Red Unicorn: A Supernatural Thriller

This is not your daughter’s unicorn. No glittery pink stuffed animal. No. The Red Unicorn means certain death...Ex-Pat American Vietnam War Vet Amboy Stevens wants nothing more than to live in peace in 1982 Argentina. But with the Falkland Islands War raging, he is forced to protect a fellow six-fingered American girl who has lost her memory.They stumble upon a myth as ancient as humanity itself and are soon on the run from warlocks, Nazi treasure hunters, the cult of the unicorn, and sorcerers who want the pair for their own nefarious reasons. From Buenos Aires to the Island at the End of the World, they are chased, harassed, possessed, attacked, and beleaguered.Worse. The Red Unicorn is near. If they hope to survive, they'll need to work together. Because their meeting wasn’t accidental. It's been predicted ever since they were born, their six-fingered hands an interlocking symbol that no one else can replicate. From the author of SEAL Team 666 and Bone Chase comes this new amazing supernatural thriller that begins where Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia left off."Though the scope and nature of the book is chilling and horrific he kind of makes the reading into a little vacation. Well done!"–New York Time Bestselling Author, Robert McCammon

dangers that some try to warn the vet about. The couple's growing romance is convincing... And readers finally get some answers in the searing climax as Amboy and Lettie face their shocking fates. An unremittingly bleak, engrossing, and ferocious tale of an inevitable and potentially dangerous future.

KIRKUS REVIEW: A Vietnam veteran and an enigmatic woman hurtle toward an uncertain destiny in this dark, supernatural thriller. Tennessee-born Amboy Stevens has made a life as a miner in Argentina. On an autumn day in 1982, he agrees to pay off a debt by helping fellow American Lettie Fennick. Lettie is a redheaded Black woman with partial amnesia and, just like Amboy, six fingers on each hand. While the Vietnam vet finds and brings Lettie to relative safety, myriad groups are apparently after her, from the CIA to a Nazi cult. Amboy is mostly in the dark; he doesn't know what exactly the figures are chasing or if their intentions are noble or sinister. But he fights to protect Lettie as the two gradually fall for each other. They dodge gunfire, vicious torturers, and horrid, baleful creatures that appear to be made of sticks. Amboy and Lettie, desperate for answers, rush to a place where they hope to unearth the things she can't remember. But what awaits the pair is not something Amboy likely anticipated. Ochse shrouds this novel in mystery. ...A rich atmosphere nevertheless permeates the story; everywhere Amboy and Lettie go seems treacherous and rife with untrustworthy people

About the Author

Weston Ochse is the author of more than forty books, most recently the SEAL Team 666 books, which the New York Post called 'required reading' and USA Today placed on their 'New and Notable Lists.' The books are also being shopped by 7 Bucks Productions (Dwayne Johnson's Production Company) to be a major motion picture. His first novel, Scarecrow Gods, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel. He has also been awarded four New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. His short fiction has been nominated for multiple Bram Stoker Awards and the Pushcart Prize. His work as appeared in DC ad IDW comic books, and magazines such as Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and Soldier of Fortune. His work has been lauded by Joe R. Lansdale, Peter Straub, Kevin J. Anderson, John Skipp, Brian Keene, Jonathan Maberry, David Gerrold, William C. Dietz, Tim Lebbon, Robert McCammon and many more, including the New York Times, New York Post, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Denver Post, The Financial Times of London, and The Examiner (UK). His last name is pronounced "oaks." Together with his first name, it sounds like a stately trailer park. He lives in the Arizona desert within rock throwing distance of Mexico. For fun he races tarantula wasps and watches the black helicopters dance along the horizon. He is a military veteran with more than 35 years of military service and recently returned from a 2nd tour in Afghanistan. He's traveled the world, been more to 50 countries, and blogs at Living Dangerously. You can google him under 'Literary Stuntman,' 'Superhero for Rent,' or 'Yakuza of the Written Word."

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