Mission Survival

One last mission. It's a promise familiar to Captain John Duggan. Each final battle has another following it, with another after that. They come to him with the inevitability of death. His latest task seems no different to the others before it. As events progress, Duggan begins to believe - he starts to see how his life might change at the end of it and how the lives of billions in the Confederation may be saved if he succeeds. This time, his superiors plan no less than the destruction of the Helius Blackstar itself.

The mission was supposed to be simple. Cross the void. Build the colony. Make history. Eighteen months into humanity’s first interstellar voyage, a routine engine burn reveals an anomaly that shouldn’t exist. A gravitational disturbance with no natural explanation. A structure in the void between stars, metallic, massive, and older than human civilisation. Commander Isaac Rowe has four percent fuel margin and three hundred and twelve lives depending on his decisions. Astrophysicist Elara Mendez has data that defies every model she’s built. Engineer Pavel Ionescu has a drive being ...

'A cracking thriller series. Gordon Wallis' vivid descriptions blend seamlessly with all of the mystery, intrigue and high-octane action his readers love. Absolutely riveting!' Book 1: The Phantom of the Congo In the dark heart of Africa's deepest rainforest, a ruthless predator waits. When insurance investigator Jason Green is sent to a remote research station beneath Ngandu Mountain, what begins as a routine investigation quickly descends into a desperate fight for survival. Book 2: The Teeth of Giants Chinese crime cartels are slaughtering Africa's elephants for their ivory. Nobody dares...

Some monsters wear tactical gear. Others wear fur. Tony Ward retreated to the freezing peaks of the Beartooth Mountains to escape his grief. Operating as a solitary lookout, he wanted nothing more than to be left alone with the biting wind and the silent snow. His isolation shatters when a dying elk leads him to tracks far too massive to belong to any known animal. Then the storm hits. Trapped in a sudden, brutal blizzard, Tony discovers he is not the only one tracking the beast. A ruthless paramilitary team led by the cold-blooded Commander Reed has descended on the mountain. They are ...

No electricity. No running water. No food. No end in sight. If life as you knew it changed in an instant, would you be prepared? In A. American’s first novel, Going Home, readers were introduced to Morgan Carter, the resourceful, tough-as-nails survivalist who embarks on a treacherous 250-mile...

First Prize Winner in Published NonFiction, WriterCon 2025. Finalist, 2025 Self-Publishing Review Book Awards The author graduates from an elite university and enters the submarine service in the mid-1980s when rhetoric between the US and USSR threatens to turn the Cold War hot. He encounters an unforgiving world where submarines hunt each other unseen and unheralded in the ocean depths and in which minor mistakes can result in catastrophe. On four classified missions to the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic, the Barents Sea, and the North Pole, he gradually and painfully learns the ...

The corporate ladder is gone. It's been replaced by a game—and if you don't know the rules, you're going to lose. For nearly twenty years, John D. Romero climbed to the top 1% of U.S. income earners, holding elite financial licenses (Series 7, 66, 24) and advising thousands of clients—from struggling families to $150M net-worth individuals. Then, he walked away. Why? Because the corporate world quietly replaced true leaders with corporate cowards who climb via flattery, credit-theft, and politics instead of excellence.

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time. They looked into the darkness and the darkness...

The floodlights die first. Then the fence-LEDs. Then the road out. By the time the water is finished with the preserve, the only people left inside are the five the park hired because it could not afford anyone better — a groundskeeper who tracked men through Vietnam, a maintenance man out of FDNY Rescue, a security guard whose gun fires beanbags, a keeper who was a zoo vet in a better life, and the feed-show man, who still runs dosage math in his head without meaning to. They find him on the wrong side of the water: a femur broken clean through, splinted with an aircraft strut, speaking ...

