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Tony Ruggiero (Author)
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April 28, 2008

John Reese thought it was all over - all except for the nightmares.

As he begins his teaching career, John Reese is suddenly recalled to active duty. The strings behind the recall come from a dark governmental agency buried deep within the Pentagon as well as the American political system.

Reese learns that General Stone had additional vampires that he never knew about. But what's worse is that they have been kidnapped or stolen from the secure holding that Reese helped design. Now it is an issue of National Security because if the two young vampires fall into the wrong hands they could potentially attack those that captured them.

Reese becomes the hunter as he is watched not only by his military leaders, but by a government group known only as the Agency. He is bluntly warned that if he fails to cooperate fully in finding the vampires, he may spend the rest of his life in a military prison. As he studies the escape and those that were responsible for it, he recognizes that only one group could be responsible for it and it is the group that he has sworn to his superiors he killed as they tried to escape: The Team of Darkness.

Reese now has a double edged sword at his throat. Does he tell the General that he lied and knowingly loosened General Stone's prized vampire team on the city to feed off of the humanity that they had sworn to protect? As Reese searches for these answers he meets Christina, a mysterious and voluptuous woman that he is taken with. Their relationship follows the twists and turns that the search takes Reese on-leaving one to wonder if Reese and Christina have their own secrets that seek to reveal yet another mystery to be told.


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"This novel does a fine job of combining a vampire story with a political thriller. I am not much of a vampire novel lover, but I am very interested in reading future novels in this series." -- Dead Trees Review

"Tony Ruggiero's tale is more a thriller than a horror novel or military science fiction. You could remove the term "vampire" and just call them super-soldiers who are used in the war against terrorism. Thus the audience receives an exciting pulp fiction tale where everyone falls into the classifications of either heroes or villains. The irony that refreshes the storyline is that the military is malevolent (perhaps too much) while the villains seem more humane than their human counterparts. They do not kill except when they are forced to and drink either animal or human blood for sustenance without murdering the source. Humans taught the vampires to be ruthless...The audience does not get inside the heads of the vampires as they do Reese, and some questions remain unanswered for the obvious sequels. Still, Operation: Save The Innocent is a bitingly good supernatural thriller that keeps readers on the edge of their seats..." -- Harriet Klausner SFRevu

From the Publisher

Book II of the Declassified Files of the Team of Darkness.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Dragon Moon Press; 1 edition (April 28, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1896944604
  • ISBN-13: 978-1896944609
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,504,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tony Ruggiero retired from the United States Navy in 2001 after twenty-three years of service. While continuing to write, Tony teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His published novels include:

Operation Immortal Servitude: Book I of the Declassified Files of the Team of Darkness: The US military has developed a new weapon to be added to its arsenal--the creatures known as vampires. Tony uses his Naval experience to write this dark fantasy thriller about a group of vampires that are discovered in Kosovo, captured and brought back to the United States to be used by the Navy SEALs as an elite hit squad. Ground breaking and fast paced, the novel is a characteristic mixture of the vampire lore of Anne Rice and the clandestine secrets of the military found in Tom Clancy novels.

Operation Save the Innocent: Book II of the Declassified files of the Team of Darkness: General Stone, the commander of the Special Operations forces is murdered. His assassin is a vampire who has been controlled and used by a U.S. secret government organization to murder selected targets since her arrival in the United States over sixty years ago. Meanwhile, the vampires from the Team of Darkness operation discover the existence of two young vampire girls being held captive in their own former prison and set out to free them while eluding both the military and the Agency.

Operation Face the Fear: Book III of the Declassified Files of the Team of Darkness: As John Reese attempts to find the missing vampire girls, he uncovers information that leads him to join forces the remaining vampires from the Team of Darkness. This collaboration will likely result in his own death if discovered by the secret government agency that seeks to use the vampires for their own idealistic goals of reshaping the world. However finding the vampires yet leads to another discovery--one very close to the heart of John Reese and makes him have to face his own fear that he has been hiding from.

Alien Deception: Something to keep in mind with the upcoming presidential election: Nothing is as it appears???nothing. Your whole life you think you understand who and what you are and then one day you learn that it is all a lie. So what do you do? You have lunch with the leading candidate for President of the United States???you and your alien friends.

