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The brief was correct. Three men are still dead. Major Frank Cable flies the A-10 Warthog — the ugliest, slowest, most lethal close air support aircraft in the American arsenal. Staff Sergeant David Reyes controls fires from the ground, guiding the aircraft to its targets through a nine-line radio brief that leaves no room for error. Their only connection is a radio frequency. Their only shared language is the protocol. Over nineteen days in the Syrian desert, Cable and Reyes execute the mission with the precision the system demands. The preflight is correct. The nine-line is correct. The...

November 1950. The Chosin Reservoir. The temperature is thirty below zero. The Chinese have sent 120,000 soldiers to kill them. The road south is seventy-eight miles long. Corporal Oren Lockhart counts everything. Rounds. Steps. Seconds between mortar impacts. Men still breathing after a firefight. He has been counting since Okinawa, since a hillside covered in bodies taught him that numbers are easier than feelings. For seven years, the counting has kept him alive. It has also kept him empty. Then a nineteen-year-old kid from Omaha named Fisk starts talking about a girl. He talks about her...

Vietnam, 1968. Daniel Cofield is nineteen years old, a helicopter crew chief with the 1st Cavalry Division. He will spend twelve months in the air above a war that will never leave him. Daniel arrives at Bien Hoa with sixty-two pounds of gear and no understanding of what waits for him. He is assigned to a Huey helicopter crew — Chalk One — under a pilot who communicates in three taps on the cyclic and says almost nothing else. His crew chief, Lou, teaches him the only rule that matters: The gun wants to fire. You just let it. Over twelve months, Daniel flies into landing zones where the...

Mekong Delta, 1968. Five men on a fiberglass boat. A river that hides everything beneath its surface. PBR 621 patrols the brown water of the Bassac River—searching sampans, running canals, and counting the days. Harlan is the boat captain on his third tour. Pope cleans the twin .50-calibers every morning in the same order and reads Louis L'Amour westerns between firefights. Sugar is nineteen and writes letters to a girl he met twice. Vien is their Vietnamese Navy liaison who sees things in the water that no American can see. When the Navy's new SEALORDS campaign pushes the crew from the ...

The loader's job is simple. Lift the round. Seat the round. Say the word. Up. One word. Twenty-five pounds. Nine seconds between life and death. David Marsh arrives in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1967 as a replacement loader on an M48 Patton tank called Big Brawler. He is twenty years old. He knows nothing. The crew — a commander who measures men like equipment, a gunner who can put a round through a window at two thousand yards, a driver who prays with his hands on the hull — will teach him everything, or he will die before the teaching is finished. From the red-dust roads of ...

November 1967. Central Highlands, Vietnam. Six men walk into the jungle on a routine patrol. None of them will come back the same. Sergeant Hargrove carries the weight of a brother who came home in a box. Jefferson walks point, running from a secret he's never told anyone. Delacroix reads the jungle like his Louisiana bayou, counting the days until he sees his wife again. Chen carries the radio and the unbearable weight of coordinates that turn men into smoke. Kowalski is nineteen, writing letters to a girl in a yellow dress, terrified of becoming what the war needs him to be. And Tran, the...

In March 1968, Soviet submarine K-129 sinks in the North Pacific. The official cause: mechanical failure. The truth lies three miles underwater. Captain Vladimir Kobzar watches his command dissolve as fifteen unidentified men conduct a satellite transmission test that exposes his submarine to American surveillance. He documents everything in a letter to his seven-year-old daughter—the only record he can control. Three days after the transmission, the submarine sinks with all hands. Six years later, American engineer Sherman Wetmore designs the impossible: a system to lift the wreck from ...

From the author of the Vietnam War novel, Brown Water A literary novel about the tunnel rats of Vietnam. Until now. Cu Chi, November 1967. The tunnels run for two hundred miles beneath the red dirt of South Vietnam—three levels deep, carved by hand, invisible from the surface. The Viet Cong live in them, fight from them, vanish into them. The U.S. Army sends men down to find them. Earle Cain is one of those men. A coal miner's son from Virginia, he carries a .45 pistol and a flashlight into tunnels so narrow he cannot turn around. Fourteen inches wide. Twenty inches high. Absolute dark. ...

In 1978, a VA hospital clerk named Thomas Crane made a discovery that would change everything. While processing the personal effects of James "Rabbit" Morrison—a Vietnam veteran who had died alone in Richmond's VA hospital—Crane found something extraordinary: forty-seven letters that had been written but never sent. These weren't ordinary letters. Hidden in Morrison's footlocker were confessions that five soldiers from Firebase Charlie had carried in secret for a decade. Letters to fiancées explaining why gentle farm boys had become efficient killers. Letters to parents confessing to ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Grisham meets To Kill a Mockingbird. I couldn't put it down." When defending your family means destroying everything you've built, how far will you go? Commander Jake Morrison has spent twelve years running from Mississippi—and he's built the perfect life to prove it worked. Naval Academy graduate. JAG Corps prosecutor. Promotion to Commander at thirty-one. Clean record. No mistakes. No looking back. Then the phone rings at 0200. His aunt, crying. Danny's been arrested. Murder. He confessed. The victim: Their childhood mentor, the one white man in Harmony Creek County who...

