New Releases by Mike Tucker

For over half a century the world has been kept safe from alien invasion by the tireless work of UNIT – the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Finally, that story has been uncovered. From the early days working in secret under the command of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to the new, modern UNIT organisation under the leadership of his daughter Kate, this secret history exposes the many threats ranged against our world – and how UNIT has saved humanity time and again. Carefully curated from the top-secret, maximum-security heart of UNIT itself, this never-before-seen account includes declassified case files spanning five decades, technical schematics of recovered alien technology, previously unreleased press reports and testimony from UNIT personnel who witnessed events first hand. Featuring plenty of input from the Fifteenth Doctor himself, The Gold Archive stands as the ultimate guide to Earth’s invasions.

FOR VIVIENNE by Mike Tucker "There are love stories and there are love stories, and then there is For Vivienne. Mike Tucker has written some very precious love stories and I adore them all, but here he has done something so remarkable and fascinating, in For Vivienne-he''s given us a heroine with the heart of a lion and the soul of love, a woman who discovers that, as Mike Tucker says in this magnificent, beautiful love story, "Love is the cure to sorrow." A great love story, For Vivienne, very, very moving and soulful-I could not put it down." Carolina Mendes, Lisbon

On a beach at night by Mike Tucker "On a beach at night celebrates love! Electrifying, sublime, poignant and straight from the heart, this is a great book of poetry. Forty years ago this spring, Mike Tucker received Honors in Poetry at James Madison University---these magnificent poems are the best since his legendary wildman poet days, when he earned great honor as a RONIN counterterrorist in Spain and later led hostage rescue missions beyond Burmese Army lines, before taking down Al Qaeda inside Saudi Arabia more recently. On a beach at night honors and celebrates love and the spirit of romance and freedom and adventure, from beginning to end. Bravo, Mike Tucker!" Danielle Chevalier, Paris "For lovers everywhere. A splendid, beautiful book of poems, On a beach at night is marvelous. Mike Tucker, a born poet, an internationally-acclaimed counterterrorism expert and an incredible novelist, has written poems that I have no doubt will enrich your life as they have enriched mine. My husband loves this book, too, and it is just so vivid, authentic, captivating and moving. The world is a better place for these magnificent poems. For lovers everywhere, in every generation, on all lands and seas-On a beach at night. Bravo, Mike Tucker!" Jenny Thurgood, London "On a beach at night is some of the best poetry I''ve ever read and I simply adore the many beautiful love poems in it, enchanting, moving poems that will touch your heart as they touched mine. Mike Tucker returns to his roots in this one-he is a great poet and novelist, and his first published work was poetry-and I cannot recommend more highly this beautiful book, On a beach at night." Bette Tillges, New York City A beautiful collection of love poems and poems from Mike Tucker''s journeys around the world, this is On a beach at night, a poignant, romantic and moving book that celebrates love, and a fantastic book for lovers everywhere. MOHAWK 1, Mike Tucker''s historic, landmark novel--the first WWII novel to feature Mohawk Code Talkers, a tribute to the Mohawk Tribe and to the US Army Rangers--will launch on Amazon on May 17, 2022.

THINGS OF THIS EARTH a novel by Mike Tucker "A stunning achievement-Things of this Earth is a magnificent novel and a classic journey story with an ingenious plot, rich in the details won by Mike Tucker''s fieldwork in China. To understand China in our time, this is a must-read: The only book by a foreign writer, ever, that puts you right in the heart of the Chinese Revolution on the North China Coast. A gripping read, simply brilliant-deep and poignant and moving, I could not put it down." Jenny Thurgood, London "Things of this Earth can build a bridge of peace between China and America. It is that good. Profoundly insightful and very gripping, Things of this Earth is very moving and rich in the currents that flow in Mike Tucker''s fiction-justice and injustice, truth and the corruption of truth, love and hate and courage. Nomad is the Odysseus of our time." Josh Kavanagh, Connaught, Ireland THINGS OF THIS EARTH "And when I die, and when I''m gone, there''ll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on." Laura Nyro An American mercenary in North China in 1938 discovers just how mysterious and real destiny is in Mike Tucker''s thrilling novel, Things of this Earth, a fast-paced, scintillating tale of espionage, war and love. In our time, his legacy lives on in this thrilling, fascinating novel, a brilliant meditation on the truth and beauty of Ruth Mallory''s timeless maxim, "Everything leads to something beyond." Mike Tucker''s next novel, The Long Ride, inspired by a Civil War legend, will launch on Amazon on May 1st, 2022.

