Smithtown Unit

It started off in West Virginia in the fall of 1993, far away from the intact, reforming, USSR. At first it was a campaign of revenge against a corrupt, untouchable sheriff who killed his father. But Bill Morgan soon found himself embroiled in something much bigger. Given the choice of prison or joining a secret, under-the-table unit, he chose the latter. Now, with his massive hand-built pistol and two companions, Morgan embarks on his first mission. The goal is to nail a fugitive terrorist holed up in the North African pariah state known as the Republic of Oran. It's three against many more as the unit dives into hostile territory on a shoestring, out for justice-and blood.

It's 1996. The Soviet Union still exists. The pariah Republic of Oran sits in northern Africa. And professional baseball has expanded to cities as far apart as Buffalo and Indianapolis, fueled by a desire by players and owners alike to buy labor peace. One of the men covering this expanded landscape is sportswriter Art Roland, a man of suspicious wealth and surrounded by dark rumors about his activities. A shorthanded Smithtown Unit embarks on a cross-country investigation of Roland for its latest mission. There, Bill Morgan and Fred Tally will find out that an operation in the middle of the continental U.S. poses its own unique challenges, and that it can be just as deadly as any abroad. Box Press is the second book in the Smithtown Unit series of alternate history action-adventure novels by Colin Salt.