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![The Gates of Hell: More Tales from the Lyon's Den (Four Horsemen Sagas Book 4) by [Chris Kennedy, Mark Wandrey, Kacey Ezell, Zane Voss, Kevin Ikenberry, Richard Alan Chandler, Jon R. Osborne, Kevin Steverson, Terry Mixon, Dan Bridgwater, Rob Howell, William Alan Webb, Casey Moores, Alex Rath, Quincy J. Allen]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bOY+6FV4L._SY346_.jpg)
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From the outside, The Lyon’s Den doesn’t look like much; there isn’t even a sign. But Mercs of all species know that if you head to southwest Houston, near the Starport, there’s a particular run-down strip mall that looks like it’s been abandoned for years. The glass door second from the south end of the strip is plastered over on the inside with blue paper, and the faint golden outline of a rampant lion is the only clue.
The door is locked, of course, and beyond the door is nothing but a darkened hallway with a downward slope and a slight curve to it. Once you follow this curve far enough, you are greeted by two very large, very well-armed Lumar. “Welcome to the Lyon’s Den,” the larger of the two says without a translator, and without a trace of an alien accent. “You know the rules?”
Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, “The Gates of Hell: More Tales from the Lyon’s Den” includes fifteen all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. Want to know why Asbaran Solutions changed its logo or where Roland’s head went? Better learn the rules to the Lyon’s Den…and then step inside!
Inside, you’ll find:
Bayonets by Kacey Ezell
The Price Of Victory by Zane Voss
The Bitter End by Mark Wandrey
Freedom Of Maneuver by Kevin Ikenberry and Casey Moores
Jaws Of Defeat by Jon R. Osborne
They Called Him Pops by Kevin Steverson
Bushwhacked! By Terry Mixon
First Steps by Richard Alan Chandler
Unnatural Selection by Dan Bridgwater
Long Live The Huma by Chris Kennedy
Fire From Fire Quickened by Rob Howell
Roland The Headless Mech Driver by William Alan Webb
The Mushroom Farm by Casey Moores
No Good Deed by Alex Rath
The Thelosi Gambit by Quincy J. Allen
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 28, 2020
- File size2775 KB
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- ASIN : B087T7FW9M
- Publisher : Seventh Seal Press (April 28, 2020)
- Publication date : April 28, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 2775 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 421 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #349,875 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,258 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #1,863 in Space Fleet Science Fiction eBooks
- #1,879 in Space Marine Science Fiction eBooks
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About the authors
International bestselling author of military sci-fi, space opera, and zombie apocalypse, Mark Wandrey is also the only 4 time DragonCon Dragon Award finalist!
Newest Release - Blood in the Water - Book 5 in the 4HU Frontiers series, set in the Four Horsemen mil-sf universe.
Living the full time RV lifestyle as a modern day nomad, Mark Wandrey has been writing science fiction since he was in grade school. He launched his professional career in 2004 with the release of Earth Song - Overture. Now, 15 years later, he has more than 25 books out, including many bestsellers.
(Sign up for his mailing list at http://www.worldmaker.us/news-flash-sign-up-page/ or check out his Patreon page for free stuff at https://www.patreon.com/MarkHWandrey)
His favorite is military science fiction. However, he also pens Zombie Apocalypse (ZA) in the form of his 2016 Dragon Finalist "A Time to Die", book 1 in the Turning Point series. The series is complete and available on Amazon, continuing with Book 2, "A Time to Run", and finishing with "A Time to Live", released earlier this year.
His most successful works to date can be found in the Four Horsemen Universe (4HU), which he created and now shares with a slew of incredible authors including his partner and publisher, Chris Kennedy. The first book in the series, Cartwright's Cavaliers, was his 2nd Dragon Award Finalist in 2017. In the 4HU, nine books were published in 2017, and 20 (yes twenty) more released in 2018. Among those was A Fiery Sunset, coauthored with Chris Kennedy, it was his 3rd Dragon Award finalist. Since then the series has continued to expand and branch out, including a YA series (Black and White). If you love Military Sci-fi, this is the series for you, with well over 50 books and more coming every month!