She was sold into sexual slavery at age seven. By thirty-five, she commanded 80,000 pirates and negotiated with empires as an equal. In 1801, Shi Yang was property—a flower boat prostitute in Canton with no future and no hope. By 1810, she was Zheng Yi Sao, the Pirate Queen, commander of the largest criminal fleet in history. This is the true story of how one woman transformed herself from victim to victor, building an empire on the South China Sea that neither the Chinese government nor European powers could destroy. Starting with nothing but intelligence and ruthless pragmatism, Shi ...

"Devastating and necessary. A masterpiece of historical fiction that reads like the American epic we should have learned in school but didn't." In 1873, fifty-two warriors held off the entire United States Army in the lava beds of California. You've never heard their names. That's not an accident. From the bestselling tradition of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NIGHT WATCHMAN comes an unforgettable novel of resistance, survival, and the American story you were never taught. Captain Jack didn't want war. He wanted his people to survive. When the Modoc Nation was forced onto a reservation ...

AN IMAGINATIVE JOURNEY INTO THE GOSPELS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This novel made the Gospels come alive for me in ways I never expected." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Beautifully written, theologically sound, and deeply moving." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Sent me straight back to my Bible to read the real accounts with fresh eyes." A HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO IMAGINE JESUS'S PERSPECTIVE This is not Scripture. Only the Bible is the Word of God. But what if you could walk through the Gospel accounts from a new perspective? What if a gifted novelist attempted to imagine what Jesus might have been thinking and feeling during the ...

“I expected a Pearl Harbor novel. What I got was something far more intimate and unsettling. This book stays with you long after the last page.” “I’ve read a lot of WWII fiction. I’ve never read anything that put me inside survival the way this does. Claustrophobic, quiet, and devastating.” “This book doesn’t shout. It whispers—and somehow that makes it hit harder than anything else I’ve read about Pearl Harbor.” Six decks below the waterline, survival comes down to one breath. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor is under attack. While bombs tear through the sky, Petty ...

Vietnam, 1968. Carl Hayes is nineteen years old, from Macon, Georgia, and has thirteen months to survive. Assigned to an infantry squad in the Mekong Delta, Carl carries sixty-one pounds on his back and everything else where it doesn't show. A pebble from a dead friend's hand. Unsent letters in a plastic bag. A photograph of a woman he's not sure will wait. The quiet teachings of a sergeant who speaks in silences and keeps men alive by reading the ground the way other men read books. Over thirteen months with the 25th Infantry Division, Carl will learn what the jungle sounds like when it ...

BEFORE THE WATER ROSE In the literary tradition of The Things They Carried and All Quiet on the Western Front—a devastating portrait of a young man learning to disappear. Calvin Webb stands at windows. In small-town Kansas during the Dust Bowl, watching is safer than participating. Observation is easier than action. When a boy falls from a roof and Calvin freezes instead of running for help, he learns what paralysis costs. The U.S. Navy promises to fix what's broken. Boot camp will teach him to act without thinking. To move without hesitating. To become useful instead of frozen. And it ...

She put the brush to her lips because they told her it was safe. Orange, New Jersey, 1917. Grace is eighteen years old, ambitious, and desperate for independence. When she lands a job painting watch dials with luminous radium paint—twenty dollars a week, more than her father earns—she thinks her life has finally begun. The work is delicate, beautiful, modern. The factory glows. The girls glow. The company says the paint is perfectly safe. It isn’t. Years later, Grace’s jaw is crumbling. Her bones fracture when she coughs. Her friend Mollie is dead—her death certificate stamped ...

El Capitán: José Francisco Ortega and the Birth of California sweeps you onto a saddle beside the little-known scout who changed the map of the American West—then asks why you’ve never heard his name. Ride shotgun on Spain’s last great gamble. Feel fog sting your cheeks as Ortega becomes the first European to glimpse the vast, hidden harbor we now call San Francisco Bay—and watch an empire pivot on his hastily penciled sketch. Build a frontier—in real time. March into wildfire heat, mix adobe alongside Chumash brickmakers, and raise the guns of Santa Barbara’s presidio before ...

A dying man. Ten thousand miles of road. One question that will not let him rest. In August 1784, Father Junípero Serra lies dying in a small adobe cell at the edge of the world. He has walked farther than any missionary in history. He has founded nine missions along the California coast. He has baptized thousands of souls and buried hundreds of children who died from diseases he carried in his breath. Now, with his final hours approaching, he looks back on a life consumed by holy fire—and asks the question he has avoided for fifty years: Did the good outweigh the harm? The Burning Road ...

Cole came home from the war. He has not come back. He doesn't sleep. He leaves restaurants without warning. He checks every exit in every room he enters. He stands at the kitchen window at three a.m. staring at a parking lot like he's still on watch. When his girlfriend asks how he is, he says fine. He says it every time. He means something else. Anna has been waiting for thirteen months. She kept the apartment. She paid the rent. She imagined the homecoming. The person who walked off the plane is not the person who left. He will not talk. He will not stay. He wakes up swinging in the dark....