Military Violence

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.

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 combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. In Korea, about 50 percent. In Vietnam, the figure rose to more than 90 percent. The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill.

General Stonewall Jackson was like no one anyone had ever seen. In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause. By middle June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western World. He had given the Confederate cause what it had recently lacked: hope.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott.

Pierre Robicheaux never dreamed he'd have to go back to the place of his childhood nightmares. Adopted by Frank and Lane Robicheaux, he's lived a life he never dreamed possible. Now, a Ranger like all the Robicheaux men before him, he's back in the hellhole of his childhood. Someone is stealing children, and all roads are forcing him to search churches. All he really wants to do is get back home to the woman he finally professed his love to. Like all love affairs at Belle Fleur, magic brings them together. Ambry MacDonald, the daughter of Ham and Sadie MacDonald, is now a nurse aboard a ...

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.

Ezekiel 'Kiel' Wolfkill was finally home for good. Finally. Finally, he could reveal his feelings for Liz Robicheaux. Finally, he could make her his own. First, he had to be sure that she had adult feelings for him as well. They'd danced this dance for fifteen years, tip-toeing around one another. He was tired of it, and he was damn tired of not having Liz in his bed. When they find out that someone has an obsession with Liz, Kiel goes insane and will stop at nothing to find his woman. Absolutely nothing. Elizabeth 'Liz' Robicheaux has been loved and shown love by the best men in the world....

Warning: This book contains explicit physical and sexual abuse and incest, which some readers may find disturbing. Hirohito Tanaka has tried to keep his Grandfather’s teachings and heritage alive his entire life. He’s a silent warrior, his humility something others aspire to. The arrival of Winter Cole makes Hiro want to protect the woman he doesn’t even know. Her curtain of dark hair, always covering her face, hiding her from the world around her, doesn’t deter him. Hiro only knows bits and pieces of what brought her to their doorstep, but it’s enough to make him do something ...

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 ...

Tyran "Eagle" O'Neal and his twin brother, Ryan "Hawk" O'Neal have done everything together their entire lives. They were born together, joined the Marine Corps together, and now they're falling in love at the same time. Ty has to figure out how to convince Tinley that their age difference means nothing. Ryan has to convince her daughter, Keegan, that his man-whore ways are a thing of the past. More than that, they have to protect them both from someone in their history who is coming back for them. Tinley Oakley agreed to go to the New Year's Eve party with her daughter, Keegan, only to try...

Diego "Razor" Salcedo is in a dark pit of despair and struggling to find a way out from the sick, dark things he heard. With one horrible job behind him, the thoughts still staining his soul, now he was charged with protecting the sister of a man incarcerated for multiple counts of murder. He thought he could push the responsibility to someone else, let them handle this small detail. But when a killer makes an attempt on her life, he can't just let it go. He never expected Isabella Castro. Never expected to fall in love with her and he certainly never expected to have to fend off a deranged...

Jack "Doc" Harris is one of the most dangerous men to ever come out of the Army Rangers. His skills as a medic are unequaled, but his skills with women are seriously lacking. When beautiful Dr. Aubrey Collins makes him lose all common sense he can barely hold it together. He wants her so desperately he will go to any lengths to make her his and only his. But he never anticipated having to save her life and then keep her alive...all while tracking down a shipment of little girls headed to nowhere good. Dr. Aubrey Collins - Bree to her friends, is about the most inept thirty-five year old ...

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.

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 ...

Adam Robicheaux has never loved any woman the way he loves Jane Wolfkill. Since she started her own pediatric practice in Baltimore, it feels as though she's slipping away. When his grandmother asks him to go to Baltimore and check on her, he never dreams that he'll find Jane in the fight of her life. He doesn't waste a second calling in the troops and getting her home, but there's an evil lurking around Belle Fleur and they need to find out who or what it is. Jane Wolfkill has loved Adam Robicheaux for as long as she can remember. When he was deployed he sent her the most beautiful letters...

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 ...