Keep up with the 4HU on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/536506813392912/
You can also join the Mercenary Guild Fan Organization - https://www.facebook.com/groups/469402930466832/
You can also find out more at www.chriskennedypublishing.com
If Space Opera is your things, check out his Earth Song series, space opera of epic scale. Consisting of 6 completed books which have been re-edited and released. A new one will be released in 2021 as well.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BHYRCKH/?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=series_rw_dp_sw
Nationally Best Selling Author Quincy J. Allen, is a cross-genre author with numerous short story publications in multiple anthologies, collections, and magazines. His first short story collection "Out Through the Attic," came out in 2014 from 7DS Books. He made his first short story pro-sale in 2014 with “Jimmy Krinklepot and the White Rebels of Hayberry,” included in WordFire’s "A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories," and his most recent short story sale, “Sons of the Father,” appears in Larry Correia’s "Monster Hunter: Files" from Baen, published in October of 2017.
"Chemical Burn," his first novel and the first volume of the sci-fi detective noir series Endgame, was a finalist in RMFW’s Colorado Gold Contest in 2011. His latest installment of the Blood War Chronicles, "Blood Curse," is book 2 in an epic fantasy series starting in the Old West and featuring a clockwork gunslinger. His first media tie-in novel, "Shadow of Ruin," set in the Aradio brothers’ Colt the Outlander universe, is expected out in early February of 2018.
He is the publisher and editor of Penny Dread Tales, a short story collection in its fifth volume that has become a labor of love. He also runs RuneWright, LLC, a small marketing and book design business out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and hopes to one day be a full-time writer in Baen’s stable of fantastic authors.
Kevin's head has been in the clouds since he was old enough to read. Ask him and he'll tell you that he still wants to be an astronaut. With over twenty five years of experience in space science education, including managing the U.S. Space Camp program and serving as an executive of two Challenger Learning Centers, Kevin continues to work with space every day. A retired Army armor and space operations officer, Kevin lives in Colorado with his family. His home is seldom a boring place.
Kevin is the international bestselling author of The Protocol War series featuring Colorado Book Award finalist SLEEPER PROTOCOL, which Publisher's Weekly called "an emotionally powerful debut." Kevin is also the author or co-author of ten bestselling Peacemaker novels in the Four Horsemen Universe and many more military science fiction and thriller novels. His alternate history novel THE CROSSING debuts in August 2022. His short fiction has appeared internationally across various publications and anthologies. Kevin regularly teaches classes for aspiring writers. He is a member of the International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors (IASFA), International Thriller Writers, and is a member of SIGMA, the science fiction think tank.
Kevin can be found online at www.kevinikenberry.com.
A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 55 books and published more than 400 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com.
Called “fantastic” and “a great speaker,” he has coached hundreds of beginning authors and budding novelists on how to self-publish their stories at a variety of conferences, conventions, and writing guild presentations. He is the author of the award-winning #1 bestseller, “Self-Publishing for Profit: How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Into the Stores.”
Chris lives in Coinjock, North Carolina, with his wife, and is the holder of a doctorate in educational leadership and master’s degrees in both business and public administration. Follow Chris on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ckpublishing/.
#1 Bestselling Military Science Fiction author Terry Mixon served as a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army 101st Airborne Division. He later worked alongside the flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at the NASA Johnson Space Center supporting the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and other human spaceflight projects.
He now writes full time while living in Texas with his lovely wife and a pounce of cats. Visit terrymixon.com to learn more.
Richard Alan Chandler lives in the Pacific Northwest with two incredibly lucky black cats. He's been everything from a Software Developer to a Taxi Driver to an Aviation Machinist. He's been into science fiction since his dad gave him his first Heinlein at age 9, and he's been playing at writing for almost as long.
Rob Howell is the publisher of New Mythology Press (chriskennedypublishing.com/new-mythology-press/), including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris and Libri Mysteriorum anthologies of heroic fantasy.
He is one of the founders of the Eldros Legacy (eldroslegacy.com/) and an author in the Four Horsemen Universe (mercenaryguild.org). He writes primarily epic fantasy, space opera, military science fiction, and alternate history.
He is a reformed medieval academic, a former IT professional, and a retired soda jerk.
His parents discovered quickly books were the only way to keep Rob quiet. He latched onto the Hardy Boys series first and then anything he could reach. Without books, it’s unlikely all three would have survived.
