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Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. 

Hidden deep beneath the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the Time Patrol, a secret agency charged with protecting the world's timeline from the evil forces who wish to alter it. When the patrol disappears without a trace, only 12 short hours are left before all life on Earth ceases to exist.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Atlantis, Area 51, Green Beret and Nightstalker series comes a thrilling ride through history that has been called "Quantum Leap on steroids!" What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? Change events on the same date, 22 September, in six different years. The Time Patrol must send an agent back to each day, with just 24 hours for each to defeat the Shadow's plan to disrupt our timeline, creating a time tsunami and wiping our present out. Fall Equinox comes on 22 September. The time when day and night are in balance. 1862. ...

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe. Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily. We value individuality and...

What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date; six different years.

Same date; six different years, the Time Patrol must save our timeline from the Shadow by preserving our past. Nine-Eleven is a day that reverberates in our collective conscious. But is a date of significance throughout history. On 9/11, nine A.D., three Roman legions were annihilated by an alliance of Germanic tribes; the Romans would never again attempt to expand east of the Rhine River. On 9/11, 1973, a military coup in Chile, engineered by the United States, toppled the elected President and eventually brought Pinochet to power.

Six men. Twelve days. Triple-canopy jungle. No one who wasn't there will ever know what happened. March 1968. Daniel Croft — callsign Ghost — inserts into the Central Highlands of Vietnam as point man for a six-man LRRP team. His job is simple and impossible: move through enemy territory without being seen, gather intelligence no conventional unit can reach, and bring his men home. Ghost is the best point man in F Company, 51st Infantry. He reads the jungle the way he read elk country in the Pryor Mountains of Montana — not by thinking, but by being present in a way most men never ...

Your every significant choice - every important decision you make - is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time - your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways. 

One corpsman. Six days. Every life in his hands. HM3 Rowan steps off a helicopter onto a firebase in the Vietnamese highlands carrying a dead man's medical bag. The canvas is stiff with dried blood. The supplies are half gone. The corpsman before him lasted eleven days. Rowan is twenty years old. Five months ago he was drawing blood at a naval clinic in Illinois. Now he is the only medic for thirty-eight Marines walking into triple-canopy jungle — and the ceiling is down, the medevac birds can't fly, and the resupply hasn't come in six days. He has four battle dressings. Two hemostats. ...

Six men. Five days. One rule: the enemy never knows you were there. Vietnam, 1968. Staff Sergeant Dolan Mast leads a six-man Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol into the Dak Kram valley to observe an NVA supply cache and report what he finds. The intelligence estimate says thirty enemy soldiers. From the helicopter, Dolan counts smoke from three separate cooking fires, spaced at tactical intervals. The estimate is wrong by a factor of four. The mission is simple. Get in. Watch. Get out. Do not fire a shot. Do not leave a trace. Spend five days lying in the dirt forty meters from a hundred and ...

A time traveler's madness threatens to unravel history itself, forcing the crew across three pivotal moments: Ancient Spain, Arysha's darkest hour, and a war where Captain Conley must face his own father's legacy. Some battles echo across time—but changing them might destroy everything.

When a mysterious force known only as the Shadow infiltrates history, it has a suspicious target: the date October 29 in six different years spanning 999 to 1980. The Time Patrol must send its highly skilled members into the past with only twenty-four hours to stop the destruction each time.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Border, a “down-and-dirty dip into the treacherous social currents of Southern California” (The Wall Street Journal), in which P.I. Boone Daniels agrees to defend a young man accused of murdering a beloved surfer and local legend. Former cop...

NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Power of the Dog seriescomes the thrilling prequel to Savages, tracing the paths of Ben, Chon, and O on a “frenzied ride into the heart of what family and love and loyalty mean” (The San Diego Union-Tribune). In Savages, Don Winslow...

“We cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of." Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. From the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Atlantis, Nightstalker, Area 51 and Green Beret series. "Before there was just me now, there was a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember. People keep telling me I should remember, but maybe if you can't remember there is a reason." Thus begins Lara’s story as she escapes from an apparent mental institution. Who is she? What reality should she believe? And did she escape in reality or ...

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape.

Six Time Patrol agents are sent to the same day, February 14, in six different years to keep our history and our time line from being destroyed. The mission, as always for the Time Patrol, seems straightforward: keep history intact, no matter the cost.

“A master….[Brown] puts readers right into the middle of the inferno.” —Larry Bond New York Times bestselling thriller-master Dale Brown delivers a story for our times. A Time for Patriots is one of his most explosive novels to date—a frightening, all-too-possible look into the near...

What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date, October 31, six different years: Hallows Eve, when the line between the worlds of the living and the dead is the thinnest. The Time Patrol must send an agent back to each day, with just 24 hours for each to defeat the Shadow's plan to disrupt our time line, creating a time tsunami and wiping our present out.