Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (Call of Cthulhu Mythos fiction) - Softcover

Tynes, John

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9781887797160: Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (Call of Cthulhu Mythos fiction)

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ISBN 10: 1887797165 ISBN 13: 9781887797160

Publisher: Tynes Cowan Corp, 2000

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Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement is the first Delta Green novel, following the release of the short story collection Delta Green: Alien Intelligence. Delta Green weaves the comic terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos seamlessly with the paranoia and shadowy forces of conspiracy theory, updating the stories of jazz era horror writer H. P. Lovecraft to the modern day.

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Born of the federal government's 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green's leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day- but often at a shattering personal cost.

When an agent vanishes, leaving behind a lifetime of mystery and igniting a future of peril, a Delta Green Team is pulled into a vortex of horror and deception, destiny and betrayal. From the Smokey Mountains of eastern Tennessee to the snow covered beltway of Washington, from the depths of Fort Leavenworth prison to the sunny tropics of Puerto Rico, from the sky over China to the jungles of Cambodia, we are there, following a scarlet skein of tangled causality through time and space that threatens to ignite a war between Delta Green and its bitterest enemy. The dancers at the soul of time are calling across the gulf of infinity. Won't you join the dance?

Review:

In his new (and first, I believe) novel Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement, John Tynes grabs the Delta Green conspiracy like a rabid dog and gives it a few vicious, neck-snapping shakes. . . . If you're a fan of the Mythos fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and his followers, or if you enjoy action-packed spy novels, then the answer is "probably" (worth your money); if you're already a Delta Green devotee, then the answer is "hoo baby!" --it's stealth technology, slipping a payload of fin-de-siecle angst and Mythos horror right past your radar and dropping it smack into your cerebrum. --this is Mythos fiction 90's style, HPL meets John Woo....Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement is a fast, gripping read, easily as worthy of taking to the beach as anything from Stephen King or Tom Clancy. -- Chris Womack on 08/27/99 for RPG.net

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