You can find him online at: robhowell.org, on Amazon at amazon.com/-/e/B00X95LBB0, and his blog at robhowell.org/blog.
Find out more about Kacey Ezell at www.kaceyezell.net
Kacey Ezell was born in South Dakota in 1977. Her parents joined the US Air Force in 1984, and she grew up around the world on various military bases. When she was seven, her mother gave her a copy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragondrums, and shortly thereafter, Kacey decided that she wanted to be a dragonrider when she grew up. In 1999, she followed her parents into the "family business" and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy before going to pilot training. As dragons were in short supply at the time, she reasoned that flying aircraft was the next best thing. She earned her wings in 2001, and has over 2500 hours in the UH-1N and Mi-17 helicopters.
From the time she was a small child, Kacey made up stories to tell to her friends and family. In 2009, while deployed to Iraq, she wrote the military-themed supernatural story "Light", which was accepted for publication in the Baen Books anthology Citizens.
She is the author of the 2-time Dragon Award nominated alternate history series "The Psyche of War" about psychic women dealing with... well... war. She wrote "The Romanov Rescue" (Baen) along with Tom Kratman and Justin Watson, with some help from Monalisa Foster. In addition, she and Christopher L. Smith are currently collaborating with John Ringo on a post-apocalyptic steampunk trilogy from Baen, The first book, "Gunpowder and Embers" came out in 2019. She is a core author of the Four Horseman Universe from Seventh Seal Press (Chris Kennedy Publishing), where she co-authored the Depik Trilogy with Marisa wolf, and the bestselling "Weaver" with Mark Wandrey. Finally, she and Larry Correia have edited "Noir Fatale," and "No Game For Knights," both bestselling noir anthologies from Baen Books. They are currently working on a third anthology due out in 2024.
Kacey writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, noir, romance... etc. fiction. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and one large orange boy cat.
Bill grew up in West Tennessee, riding his bike on narrow rural roads lined with wild blackberry bushes, in the days before urban sprawl. He spent those long rides dreaming of new worlds of adventure. Childhood for him was one interesting activity after another, from front yard football to naval miniatures, but from the very beginning reading was the central pillar of his life.
Any and all military history books fascinated him, beginning before age 8. By his teenage years he had discovered J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard, Robert Heinlein and Fritz Leiber. Teachers ripped comic books out of his hands during Spanish and Accounting class. Oops!
After majoring in Creative Writing in college, he turned to writing history and non-fiction and was published a number of times, including in World War Two magazine.
In September of 2014 he wrote the first pages of what would become Standing The Final Watch, and its prequels and sequels in the Last Brigade Universe. Thus, at age 60, his career in fiction had just begun.
Still living in West Tennessee with his wife of 42 years and 8 dogs, four of which are Search and Rescue certified police dogs, life has turned out better than he could ever have dreamed. Yet Bill never forgets that it is you, his readers, who make this possible. There is a covenant between writer and reader that is always uppermost in his mind. Readers who spend their time and money to read an author's works, deserve the best that author has to offer, and he never forgets that.
Bill is proud to be a member of the International Authors of Science Fiction Authors, the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Society For Military History and the Alliance of Independent Authors. To keep up with the latest news, including new releases, join the mailing list at his website, www.thelastbrigade.com.
Jon R. Osborne is a veteran gamemaster and journalism major turned science fiction and fantasy author. The second book in the Jon’s The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is also a core author in the military science fiction Four Horseman Universe, where he was first published in 2017.
Jon resides in Indianapolis, where he plays role-playing games, writes science fiction and fantasy, and lives the nerd life. You can find out more at jonrosborne.com and at https://www.facebook.com/jonrosborne.
Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When he is not on the road, he can be found in the foothills of the NE Georgia mountains writing his next story.
Sign up for his newsletter at www.kevinsteverson.com and receive a free short story.
Don't miss out on his military SF trilogy, SALVAGE TITLE-- Everyone is familiar with salvage titles on old vehicles...But on a warship? Sometimes the system is against you, but there is always a loophole...you just have to find it. Harmon Tomeral and his crew make things happen, especially when there is no other choice.
