ABOUT THE BOOKS
FIRST TOUCH
In First Touch: Captain Tarif “Tar” Barsak and his team aboard patrol cruiser Werner Von Braun are dispatched to discover what happened to the wreckage of a mining tender that was the home for fifty-seven people. Their discovery is not a simple accident, but a first spark of a great conflict that will change human history.
H. Lee Willis is a retired electrical engineer and historian. He has combined his knowledge of history and his experience as an electrical engineer with exceptional storytelling skills. His technical background has allowed him to produce a very realistic and fascinating military science fiction series. The story is very engaging, involving the character of Captain Barsak; a man who was both a hero and a villain, people of his time could not decide. In this way readers become involved in an exciting mystery where the laws of physics are as dangerous as the enemy hiding in the stars.
FIRST TOUCH
In First Touch: Captain Tarif “Tar” Barsak and his team aboard patrol cruiser Werner Von Braun are dispatched to discover what happened to the wreckage of a mining tender that was the home for fifty-seven people. Their discovery is not a simple accident, but a first spark of a great conflict that will change human history.
H. Lee Willis is a retired electrical engineer and historian. He has combined his knowledge of history and his experience as an electrical engineer with exceptional storytelling skills. His technical background has allowed him to produce a very realistic and fascinating military science fiction series. The story is very engaging, involving the character of Captain Barsak; a man who was both a hero and a villain, people of his time could not decide. In this way readers become involved in an exciting mystery where the laws of physics are as dangerous as the enemy hiding in the stars.
COPO
Tired of being taxed and regulated by the United Nations of Earth’s laws while the planet’s governments refuse to provide police protection and enforce civil and criminal law throughout the solar system, the eighteen million people who live and work ‘off-planet’ have declared their independence and formed the Free Democratic Corporation of Mars, the first nation-state entirely off Earth. All they ask of Earth is to be left alone, to care for and protect themselves.
But some of Earth’s governments and its point-oh-oh-one-percenters covet the mineral riches and wealth of the solar system and want it for themselves. They have mounted a propaganda campaign on Earth to turn public opinion against the ‘off-planet rebels’ and marshalled a space navy to put an end to them. Commodore Tar Barsak, head of the nascent nation state’s small Defence Force, must find a way to stop Earth from wiping out his new nation before it even gets its start. But how do you attack a planet whose population outnumbers you eight hundred to one, is armed to the teeth, and sees nothing wrong with just killing you and as many others as needed to get its way?
Available later summer, 2026
Search and Destroy
The Free Democratic Corporation of Mars has managed to force Earth into signing a treaty acknowledging its independence and set up a trade agreement that is fair to both sides. But all is not good. Earth refuses to do anything about criminal gangs – basically pirates – who are raiding FDCM outposts, mining depots and bases in the Asteroid Belt and beyond from staging bases inside Earth’s territory, killing people and making off with valuable cargoes and ships. Rear Admiral Tar Barsak is recalled from a forced retirement to help deal with the piracy, but it quickly becomes clear that it is actually a covert a prelude to a secret military attempt by Earth to destroy his country. As he tries to deal with this threat, he discovers that Earth does not have a monopoly on greed, selfishness or incompetence, and that some of the biggest battles he has to fight are right at home.
Available late 2026
