Military Violence

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun. It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back. Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain. Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of...

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin...

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist...

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed." In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of...

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.

The scourge of the Savage Lands, an ancient dragon allied to a gathering storm of dark forces threatening the world of Ruin, becomes the next target of the most fearsome shock troops ever conceived, prepared, and trained for total war: US Army Rangers. Deep beneath a once-fantastic ruined empire, a creature more terrible, diabolical, and malevolent than any myth ever told lies atop a vast horde of wondrous treasure and deadly magic, dreaming dreams of greed and terror.

Violence of Action is much more than the true, first-person accounts of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Global War on Terror. Within this audio are the heartfelt, firsthand accounts from and about the men who lived, fought, and died for their country, their regiment, and each other. Objective Rhino, Haditha Dam, recovering Jessica Lynch, the hunt for Zarqawi, the recovery of Extortion 17, and everything in between...

Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language. In future America, the downloaded consciousnesses in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The methods, so harsh they go ...

At the start of 1991, 11-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, went to war with 34 nations led by the United States. Over the next 43 days, Ali and his family survived bombings, food shortages, and constant fear. Ali and his brothers played soccer on the abandoned streets of their Basra neighborhood, wondering when or if their medic father would return from the war front. Cinematic, accessible, and timely, this is the story of one ordinary kid's view of life during war.

Devin Parker joined the military trying to escape the tremendous guilt surrounding his mother’s death. He never expected to find happiness and family in doing so. He was big, strong, and on one of the most respected teams. Stepping on that IED seemed the end of any chance he had for happiness. Except when the girlfriend of a former teammate showed up at his door. Now, he’s sitting at Belle Fleur, finding his place in the world once again. Feeling more prepared every day to move forward, he’s starting to feel settled. Until Dani MacMillan walks into his life. Danielle ‘Dani’ Marie ...

Dexter Lock was a SEAL for twenty years before his final mission that destroyed his hips. Lost and drowning in an endless pool of alcohol and women, he needed to take control of his life before it was too late. Taking a random safari, he encountered the heinous act of poaching and was forever changed. His life now had a new mission. When his work takes him to Louisiana and the home of his old friends from REAPER, he finds the one thing he never expected...a woman that leaves him speechless. Marie Robicheaux is the oldest sister of the Robicheaux clan. Once married and living away from home,...

My name is Gunner Michaels. I'm a hard-core, badass ex-Marine. I love my motorcycle, my gym that I'm a part-owner in, and food. That's pretty much it until she walks into my gym needing my help. She nearly knocks me off my feet but when she turns and runs, I chase her pretty butt down. I've never been affected by a woman like I am by Darby Greer and when I find out she has a little girl who looks exactly like her...I'm cooked. Call me daddy - because I'm done. I've never had much luck with men...like zero. My ex-husband didn't want me, didn't want our daughter, didn't want our life. His ...

Wes Jordan was one-third of the Jordan triplets. As a Navy SEAL, he'd encountered every type of bad guy out there. The one thing that always kept him grounded was knowing that he would go home to Virginia Divide. When she started to become distant, he suspected something was wrong, but he never suspected she was going to run off and risk her life in an African nation at war. He also never suspected that she would walk away from him. One thing she didn't know, a Jordan doesn't go away that easily. Virginia Divide was finishing her residency and ready to make her decision to go home and ...

The stories of World War 2 will forever be imprinted in our collective human mind. Unrivaled in loss of life, boundless destruction, and decisions that changed the world as we knew it, these stories have gone down in history. From concentration camps to aerial strikes, the war waged in increasingly brutal ways as it progressed. But how much do you really know about what happened during those years? These are the stories you won’t read about in any textbook. The Wanton massacre of civilians and the torture of prisoners of war was only the beginning. It can be easy to forget the horrors ...

In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and...

River Jordan has never been happier to end a mission. Working for the feds is not his idea of a good time as a SEAL. But part of his assignment has involved a fascinating woman that he plans on getting to know better. Unfortunately, dead people seem to ruin first dates. Who knew? With the help of his family, especially those identical to him, they unravel the mystery, and River finds a new purpose. One as protector, lover, and maybe even husband. It's not unusual to be a woman in the FBI. It's not unusual to work with other women. What's unusual is finding your partner dead and the only ...

A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world. Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves. Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight. With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization. During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a ...

Being born deaf would be seen as a detriment to most people, but Keith Robicheaux is not most people. His life has been filled with blessings since his rescue by his father, Alec Robicheaux. He's had the best life could offer and that includes, the best woman in the world. Unable to join the military, Keith chose to educate other deaf children, but trained with his father's team. Big, strong, and skilled in ways others can't comprehend, Keith finds himself in the middle of a child trafficking ring that brings back haunting memories for him. The only way to eradicate those memories, is to ...

Sean Liffey was well on his way to becoming a two-bit hood in a rundown neighborhood of Chicago. That is, until fate stepped in. Stealing the car of a gang leaders wife is a sure way to get yourself killed; joining the Army is the way to get out of it. He never anticipated making it his career, but the Rangers came calling and Liffey found his best friends in Eric and the other team members. When their mission in Michigan has him crossing paths with the beautiful Shay Lewis, he can't get her off his mind. But she's a hard one to catch. Finally back at Belle Fleur where she belongs, she's ...