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Want to know what Vietnam was really like? From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory”, truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, and much more....

This could be the most important audiobook you'll listen to this year. It isn't another war story. It is an audiobook about people, and it contains the personal stories of 100 Vietnam veterans who served there.

As Bob Burke’s 737 lands at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, he sees a man strangling a woman on a rooftop below. Whether or not anyone believes him, Bob Burke isn’t the kind of guy to let a thing like that rest. He knows what he saw, and it isn't going to end well for the men responsible. Mild-mannered and slight of build, this telecommunications company executive is easily dismissed as the "phone guy".

"Sicario" meets "Taken." The Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel snatched Bob Burke’s wife to control him. They should have asked the Gambinos and Luccheses in New York or the DiGregorios in Chicago what happens when you cross “The Ghost.” Book # 7 in the Bob Burke Action-Thriller Series, with 4.6 Stars on Amazon and 4.6 from Goodreads! The Mexican cartels control the fentanyl flooding America's streets, killing more Americans each year than Vietnam did. Bob Burke just made stopping them personal. When the Sinaloa Cartel's sicarios snatch Linda Burke from their North Carolina farm in broad ...

When the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach steals his company’s army software contract, blows up his office building in Chicago, and attacks Sherwood Forrest, enough is enough! After dustups with ISIS terrorists, the New York Genovese and Luchese mafia families in an Atlantic City casino, and a shootout with the Chicago DiGrigoria mob in a Forrest Preserve woods, all this former army sniper, ranger, and Delta Force commander wanted was to go back to his North Carolina farm, kick back, and enjoy life.

A Chinese spymaster in DC is stealing US Special Ops war plans, a nest of Chinese agents are inside Fort Bragg, a Chinese Navy task force is headed into the South China Sea to create mischief, and they just shot up Bob Burke’s new pickup truck. Trouble’s brewing in Sherwood Forest, and it isn’t a pot of green tea. Kidnappings, rockets, spies, naval battles on the high seas, military secrets, sniper rifles, and the Geeks! It's the most intricate and exciting Bob Burke action-adventure yet. Enjoy!

Real stories told by real people, in their own words. Hundred veterans, men and women, caught up in an all-too-real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren't, buy this audiobook and you will, because they’re like Doritos. Try a few, and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted.

The Vietnam War dominated a generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some were drafted, some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most were just trying to survive. From 1956 to 1976, from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.

It’s "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Man on Fire." In Vegas, the house always wins, unless Bob Burke's at the table. Then, it’s Double Down, all bets are off, and bodies start falling. This is Book #8 in the Bob Burke action-thriller series, with 4.6 Stars on Amazon and 4.6 Stars in Goodreads. When a Vegas casino mogul's daughter is brutally kidnapped off the streets of San Francisco, he makes three phone calls— first, to the head of the FBI; second, to his contact with the Gambino crime family in New York, and third to the Commanding General of the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort ...

Mild-mannered and slight of build, this telecommunications company executive is easily dismissed as the "phone guy." After four tours running "special operations" missions in Iraq and the rugged mountains of Afghanistan as an Army Ranger and Delta Force commander, he's one of the most lethal killers the US government ever produced. When one of his old NCOs takes a header from the fifth floor of an Atlantic City casino run by the infamous Genovese and Lucchese NY mob families, someone’s going to answer for it and payback’s gonna be a bitch!

When C-4 takes out a close friend and one of their own, it falls to the "Merry Men of Sherwood Forest" - Bob Burke, Ace Randall, a female CID agent, the Geeks, a maverick helicopter pilot, and a large pit-cat - to even the score before the terrorists strike an even more important US military target only 200 miles away.

"John Wick" meets "The Day of the Jackal" in a deadly game of espionage and murder. Burke’s Hit Man is Book #9 in the Bob Burke thriller series, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.7 stars from Goodreads. The Kremlin must have America's top-secret mega-laser weapon to avoid a humiliating defeat in Ukraine and to shore up its fading power. To steal the Laser prototype and the plans, they send their deadliest assassin—a fearless Georgian killer named Zuran Gelashvili. He's left a wispy trail from one end of Europe to the other of poisoned dissidents, mysterious bombings, and traffic accidents,...

