The Dead Don't Sleep

Frank Thompson a recent widower and aging Vietnam veteran is down from Maine visiting his nephew Bill and his family in New Jersey. While at a trap range he and his nephew have a chance encounter with a strange man who claims to remember Frank from the war. That night the windows in Bills home are shattered along with the quiet peaceful lives the two men had been living. Three veterans from a special combat unit directed by the CIA during the Vietnam War have gathered to discuss what they are going to do about a man they claim killed one of their own over forty years ago. Jasper Birdie and Pogo were part of a team that called themselves the National League All Stars. They were a squad of psychopathic killers trained by Special Forces to cause death and mayhem during the war. Now they have banded together to hunt down and kill the professional soldier who led them all those years ago. Drawing on his military training and a resurgent bloodlust from his tortured past Frank prepares for a final violent reckoning that will bring him full circle with the war that never left him. Praise for THE DEAD DONT SLEEP: The Dead Dont Sleep is a skillfully plotted fast-moving thriller brimming with a believable cast of characters especially the indelible Frank Thompson an old-school hero who I hope to see more of. --David Swinson author of Trigger and The Second Girl Russos The Dead Dont Sleep is a pulse racing chest thumper of a novel. --Reed Farrel Coleman New York Times bestselling author of What You Break Imagine if Rambo had lived a quiet undisturbed life in Maine until many decades later the ghosts of the Vietnam War came after him. Thats roughly the premise of The Dead Dont Sleep a gripping highly readable contemporary thriller with a strong emotional undercurrent. Steven Max Russo has done a magnificent job rendering the unique hold Vietnam continues to claim on thousands of its veterans. --Brad Parks international bestselling author The Dead Dont Sleep is a well-crafted tense suspenseful thriller in which hatred thats lasted a lifetime explodes into violence with uncontrollable consequences. --Thomas Perry Edgar Award-winning author of The Butchers Boy A dark tale of vengeance and redemption complete with mystery secrets and a longing for new adventure. A delectable and poignant read. --Steve Berry New York Times bestselling author of The Malta Exchange The Dead Dont Sleep is white-knuckle nonstop action a story of hard men at their limits and grudges that never die. --Joseph Finder New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire