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PUBLISHED: Dec.15.2009

TARNISHED HALO

In this sequel to – HALO – by D. J. Stephens - The year is 1965 - Jeff Barkil leads a six man team of highly trained special service operatives on a mission – Code Name –“Tarnished Halo” to terminate two of the Golden Triangles top drug lords. The problem, the drug lords are to be attending a meeting across the Burmese border in China. The team’s radio is destroyed during a river...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.15.2008

DEATH RIDER

Brodie Jones had been on his own since he was fifteen years old. He had headed west as a hunter, lived several years as a mountain man and scouted for the Fremont expeditions. At the outbreak of the Mexican War, he was scouting for the US Army. Through his friend Kit Carson, he had met and fallen in love with Maria Santiago, the daughter of a wealthy land grant holder in New...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.03.2007

Bad Night in the Burbs

Jeff Barkil is the main character from my two action novels, BEARKILLER and HALO. The short story is another adventure. He is now a senior citizen and takes on three “Gang Bangers” that break into his house in the middle of the night.

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PUBLISHED: Dec.06.2006

My Hero, My Dad

I wrote this piece to pay a small tribute to my Father, who always was and will always be a HERO to me. He could not leap tall buildings in a single bound, nor was he stronger than a locomotive, but in his own quiet way he was MY HERO! Dad gave up his way of life, a life he loved, so that I could walk.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2004

HALO

Jeffery Barkil is a young soldier who upon completing his training as an Airborne Ranger is recruited by the CIA. After which he spends six months training to run ‘Black Operations’ in Southeast Asia. The story takes place between the years 1958 and 1961, a period between the French surrender and expulsion from Vietnam and the US admitting they had troops in the country. ...

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Memoirs of a Gypsy Moth

I wrote this piece to share the experience, thrill and humor that I had in the early days of skydiving.

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BEARKILLER

Do you believe in reincarnation? BEARKILLER is a fast paced adventure novel that takes a man from the present to over two hundred years in the past, to possibly a past life! Jeff Barkil has a passion for hunting. It seems to have been an integral part of his being since he was a boy. But he has never known why he is so drawn to it.Maybe after this he will. On a solo elk hunt in the...

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Mar.11.2010 - 10:57 pm

Memories # 20

Survival: The survival exercise in Thailand was a fairly simple Op plan; the team would jump into the jungle some hundred and twenty miles in, with only the clothes on our backs...

Mar.11.2010 - 12:08 am

Memories # 19

Bandits: The day before we jumped in for the survival operation in Thailand, we decided to mess with the CO of the Engineering Company where we ate, the same one I had already had...

Mar.09.2010 - 11:43 pm

Memories # 18

Fun in Thailand: Shortly after I completed the Jungle Warfare School in Panama, I volunteered for a special training exercise in Thailand. It was a combination survival...

Mar.09.2010 - 12:25 am

Memories # 17

It's a small world: Several times while I was in the service, I was made to contemplate how small the world really was. Once after I'd been in the Army a little over two years, I...

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Mar.04.2010 - 12:10 pm

In response to: Memories # 9

Thanks

Abe, that means a lot coming from you...Thanks.

Mar.03.2010 - 11:57 pm

In response to: Memories # 13

Dental Floss

No, but I've used Saran Wrap

Feb.28.2010 - 12:21 pm

In response to: Making Love Out of Nothing At All

JoElle, Very thoughtful. I

JoElle, Very thoughtful. I have to agree whole heartedly.

About D. J.

I currently live in the North West Suburbs of Chicago with my wife of forty-one years. I was born in a small farm town in Nebraska. Shortly after my birth, my Dad sold the farm and moved us in near Chicago so I could go to Shriner’s Crippled Children’s...

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