Marine Combat

The salt stick dissolves on my tongue. Thirty seconds to drop. I am a drop marine. I fall from orbit into places my government will never admit exist, doing things that will never appear in any official record. I lead Task Force Wraith — seven operators, one squad, zero safety net. We run missions under a covert doctrine called the Veil. If we succeed, no one knows. If we die, no one cares. Tonight's job is simple. Infiltrate a relay station on a frozen mining moon. Grab a data slate. Get out. The briefing was clean. The intel was tidy. The extraction was guaranteed. The briefing was a ...

North and South Korea are on a collision course with the prospect of reigniting war in this action-packed military thriller! 1LT Sam Harper, surfing engineer, tries to fit in on his new job. He’ll risk everything to prevent mass destruction. Sam’s intelligence analysts identify security vulnerabilities in a government lab in Seoul. Meanwhile, his CIA ex-girlfriend complicates his life with her spy priorities. A desperate North Korean general sends a naive Special Forces lieutenant and his team across the DMZ to steal nuclear materials technology. Sends them disguised to infiltrate the ...

Zachary Cannon joined the Navy to get trained as a radiology tech, a skill he could use to get a job and support his family after his enlistment. But the needs of the Navy take priority, and much to his surprise, he was given orders to the Fleet Marine Force as a corpsman to an infantry battalion deploying to Iraq. As part of a rifle squad in Ramadi, Zach joins the Marines on patrol, in assaults, and on security duty, facing the same dangers and hardships.

The realistic and brutal series that throw Spartan and his space marines into a brutal and terrifying war. Get the entire six-book series in one massive volume. Includes the complete text of the novels SIEGE OF TITAN, TEARS OF KERBEROS, FIRES OF PROMETHEUS, BATTLE FOR PROXIMA, FALL OF TERRA NOVA and FALL OF HYPERION. This epic science fiction series chronicles humanity’s first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism. The bloody struggle is told through the eyes of an illegal pit fighter named Spartan, who is forced to choose between incarceration or ...

Betrayal of Command: A Marine’s Fight for Honor in the Age of Hypocrisy When loyalty collides with truth, leadership is tested not on the battlefield—but in the boardrooms of power. Lieutenant Colonel Asad “Genghis” Khan, USMC (Ret.) was not born into the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned his place through grit, faith, and an unshakable belief in the values that defined it: honor, courage, and commitment. From a boyhood in the tribal mountains of Pakistan to commanding Marines across the Middle East and South Asia, his story embodies the American ideal—until that same institution ...

Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon became one of the first American forces to enter Fallujah, where they encountered some of the most intense hand-to-hand combat since World War II. Civilians were used as human shields or as bait to lure soldiers into buildings rigged with explosives; suicide bombers approached from every corner hoping to die and take Americans with them; radical insurgents, high on adrenaline, fought to the death.

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

Duty, love and war are a lethal mix. Val Standish is a farm girl on Nadolo Prime, and everyone knows there's only one way off that backwater planet: joining the Imperial Fleet. When an empire-spanning civil war breaks out, the peaceful life she knows is shattered. With war engulfing the Empire, Standish will do whatever it takes to survive, never knowing that her adventures will take her to the very heart of power, while exposing her to more danger than she’d ever imagine. Standish is a full-length standalone space opera novel in the Earth Saga series. Start here for thrilling space ...

May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. April 9, 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the world of the Gunny Sergeant smoking a victory cigar in his tank, the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in the background. Popaditch is immortalized forever as "The Cigar Marine."

You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave. You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger, and something stops you. You interview a potential new employee who has the résumé to do the job, but something tells you not to offer the position. These scenarios all represent "left of bang", the moments before something bad happens.

Over 2,000 pages of action-packed military sci-fi adventure in one massive boxset! Humanity survived the end of the world. Unfortunately, the galaxy noticed. Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth's near-extinction was the worst thing that could happen to him. Then an alien fleet arrived, dragged humanity into a galactic war they didn't start, don't understand, and are spectacularly unqualified to win. Now Ethan finds himself fighting for the survival of the human race while navigating alien empires, ancient grudges, interstellar politics, and enough backstabbing to make Game of Thrones ...