Richard Thomson is a burnt-out CIA agent the Agency dumped in Egypt because they couldn’t think of a worse place to send him. Already gnawed on by Langley and set up by the Cairo police, his day can't get much worse until someone leaves a dead body on the rear steps of his hotel with its head lopped off. The body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief and wannabe spy peddling photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. While the world focuses on missiles in Cuba, no one notices the ones in the Egyptian desert pointed at Israel—no one except Thomson.

A historical suspense thriller set in the closing months of WWII, as one war grinds to an end in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next 'cold' one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British all know that the future belongs to whomever can grab the new rockets, jet fighters, long-range bombers, synthetic fuels and other 'wonder weapons' that Hitler unleashed upon them. Those will shape the balance of world power for decades to come.

Inside an old German U-Boat rusting on the bottom of the Baltic are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. In this military political action thriller, the only one who knows the truth is Mike Randall, a battle-scarred American who survived four months in the frozen Hell of northern Germany at the end of the war. When he does speak up, he puts a target on his own forehead, one which the Russians, the West Germans, the U-boat's former owners, the Israeli Mossad, and even his own government quickly take aim at.

"The Bourne Identity" si scontra con "Red Storm Rising" nel romanzo di Burke Mandarin. "Per governare l'Asia e dominare i suoi vicini, Pechino deve controllare il Mar Cinese Meridionale e cacciare la Marina americana. Questo è il quinto libro della serie thriller d'azione di Bob Burke, con 4,7 stelle su 623 recensioni Amazon, 4,6 stelle su Goodreads, e una lettura divertente! Un maestro dello spionaggio cinese a Washington sta rubando i piani di guerra delle forze speciali statunitensi. Una cellula di agenti dormienti si è insediata all'interno di Fort Bragg. Un'enorme task force navale ...

Febrero de 1945. La Segunda Guerra Mundial estaba llegando a su fin y comenzaba la Guerra Fría. Un submarino nazi fue hundido en el Báltico, frente a las costas de Suecia, con toda su tripulación. Uno de los muchos que se perdieron al final de la guerra. Pero este era diferente, y solo Mike Randall, un aviador estadounidense derribado, sabe lo que hay dentro. ¿Oro? ¿Obras de arte robadas? ¿O secretos que podrían dividir a la OTAN y desencadenar la Tercera Guerra Mundial? La KGB, la CIA, antiguos sicarios de las SS nazis e incluso el Mossad israelí quieren saberlo. Pero solo Randall ...

Un thriller de alto riesgo en el que «Ocean's Eleven» se encuentra con «The Punisher» en el paseo marítimo de Atlantic City. La casa siempre gana, a menos que Bob Burke esté en la mesa. Libro n.º 2 de la serie de thrillers de acción de Bob Burke. ¡4,5 estrellas en 1054 reseñas de US Amazon! ¡Una nueva y emocionante traducción! Cuando un viejo compañero del ejército se tira desde el balcón de cinco pisos de un casino propiedad de los Gambino y los Lucchese, dos de las familias mafiosas más despiadadas de Nueva York, Bob Burke quiere saber por qué, quién es el responsable y ...

Invierno de 1944-45. En las ruinas de la Alemania nazi, un agente estadounidense de la OSS y una luchadora de la resistencia comunista descubren que el amor es la misión más peligrosa de todas. ¡Pero los espías mienten y los espías mueren en este trepidante thriller de acción ambientado en la Guerra Fría! ¡Excelentes nuevas traducciones! ¿Te gustan las buenas series de acción y aventuras? ¿Te has devorado las obras de Brad Thor, Vince Flynn y Lee Child? Si eres fan de Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Jack Ryan, Grayman, Jack Reacher o Milton, de Mark Dawson, te encantará esta serie de ...

De Brooklyn a Moscú «con extremo prejuicio». Es una mezcla entre John Wick y «Promesas del Este», y se aplican las reglas de Delta Force. La mafia rusa le robó su contrato con el gobierno, voló su oficina y disparó contra su casa. Ya es suficiente. Bob Burke lleva la lucha a Moscú, al Kremlin, y le da una paliza al nuevo zar en el libro n.º 4 de la serie de acción y suspense de Bob Burke. ¡4,6 estrellas en 712 reseñas de US Amazon y 4.6 Goodreads! ¡Una nueva y emocionante traducción! ¿Te gustan las buenas series de libros de acción y aventuras? ¿Te devoras los libros de ...