer-in-charge is a coward. After confronting him, Higgins indirectly admits he will not attempt a rescue under fire. Afew days later, a reconnaissance plane has engine trouble and Higgins and hehave a confrontation on the helo deck when Higgins orders Josh not to go. After a shoving match Josh launches in the HH-2C which can be flown by a single pilot during daylight hours and makes the rescue. On return to the Sterett, Higgins is relieved of his command by the ship's commanding officer and Higgins wants Haman charged with mutiny. And this is just the beginning of the story!

Cherubs 2

When Na’il Miraj arrives at an al Qaeda recruiting station in Paris, he is seen by the organization’s leaders as a gift from Allah. Their hope is that the former U.S. Army missile repair technician could turn their horde of out-of-date Stinger missiles into functioning weapons.The discovery of Stinger missiles that failed to fire in a farmer’s field in North Texas in the fall of 2016 should have set off alarm bells within the last few months of a lame duck administration. But they didn’t.There were those in the CIA who thought differently. Derek Almer is encouraged to start a small think tank by a friend in the CIA to research the threat of man portable, shoulder mounted surface-to-air missiles known by the acronym MANPADS. Helped by a little luck and intelligence from his contacts within the Mossad, Derek’s firms learns that the terrorist group has smuggled Russian-made Igla-S’s, as well as Stingers, into the U.S. Miraj’s plan—shoot down enough airliners to kill thousands and shut down the world’s air transportation system.The question Derek Almer has to answer is when and where will the missiles be used?

Failure to Fire: Derek Almer Thrillers Book 2

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Gordian Knot Books

Spies and traitors inside and outside the CIA...After John Walker and Jerry Whitworth are arrested for passing top-secret information to the Soviet Union, the project Inner Look is initiated to determine if there are any other spies operating within the government intelligence agencies. Navy SEAL Marty Cabot and naval aviator Josh Haman are assigned to the project in the hopes that their unconventional approach and out-of-the-box thinking will yield more answers. Cabot and Haman discover that the security leaks go higher up than anyone imagined. Furthermore, the leaks have compromised many of their missions. For Josh and Marty, it's not just about national security, it's personal. Their pursuit turns international, taking them into dangerous waters. Nothing but their skills will keep them alive when the KBG sends assassins to silence the traitor and neutralize the threat they pose.

Inner Look (Josh Haman Book)

