Author Don Helin

Books

From Army Regulations to Novels

BURIED RELICS

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From a failed drug program in Afghanistan to the lost civilization of Atlantis, Colonel Zack Kelly is pulled into an insidious, wide-ranging scheme to revive the program. With dangerous secrets lurking behind every lead, Zack has to determine how the possibility of space aliens, and Mayan artifacts relate to the Afghanistan River Dance program.
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From Army Regulations to Novels

A Family of Dogs

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The genesis for this memoir was the death of our beloved dog, Max, a tough little guy.  Rescued from certain death by my wife twelve years ago, he was a gentle, loving dog, adored by all. 
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From Army Regulations to Novels

TWINS

A member of the Patriot’s militia sets fire to a library in central Pennsylvania and kills the sheriff who tries to stop him.
French operatives infiltrate into the United States from Canada to hack into national computer systems, then use their skills to spread disinformation. Is there a relationship between these two events?
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From Army Regulations to Novels

FROM ARMY REGULATIONS TO NOVELS

In less time than it takes to run a hundred yard dash, Don Helin’s life is shattered with the stunning news of an illness, triggering numbness, shock, confusion and despair.
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Secret Assault

MISSING

High-level election officials mysteriously disappear from key presidential election swing states. A nursing home franchise in Minnesota keeps patients chained to their beds. Former General Frederick Farmington, a populist candidate with a radical protectionist agenda, inexplicably soars in the polls.
Are these incidents connected?
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Voices from the Pandemic

VOICES FROM THE PANDEMIC

The trying period since January 1, 2020 makes sense to each of us because we have lived through it. Our reader, on the other hand, needs to make sense of the changes during the period covered by our memoir. The task for us as writers is not only to tell the reader what happened during the Coronavirus period, but to bring them along on the journey so they can experience it for themselves.
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Secret Assault

ROOF OF THE WORLD

Eleven o’clock at night. A knock at the door. Who would bother Cho’den, a ninety-year-old Tibetan woman living near Washington, D.C. at this hour? Did something bad happen to her son, a leader in the resistance movement against the Chinese control of Tibet?
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Secret Assault

LONG WALK HOME

To Colonel Zack Kelly, a trip to New York City is more than an opportunity to bond with his daughter, Laura. It’s a chance to find out once and for all what happened to his father, an NYPD cop shot down and killed by drug dealers, then branded a dirty cop some thirty years before.
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Secret Assault

ANGEL'S REVENGE

It started with a phone call, a simple phone call from the ex-wife of one of Colonel Zack Kelly's former officers. Her ex has been murdered, branded with the words Dark Angel, castrated, then dumped on a beach in New Jersey.
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Secret Assault

SECRET ASSAULT

The June evening had been perfect—the speeches are over, the last dance is underway, and the president's national security advisor, General Aaron Hightower, is leaving his retirement party when he is gunned down by a Vietnamese assassin.
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Devil's Den

DEVIL'S DEN

Colonel Zack Kelly escorts his friend, Blake Lannigan, to Gettysburg. Blake runs onto the battlefield at Devil’s Den to look for ghosts and disappears. Zack, who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder from his three tours in Afghanistan, has no memory of what happened to Blake although he does recall the sound of hoofbeats. He becomes the FBI’s number one suspect.
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Thy Kingdom Come

THY KINGDOM COME

Colonel Sam Thorpe, a member of the Pentagon’s anti-terrorist task force goes undercover to train “The Patriots,” a homegrown white supremacist militia in central Pennsylvania.
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