Don has returned to his first occupational love writing westerns and is working on STRONGHEART, due to be released in 2010 but also has books currently in worldwide release.

Here is what amazon dotcom's Number One reviewer Harriet Klausner had to say in part of her 5-star review of Detachment Delta, Don's current novel:  "Don Bendell moves from his enjoyable Criminal Investigations Detachment series to the Delta Force CAG thriller, but retains the action-packed excitement while providing the audience intriguing background into his lead couple especially Charlie and what is even more fascinating is what occurs before a deployment. The story line is fast-paced from the New York scenario to the Fort Bragg gangbanging to Iran and never slows down while insuring Charlie and Fila are fully developed."

He also  has another trilogy in release called the CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT series.  The first was released worldwide in December, 2005. Here are what a few notables  said about it:

 “Don Bendell has Hit the Mark with this fine book.”-------Billy Waugh, Sergeant Major US Army Special Forces (Ret) and acclaimed retired CIA master spy, and author of HUNTING THE JACKAL about his adventures tracking and capturing the infamous Carlos the Jackal and doing specops missions in 55 countries.

"Don was outstanding in battle, and now he has been outstanding in writing a powerful modern-day military thriller dealing with the War on Terrorism.”   “. . . you must read this novel!" The Honorable Rudi Gresham, Special Forces retired, Presidential Appointee, and for many years aide to LTG Willam Yarborough, "Father of the Modern Green Berets." 

“Don Bendell knows this stuff cold, and writes better action scenes than any man alive." --Jim Morris, author of WAR STORY and OPERATION DUMBO DROP.

The second novel CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT: BROKEN BORDERS  was released worldwide in November, 2006 and the final novel in the trilogy:  CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DETACHMENT: BAMBOO BATTLEGROUND  was released worldwide in November of 2007. Besides being military thrillers and packed with both action and suspense, the three novels have had an unrequited love story woven within the overall storylines, which has embraced readers.

The most notable quote about BAMBOO BATTLEGROUND came from Don's friend motion picture and TV Superstar Bo Derek:  “I feel so honored that Don patterned Bo Devore as a cross between me and his wife Shirley. BAMBOO BATTLEGROUND ties up all the loose ends from the previous two novels in the trilogy and is a military thriller that I could not put down. The old-fashioned romance between the main characters is refreshing and the suspense and action kept me glued to the pages. I think Don really did it with these three books.”

When asked what his occupation is, Don often refers to himself simply as "an American cowboy." His favorite writing is westerns, and like the late-Louis L'Amour, he rides his horse Eagle over the land he writes about. Don stopped writing westerns after 10 were published and doing very well only because the western novel had died on the vine somewhat, but now westerns are making a slow comeback.  Don is back writing westerns and he is currently writing STRONGHEART, which will be released worldwide by Berkley Books in 2010. STRONGHEART will be followed by a sequel, HALF-BREED in 2011.

His 10-book series of western historical fiction were referred to as "the Colt series" and compared with the late-Louis L'Amour's Sackett series somewhat. Released by Signet Westerns NAL-Dutton, they garnered 4 Western Writers of America SPUR award nominations, but the late longtime MEN editor of  Playboy magazine provided the most-telling and significant quote about Don's western novels when he said:"If you liked Louis L' Amour, you will really love Don Bendell." Asa Baber, Playboy magazine.

Don  is the author of a total of 25 books that were written for major New York publishers and has over 2,000,000 copies in print worldwide. Four of his earliest books were non-fiction stories related to his service in Vietnam. Six science fiction books, the TRACKER series, were published under the pen name RON STILLMAN, and were critically-acclaimed in science fiction magazines. One of his books is a book of poetry, POEMS OF THE WARRIOR. And after being asked almost daily, he wrote a booklet you can buy on this website entitled HOW TO BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR and Actually Make Money While You're Doing It, which you can buy on this site.

Don also wrote a number of editorials favoring President Bush during the 2004 Presidential election, which circulated the globe and brought him over 300,000 e-mails from February through December of 2004. He was interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE in April, 2004, was written about in the WASHINGTON TIMES, and his articles and editorials were published in the AMERICAN SPECTATOR, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, and in many magazines, newspapers, websites, and blogs.  He still writes conservative editorials for his own blog (herein), the (Pueblo) Chieftain, the (Colorado Springs) Gazette, RedCounty.com, New Media Journal, Buffalo Gap News (Texas), and many other media.