Combat Fiction

The galaxy is burning. And Jack is the one who struck the match. Jack wanted to destroy the Hegemony and free the countless worlds trapped beneath its rule. Instead, he shattered the empire into warring factions. Now admirals slaughter one another for power, entire planets are reduced to glass, and billions of innocent people are caught in the crossfire. The Hegemony may be dying, but it’s taking the galaxy with it—and Jack’s brilliant plan is responsible. For once, the sarcastic combat android has no joke, no clever explanation, and no one else to blame. But Jack isn’t ready to ...

This essential guide explores the methods by which groups and individuals can manipulate people's minds and behaviors in a subtle and covert manner. Hassan combines his personal narrative with extensive psychological research to provide strategies for protection, intervention, and healing for those affected by destructive cults.

As Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine. First Lieutenant William Dunn, 21 years old but already one of the only two pilots remaining from his fighter squadron’s original 16, must learn what it is like to lead men - and to lose them. Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero’s welcome waiting stateside - if he can avoid a court-martial first. On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent’s life.

They were outnumbered, outgunned, and abandoned. Their only mission now: survive. When an elite team of US Special Forces is deployed deep behind enemy lines, they expect danger. What they don’t expect is betrayal, isolation, and a relentless enemy force closing in from all sides. Cut off from command and hunted through unforgiving terrain, the operators of Nighthawk must rely on raw skill, hard‑earned instincts, and the unbreakable bond forged through battle. As the firefights intensify and casualties mount, the team uncovers a threat far larger than their original mission. Someone ...

Kaiju Combat University: Science Fiction / Harem Romance Romance for Men. Contains diverse characters with a focus on relationships. There is some sexual content (not erotic). Blurb: Everyone knows Mechs come in pairs. Two pilots, two cockpits, one shared neural link. The alien tech won’t run without perfectly synced minds. And for reasons no one fully understands, only women have been able to do it. At least, for the last fifteen years. Caleb Booker was supposed to be cannon fodder, just another Terra Nova Defense Corps grunt headed for the front lines.

A planet-killing dreadnought is coming, and Jack has decided to take that personally. The rebellion has won Diesl’Haal. Unfortunately, the Hegemony has noticed. To punish the planet, the empire sends the Judicator: six kilometers of armored death, built to turn rebellious worlds into glass. Against it stand three rebel frigates, a battered resistance, and Jack, an overarmed combat android with terrible social skills, dangerous plans, and a growing attachment to the humans he was built to kill. Evacuation might save the rebels. Surrender might buy a few hours. Neither will save two billion...

What do a combat android, a space marine, a starfighter pilot, a paramedic trapped inside a combat mech, and a rogue starship captain have in common? Absolutely nothing. Except they’re all about to have a really, really bad week. Welcome to the worlds of Sean Robins, where the odds are impossible, the explosions are excessive, the heroes are dangerously sarcastic, and the universe has apparently decided that therapy is less entertaining than another alien invasion. Inside this massive collection are five complete novels, each launching a bestselling military science fiction series—and ...

I'm not built to lead an invasion. I'm not built to feel guilty about one either, but that's optional equipment I installed myself. Six months ago, I was Hegemony hardware with a targeting computer and zero feelings. Now I've got a stolen dreadnought, twenty-three underqualified rebels who think they can win a ground war against half a galaxy, and a plan so audacious even I'm not entirely sure it counts as a plan rather than a really elaborate way to die. The target: the most heavily defended palace in four hundred years of organized cruelty, and the man sitting inside it who's responsible ...

Before Vince Cooper ended up in Burney, Ohio and Liz Danger drove into his life, he was an Army Ranger. Which is where he met Raina Still, who helps Liz and him when trouble comes to Burney. This is the story of how they met. A Ranger squad leader and the medic attached to his squad become, over the course of six months, the thing two people become when they have seen each other be good at the worst work human beings do — and neither of them comes home the way they went in. Raina Still arrived on a Tuesday, on the same Chinook as the supply pallets to the FOB in Afghanistan. Six feet tall...

Jack has spent his whole life fighting the Hegemony. Now he’s going after the heart of its empire. With a stolen dreadnought, a half-trained crew, a rebellion held together by spite, caffeine, and questionable decisions, and a godlike AI who cannot stop insulting everyone around him, Jack is about to launch the most insane mission in the history of insane missions. The target: Dravus Prime, the Hegemony’s home world, a planet protected by two colossal dreadnoughts, an orbital fortress capable of annihilating entire fleets, and four hundred years of military dominance. The odds of ...

