MARC OLDEN

BLACK SAMURAI (first in the series)
Rescued by a Japanese Samurai master, trained for seven years, Robert Sand became the Black Samurai. Having suffered at the hands of military racists and seeing his teacher and brother samurai killed before his eyes by the terrorists, Robert Sand became a man with a mission...to destroy the corrupt powers who are plotting to threaten everything he holds dear.

CHAPTER ONE
1973 / SLAUGHTER

On a chilled March night at the edge of a small Japanese village twenty miles north of Tokyo, twenty-four men - faces darkened by black shoe polish and mud, each man carrying an automatic rifle, one handgun, two grenaded - crouched behind trees, bushes and cars, watching six killer dogs trot gracefully toward three wooden two-story houses painted blue and yellow.

Silently, the lean Dobermans glided toward the three houses, moving across the grass like quiet black shadows, their shiny black coats reflecting handfuls of yellow moon-light. With their small heads and open mouths, jagged teeth wet with spit, the dogs looked like four-legged reptiles, vicious giant lizards slithering closer for the kill.

They knew only killing. Since they were becoming more and more high-strung and therefore dangerous to handle, the man in charge of the raid had ordered his dogs to be killed tonight as well. Either during the slaughter or after.

Leaning against a tree, hidden by the darkness, Colonel Leo Dimitri Tolstoy, United States Army, watched his dogs scamper up the stairs and sniff around the front porch and door of each house, lizardlike heads darting left and right, then back and forth. Despite the chill, the battle-hardened Colonel Tolstoy wore a short-sleeved, faded green fatigue shirt, his sun-browned arms bare to their hard biceps. Two grenades were clipped to the left front pocket of the green shirt, dangling like obscene black fruits.

The United States was not at war with Japan. The raid was Colonel Tolstoy’s idea, a shrewd move, as he saw it, because the men he was about to kill would most certainly kill him as soon as they found out what he had done. He had no intention of giving them the opportunity for revenge, because the men sleeping inside the three houses were men to be feared.

They were Samurai....

Sand knew who was attacking. He didn’t know why, but he knew who.
And he had never discussed this with the Samurai because he had not known for sure that the attack would ever come. He had been warned to be aware, to be alert, to always remember the existence of Colonel Leo Dimitri Tolstoy. But this-!!
Sand never expected this!

He felt the warm blood under his bare feet as he stepped over the bodies and moved down the hallway. Other raiders would be here soon. But it didn’t matter. He was a Samurai, he would die fighting as a Samurai, as a warrior, as he had been trained to do. He would kill as many of Colonel Tolstoy’s men as he could and if he were fortunate, he might kill Tolstoy himself. That would be a blessing, that would be a nice way to die...


Copyright © 1974 by Marc Olden

THE GOLDEN KILL (second in the series)
A vast secret global network of money, power, and violence was step by step enslaving mankind. It's mysterious master commanded armies of men, gigantic corporations, entire governments. Robert Sand had orders to stop this vast juggernaut of evil at any cost. With his bare hands at the ready, and no holds barred, the Black Samurai set out to destroy the destroyers....

KILLER WARRIOR (third in the series)
Robert Sand knew that saving New York from atomic destruction was close to mission impossible, even for him. Ranged against him was a monstrously rich murder-master, who could deliver a diabolical doomsday device, and a vast army of trained killers. It was Robert Sand's bare hands against the most sophisticated weapons of modern science as the Black Samurai plunged into his most dangerous adventure ever....

THE DEADLY PEARL (fourth in the series)
Pearl was the King of the Pimps. Pay Pearl his price, and you could get whatever perverted kick you wanted. Cross Pearl, and his army of expert assassins would do a number on you. But now Pearl has snatched the wrong little runaway, and Robert Sand, master of the martial arts, vowed to tear apart this worldwide empire with his bare hands. The Black Samurai's orgy of vengeance was about to begin....

THE INQUISITION (fifth in the series)
Dessalines, black, blooodthirsty, and insane was head of The Inquisition, a terrorist organization sworn to wipe out anyone who got in their way. But The Inquisition made one mistake. They kidnapped the daughter of the most powerful man in America and suddenly they had Robert Sand to deal with. The Black Samurai had three days to find Dessalines and stop an execution that could unleash destruction and evil across the nation....

THE WARLOCK (sixth in the series)
The Warlock ruled an occult empire that stretched around the world. This evil genius with his slavelike army of hideous killer dwarfs, gorgeous women, sadistic perverts, and other devotees of his devil-worshiping religion now reached out to grasp ultimate power over all the nations of the earth. Only Robert Sand, Black Samurai, could hope to exorcise this monstrous threat, or else himself be thrown into the bottomless pit of pain and body-mangling death......

SWORD OF ALLAH (seventh in the series)
Politics make sinister allies and there was never a more deadly combination than an Arab terrorist group backed by billions in oil money, and a right-wing organization masterminded by a U.S. Senator. They were out to deliver a savage one-two punch against America by murdering the entire crew of a Soviet-American space shot. Corpse by corpse they moved closer to their goal of pushing America over the brink, and Robert Sand, Black Samurai, had only his mastery of the martial arts to hold back this steamroller of endless wealth and infinitely evil power....

THE KATANA (last in the series)
The Katana is a fabulous sword of gold and rubies, created centuries ago for the Emperor of Japan. Robert Sand taught by his sensei to revere this wondrous weapon was enraged at the idea of the Katana in the diabolical hands that had stolen it. Between Sand and this sacred symbol stood a lethal legion commanded by Mafia blood money and Arab oil wealth - but the Black Samurai was ready to take that army apart with his bare hands to get those hands on the monstrous man at the top....