Thursday, March 25, 2010

Don Pendleton's Psychic Detective Series of Novels



Private Investigator Ashton Ford has special powers, powers that some call supernatural. A former naval intelligence officer, highly knowledgeable in cryptology and philosophy, Ford will shatter your ideas of reality and take you into a mystical world of vision, intuition, and psychic truth. A phenomenal psychic, unparalleled lover, and a true Renaissance man, Ashton Ford can see into the future and even into the distant past using his psychic powers to assist special clients who are in crisis.


Eye to Eye:
In the second book of the Ashton Ford series, Eye to Eye, the most brilliant astronomers and space scientists of the United States and Russia have mysteriously vanished and officials of both countries are frantically searching for answers. Under the shadow of the world's largest telescope, tailed by agents, and with a lovely lady scientist's life in peril, Ashton Ford takes on the most baffling case of his life, and one that will offer him glimpses into worlds that not even he has ever seen.



Mind to Mind:
In this third book of Don Pendleton’s Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective series of novels, what intrigued Ashton Ford about this sadistically brutal "Jane Doe" case was that there were no clues except a few satanic symbols. The silent, mysterious beauty of the woman, why someone wanted her dead, or why the entire left hemisphere of her brain had been surgically removed, leaving her mute and helpless is the central mystery to be solved. It was the toughest case of Ford's career to reach that silent mind with his own and combat the evils of a deadly sex cult and the mysterious beings who threatened her life. In the bargain, he had to discover from which dimension of time and space these mysterious beings emanate. Many of his answers come to him in Ojai, a small community in the mountains not far removed from Los Angeles, a place always thought to be a paradise, that is, until that image of an enchanted place is shattered by paranormal images that defy explanation.



Life to Life:
In Don Pendleton’s fourth novel of the Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective series, Life to Life, Ashton Ford discovers his sense of an orderly universe is threatened by ideas of spirit communication and past lives.

Reverend Annie was a powerful, stunningly beautiful psychic who gave spiritual guidance to thousands of troubled souls and was preparing to extend her ministry throughout the world. But when her family and followers began dying in mysterious, horrifying ways, she had to call on Ford to discover the truth behind their deaths. Soon, Ford found that the lovely reverend was the center of a centuries-old mystical group now threatened by malevolent and divisive forces. Ford had to wage a cosmic battle in a shadowy realm of the unreal and the unearthly–a world that challenges all that we know.

Now at
Kindle: Heart to Heart and Time to Time.
Read about the first Ashton Ford book, Ashes to Ashes.

All six of the Ashton Ford books are available in paper, AND NOW ALL AT KINDLE editions. Coming later this spring, there will be new editions in tradepaper of Don Pendleton's Joe Copp Private Eye series and the Ashton Ford Psychic Detective series with these new covers designed by Linda Pendleton and Judy Bullard.

If you are looking for someone to design your Kindle, POD, covers contact Judy.

Read about Ashes to Ashes , the first Asthon Ford book.

Read about my novel, both in Kindle and tradepaper, Shattered Lens: Catherine Winter, Private Investigator, and I love the reviews I've received.


All six of Don Pendleton's Joe Copp, Private Eye Thrillers are also now Kindles.



I have put a number of our books into Kindle format and I don't have a Kindle yet!--but I have heard people who have a Kindle, love it.

~Linda

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Don Pendleton's Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective Series

“Ashton Ford is a spectacular character...” ~Booklist



Now on Kindle, in addition to print.


Meet Ashton Ford...Psychic Detective...


Private Investigator Ashton Ford has special powers, powers that some call supernatural. A former naval intelligence officer, highly knowledgeable in cryptology and philosophy, Ford will shatter your ideas of reality and take you into a mystical world of vision, intuition, and psychic truth. A phenomenal psychic, unparalleled lover, and a true Renaissance man, Ashton Ford can see into the future and even into the distant past using his psychic powers to assist special clients who are in crisis.


In this first book of Don Pendleton’s six book series, Ashes to Ashes, Ashton Ford is hired by a beautiful and vulnerable heiress in need of a sexual surrogate. Ignoring danger signals, Ford cannot resist the chance to aid the distressed woman, but soon finds he is faced with more than he bargained for. In his search for justice, he is plunged into a world of untold dangers, including murder and mayhem, ghosts and apparitions, and splintered reality.


Don Pendleton wrote this about his Ashton Ford novels: "Through this character I attempt to understand more fully and to give better meaning to my perceptions of what is going on here on Planet Earth, and the greatest mystery of all the mysteries: the why of existence itself. Through Ford I use everything I can reach in the total knowledge of mankind to elaborate this mystery and to arm my characters for the quest. I try to entertain myself with their adventures, hoping that what entertains me may also entertain others–so these books, like life itself, are not all grim purpose and trembling truths. They are fun to write; for some they will be fun to read."


All titles to be at Kindle soon.
Titles in the Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective Series: Ashes to Ashes; Eye to Eye; Mind to Mind; Life to Life; Heart to Heart; Time to Time.

Don Pendleton's (Joe) Copp on Fire, Now at Kindle

"Pendleton emphasizes fast-moving, gritty action."
–Library Journal


All six novels of Don Pendleton's Joe Copp Mystery Trillers are now available at Amazon's Kindle.
The last one to become available is Copp on Fire:


From Hollywood's corporate halls to the famous back-lots, Private Investigator, Joe Copp acts his way through someone else's script until he's face to face with the ruthless star of the whole bloody show. Copp writes his own script and turns the production on its head in his search for truth and justice.



The Joe Copp series is also available as trade paper.
Don Pendleton is creator of The Executioner, Mack Bolan series of action/adventure and is known as "the father of the action/adventure literary genre.

He is also known for the phrase "Live Large!" --a theme of his Mack Bolan character.
The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume II (H-O) gives derivation credit for "live large" to Don Pendleton and his Executioner Series.

Typical of Don Pendleton's writing style, the Joe Copp stories are hard-hitting, fast-moving, gritty, filled with authentic dialogue, and capture keen insight into the inner-workings of the characters.

~Linda