Penmore Press LLC

Review\n"If you like a quick-paced and action-packed story, you'll enjoy this one... The Soviets are working with the North Vietnamese at an experimental base to develop and test new strategies and tactics meant to cripple U.S. air and ground efforts in the Vietnam War. Navy pilots and the SEALS they support are a particularly deadly thorn in their side. Josh Haman, pilot of the helicopter with the call sign Big Mother 40, has proven himself to be cool under fire, steadfast when confronted with both belligerent hostiles and commanding officers, and a truly gifted and dedicated pilot...But as the action heats up, more than their lives and the lives of their men are at stake. The entire theater of war hangs in the balance. Liebman is veteran helicopter pilot himself and he has poured his first hand experience into Big Mother 40, his debut novel, so much so that you'll leave this novel feeling as though you might be able to fly a helo yourself. If you like a quick-paced and action-packed story, you'll enjoy this one." -- Historical Novel Society Review (review refers to an earlier edition)\nA great read on Navy helicopter rescue operations in the Vietnam era. It is a very well written, exciting, fast moving book about the life of two Navy lieutenants, a Navy Helicopter pilot and a Navy Seal and their teams performing their duties in extremely hazardous conditions. Although fiction, Liebman's knowledge of Navy Helicopter and Navy SEAL operations and the planning it takes to complete these types of missions is evident throughout the novel. His understanding of the overall concept of joint and naval operations and the specifics of both Special Forces and helicopter missions during the Vietnam era makes this a very believable scenario." --Ken L. Fisher, Rear Admiral USN (Ret.), Naval Aviator and fighter pilot. (review refers to an earlier edition)\n"It was my pleasure to review this magnificent book about U.S. Navy helicopter combat rescue operations for downed aviators and crews during the Vietnam War....Captain Liebman USN (Ret.) was an aviator in Vietnam and the Middle East. Liebman brought that background to the pages of this historical novel about the USN helicopter rescue crews that supported and extracted Navy SEAL combat surveillance teams in daring rescues behind enemy lines. The author reconstructs HH-3A Jolly Green Giant SAR missions from land bases and off carrier and destroyer decks against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces. The HH-3A helicopters carried crews of five in huge, heavily armored and armed aircraft designed to hover, land, and fly over dangerous landing zones and heavy grass and forests where enemy troops waited to capture downed American helicopter and fixed wing aviators...The objectives of the rescue teams were to "get in and out" safely, authenticate operational procedures, and avoid flying into enemy traps. Riveting accounts of combat action, and helicopter approaches and take-offs from hot Landing Zones are frightening enough to read about, let alone do. Liebman's vivid descriptions put the reader into the action, with phrases like, "The crew watched as the tip of the (helicopter) blades chewed through the top of the elephant grass," with the enemy in close pursuit firing projectiles and bullets. And an aviator's radio warning that his helicopter "is hit. Losing gas out of my left wing tank. Gotta go home." And Liebman's description of combat action with "the ping of bullets going through the skin of the helicopter." And how an on-ground surveillance team discovers "the 10-foot chunk of a rotor blade that looks like it is from an H-3." --Thomas P. Ostrom, author of The United States Coast Guard: 1790 to the Present. (review refers to an earlier edition)\nFor a first novel, BIG MOTHER 40 by Marc Liebman is a suspense-drivenwork, from dynamic plot to fleshed-out characters to crisp dialogue to historic significance to dramatic suspense. Marc Liebman is the new ace inmilitary thrillers. He not on

Big Mother 40 (Josh Haman Book 2)

Penmore Press

Car bombs set by a group called Red Hand are going off all over West Germany, killing American, British and German citizens. Red Hand's manifesto reads as if it was copied from Nazi propaganda. Now, just four years after the 1972 Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes and three decades after the Holocaust, the West German government is facing its worst political nightmare: Germans are once again killing Jews - and former Nazis who want to create the Fourth Reich may somehow be involved. The West German police can't find the shadowy members of Red Hand, so the American and British governments decide to act covertly. Josh Haman, part way through an exchange tour with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, joins the team led by his friend and SEAL Team Six member Marty Cabot. The hunt takes their team into East Germany to execute their written orders, which tell them "to find, neutralize and render harmless to the United States and her allies the members of Red Hand."

Render Harmless (Josh Harman Book)