Alien Revelation: The exciting conclusion to Alien Deception. Death has many meanings. For some it is an end, while for others it is a beginning. Yet, for one human/alien hybrid, it is a way to have one final chance to try and save his home, Earth, a son he has never seen, and find an enemy that just won't stay dead.


Other Works:

Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply. A collection of short stories by Tony Ruggiero


Work in Anthologies

No Longer Dreams. Poetry: "Waiting in the Garden."

Writers for Relief. Poetry: "A Meeting with Destiny," "Buried Treasures of Life," "Celebration," "Guard Them Well," "Hello," "Is There Anyone There," "Pursuit," "The Last Visit," Up Another Step," "Wind of Life" and "Yet It Did."

Writers for Relief Volume II. Short story: "The Importance of Undergarments at Science Fiction Conventions."

Breach the Hull. Short story: "Perspective."

So It Begins. Short story: "Looking for a Good Time."


Short Stories

"Lucky Lucifer's Car Emporium"
"Electronic Bliss"
"Operator"
"Cat With A Past"
"Inhuman or Inhumane"
"Something's Cooking"
"Invasion or Subversion"
"Endangered Species"
"The Gift That Keeps on Giving"
"Reap What You Sow"
"Forgiveness"
"An A-museing Tale"
"Teacher's Pet"
"Have A Nice Flight"
"To Protect and Serve"
"Going Up?"
"Games People Play"
"Cow Song"
"Please Make Up My Mind"
"Satisfaction"
"Inoculation of a Culture"
"We Are What We Have Become"
"Differences"
"The Gift Of Christmas"
"How Blind Is Justice"
"Burning Bridges"
"Wild and Wonderful Earth"
"It's A Garden Out There"
"Pull!"
"Cerebral Recyclers"
"Normalcy Sucks"
"Just My Job"
"Antiques"
"Human Nature"
"Faith"
"The End"
"Freddy"
"Fulfillment"

The official webpage of Tony Ruggiero can be found at www.tonyruggiero.com.



 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fine job of combining vampires and politics, November 15, 2008
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This review is from: Operation: Save the Innocent: From The Declassified Tales of Team of Darkness (Paperback)
Part two of a series, this book is about the use of vampires as present-day US Government assassins.

In part one, John Reese ran a very high-level military program called Team of Darkness, a team of three vampires ordered to kill selected targets. Led by a vampire called Dmitri, they had little choice in the matter. Around each of their necks was a permanent metal collar filled with a serum, that, at the touch of a button, would be injected into them, and kill them slowly and painfully. At the end of the book, Reese freed the three, telling his superiors that he killed them.

In this story, a megalomaniac officer named General Stone secretly obstructed Reese's efforts to abolish the program. He has also secretly secured two young girls, a 13-year-old and her 8-year-old sister, to be his own personal assassins, with similar collars. They were turned into vampires through a Balkan (southeast Europe) equivalent of the Hatfield's and McCoy's feud. General Stone is found dead, murdered by Christina, another vampire, who could be said to have started all of this. She was found in a cave in the Balkans near the end of World War II, and was convinced to come to America.

Dmitri and his two colleagues find out about the two sisters, and break them out of a very secure military prison, the same one in which they were held. Reese, supposedly retired from the military, is forcibly recalled to active duty (by an ultra-secret agency called The Agency) with the task of finding them. The alternative is to spend the rest of his life in military prison. He also starts a "relationship" with Christina, and is unaware of her story.

This novel does a fine job of combining a vampire story with a political thriller. I am not much of a vampire novel lover, but I am very interested in reading future novels in this series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting and deftly crafted tale, September 3, 2008
This review is from: Operation: Save the Innocent: From The Declassified Tales of Team of Darkness (Paperback)
Young girls are supposed to play house, not assassins. "Operation: Save the Innocent: From the Declassified Files of Team Darkness" is the engaging sequel to author Tony Ruggiero's 'Operation: Immortal Servitude', a popular novel for fantasy adventure fans. Two young girls were transformed into Vampires and trained to be the best killers the world has ever known. John Reese is charged with taking them out, while faced with the specters of the past which still haunt him. "Operation: Save the Innocent" is a riveting and deftly crafted tale from beginning to end which is sure to please his fans and devotees of the action/adventure fantasy genre in general.
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