The entire Salvage Title Trilogy is available and all three have audible versions. KC Johnston does a great job as the narrator.
Want more of the Salvage Universe?
SALVAGE FLEET Available now.
SALVAGE SYSTEM Available now.
HIDE THE LIGHTNING takes up after the trilogy and is available.
There are two anthologies with various authors, SALVAGE CONQUEST and THROUGH THE GATE
A book of five novellas titled, THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.
SCALES OF JUSTICE, a novel by Alex Rath.
SALVAGE MIND, a novel by David Jones
Three novels by Nick Steverson, ACTION, HESITATION and CONSEQUENCES
SMUGGLER"S RUN, a novel by Christopher woods and William Joseph Roberts
and more!
For FANTASY readers:
BURNT book one of The Balance of Kerr. Cow-written with Tyler Ackerman
ACCEPTED book two of the Blanace Of Kerr.
Other military science fiction:
REDACTED AFFAIRS, Redacted Vice, and Redacted Weapon, 4 Horseman Universe books, co-written with Kevin is available now.
Follow Kevin Online
Website: www.kevinsteverson.com
Instagram: kevin.steverson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.steverson.9
Twitter: @CallMeCatHead
Published by Chris Kennedy Publishing under Theogony Books.
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I am a retired Air Force veteran who’s flown rescue and special ops C-130’s for 18 years. I’ve been to all the places and done all the things. Now I’m hoping to translate those experiences to science fiction and fantasy. So far I’ve weaseled my way into Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy’s Four Horsemen Universe as well as Bayonet Books Storming Area 51 anthology, but I’ve been working on other things as well. I’m primarily in military science fiction, but have hopes to write some alternate history and possibly some military fantasy. We’ll see, the ride’s just getting started.
Follow me at www.caseymoores.net
Join my mailing list at https://sendfox.com/lp/1dllxj
Some of Dan’s earliest memories include watching Godzilla movies and Star Trek re-runs on television. This love of monster movies and TV SciFi eventually led to his reading just about every bit of science fiction and fantasy he could get his hands on. An Army Brat and a Marine Veteran, Dan has lived on both coasts, the Midwest, Korea and Kuwait. He now lives with his wife and daughters in Colorado, where he supports training for the US Military.
Zane Voss holds bachelors and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will talk your ear off for hours about iron and steelmaking. Zane has been a lifelong reader of science fiction and fantasy, and has followed that love into writing his own works of fiction. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.
Alex Rath is a best-selling Science Fiction and Post-Apocalyptic author, currently residing in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife and elite gymnast daughter.
With works published in the Four Horsemen Universe, This Fallen World, and the Salvage Title universe, Alex has now spread out with his own Colonization Science Fiction with the Terran Space Project, starting with "Seeds of Terra."
By day, Alex is an IT professional, and has been for 25+ years. He has worked as a programmer/developer, webmaster, information security specialist, and solutions design specialist. This background allows him to incorporate some technical savvy into his stories, while his experience interacting with non-technical customers allows him to do so in a way that isn't confusing, or 'too technical' for a layperson to understand.
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In the story First Steps: “Why does this toy robot have tits?” “It’s a Japanese thing. You should see how the pilots drive it. In any case, who are you and what are you doing in my office?”
I’m still laughing... but that’s probably because I’m a dork.
This on e spends more of the time out among the various worlds in the universe and they are a varied and interesting selection.
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First: I've had to wait 4 Books to find what CASPers stands for !
Second: the CASPers Mark #s reveal that the anthology is NOT in historic sequence which is just plain WRONG!!! and a failure of editing, which should rightly be punished.
Editing is a privilege and a responsibility, "money for nothing and the chicks are free". Sheer idleness is not an option.

It is the 4th "Lyon's Den" anthology. Named after the infamous bar.
The book doesn't disappoint. As with every anthology, you will have favorite or less favorite stories, depending of the setting, the characters or simply the style of the author, and it's normal. Nonetheless… ALL of the stories are at the very least very good!
Frankly, one can't do justice to such an anthology with a short review but I am not keen to do a long one as I try to review "spoiler free".
The rich 4HU universe just got richer and it's a good news for fans of military SF all over the world!
An to think there are 2 more books coming this month… YAY!!!!