Review\n"All of Marc Liebman's books are superb and hard to put down once you start to read them, but Cherubs 2 is his finest to date! I could not put it down and read it cover to cover at one sitting! The book takes the reader back to the early 1970's and takes guys like me right back to our youthful combat days flying over North Viet Nam....Those of us who flew combat over North/South Viet Nam knew we stood a 50-50 chance of being picked up if bagged due to the sheer guts of the Big Mother crews! Cherubs 2 is a fast paced, thrilling, accurate novel that you will not be able to put down! It sits in my library right next to Clancy's novels! -- W.W. "Bear" Pickavance, Jr., Rear Admiral (ret) (review refers to an earlier edition)\n"...The key to good fiction is character development, no easy feat with this novel's large cast of characters including air crewmen, SEAL team members, Russian and Chinese officials, CINPac and top officials at the Pentagon, and Josh Haman's love interest-just to name a few. This book also includes the historical specifications on the operating Naval ships in the region and their aircraft rosters complete with call signs, during the time frame of the book. Cherubs 2 is a page turner and not easy to put down." -- John Penny, The Aviator, Magazine of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's Association (review refers to an earlier edition)\n"This is a fast-paced novel about a junior officer helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. With an engaging plot, realistic flying scenes, and a number of sub plots that keeps things interesting, the latest in the Josh Haman series will make unrestricted naval aviators feel as if they are right there in the helicopter...Any helicopter pilot or crewman will find this book realistic and absorbing and will not want to put it down. Naval veterans of Vietnam will recognize the locations, ships, aircraft and the frustrating progress of the war in Southeast Asia. I highly recommend this thriller to all hands." Cmdr. (ret) John Ball, USN, Rotor Review, Winter 2016. (review refers to an earlier edition)\nIn combat, there is a fine line between being overly cautious and cowardice. It's Josh Haman's first tour in Vietnam and he's fresh out of the training command - a "nugget" in Naval Aviator parlance. Josh Haman has to figure out on which side of the line the combat search and rescue detachment's officer-in-charge stands. Untested and without a lot of experience, he has to make a career and life and death decision and live with the consequences. Josh gets his first taste of the unpredictability of Naval operations when he is selected to be a pioneer flying helicopters in Naval special operations. He, and Marty Cabot, a Navy SEAL, become pawns in inter-service politics. The two of them are ordered to fly missions that could, if not carried out successfully, have international consequences beyond the war in Vietnam.\nFrom the Author\nA little known and forgotten incident can be the beginnings of a wonderful plot... 
After Big Mother 40 was published, a close friend of mine asked why don't I write a story based on an incident that happened in Vietnam. On the flight, they were in transit from one ship to another when a beeper came on the air, indicating that a pilot had ejected from a jet.\nMy friend, a junior co-pilot looked at the bearing to the downed pilot and listening to the radio calls, determined that they were the closest rescue asset. He suggested strongly to his aircraft commander that they go make the pick-up. The aircraft commander said if they need us, they'll ask. He made several excuses as to why they could not attempt the rescue. None were really valid. This dialog went on several times over the intercom and the aircraft commander told my friend to drop the subject.\nI'd forgotten all about the story until my friend mentioned it. So, I noodled around on it for awhile and voilà, out popped Cherubs 2.\nCherubs 2 is a novel about the continuum between being

Cherubs 2 (Josh Haman Book 1)

In 1991, Gorbachev signs the historic US/Soviet grain deal, committing the Soviets to purchasing eight million tons of grain over the next five years. In response, inflation in the Soviet Union rises almost out of control, the government loses its iron grip on the population, and the Soviet parliament votes to dissolve the Soviet Union. Hardliners want Gorbachev out of power, and the Iranians see the turmoil as a chance to acquire tactical nuclear weapons. The United States realizing it was receiving conflicting intelligence on the situation in the Soviet Union sends Josh Haman to Moscow as an independent set of eyes and ears. On the day he arrives, a KGB general promises to give him the names and addresses of the man who ordered the killing of his first wife's parents. Almost immediately, Haman's mission expands from gathering intelligence on the volatile political situation to stopping the delivery of the nuclear weapons to the Iranians, all the while tormented by the desire to exact revenge. In 1991, Gorbachev signs the historic US/Soviet grain deal, committing the Soviets to purchasing eight million tons of grain over the next five years. In response, inflation in the Soviet Union rises almost out of control, the government loses its iron grip on the population, and the Soviet parliament votes to dissolve the Soviet Union. Hardliners want Gorbachev out of power, and the Iranians see the turmoil as a chance to acquire tactical nuclear weapons. The United States realizing it was receiving conflicting intelligence on the situation in the Soviet Union sends Josh Haman to Moscow as an independent set of eyes and ears. On the day he arrives, a KGB general promises to give him the names and addresses of the man who ordered the killing of his first wife's parents. Almost immediately, Haman's mission expands from gathering intelligence on the volatile political situation to stopping the delivery of the nuclear weapons to the Iranians, all the while tormented by the desire to exact revenge.

Moscow Airlift (Josh Haman)

Raider of The Scottish Coast

United States

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