Sweetheart Grips

Four survivors. Four theaters of war. One thing that was never supposed to be real.

A classified debrief. A six-man unit. One survivor, and a story his own commanding officer refuses to believe.

A man boards the wrong train out of Berlin in 1939. He keeps boarding wrong trains, for years, across two continents.

A heavy cruiser goes down at Tassafaronga - and a deckhand plays out the last hand of a poker game while it happens.

Three tank crews vanish behind Axis lines in North Africa, hunting an oasis that isn't on any map, and a library that shouldn't exist.

Different wars. Different men. Same thing waiting underneath all four - old, patient, indifferent to uniform or flag. It answers only to extremity. And extremity is the one thing war never runs short of.

SWEETHEART GRIPS - Two pistols. One interrogation table. A dead squad, and the one man who came back to explain it.

SIMPLY EINZ - A wrong number, a wrong train, a war that follows you.

TABLE STAKES - A ghost story with a body count, told from a sinking ship.

THE FOX AND THE HOUNDS - Lost tanks. A desert that eats maps. Something older than either army.

Read them in order, or don't. They were built to reward both.