Bob Mayer

Agnes and the Hitman with Jennifer Crusie
Agnes Crandall, a food columnist better known as Cranky Agnes, is getting ready for the big society wedding that’s going to be held in her back yard when a guy with a gun breaks into her kitchen and tries to kidnap her dog. Agnes accidentally kills him. Shortly after that, a guy with a gun (Shane, just Shane) breaks into her bedroom and tells her he’s there to protect her. Good thing, too, because then things go really badly and it’s pretty much Agnes and Shane against the world, at least the part of it that’s armed and coming for Agnes. (Aug ‘07)

Don’t Look Down with Jennifer Crusie
Jenny Crusie writes Lucy Armstrong, a film director with family problems–why is her sister so depressed, her niece so unhappy, and her ex-husband so intent on getting her back–and career problems–why is the star so determined to do his own stunts, the ingenue so determined to seduce the stunt double, and that Green Beret stunt double so damn attractive? Bob Mayer writers J. T. Wilder, a Green Beret who has his own troubles including the goofball actor he’s doubling for, the stunt coordinator who’s gunning for him (literally), and the director who looks like Wonder Woman and keeps distracting him from his mission. And that’s before the CIA, the Russian mob, and the one-eyed alligator show up. (Apr ‘06)

Z: A Dave Riley Novel
This military action thriller set in the war-torn jungles of Africa, finds SF veteran Riley on the most dangerous mission of his life. (Dec ‘96)

Eternity Base
A federal employee intent upon discovering the truth about her missing in action father stumbles upon a closely-held secret about an Antarctic military base - a base illegally constructed and which has been kept a secret by a serious of murders. When she and her reporter sister fly to the base for an in-depth probe, murder begins to stalk them. (May ‘96)

Cut Out: A Dave Riley Novel
Chief Warrant Officer Dave Riley (SYNBAT), returns to take on the mob and corrupt government officials in a well-paced but didactic tale about the compromising of the Federal Witness Protection Program. When Philip Cobb, former mob money launderer and current government informer, is murdered just as he is about the enter the Program, his wife, after calling an emergency Program number only to be nearly gunned down herself, turns for help to her brother, who contacts his old girlfriend, Donna Giannini, now a Chicago cop. Giannini (who appeared in SYNBAT) in turn asks her old pal Riley to keep Lisa alive while she finds out what went wrong. (June ‘95)

Dragon Sim-13: A Dave Riley Novel
A pulsing techno-thriller set in June 1989. As Chinese students are dying in Tiananmen Square, the U.S. stages Dragon SIM-13–a routine computer exercise involving a simulated Special Forces raid on a Chinese oil pipeline. But the program has been written by Doctor Meng, a refugee determined to strike a blow against his onetime tormentors in Beijing, and Sgt. Dave Riley and his Green Beret A-team find themselves actually in China, confronting disaster when a helicopter crash leaves half the men stranded in hostile territory. (Feb ‘94)

Eyes of the Hammer: A Dave Riley Novel
When Colombia secretly requests U.S. aid against the drug cartel, a Special Forces A-Team becomes the “eyes” guiding gunships and helicopters–the “hammer”–against jungle cocaine-processing labs. Then treachery leaves four Green Berets dead and one in the hands of the “Ring Man,” deadliest of the drug lords. Special Forces warrant officer Riley and CIA agent Kate Westland are sent in to kill the Ring Man and rescue the prisoner. Their slim chances sink to near-zero when Washington pulls the plug on the mission. But before his people are abandoned, a veteran Special Forces colonel still has a few cards to play. (Feb ‘94)

Synbat: A Dave Riley Novel
SYNBATs (synthetic battle forms) are large mutant primates created by a secret genetic engineering project in rural Tennessee and, in the best thriller tradition, they escape, wreaking gory havoc on anything in their way. Massed against them are Special Forces Chief Warrant Officer Dave Riley and his troop of Green Berets. (Jan ‘94)

FICTION AS ROBERT DOHERTY

Lost Girls
August 2007 from Tor in hardcover. After World War II and the emergence of the United States as the leading world power, one single man was chosen to create an agency known as The Cellar to police all the other agencies as they formed (CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, etc.). With its founder on his deathbed, a new face is commanding the Cellar: Hannah Masterson. Her first task may prove to be the most harrowing of her career. (Aug ‘07)
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Bodyguard of Lies
Who guards the world of covert operations? Enter the Cellar, a most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States. Two women become inextricably involved in a dangerous web of lies, intrigue, and betrayal as they fight for their lives and the safety of their country. Neeley is the lover and proteacute;geacute; of Gant, a Cellar operative, and is trying to both pick up the pieces of her life after Gant’s death and unveil a mystery that Gant always held close to his chest. Hannah, a housewife, is equally lost after her husband simply disappears. They soon learn that the men in their lives shared a dangerous secret, one some very powerful people would shed blood to protect. And if they ever hope to uncover the truth about the lovers they thought they knew, Neeley and Hannah first must learn the truth about themselves. But when the Cellar is involved, there is no such thing as coincidence, and the truth is always protected by a Bodyguard of Lies. (Feb ‘05)
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Area 51
When nine atmospheric crafts of unknown origin were discovered in the Antarctic in the late 1940s, the U.S. government established Area 51 to study the abandoned technology. Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, who is the only original member of the secret research committee, has observed the marvelous craft in flight and witnessed a fantastic array of bizarre, unexplained phenomena. But Dr. Van Seeckt fears that the technology of the mothership is beyond our scope and an explosive threat to the entire planet. He must race against time to unlock the secret of the ship–and to the origins of mankind itself. (Feb ‘97)

