John Steakley
John Steakley has written four short stories, three films, and two novels, including Vampires, which was the basis for a John Carpenter film. Besides being a writer, he has been a stock-car racer, a semi-pro football player, a private detective, an actor, and a car salesman. He lives in McKinney, Texas.
All Books By John Steakley
Armor
- By: John Steakley
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.11(16574 ratings)
The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected not only by his custom-fitted body armor, the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft, but also by an odd being which seems to live with him, a cold killing machine he calls “the Engine.”
This bestselling science fiction classic is a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat and also of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
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- By: John Steakley
- Narrator: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.74(2901 ratings)
Suppose there really were vampires. Dark. Stalking. Destroying. They’d have to be killed, wouldn’t they? Of course they would. But what kind of fools would try to make a living at it?
You don’t just kill vampires for the money–you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because somebody has to. You do it no matter what it does to you. And you drink–a lot. Some jobs just suck. This one bites. But nobody does it better than Jack Crow, the leader of Vampire$ Inc. His crack team of hunters takes down the blood suckers with a lethal combination of cojones and crossbows. After members of Jack’s team are ambushed and slaughtered, however, the survivors need to rethink their strategy. With a new recruit from the Vatican– a priest who’s not afraid to wield a stake–and a sharpshooter loaded up with silver bullets, it’s payback time. The only problem is that the vampires have no intention of going down easy. They have their own hit list–and Jack Crow’s name is scrawled in blood right at the top.
Bestselling author John Steakley’s vampire classic is an exciting blend of horror and western genres, a twenty-first-centuryGhostbusterswith an edge.
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