John Boyd – författare

Major Robert Davis had almost captured bin Laden. He’d rescued the U.S. President’s son from kidnappers and met with the Castro brothers to prevent a war between the U.S. and Cuba. Now, with his Colombian-born mother recovering from a heart attack, all he wants is to resign from military intelligence and help her with the family’s international manufacturing company. And then the President calls. In John Boyd’s debut thriller, TWISTED FATE, Davis, the only person to have found bin Laden must travel to Colombia on a black ops mission to stop a planned terrorist attack on the U.S. by the revolutionary FARC and its secret leader, Gilberto Rodriquez. Supported by bin Laden’s organization, Rodriquez has the attack plan in motion, but he has not counted on Robert Davis. With the help of his brother and team, including a nerdy genius with a sophisticated tracking device, Robert races against time, with his life and the life of the woman he loves at stake.

BISAC: Fiction / EspionageThe follow up to “Twisted Fate,” days following the daring rescues and turning the FARC leader over to the FBI, the U.S. President decides to relocate the FARC leader to Guantanamo Bay, CUBA. The FARC leader and team transporting him are all killed. Only a select few in the United States and Colombian governments knew of the capture. The President tasked Davis and his team to discover the source of the leak that led to their deaths. Davis and team take on the job knowing that it had to be someone high up on one or both governments. While agreeing to the mission, Davis also tries to keep a promise to his future sister-in-law who was held captive for more than eleven years by the FARC, “to find the other hostages held by the FARC in the Colombian jungles.”

Denver Noles is a Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor winner who inherits half an island in the Florida Keys after the death of his uncle Harry. Deciding to leave the Navy and change his lifestyle he converts his uncle''s house into a bar and recruits a couple of other SEALS to run the bar, marina and boat yard and for five years they do just that, until an employee asks for his help. Her only daughter was kidnapped by Mexico''s largest cartel. Denver and his buddies head to Mexico to find the girl but get caught up in a conspiracy that puts them in a struggle for their lives between Mexico''s two largest cartels. Their only way out is to go on the offensive to save the girl and her family and themselves. Their hunt takes them to the coast near Cancun and eventually to a daring rescue in the Caribbean.

A SEAL team is ambushed deep in the mountains of Afghanistan trying to capture the terrorist known as ‘The Banker’. The team members are thought dead, but LT CMDR Jose Carmona survives and is captured and placed in a cave to be held and interrogated. Carmona is imprisoned with two others and leads them to freedom through a daring escape. The United States President decides to begin closing Guantanamo Prison and start holding Terror Trials on U.S. soil. The U.S. citizenry and some members of the President’s cabinet are against the trials. Many take measures in their own hands to stop them.

BISAC: Fiction / War & MilitaryRay Rivers, an alias, tells his story of being set up after completing the most impossible mission of his life. This insider’s story of hunt for the world’s number one bad guy, Osama bin Laden, is a chilling first person account that seems unbelievable at first, until the story leads to a trail of deceit and lies that don’t stop until it’s almost too late. Rivers has to fight for survival as he becomes the world’s number one marked man, chased and hunted by operators like himself. The question is: Marked by whom and why?

The follow up to ‘I hunted and killed Osama bin Laden’. Ray Rivers is given one task to gain the release of his fiancé by the CIA. He must kidnap the President of Iran and switch him with a double. Rivers performs his task but something goes wrong that no one ever anticipates. Rivers must decide between saving the woman that he loves or assisting his betrayers in the U.S. government stop a regime that has decided to detonate nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Israel. The story has non-stop action that takes the reader on a round the world trip where Rivers is drawn into a battle that he can’t win.

Denver Noles and his team decide to search for the Spanish treasures from map won by his deceased uncle during a World War II poker game. While searching the seabed off the coast of Panama an explosion rocks the Panama Canal. A huge cargo ship inside one of the canal locks system is pushed out from the canal during the explosion. Two men tumble into the water from their ship while Denver and his crew are nearby searching for Spanish gold. They pull the men from the water surprised they are U.S. Military and further surprised by learning what cargo is on the ship. Noles and the others try to look for more survivors as the ship sinks, from sabotage and find more than they bargain for. The hunt for gold is delayed as they have to hunt for the missing cargo and fight for their survival from a most deadly enemy. A fight that even their SEAL training might not have prepared them for.

Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In this fascinating book, the award-winning past president of the American Psychological Association, Philip Zimbardo, and his co-author, John Boyd, show how:- the way you perceive time is as unique as your fingerprints- these individual time perspectives shape your life, and the world around you- you can change the way you perceive time, so you get the most out of every minute- if you don't, the power of time in the modern world is so immense that it will take its toll on youThe Time Paradox is a highly readable, stimulating look at a subject that absorbs us all.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lucifer Effect comes a breakthrough book that draws on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. This is the first paradox of time: Your attitudes toward time have a profound impact on your life and world, yet you seldom recognize it. Our goal is to help you reclaim yesterday, enjoy today, and master tomorrow with new ways of seeing and working with your past, present, and future. Just as Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences permanently altered our understanding of intelligence and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink gave us an appreciation for the adaptive unconscious, Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd’s new book changes the way we think about and experience time. It will give you new insights into how family conflicts can be resolved by ways to enhance your sexuality and sensuality, and mindsets for becoming more successful in business and happier in your life. Based on the latest psychological research, The Time Paradox is both a "big think" guide for living in the twenty-first century and one of those rare self-help books that really does have the power to improve lives.

I’m pleased to continue our Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK® series with another collection of great SF novels, published originally between 1959 and 2011. Fans of classic science fiction with enjoy this set. A highlight is The Asteroid Murder Case, by the late Arthur Jean Cox, which is based on a story by Ross Rocklin. (See Jean’s introduction for more information). Also included are:

Not in Solitude, by Kenneth F. GantzFirst on the Moon, by Jeff SuttonThe Organ Farm, by John Boyd.

If you enjoy this ebook, don''t forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

What happens when two U.S. Naval Astronauts land on the planet Harlech, where there is no government, no law -- indeed, no concept of sin! Public nudity is a way of life and the paternalism of children is of little interest to their mothers. This wry, amusing, and suspenseful satire is truly John Boyd at his best.

Praise for John Boyd''s The Last Starship from Earth

"This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen since ''1984'' appeared. I enjoyed its humor, its half-buried allusions. The puns, the almost-not-quite-quotations, the thinly-veiled references to our ''real'' world—all of these delighted me. It belongs up at the top, along with ''Brave New World'' and ''1984''." --Robert A. Heinlein

"A fascinating novel that kept me amused and interested to the end. The future society it describes is one of the most convincing I''ve ever encountered.” -- Arthur C. Clarke

"In the tradition of Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury... A work of extraordinary impact." -- The Los Angeles Times

When the encounter long sought by mankind -- first contact with intelligent beings from outer space -- occurred two years ago in a remote area of the Idaho Panhandle, the event was not marked in the heavens with strange lights or on Earth with newspaper headlines. It began prosaically one Thursday morning in late May...

"Where are you from?"

She glanced toward the eastern ridge, studying it, and for a moment he thought she might point to a rock or a tree. Weighing her answer carefully, she pointed toward the top of the ridge and said, "From there."

"From the other side of the mountain?" he asked.

"No. From the other side of the morning."