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.

The chain of command just put a kill order on its own people. I know because I'm one of them. Sixty-seven hours. That's how long before a civilian transport called the Stellar Maris — five thousand souls — gets torpedoed and the blame lands on us. Command built the whole thing: doctored footage, fabricated audio, my voice ordering atrocities I never committed. Project Chimera. A false flag designed to start a war, with Task Force Wraith as the convenient dead villains. We're pinned on Kypheus-4. No comms. No extraction. Major Thorne's kill team is herding us across a frozen moon like ...

Saudi Arabia has fallen… …as America fights to hold on. Saddam declares this the “Mother of all Wars.” Iraq controls twenty-five percent of the world’s daily oil output. Prices soar as the Soviet Union moves to fill the void. The world’s first oil war has begun and wreaked havoc on global trade. Fighting around Medina and the Islamic Holy sites turns medieval. Memories of World War I trench warfare return. Will the 101st Airborne be able to stop the Republican Guard from throwing America and the remnants of the Saudi Army into the Red Sea? High above the skies of the desert, ...

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? A 3-Volume BOX SET with 200 veteran interviews, 688 Photos, 1,236 pages, and 4.6 Stars on 2,270 Amazon Reviews for the individual books, at half price! Real stories told by real people in their own words, 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'll understand. If you weren't, grab a copy 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. ...

Call of Duty meets Call of Cthulhu. A cave in Afghanistan. A squad of Marines. And an ancient evil that should have stayed buried. 2016, Helmand Province: Sergeant Wyatt Hood’s routine mission to clear an insurgent cave system goes sideways when his Marines stumble into something far worse than the Taliban — a lost underground city, a monstrous Guardian of tentacles and hunger, and a cosmic artifact that could crack open reality itself. But Wyatt’s biggest problem isn’t the monster. It’s the two State Department civilians he’s been ordered to babysit — especially Chloe Winters...

HUMANITY HAS FALLEN. ONLY ONE SHIP CAN SAVE US. After a disastrous encounter with an alien species, Captain Roc Masters finds himself exiled on a rundown station in the asteroid belt, commanding an ancient starship with a near-mutinous crew. Just as he finally resigns himself to his fate, the aliens return to attack Earth. With the inner worlds crumbling and most of the Earth and Martian navies sidelined or destroyed, it's up to Roc and his lone starship to hold the line. He knows he must gather together what little humanity there is beyond the asteroid belt and make a stand against the ...

Three heroes. Three wars. One galaxy that really should’ve stayed in bed. A starship captain who refuses to run when the void starts staring back. A hardened marine forged in invasions where survival is optional. An ace fighter pilot who lives at the edge of impossible odds and pushes past it anyway. From Voidwalker Chronicles, Invasion Earth Saga, and Renegades of the Void, three epic universes collide in a collection packed with brutal space battles, ancient alien threats, and decisions that don’t just decide who lives or dies, but whether the galaxy itself gets a future. Fleets burn....

You Just Survive is a combat veteran memoir that pulls no punches. These modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan sit beside plain spoken accounts of PTSD and trauma recovery, raw combat moments and the quiet battles that follow when the uniform comes off. This is not a sanitized war book. It is a combat veteran memoir told hour by hour, from turret scans in Ramadi and Marjah to patrols that ended with IEDs, mortars, and decisions you carry forever. If you search for modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, you will find the real, unfiltered scenes that define this book. The book ...

For fans of Matterhorn and The Things They Carried comes a haunting Vietnam War thriller about snipers, secrets, and the missions America buried. In the shattered borderlands south of the DMZ, Marine sniper Corporal Daniel Pruett learns that distance changes everything. At six hundred meters, a man becomes movement. At eight hundred meters, morality becomes mathematics. Assigned to a covert STA platoon operating near Con Thien, Pruett and his spotter, Mateo Ruiz, hunt targets deep inside contested territory where the rules of war no longer apply. Their missions arrive through irregular ...