NATE & JULIE by Mike Tucker Vol. 3, The Love Trilogy "Enchanting, marvelous and simply a beautiful love story, this is Mike Tucker''s brilliant, moving and poignant finale to The Love Trilogy, Nate & Julie! O, I so love this book and the entire trilogy. Mike Tucker really understands the healing power of love and how love gives us the strength to carry on, against all odds, and live with love in our hearts and souls and spirits. Set in Paris, this is Nate & Julie, a love story I cannot recommend any higher, a book for all time, like all the great love stories in The Love Trilogy. And I read it in one evening, just a blazing great read! Such a fantastic story and Mike Tucker''s love poems make this a truly unique and marvelous book. A vibrant, magnificent short story coupled with great poetry, a beautiful love story and so touching, so real." Danielle Chevalier Paris "Nate & Julie is for lovers only. Just a perfect ending to The Love Trilogy and a marvelous story, a wonderful, enchanting love story by Mike Tucker, who is, as jazz artists say, really deep in the groove on this one. This is so much Julie''s story and the poetry dedicated to her makes Nate & Julie so very authentic and so very romantic. Love and destiny rock in Nate & Julie as in the entire trilogy. I adored Nate & Julie and just love this book that is charming, passionate, witty and just sings with love." Carolina Mendes, Lisbon A potent fusion of prose and poetry, this is Nate & Julie, set in Paris in our time. The poignant, moving and brilliant finale to The Love Trilogy, Nate & Julie is a meditation on love and destiny, a beautiful love story that could not be more authentic and romantic by Mike Tucker, author of 50 books and the only writer in our time compared to Hemingway.

Jake & Olivia Volume 2, The Love Trilogy by Mike Tucker "Only from the heart can you touch the sky." Rumi "This is love! The hero in Jake & Olivia is LOVE. O my days, Jake & Olivia is such a beautiful love story. Mike Tucker has delivered, yet again, with volume 2 of The Love Trilogy, the smashing page-turner Jake & Olivia, so authentic and contemporary and so very, very moving. Take a journey into the sea of love in Jake & Olivia and feel the spirit of love and healing, this is such a beautiful book! So poignant, so witty and so very alive with the thrill of romance and the power of love, Jake & Olivia celebrates love, sweet love." Jenny Thurgood London "Love heals and love rocks in Jake & Olivia, an absolutely divine love story that I could not put down! Olivia''s sorrow is so gut-wrenching and so very real, she is a very authentic and passionate young artist trying to find her way back to her soul, and her dreams. Jake is a US Army Ranger veteran with roots in Italy and meets her in Capestrano, seemingly from out of nowhere. The plot is brilliant, and the characters do not read like "characters," they come across as real people from our era. Such a magnificent movie Jake & Olivia will make! Romantic, witty, great-hearted, lyrical, moving, a tribute to love and a homage to the September 11th Generation---I so adore this book. Magnificent love story, Jake & Olivia, simply magnificent." Carolina Mendes Lisbon "I love Jake & Olivia and I have no doubt you will, too! What a beautiful love story, rich in telling details, so moving and vibrant and brilliant--as with Mike Tucker''s other great love stories, I found myself falling in love with love. Just a great love story, très magnifique! Can''t wait for the third volume of The Love Trilogy, Gabriel & Alicia! I so adored Paco & Maria and now, with Jake & Olivia, I could not be more thrilled--- it is so very moving and a great meditation on destiny. Bravo, Mike Tucker!" Danielle Chevalier Paris Worlds collide and love rocks in Jake & Olivia, a story of love and destiny and a stunning tribute to the September 11th Generation. Mike Tucker''s 49th book and the second volume in The Love Trilogy, this is Jake & Olivia, a beautiful love story by the only writer in our time compared to Hemingway.