Day 248. Systems nominal. Crew performing within expected parameters. Morale: adequate. Also: Earth is gone. The six of us are all that's left. The mission continues anyway. My name is Cal Brennan. I'm an aerospace engineer eight months into a two-year deep space mission. I keep the ship running. I also talk to the CO2 scrubber, which I've named Gerald, and I consider this professional. A gamma ray burst hit Earth while we were eating lunch. We received the news four hours after the fact. Mission Control sent four paragraphs in eleven minutes, which tells you something about the people who ...

Five men go into the jungle to bring one man out. Team leader Rourke has seventy-two hours to reach a captured American radio operator before the enemy walks him across the border into Cambodia, and the number gets smaller every time the jungle tells him something new. On the other side of the same triple canopy, Captain Nguyen Tri Loc has his own clock running: deliver the asset intact, or explain the failure to Hanoi himself. Neither man is the villain of this book. Both are fathers. Both know exactly what they are doing and why, and neither one flinches from it. Between them is a ...

“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly...

Plan For Success! Cross-Cultural Missions combines Biblical truths and first-hand experiences, openly discussing opportunities and challenges. Broaden your perspective and be proactive, as you prepare to navigate mission challenges like team dynamics, cultural blind spots, unhealthy charity, compassion fatigue, and spiritual warfare. Open your understanding to cultural differences and the corresponding relational challenges. Learn how to process ministry trauma and avoid burn-out. Enter cross-cultural missions with a healthy spiritual routine, a Biblical mindset, and a framework for making ...

Earth is plunged into a new Ice Age and times become more desperate than ever for survivors living on the three arks. Several years have passed since the comet struck. Supplies are low and tension is high. Each ark faces a dangerous mission crucial to surviving long enough for Earth to recover. But not everyone will survive... OTHER WORKS BY THE AUTHOR COMET CLEMENT SERIES BOOK ONE – THE INNER CIRCLE BOOK TWO – INTERCEPTION BOOK THREE – THE NEW SPACE RACE BOOK FOUR – THE THREE ARKS BOOK FIVE – EVACUATION EARTH BOOK SIX – FINAL DAYS BOOK SEVEN – IMPACT BOOK EIGHT - UNINVITED ...

Some cages should never be opened. Beneath the Nevada desert, the subterranean ORIGIN facility was built to study and contain the world’s most dangerous biological anomalies. Now, all communications have gone dark, the containment locks have cycled open, and the lab has become a slaughterhouse. When elite operative Jack Rourke and his extraction team are sent down into the reinforced concrete corridors to secure a high-value asset, they expect a standard rescue mission. Instead, they find a massacre. Trapped hundreds of feet underground, Rourke’s squad is forced into a brutal war of ...

Nature always fights back. Blackridge Summit Resort is expanding, and management refuses to let a forecasted snowstorm or wildlife warnings delay their multimillion-dollar schedule. They order the explosives detonated on the upper ridge to clear the way. The resulting blast triggers a catastrophic slide that buries the ski lift, crushes the communications tower, and leaves hundreds of guests trapped in a freezing, powerless hotel. But the detonators did not just break the snowpack. They collapsed the roof of an ancient, hidden cave system, exposing a den that has belonged to a clan of ...

""An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death."" —Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News...

The second in an epic romantic fantasy series from the hugely popular author of The Female series in which a young woman is forced to choose sides in the midst of a conflict that threatens to shake the alliance between the faerie and shifter kingdoms. Abby thought things couldn’t get worse...

Fans of Jurassic Park and Interstellar will love Extinction in Time. Mars is dying. Humanity’s last survivors flee their collapsing world aboard the starship Endurance in search of a new home. Instead, they are hurled 2.7 billion years into the future. At first, the planet they discover looks like salvation. Endless oceans. Perfect atmosphere. A world untouched by civilization. Then they discover the truth. Earth belongs to the dinosaurs. And an extinction-level asteroid is already on its way. Now the survivors face an impossible choice: Save themselves... or save a world that was never ...

The Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love. One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on August 1, 1943, over the oil fields at...