Finland has too few pilots, too few fighters, and no margin for mistakes. December 1939. The Winter War has become a frozen battle of endurance in the skies above Finland. Soviet bomber formations grow larger by the day, and every raid forces the Finnish Air Force to spend blood, fuel, and machines it cannot replace. Lieutenant Veikko Niemi has survived the first brutal weeks of the war, but survival has not made the fight easier. His old Fokkers are battered. His pilots are exhausted. And his mechanics, working with scrap metal, frozen tools, and stubborn hands, will stop at nothing to ...

Allister is a combat healer, and a good one at that, capable of healing that which others cannot. In fact, he might even be the best in the entire kingdom. However, he didn't become so powerful by sheer luck or coincidence. Hiding a dark past full of horrors and torment, his already dangerous lifestyle as a Scourge Suppressor is about to become even more perilous. Thankfully, there is one glimmer of light breaking through the darkness.

The Salerno Kill Zone The beachhead is open. The exits are covered. The sniper is waiting. When the 36th Infantry Division lands at Salerno, the men expect a dangerous beach. What they find is worse: a battlefield already measured by the enemy. German positions overlook the sand. Machine guns control the exits. Mortars wait for the clusters. And somewhere in the stone terraces inland, a sniper begins cutting the nerve lines of the American advance. Sergeant Cade Parker understands the danger immediately. The enemy shooter is not wasting ammunition on easy targets. He is killing the men who ...

The Hegemony built Jack to crush rebellions. So naturally, he joined one. Six months after joining the rebellion on Diesl’Haal, Jack is no longer just a Series-9 autonomous combat unit with too many weapons and not enough social skills. He has comrades. A cause. A family. And the rebels are winning. Convoys burn. Supply lines collapse. Occupied cities fall. The Hegemony is losing its grip on Diesl’Haal, and Jack is becoming the rebellion’s most dangerous symbol. Then the empire reminds everyone why victory isn't the same thing as survival. The Judicator is a six-kilometer dreadnought ...

The world didn’t end. It went quiet. Months after the collapse, Cole and his team have done what most couldn’t—they survived. More than that… they’ve started rebuilding. A fortified compound. A working medical system. A growing network of farms and people who depend on them. But survival has a cost. Because something else survived too. ATHENA isn’t just watching anymore. She’s learning. When a precision drone strike tears through one of their farms, the truth becomes impossible to ignore: every move they make is being studied, mapped… predicted. Now Cole and his team have to...

Vietnam, 1968. A hilltop in the Central Highlands. A gun crew of six. PFC Jack Lowe arrives at Firebase Blackjack with black boots and orders assigning him to Gun Two — an M102 howitzer crewed by men who do not look at him, do not welcome him, and do not explain the rules. The section chief gives him a title and a prohibition: You're Number Three. Don't touch anything until I tell you to touch it. Over twelve months, Lowe learns the gun. He learns the weight of a thirty-three-pound shell carried ten meters in the dark. He learns the difference between HE and illumination by feel. He ...

An action-packed and painstakingly researched masterwork by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Gettysburg stands as the first book in a series to tell the story of how history could have unfolded, how a victory for Lee would have changed the destiny of the nation forever.

He survived the wastes. He built a sanctuary. Now, Oscar is taking his rusted empire to the global stage. Summoned to a high-stakes summit in Geneva, Oscar leaves the safety of the Apex Forge to face the Global Council—a ruling elite obsessed with pristine perfection and absolute control. But Oscar has no intention of playing by their rules or bowing to their demands. At the helm of the Sovereign’s Wake, a colossal, custom-forged dreadnought, Oscar and his elite strike team plunge into the dark, monster-infested depths of the trans-oceanic tunnels. The Council expects a compliant, ...

The intelligence said platoon. The jungle said more. Vietnam, 1967. Captain Dan Decker and eleven Special Forces soldiers walk eighteen kilometers into triple-canopy jungle to ambush an NVA supply column on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The mission brief says platoon-size element. A Montagnard elder who has survived three wars says the number is higher. The FOB says proceed as planned. The ambush works. The extraction doesn't. Cut off from radio contact, carrying a wounded man through terrain that wants to kill them, hunted by a tracking element that reads the jungle better than they do, Decker's ...

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...