Jack Tunney

Rumble in the Jungle: Fight Card Series Jack Tunney

Publisher Marketing: Hell's Kitchen, 1953 Brendan O'Toole is on a downward slide. When his wife dies in a freak car accident, he quits his job and hits the bottle hard. Half tanked in the ring, he allows himself to be knocked out, ending his boxing career. O'Toole, hits rock bottom. After a night of boozing, he is brutally mugged and left for dead. But O'Toole has friends, even if he can't see it. One of them is Danny Reilly, a barman with a heart of gold. He arranges for O'Toole to join a construction crew set to work on a hotel being built in the Central African jungle nation of Sezanda. It's O'Toole's last shot at redemption. Sezanda, Central Africa, 1954 As things begin to look up for O'Toole, the Sezandan government is overthrown in a military coup. All foreigners are taken prisoner and locked in concentration camps. O'Toole is sent to the worst, HELL CAMP XXI, under the control of a brutal ex-Nazi, Kommandant Krieger. Krieger has a special way of keeping his prisoners under control. In the camp, he has erected a boxing ring. And anyone who steps out of line is forced to face off against his man-mountain, wrecking machine, Crator - a man whose sole purpose is to inflict pain. Fate has destined Brendan O'Toole to don the gloves one more time, in a fight not just for his life, but his very soul. Contributor Bio:  Bishop, Paul Pulp Factory Award winner, Ellis and multiple Pulp Ark and Pulp Factory Awards nominee Andrew Salmon lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Pro Se Presents, Masked Gun Mystery, Storyteller, Parsec, TBT and Thirteen Stories. He has published or appeared in: The Forty Club (which Midwest Book Reviews calls "a good solid little tale you will definitely carry with you for the rest of your life"), The Dark Land, the first of a series ("a straight out science-fiction thriller that fires on all cylinders" - Pulp Fiction Reviews), The Light Of Men, which has been called ("a book of such immense significance that it is not only meant to be read, but also to be experienced... a work of grim power" - C. Saunders), Secret Agent X: Volume One and Three, Ghost Squad: Rise of the Black Legion (with Ron Fortier), Jim Anthony Super Detective Volume One, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volumes One, Two, Three, Four and Five, Black Bat Mystery Volume One, Mars McCoy Space Ranger Volume One, Mystery Men (&Women) Volume Two, Moon Man Vol. One, The Ruby Files Vol. One, The New Adventures of Thunder Jim Wade Vol. One, Ghost Boy Vol. One, All-Star Pulp Comics #2 and Fight Card Sherlock Holmes: Work CapitolContributor Bio:  Odom, Mel Mel Odom is the bestselling author of Master Sergeant and many film and computer game tie-ins, including Forgotten Realms, Mack Bolan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He won a prestigious Alex Award for his YA fantasy novel The Rover. He currently lives in Oklahoma.