EAST RIVER Volume 1, The Chieftain Trilogy "I witnessed September 11th, Bette. Right here. New York City. These kids I see every time I go running along the East River, they deserve to live long, glorious lives. And this is counterterrorism. I''m not paid to react. I''m paid to save lives." "That sonofabitch Trump walked, Tommy. The ratpunk walked and those Q Anon ratpunk Nazis that seized our Capitol Building need to pay, they damn well need to pay. We didn''t kill the Nazis in Europe to see the Nazis take power in our country in our generation." "Mohamed, they call me the Chieftain, brother. God willin'', we''ll see the lions on the beaches. But right now, we''ve got work to do." from EAST RIVER, @2021, Mike Tucker A young, beautiful and wicked-smart lady fluent in four languages, a native New Yorker who finds herself in one helluva'' jam on Valentine''s Day Weekend, 2021, and discovers just how real karma is near the East River in New York City; a brilliant young NYPD Counterterrorism detective, born and raised in Hells Kitchen, a September 11th Generation veteran and former sniper; the Chieftain, the veteran counterterrorist and former Delta Force commando who leads a team of daring counterterrorists in Africa and around the world; Jean Claude Moulin, a brilliant French counterterrorist and the great-grandson of a legendary French Resistance fighter in WWII: This is EAST RIVER, a stunning counterterrorism thriller that takes head-on Trump, Q Anon and the domestic terrorists who launched an insurrection on January 6th, 2021 against the US Capitol. From East Africa to New York City, EAST RIVER rocks like a hurricane, details the real-world threat of suicide-bomb container ships and throws down on Trump like no other book. "Love is always enough," as Mike Tucker writes in EAST RIVER, and it''s the September 11th Generation that shines in EAST RIVER, the first volume in The Chieftain Trilogy, a book that could not be more moving, compelling, gritty and romantic.

Know your enemy. The Daleks are the most evil creatures ever created - genetically engineered mutants encased in a machine that is optimised to kill. They hate all other life forms and will stop at nothing to destroy those who stand in their way - their single-minded imperative? To become the dominant species in the universe. The Dalek Combat Training Manual collates intelligence gathered by Time Lords over centuries of raging wars through time and space, and is invaluable to anyone engaging the Daleks in battle. It furnishes the user with an in-depth guide to their construction, their strategies and how they are to be ultimately defeated. Discover full schematics of Dalek spacecraft, insights into the Dalek factions, a history of the Time War, detailed analysis of their creator Davros, and much more. This manual is the definitive guide to one of the most feared races in the Whoniverse.

LOVE SONG "Everything leads to something beyond." Ruth Mallory "LOVE SONG by Mike Tucker, like his epic love story FOR MARIA, is for lovers everywhere. Set deep in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in glorious Northern New Mexico, LOVE SONG is a beautiful meditation on love and charity." Jenny Thurgood, London "LOVE SONG is worth every penny-bravo, Mike Tucker! "Love brings people together," as Mike Tucker writes in this authentic, passionate love story. So very poignant and heartfelt and moving. A very engaging read and just magnificent, a diamond shining in the night like the stars in the beautiful night skies over Northern New Mexico-LOVE SONG." Danielle Chevalier, Paris Ben Capa and Amber Vierrun, two young lovers in Northern New Mexico, discover just how real love and friendship are in LOVE SONG, a magnificent love story set in January 2021. Mike Tucker''s 44th book, this is LOVE SONG, a story for lovers everywhere, in every generation.

LAWMAN "We are known forever by the tracks we leave." On the hunt for a Mafia spy inside the US government, an American federal agent takes on the mission of his life, one with profound consequences for him and a fellow WWI Marine veteran in LAWMAN, Mike Tucker''s gripping crime saga based on a true story. A riveting meditation on justice, survival and love, this is LAWMAN, a stunning tribute to the Great Depression generation in America and a ripping, provocative and point-blank thriller.

FOR MARIA "Love is a fire that never dies." Mike Tucker A Portuguese slave girl in Cleopatra''s temple discovers how mysterious, real and liberating love is in FOR MARIA, a thrilling, poignant love story based on a Bedouin legend from ancient Egypt. LOVE SONG, Mike Tucker''s next book, a captivating, enchanting and compelling love story set in Northern New Mexico, will be launched on Amazon on February 1st, 2021.

