The Soldier of Fortune is Jim Rainey, was created and written by Peter McCurtin. He sets his series apart from others in the genre by having the books narrated in first person in a tough hardboiled style by Rainey. The impersonal third person narrative of his competitors is topped by McCurtin's easy-going, colloquial style.

10: BLOODBATH

Rainey had flown to Hawaii for some much-needed R and R.

Instead, he landed right in the middle of a Beirut-type blowout. A terrorist group had sent an ambulance packed with high explosives hurtling into a children's hospital. Their aim: Hawaiian independence. The result: hundreds of dead and maimed children. The local police told Rainey to find the butchers or face the charges himself.

So Rainey went to work.

Published March 01, 2024
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FINAL BOOK OF THE SERIES

09: DEATH SQUAD

Rainey had met her in Nam.

Nancy Williams was a doctor, an angel of mercy; he was a killer, a cold-eyed angel of death. Yet somehow they became lovers for a brief and stormy period. Now Rainey had learned of her death in Central America at the hands of the Nicaragua National Guard.

Enraged, he invades the rebel stronghold, a one-man demonstration of concentrated firepower and white-hot hatred.

This is one job Rainey will do for free.

Published December 01, 2023
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08: GOLDEN TRIANGLE

The last place in the world Rainey feels like visiting is Vietnam - as a Green Beret during the war, he'd been responsible for a lot of deaths, and he's still a wanted man.

But when a powerful Mafioso offers him a quarter of a million dollars to find his son, reported Missing in Action but apparently still alive somewhere within the lawless hellhole known as the Golden Triangle, Rainey decides to risk it.

Published September 01, 2023
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07: KALAHARI

Many years ago, fellow mercenary 'Wild Bill' Corcoran had rescued Rainey from a grisly death in the African bush.

Now it's Rainey's chance to repay the debt.

Corcoran is being held prisoner in a jail in Namibia, sentenced to death for working with Namibian freedom fighters, if Rainey can't break him out, Corcoran will hang.

And Rainey's not about to let that happen!

Published June 01, 2023
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06: MORO

Jim Rainey was approached by the elderly widow of an American brigadier general, who wanted him to find a valuable document hidden somewhere on a remote Philippine island.

Though he distrusted the widow's motives, the price was right, so Rainey took the assignment. But he soon found himself dodging the bullets of Communist and non-communist rebels, President Marcos' secret police, and freelance gunmen hired by parties unknown.

They all had one goal in common: kill Rainey!

Published March 01, 2023
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05: GREEN HELL

A wealthy Irish-American group hired Rainey to get rid of Daniel Larkin, a Vietnam vet turned professional killer who heads up a team of ruthless assassins and demolition experts in Belfast.

Larkin's gang is in the pay of both the IRA and the Ulster Defense League. So Rainey's assignment is to either provide evidence that will put Larkin in prison for life, or kill him.

Rainey's problem: he has to survive long enough in bullet-riddled Belfast to complete the mission.

Published January 01, 2023
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04: YELLOW RAIN

Jim Rainey's latest assignment was also going to be his toughest to date.

A wealthy magazine publisher was paying him a cool hundred thousand dollars to rescue Charles Goldman, a journalist who'd been captured in Afghanistan while reporting on the secret war between the Russians and the Islamic rebels.

Befriended by the chief of a nomad tribe that is decimated by an infamous poison gas known as Yellow Rain, Jim faced death at the hands of Afghans, the Pakistanis and an American CIA agent who's gunning for Goldman ... and for Rainey as well!

Published November 01, 2022
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03: SPOILS OF WAR

Jim Rainey had fought in five wars, but the civil war in Lebanon is - and was - the bloodiest, most fiercely waged conflict in Middle East history. Christian against Moslem - and all armed to the teeth with the most modern weapons available.

The soldier of fortune was getting good money from the beleaguered government, which was trying to build order from chaos, but there were times when the killing got to him.

Rainey goes where the fighting is, no matter what the odds.

Published August 01, 2022
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02: THE DEADLIEST GAME

Professional soldier Jim Rainey went to Argentina because that's where the action was. Communist terrorists were forcing the Government to hire mercenaries but only the toughest fighting men needed to apply.

With six wars under his belt, Rainey signed on - at $2000 a month - as the leader of a special seek and destroy squad. His orders: take no prisoners.

It was dirty, dangerous work ... but Rainey loved it.

Published May 01, 2022
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01: MASSACRE AT UMTALI

Jim Rainey was an ex-marine from Texas who made his living doing what he did best - fighting. Now he was in Rhodesia, signing up for a nice fat fee as leader of a special anti-terrorist squad.

The men under his command were a bunch of steel-hard killers like himself, the kind of men you don't turn your back on even when you're facing the enemy. Their target: a homicidal maniac known as 'Colonel Gwanda and his murderous band of guerillas.

When the fighting was over, Rainey would be a very rich man ... if he lived..

Published February 01, 2022
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