Area 51: The Reply
Area 51 was the most secret place in America. But it was only one piece in a puzzle that stretched from Egypt’s Pyramids to the mysterious face on Mars… Part of a plan begun 5,000 years ago by those who had been here before. And are coming back. (Feb ‘98)

Area 51: The Mission
Now we know what the government hid there. It’s time we found out why…. Hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest is a place shrouded in mystery. It is called The Mission. And in nearby villages people are screaming in pain as they die from a virus more deadly than Ebola. They can’t escape it. They can’t cure it. They can’t stop it from exploding into a worldwide epidemic poised to kill us all. (Jan ‘99)

Area 51: The Sphinx
For thousands of years it has harbored mankind’s greatest secret. Now someone or something has found the key to…The Sphinx. No place is safe from alien infiltration. Not even top secret Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte know that better than anyone. Secrets have been revealed. Codes have been broken. A countdown has begun. Using alien technology, a group has gained control of a Star Wars satellite that could engulf the planet in a nuclear fire. With no room for error, Turcotte and Duncan must race to solve an ancient riddle and prevent a global catastrophe. (Feb ‘00)

Area 51: The Grail
The holy grail–is it the key to a miracle…or a terrifying truth? The Great Wall of China, the immense carvings on Easter Island, Egypt’s pyramids, UFOs. What is the chilling connection? The answer, unearthed by an elite band of soldiers and scientists based at Area 51, is rewriting human history–to include the aliens who shaped it! Now, in this heart-pounding novel, Area 51 personnel embark on a top secret search for the Holy Grail, a glittering artifact with the power to save the world . . . or lead to its destruction. (Feb ‘01)

Area 51: Excalibur
The Sword of Legend– and more than that. The key in mankind’s war against the aliens. And the race is on to find it. (Mar ‘02)

Area 51: The Truth
At last the truth is revealed. Turcotte discovers mankind’s origins and why the Airlia came to our planet so many years ago. (Jan ‘03)

Area 51: Nosferatu
It began at the dawn of history, when a darkness rose from deep within an Egyptian tomb. For thousands of years—long before earth was plunged into an intergalactic battle for its survival—four deathless creatures sowed seeds of destruction and chaos. Surviving on the spilled blood of warriors and innocents from ancient Greece to the ashes of Nazi Germany, the creatures have played a role in conflicts great and small. Now, bound by their common ancestry, separated by their own devious ambitions, and armed with mankind’s own modern tools of destruction, the deathless ones know that their time has come—and they have been called together by one brilliant leader. His name is Nosferatu. His vision is to become a god on earth. His ultimate weapon will be a Holy Grail, a force that no mortal man can defeat…but his deadliest enemy may be one of his own. (July ‘03)

Area 51: Legend
They were born on a planet in the spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. In a bloody revolution they became known as “godkillers” - two humans who led a revolt against the deathless race, the Airlia, and a plan to breed human foot soldiers for ceaseless intergalactic warfare. Now Donnchadh and Gwalcmai are on their way to a planet called Earth, where the Airlia have forged a foothold in the land of Atlantis. For a man and a woman who have lost everything but each other, an incredible journey through history is about to begin. (Mar ‘04)

The Rock
Bob’s first book under the Robert Doherty pen name. If you enjoyed the movie Stargate, you will enjoy this novel. Five people — including an Australian Air Force computer operator, a Mexican engineering professor, a New York housewife, a Colombian Special Forces officer, and an English mathematician — are invited to help save the world. (Dec ‘95)

Psychic Warrior
Partly based on real programs conducted the military, this series takes warfare to the next level. Mind control is only the first step… World domination is the next.