FOR EMMA Volume 2, The Journey Trilogy "The best journey is the one that leads you to love." Mike Tucker On the Thai-Burmese border in December 1992, a Delta Force veteran, Declan McIntyre, discovers just how real the road less travelled is on a journey that changes his life forever. Riveted with point-black combat, FOR EMMA is the thrilling, scintillating sequel to FOR SUZANNE and a meditation on the ancient Spanish proverb that is never out of style, in every generation-love is the reason for our survival.

LOVE IS A FIRE THAT NEVER DIES The Spanish have a proverb: "Love is the reason for our survival." From the beaches of Portugal to the streets of Barcelona, from the dunes of Saudi Arabia to the rivers of Asia, Mike Tucker has brought back poems that reflect that beautiful truth from Spain, and this one--love is a fire that never dies. These are poems for the one you love, and for lovers everywhere, in every generation.

FOR SUZANNE Volume 2, The Journey Trilogy "And when I die, and when I''m gone, there''ll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on." Laura Nyro An American mercenary in North China in 1938 discovers just how mysterious and real destiny is in Mike Tucker''s thrilling novella, FOR SUZANNE, a fast-paced, scintillating tale of espionage, war, love and survival. The only book by a foreign writer on the knock-down, drag-out guerrilla war in the heart of the Chinese Revolution on the North China coast, there is no better book to understand China, and why Mao won. This is the epic sequel to CARRY A DREAM, and a brilliant tribute to Hemingway, Zapata, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Paul Desmond.

Everything you think you know...is a lie. The Doctor and the Master; their conflict of light and dark has spanned many times and faces across the universe. This collection - of five short stories and a novella - explores the depths of darkness in the Master’s hearts; the arch-schemer’s secrets and sinister ambitions revealed through brand new adventures and encounters. Join six incarnations of evil for undreamed of adventures: a quest to free alien warlords... a dangerous mission to save a vital ally... a meeting with Bram Stoker... a shattering of lives on a distant world... a trial of wits to gain untold power... and drop in on the Master’s latest incarnation during his 77 years of imprisonment on Earth.

CARRY A DREAM "Nothing comes at you harder than life. And nothing heals like love." Mike Tucker In the wake of devastating tragedy, a young boxer in New Mexico finds himself in the fight of his life in Mike Tucker''s thrilling journey story, CARRY A DREAM, a gripping, moving meditation on courage, love and destiny. The first in The Journey Trilogy and a magnificent tribute to Hemingway''s THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, this is CARRY A DREAM, a book that could not be more timely and timeless. FOR SUZANNE, the epic and thrilling sequel to CARRY A DREAM, and FOR EMMA, the third novella in the Journey Trilogy, will both be launched on Amazon on November 11th, 2020.

3 SNIPERS Deep behind enemy lines, Jed McCullough, Brian Burgess and James Street hunt the Gestapo in WWII, aided by partisans and guerrilla fighters from North Africa to France. Led by McCullough--trained in his youth in Northern New Mexico by the Jicarilla Apache on tracking and survival--the veteran British sniper Burgess and Street, a former deep cover mercenary from Australia, stand and fight against the Nazis, against all odds, employing deception and guile at every turn. A tribute to the Greatest Generation and a homage to the French Resistance, this is 3 SNIPERS, the gripping, compelling and no-holds-barred sequel to ROGUE, a riveting tale of clandestine operations in WWII and a scintillating meditation on courage and freedom. RAID, the sequel to 3 SNIPERS and volume three in The Rogue Trilogy, will be published on December 1st, 2020.

Die Angriffe der Deutschen haben ihren Höhepunkt erreicht. Während die Luftwaffe London bombardiert, beobachtet der Auswanderer Cody McBridge die Bruchlandung einer bedrohlichen, silbernen Sphäre. Er sieht etwas aus ihrem Inneren hervortreten. Die Sphäre muss eine neue Geheimwaffe der Deutschen sein, die irgendeine Fehlfunktion hatte. Was sonst? Inmitten des Chaos landen der Doktor und Ace und folgen einer Spur, die sie direkt zu versteckten Nazis führt. Zudem begegnen sie einigen sehr alten Feinden ... Ein Abenteuer mit dem siebten Doktor, gespielt von Sylvester McCoy, und seiner Begleiterin Ace.

