Project: RESCUE Adventure Series
Get ready to be blown away by the electrifying Project: RESCUE Adventures—a heart-pounding series that will grip you and keep you coming back for more. Imagine the pulse-pounding intensity of Jack Ryan, fueled with the explosive action of Mission: Impossible, and you’ll only scratch the surface of what awaits.
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Created by humanitarian-adventurer Scott Devlon, Project: RESCUE is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to providing support, security, and if necessary, rescue for international travelers and especially people providing humanitarian relief in the world’s most dangerous places. Working through regional field offices, Project: RESCUE utilizes local resources to ensure client safety and success during the course of day-to-day activities, whether those clients are adventure tourists or relief workers trying to build hospitals in remote areas. But when unexpected crises overwhelm the resources of the local field office, it’s time to send in the FAST Team—an elite cadre of daring experts ready for action. When crises strike and hope dwindles, they are the final lifeline. Rewriting the rules of rescue, defying the odds, and rescuing those when survival hangs by a thread.
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Check out FREE FIRE, the first book in my new series!
FREE FIRE
A Project: RESCUE Adventure
FREE FIRE—A Project: RESCUE Adventure
In the war-ravaged Tigray region of Ethiopia, the FAST Team—Project: RESCUE’s crisis response team—is deployed to extract a Doctors Without Borders medical unit amidst rising conflict. But what begins as a routine mission turns deadly when Will Irons, the team leader, intercepts a distress call from diplomats under siege in a nearby village. Alongside his best friend and fellow operative, Deke James, Will launches a daring rescue operation.
Tensions escalate as the diplomats insist on returning to complete delicate negotiations. Yet Will’s instincts tell him something isn’t right. Who attacked them? Who benefits from disrupting the fragile ceasefire? The search for answers uncovers a sinister plot to set the world on fire.
Now, Will and Deke must escape the clutches of a ruthless mercenary and unravel the conspiracy before time runs out.
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Superb FREE FIRE Book Review from George Allen
I did post the review first, and the initial part of George's blog second, read on if you want a peek into the MH biz and George's biography. :)
Here’s FREE FIRE, a Project Rescue Adventure.
Latest novel by Charles G. Irion
OK Charles, you really hooked me on this one! Reading halfway through FREE FIRE, I’d just settled into the main story line when you ambushed me with a surprising and stunning change in direction. Not a change predicated by what came before, but one that made me sit up nonetheless, and say: ‘Wow, never expected this to happen!” Then, you revisit this shocking discovery near the end of the novel, pulling all the exciting plot lines together. Well done my friend!
You know I’ve been ‘with you before’ in your Murder Mystery novel series, most recently with FOUR, where you introduced General George Allen to readers.
Well, this new Project: RESCUE Adventure series certainly plows new territory, moving your main characters (Will Irons & Deke James) away from the art of war, into the sister arts of survival and negotiation.
Not only that, I’ve come to expect and respect two things in your fiction: accuracy and efficacy of local color anywhere in the world – this time the Tigray region of Ethiopia; and your characters’ familiarity with military-related lessons learned, as well as clandestine tactics and survival tips. Though a spoiler-alert, here’s a string of examples that hooked me this time around:
“As soon as…footsteps had faded, Will and Deke had gone to work. The razor blades, taped discreetly to their forearms with flesh-colored bandages were a standard precaution for the FAST Team, as were similarly concealed handcuff keys and the diamond-studded cable saw threaded into their bootlaces – precautions taken for situations exactly like this. With swift, practiced movements, they cut through their bindings, freeing themselves to make their escape.” P.128
The story itself? Well, for the most part, it does not stretch over a period of weeks or months, simply days. And there’re several groups of individuals who carry the action; a Doctors Without borders medical unit, the village home of Alem Tekle, the Hangar fair and Convention Center of the Amazon, and more. How does the tale begin? With an ill-fated blimp flight over the country of Esperia during 1935. Then fast-forward to today….
OK, so who’s this author, Charles G. Irion? Several personas really – author, artist and world traveler; but the one I know best, and have for the longest time, is described in a brief biographical sketch in the back material of FREE FIRE. “By 1982, Irion had founded U.S. Park Investments, which grew into a leading owner and manager of manufactured home and RV communities across the country.” Today, and for the past 15 years, Chuck has been “…an Executive Board Member and International Assessor for Project C.U.R.E., a charity that delivers medical supplies to more than 130 developing countries.” Hint. This is how Chuck researches locales for his new novels.
FREE FIRE, and many of Charles’ other titles (e.g. Roadkill Cooking for Campers, as well as aforementioned Murder Mystery novel series, can be ordered online directly from amazon.com, and www.charlesirion.com
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Blog Posting # 841; Copyright 24 April 2025. EducateMHC
Know This! HUD-Code manufactured housing (‘MH’) is federally-regulated, performance-based, affordable-attainable, factory—built housing (a.k.a. offsite construction), routinely paired with traditional stick-built housing (a.k.a. onsite construction_. Plus, land lease communities (a.k.a. manufactured home communities & ‘mobile home parks’), comprise the commercial real estate (‘CRE’) component of MH. And, considering various types of housing finance (e.g. chattel or ‘home only’ loans & real estate-secured mortgages), describes post-production segment of MH.
EducateMHC is the official MH historian, trade term & trend tracker, as well as perennial MH information source. Contact EducateMHC via (317) 881-3815; emailgfa7156@aol.com, and www.educatemhc.com, to purchase Community Management in the Manufactured Housing Industry (This book belongs in every land lease community nationwide!), and SWAN SONG – History of land lease communities & official record of annual MH production levels since 1955.
And my autobiography, From SmittyAlpha6 to MHMaven, describes personal combat adventures in Vietnam as a USMC lieutenant, a 45 year entrepreneur business career in MH & community ownership, as well as freelance consulting and authoring of 30 nonfiction texts.
George Allen is the sole emeritus member of the Manufactured Housing Institute (‘MHI’), a founding board member of MHI’s National Communities Council (‘NCC’) division, RV/MH Hall of Fame enshrine, Allen Legacy columnist and editor at large for the MHInsider magazine.
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George Allen