Fiction and Stories
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Desert Mischief: A Detective Sanchez/Father Montero Mystery
by Fred G. Baker on August 5, 2022 PermalinkSecret meetings in the Desert…Corporations and Cartels. Detective Lori Sanchez killed the son of a Cartel kingpin during a police raid near Phoenix. Now the kingpin wants retribution against her. He sends a world-class assassin to carry out a sinister plan. Guillermo Montero is forced to give up his career as a prison counselor. He accepts his first consulting job to organize a high-tech conference in a remote desert location. The conference is a cover for secret meetings between four chip companies that will develop a cutting-edge computing technology. Sanchez is in charge of security for the meetings to protect the principals involved and to prevent theft of company secrets. Then everything goes wrong. Industrial spies abound at the conference and assassins try to kill a company CEO.Read More
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Grenada Blood and Nazi Gold
by Fred G. Baker on December 10, 2021 PermalinkA new short story in the Modern Pirate Series has been release on Kindle. Modern Pirate Series of eBook shorts: A collection of stories about Alex the Pirate and his savvy crew of rogues and thieves. They are modern pirates who love fast boats and expensive yachts, and also share a passion for treasure hunting. Alex and Diego, his second in command, scout the South China Sea and Caribbean for worthy ships to liberate from their owners and turn a profit. Each story reveals more about the pirate, his crew, their adventures, and secret missions.Read More
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New Book Release
by Fred G. Baker on October 21, 2021 PermalinkNew Book Out: The Final Wave: A Terrorism Techno-Thriller. The year that the final wave struck mankind like a viral tsunami. COVID 19 type 2 has already decimated countries around the world, killing millions. But now the next variant arrives with a vengeance. Lieutenant Commander Logan Gordon already has his hands full fighting against the ruthless gangs that rule his native Chicago. He leads a special team of Chicago North Force fighters on missions against the Antifa Army that holds half the city and the Central Caliphate the controls the other half. His old boss, Admiral Cotes, tells him he is detailed to a secret special mission that might just save the nation from the scourge of a new type of disease.Read More
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ZONA: THE FORBIDDEN LAND NAMED SCI FI BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
by Fred G. Baker on June 24, 2021 PermalinkZona: The Forbidden Land has been selected by the Online Book Club as the 2020 Science Fiction/Fantasy Book of the Year for 2020.Read More
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LENA’S SECRET WAR
by Fred G. Baker on May 14, 2021 PermalinkIt is 1971 and espionage is in the air in Soviet Russia. Lena Kristoff is a researcher in the economics department at Leningrad Technical Institute. While working on the highest priority project of the time, a computer model of the entire Soviet economic system, she is inadvertently recruited by the CIA. If she can smuggle a copy of top secret files to the West, she can help change her country’s totalitarian government and buy freedom for her family. Then she meets an American CIA courier named Eric Larson and they fall in love. Seizing an opportunity to copy the model files, she gives them to Larson to transport out of the country.Read More
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NEW BOOKS IN 2020
by Fred G. Baker on February 7, 2021 PermalinkI have published three new titles in 2020, in spite of the COVID pandemic. Writing is certainly something you can do while in lock-down. Check these books out on the books page. All of them have received strong reviews and interest online. The books were: Einstein’s Raven, A Science Fiction Mystery/Adventure involving time travel and computer shenanigans. This novel is set in Golden, Colorado, where mysterious events occur in a supercomputer lab. Desert Underground: A Detective Sanchez/Father Montero Mystery. This is the third in the Sanchez Mystery Series, set once again in the Desert Southwest. More gangs and mayhem in and near Phoenix. Life, Death, and Espionage by Paul *******: How the *** Makes money to Fund Black Operations.Read More
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ZONA:The Forbidden Land
by Fred G. Baker on June 27, 2020 PermalinkZONA: The Forbidden Land Zona has been chosen as the Book of the Month on the Online BookClub, a great honor for any author to achieve. We have received many positive reviews lately that suggest the book is reaching a wider audience of Sci-Fi adventure lovers. The book is set in Russia, first in Leningrad and then in the vast expanse of Siberia as an expedition seeks out the lost land of ZONA. Little is known about this mysterious place of strange beasts and exotic plants. Only one man has been to ZONA and returned alive, Colonel Max Volkov, a mysterious man with a secret background.Read More
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EINSTEIN’S RAVEN
by Fred G. Baker on May 12, 2020 PermalinkDerek Phillips, a cutting edge programmer at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, is tasked to find out who is hacking into the lab’s secret files on “Harry”—one of the most advanced supercomputers in the world. His job is on the line. “Find the Intruder or seek a new career,” his demanding boss tells him. Derek is between a rock and a hard place when he meets a mysterious woman named Raven who is seeking a secret from the past. She is beautiful, and clever, and has serious computer skills.Read More
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Minion Critique
by Fred G. Baker on October 23, 2015 PermalinkMinion Critique: Satire By F.G. Baker Spoken by Rod Sterling: In a book-publishing world controlled by one last corporation, it was necessary to create an elite cadre of editorial minions to prevent anyone from writing anything remotely original. It began in colleges, teacher’s trade schools and all classrooms, even and especially at writer’s retreats where the indoctrination could be applied 24 hours a day. The programing called ‘creative writing’ quickly generated a legion of editors, writers and agents that could group-think the mantra to the letter. All creativity was driven out of fiction until homogenous drivel was all that remained. We look in on a typical ‘critique session’ in which, by chance, the ultimate drivel was produced.Read More
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School is Hell – Short Story
by Fred G. Baker on July 13, 2015 PermalinkSchool is Hell F.G. Baker 6/15/15 I was a dead man, lying spread eagle on my back, face turned up toward the mid-morning gloom of another overcast Chicago day. My skinned knees told the story of how valiantly I fought against the insurmountable odds, like Lancelot fighting barehanded against the huge and overwhelming Dark Knight and his heavy, spiked Mace. Blood seemed to ooze from every pore of my knees and elbows, where they had been savagely ground into the gravel surface of the ground. My face, pale and in repose, was a swollen mass of contusions from the beating I had received, blood everywhere, torn by mighty fists. I had fought bravely, desperately using my arms to block the heavy blows as best I could.Read More