ROGUE Major Jed McCullough, a US Army intelligence officer, goes rogue on the Atlantic Coast of Portugal in December 1940, on the hunt for a Gestapo spy ring in ROGUE, Mike Tucker''s thrilling, entertaining and gripping espionage thriller inspired by a legend from Portugal. The first in the Rogue Trilogy of WWII novels, ROGUE is a no-holds-barred, scintillating novel and a vivid, riveting tale of espionage, escape, romance and war.

The Grief Sessions Participant Guidebook is used in conjunction with a six session video presentations (DVD). The Grief Sessions presents practical, healthy ways to navigate the new life we never wanted but have to face nonetheless. The six sessions share scientifically researched, Bible-based, and people-proven ways to turn loss into living again.

The Grief Sessions Leaders Guide is used in conjunction with a six session video presentations (DVD) and the Participant Guidebook. The Grief Sessions presents practical, healthy ways to navigate the new life we never wanted but have to face nonetheless. The six sessions share scientifically researched, Bible-based, and people-proven ways to turn loss into living again.

Alguien dijo una vez: "El duelo nunca termina [...] pero cambia. Es un paso, no un lugar donde quedarse. El duelo no es una señal de debilidad ni de falta de fe [...]; es el precio del amor". Si alguna vez perdiste a alguien a quien amabas, sabes lo profunda que es la herida. En "De las lágrimas al gozo", Mike Tucker comparte sus luchas al transitar la angustia del duelo luego del fallecimiento de quien fue su esposa por más de cuarenta años. Su muerte afectó cada aspecto de su vida, tanto personal como profesional. Él no solo perdió a su esposa, sino también a su compañera en el ministerio. Al compartir su historia, Mike también comparte investigaciones y materiales que le fueron útiles en el proceso de recuperación. La experiencia de Mike puede ser diferente de la tuya, pero seguramente habrá similitudes inevitables. Y, en esas áreas de similitud, encontrarás la mayor cantidad de ayuda para abordar tu propia pérdida. Es la esperanza del autor que, en medio de tu tristeza, "De las lágrimas al gozo" te dé valor para navegar por el camino más difícil de la vida.

SANTIAGO a novel by Mike Tucker Santiago Montoya, a young fighter from the Warrior Boxing Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, faces the crossroads of his life in SANTIAGO, a thrilling meditation on love and destiny. Mike Tucker''s 33rd book, this is SANTIAGO, a brilliant, compelling novel that could not be more moving and authentic, and a tribute to Emiliano Zapata, Ernest Hemingway and Paul Desmond. Praise for Mike Tucker "Spartacus Did the Right Thing is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, The Long Patrol, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds." Jim Algie, Editor, author and journalist. Untamed Travel. "A brilliant Depression-era thriller that could not be more real or compelling, Hawkins is a quick, riveting read. The characters in Hawkins are authentic and unforgettable. There is so much injustice in the world and the damn truth is, there always has been. But as Mike Tucker says in Hawkins, "You cannot win the fight alone, but if you stand for justice, you will never fight alone." And that is the heart and soul of this great book, Hawkins." Cole Russell, Flagstaff, Arizona

‘Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.’ The Doctor is many things – curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a ''wet weekend'' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains underwater; and more. In this collection of new stories, Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor''s notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.

FIRE AND RAIN In the heart of the Chinese Revolution, an American mercenary hunting Chiang Kaishek''s opium mafia finds himself on a mission that changes his life forever in FIRE AND RAIN, a raw, thrilling novel rooted in Mike Tucker''s travels among farmers, artists, fishermen and veteran guerrilla fighters on the North China Coast from February 2016 to January 2019. A book that could not be more scintillating and authentic, this is FIRE AND RAIN, a classic journey story and a must-read to understand China in our time. PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent, THE SUNDAY TIMES www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, THE LONG PATROL, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, author and journalist. Untamed Travel, Bangkok.

We’re all stories in the end... In this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series. Learn what happened next, what went on before, and what occurred off-screen in an inventive selection of sequels, side-trips, foreshadowings and first-hand accounts – and look forward too, with a brand new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor. Each story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. With contributions from show luminaries past and present – including Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Vinay Patel, Joy Wilkinson and Terrance Dicks – The Target Storybook is a once-in-a-lifetime tour around the wonders of the Whoniverse.