Psychic Warrior: Project Aura
Bright Gate. HAARP. Remote Viewers. U.S. military operations so top secret that not even the president knew they existed. Now they have produced an elite group of commandos able to leave their bodies — and their souls — to fight anywhere, anytime, using the devastating power of the human mind. (Aug ‘01)

The Citadel
At the awful dawn of a nuclear age—at the painful birth of the Cold War—the Citadel was constructed in secret beneath the Antarctic ice. Housing the most devastating weapon imaginable, it was a safeguard against an unseen threat far more potent than the growing Communist menace. Now, six decades later, America’s destruction seems all but assured—because the enemy has re-emerged from the shadows of time. And the Citadel has been breached. The commander of Section 8—a covert force of misfits assigned the impossible missions no one else will touch—Captain Jim Vaughn must now lead his unit into the unknown to diffuse a nightmare of astronomical proportions. The future hangs in the balance—and the ultimate survival of humankind is in the hands of men with nothing left to lose. (Mar ‘07)

Section 8
Pearl Harbor. The JFK Assassination. September 11th. What do these events have in comon? They all may have been engineered by one of the most elite, powerful, and secret organizations . . . in the US government. (Sept ‘05)

THE ATLANTIS-LOST CONNECTION
Atlantis
Some areas on the Earth’s surface defy explanations, such as the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea and a forgotten region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost. Now the desctructive force behind these mysteries has been revealed. They invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, when they destroyed Atlantis. Now they’re back. (’99)

Atlantis Bermuda Triangle
When a nuclear missile is launched from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, ex-Green Beret Eric Dane must lead a team into the mysterious depths to confront an enemy which has but one objective–the total annihilation of all life on Earth. (May ‘00)

Devil’s Sea
They have invaded before. Ten thousand years ago. When they destroyed Atlantis. And they have returned. In the jungles of Cambodia, mankind’s ancient enemies waged their first attack. From the depths of the Bermuda Triangle, they tried to launch a global apocalypse. Now, from the bottom of the Devil’s Sea, they rise again. (Feb ‘01)

Atlantis Gate
It begins with ex-Green Beret Eric Danes’s cataclysmic dream-of the earth engulfed in fire more than a quarter of a century ago. Is it a warning of things to come? Or a vision of what once was? And if the world’s end came came in 1962, then where in the world are we today? The answer lies in a war beyond time, with an enemy beyond space, in a military thriller beyond your wildest dreams. (Aug ‘02)

Assault on Atlantis
The Shadows, humanity’s most ancient enemy, have returned. Ten centuries ago, they destroyed Atlantis, and now they want the rest of the Earth to follow. Only ex-Green Beret Eric Dane holds the key to ending this dire threat. (Oct ‘03)

Battle for Atlantis
Traveling through different dimensions–where Washington, D.C., is desolate and Nazi swastikas fly from the Eiffel Tower of modern Paris-ex-Green Beret Eric Dane and his Navy SEALS must take the fight to humanity’s most ancient enemy-to save a dying planet. (Feb ‘04)

The Atlantis-LOST connection

1. The first episode and premise of LOST features a plane crash in a remote jungle area. The first Atlantis book in the series features a plane crash in a remote jungle area. Both planes lose radio contact before crashing. The crashes are such that no one should have survived, yet most on board do. Both crashes result in the survivors getting only enough information about their location to realize they’re all ‘lost’. When some of the survivors enter the plane’s cockpit, they find the top of it ripped open. As they check it, someone is immediately pulled from the torn cockpit and killed by an unknown force. The sound of something large moving outside is heard and the survivors flee the cockpit. (The motif of something large and unseen moving through the jungle re-occurs in Lost and in the books).
2. In the second season finale it’s discovered that the island appears to be part of some strange system of planet-wide powerful electromagnetic anomalies. In the book series the gates are part of a system of planet-wide powerful electromagnetic anomalies.
3. Both feature a radio message replaying a cryptic message that in both cases have no apparent power source. The message is thirty years old in the books and sixteen years old in the series.
4. A character hearing voices (Locke) in the series is very similar to a character in the series (Dane) who also hears voices.
5. The survivors in Lost encounter people who should not be there and were not part of the crash—the Others. The survivors in the book encounter people called the Others, who should not be there and were not part of the crash. Both groups of the Others seem to have a strange agenda, not yet spelled out in Lost, but both battling some other unknown force.
6. The survivors on Lost encounter a polar bear on a jungle island. The premise of the books is that there are a series of gates around the world that connect to each other as well as parallel worlds. In all the books there are numerous examples of creatures being where they shouldn’t be.
7. Central to the entire first season has been the discovery of a ‘hatch’. In the books, inside the area where the plane crashes (an ‘island’ of strange activity) there is a ‘gate’.
8. On the island two bodies are found, referred to as the island’s Adam and Eve: in reality they are Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan. Both characters play a role in the books.
9. One of the survivors in the series turns out to be an undercover CIA plant. One of the characters in the book turns out to be a CIA undercover plant.
10. Some of the survivors spot the remains of a statue as do some of the survivors in the book. The remains of planes, balloons, ships, etc. have also been found through the show, as in the books.
11. In LOST a mysterious black cloud plays a role. In ATLANTIS, the portals in the gates are marked by a black cloud.
12. Relics, such as a slaving ship, from different eras are found on the island. Relics from different eras appear inside the gates in the books.
13. Electronics have a difficult time working in the series. Electronics don’t function inside the gates in the books.
14. People who are dead appear on the island in LOST. People who are dead reappear inside the gates in ATLANTIS.
15. There are additional ‘clues’ and similarities as one goes through the books, which translate directly to the initial seasons of LOST and more that will undoubtedly come up as LOST continues on through future seasons.