Mountain, Desert, Song: A Short Walk through Northern New Mexico by Mike Tucker Mountain, Desert, Song Beauty in the mountains, Beauty in the desert, Beauty in the song of the wind. Mike Tucker, @2019, from MOUNTAIN, DESERT, SONG A tribute to the glorious mountains and high desert of Northern New Mexico and the ancient Native American Indian hunters who cut the first trails in the lands of the Navajo, Zuni and Pueblo, MOUNTAIN, DESERT, SONG is a beautiful work of photography by Mike Tucker--writer, photographer and the author of 30 books. Mike Tucker hiked from Santa Fe to Albuquerque in August 2019 to shoot these timeless photos in the Land of Enchantment, home of the magnificent Sandia Wilderness and high blue skies that spell forever. This is MOUNTAIN, DESERT, SONG, a compelling, authentic and moving work of art that honors a classic Navajo proverb--"You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes."

TIME STARTS NOW Hunted by a Roman assassin, a slave in Cleopatra''s temple finds herself on a journey that changes her life forever in TIME STARTS NOW, a thrilling love story by Mike Tucker, the author of 28 books, former deep cover mercenary and the only writer in our time compared to Hemingway. Inspired by a Bedouin legend, TIME STARTS NOW is a story rich in point-blank action, a gripping and moving love story and a wild, entertaining ride. PRAISE FOR MIKE TUCKER "Spartacus Did the Right Thing is one of the novels that has won Mike Tucker''s prose just comparison to Ernest Hemingway. Tucker''s short, energetic sentences are stripped down and laconic, lending a rhythm and directness to the narrative that immediately recalls Hemingway." Miles Amoore, the African Correspondent THE SUNDAY TIMES, London. www.amazon.co.uk "If Hemingway were alive, he would be buying drinks for Mike Tucker all night long, for Tucker''s vivid, moving first-hand account of a 250 kilometer deep reconnaissance behind Burmese Army lines, The Long Patrol, pivots on those quintessentially Hemingwayesque themes of armed men fighting to survive against overwhelming odds, and simply battling against the elements. Outstanding." Jim Algie, Editor, journalist & author, UNTAMED TRAVEL. Bangkok, Royal Kingdom of Thailand "RONIN, by Mike Tucker, a gripping book on Marine snipers in Iraq, is along with Ghost Wars, one of the top ten books since September 11th." Matt LaPlante, Foreign correspondent, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Inspired by the magnificent bossa nova classic "Wave" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim and by the rugged, beautiful ancient coast near Cascais, Portugal, this is WAVE by Mike Tucker, a brilliant, compelling work of poetry and his 26th book. The only writer of his generation compared to Hemingway, Mike Tucker returns to his roots as a poet--he received Honors in Poetry in 1982 & 1983, while a young poet and writer at James Madison University--and celebrates the spirit of bossa nova in WAVE. A poet, novelist, lecturer and former mercenary, Mike Tucker is the only foreign writer in China since 1949 to lecture on the legendary guerrilla war commander and revolutionary, General Huang Hua, and was interviewed five times on the celebrated, nationwide "Poet and the Poem" radio program on the Pacifica network in America by the Poet Laureate of Maryland, Grace Cavalieri, during his apprenticeship as a poet and writer in Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s. He left America in 1992 to get his dreams as a writer and carried out extensive fieldwork in the rugged, remote highlands of Northern Thailand for his novel SPARTACUS DID THE RIGHT THING, the first of many journeys in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Near East. Mike Tucker has lectured on America foreign policy, counterterrorism, guerrilla war, the Chinese Revolution, the origins of the Vietnam War and literature in the United States, China and Southeast Asia. The Visiting Scholar on Counterterrorism at James Madison University in fall 2006, he was on missions with American snipers in the Near East and Hindu Kush after September 11th, in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, and was under fire with Spanish counterterrorists in the historic Siege of the Banco Central in Barcelona in 1981. Mike Tucker''s most recent book of poetry, FIRST LIGHT, is a BEST BOOKS OF 2018 selection by the WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS. He lives in North China and Portugal.