Realistic Fiction War

The war began in the shadows. Now it explodes into the open. A secret CIA interrogation of a “dead” U.S. senator uncovers the biggest betrayal in American history. A Chinese comms cell in Louisiana is wiped out—but not before encrypted files reveal months of hidden terrorist activity across the nation. And overseas, Russia, China, and Iran move in perfect unison, launching cyberattacks, drone ambushes, and missile barrages against U.S. allies. When American troops are ambushed by swarms of Russian FPV drones in Belarus, the truth is undeniable: World War III has arrived. Facing ...

A wounded nation. A global enemy. A war that will reshape the world. The opening blows of World War III have plunged the globe into chaos. Missile strikes, drone swarms, and cyberattacks batter America’s defenses. Cities burn. Airbases fall. Supply lines are shattered. The enemy believes the United States is on its knees. They’re wrong. From the ruined streets of Europe to the unforgiving Pacific, American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen rally for the fight of their lives. Engineers resurrect factories long abandoned. Civilians volunteer in droves. New weapons roll out of ...

In the abandoned mines of Pennsylvania, Sarah Murphy—a single mother who once lost everything to foreign competition—steps into a subterranean factory to build a new generation of stealth aircraft. As robotic tunnel borers carve cities underground, Sarah discovers a courage she never knew she had… and becomes a quiet hero of the war effort. On the Pacific front, Merchant Marine sailor Jack Winters returns to sea aboard a revolutionary ultra-fast transport. His mission: race through enemy-infested waters to bring home the rare metals America needs to fight back. When raiders strike, ...

A dormant Soviet bio-weapon. A weaponized rage virus. And a nation entirely unprepared. Monday morning begins like any other in Tennessee. A commuter bus. A crowded emergency room. A routine traffic stop. Children heading to school. Then someone collapses. Minutes later, they rise again. It starts with a tingling sensation, followed by nausea and confusion... then an overwhelming euphoria that ends in a sudden collapse. Moments later, the infected awaken with one irresistible, biochemically engineered instinct: Bite. Infect. Repeat. As isolated acts of unexplained violence erupt, hospitals ...

This is not a story about glory. Rangers, The Long Patrol is a novel about what happens before doctrine, before names, before anyone knows what to call the work that keeps other men alive. In the early years of the Vietnam War, long-range reconnaissance did not yet exist as an institution. There were no patches, no formal lineage, no guarantees of extraction or recognition. There were only small teams sent ahead of the main force, quietly, unofficially, and often without records, tasked with making the unknown smaller before it could kill someone else. David Miller is one of those men. He ...

Six hours after the team crossed the fence, their own grid called the airstrike down on them. March 1971. A MACV-SOG recon team slips into the Laotian panhandle under total radio silence. Six hours later, American ordnance lands on the exact coordinates they were assigned — coordinates only their own command could have known. Master Sergeant Colton Harlan walks out. Most of his men don't. The official story is friendly fire. Harlan knows it was an execution. Working off a single intercepted transmission and a list of seven names, Harlan and his Montagnard partner Minh begin pulling a ...

Some orders are missions. Some are alibis. By the time Lieutenant Daniel Crews understands which kind he just followed, his boat is six kilometers of black water from anywhere safe. June 1969. In the canals of the Mekong Delta, Crews runs PBR-747 up tributaries that aren't on any chart — and he's good enough at it that the men who fight their war from air-conditioned rooms keep finding uses for him. The newest job is simple, on paper: take his boat and a demolition man up a blacked-out canal, destroy a cache of 122mm rockets staged to wipe out a firebase, and bring everyone home before ...

Airborne: Italy is not a heroic retelling of World War II from a safe distance. It is a ground-level account of what happens when training collides with weather, doctrine collides with reality, and men are measured not by reputation but by how they move when everything goes wrong. Told through the eyes of a combat paratrooper transferred into the 82nd Airborne in the summer of 1943, the story follows the weeks before Sicily and the early phases of the Italian campaign, not as legend, but as lived experience. Camps are orderly because chaos is coming. Briefings are precise because they will ...

He survived the war his captain waged on him. Now he's waging it on his son. Kallias comes home from Troy with his hands still shaped for a spear he no longer carries. Nineteen years earlier, a hidden island gave him the only peace he had known in ten years of war. His own captain tore it away in a single night of fire and rope, and Kallias has spent every year since folding that theft into silence. He built a house. He married a woman who learned to read his quiet the way other women read letters. He raised a daughter and a son and told himself the war had stayed behind him on the beach at...

When Annabelle leaves Covington, Kentucky, she believes she is following her husband’s calling. Tientsin, China is meant to be a place of purpose, of teaching and shaping young lives. Instead, it becomes the place where she learns how fragile belief can feel when the ground beneath it is shaking. Sunsoo has never been free to dream. Bound to a husband consumed by violence and power, she lives in the tightening grip of the Boxer Revolution, where loyalty is demanded and mercy is dangerous. Faith, if it exists at all, is like a seed hidden beneath scorched soil. As revolution ignites and ...

The second novel in a brilliant new Napoleonic series from acclaimed historian Adrian Goldsworthy. Second in the series begun by TRUE SOLDIER GENTLEMEN, the story takes our heroes through the winter snows as Sir John Moore is forced to retreat to Corunna. Faced with appalling weather, and...

Glory was the promise. Survival became the truth. In the spring of 1862, in the shadow of the Battle of Shiloh, the war spreads across the South and the men of Alabama answer the call. Wilkerson and his brothers leave behind their family farm to join the newly formed 2nd Alabama Cavalry, driven by duty, pride, and the promise of honor. Under the steady, unflinching leadership of Sergeant Silas Ward, they are forged from eager recruits into soldiers and sent south to the pine barrens along the Florida border, where Confederate forces struggle to contain a growing Union presence near ...

By any means necessary... North Korea has for years supported its economy by sponsoring an illegal narcotics trade, but the billions of dollars generated weren’t enough. In Thailand an insurgency breaks out from inside its own security forces. The North Koreans see this as a way to interject themselves and expand their enterprise. Veteran CIA operative Alexander Rowans sees the chaos in the country and recognizes North Korea’s play. Knowing their intentions, he works to block it. But the CIA is reeling from a major internal scandal leaving the U.S. intelligence community virtually ...

Big Red One, The Civil War is the gripping first installment in a powerful series that captures the origins of the legendary U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division. In this book, we focus on the 16th Infantry Regiment, a regiment whose legacy of courage and sacrifice began in the bloody battles of the Civil War and continued through history to become the heart of the 1st Infantry Division, known as "The Big Red One."

The Battle of Crete forged a link between the islanders of Crete and the people of Australia and New Zealand which has never been forgotten. HISTORY'S FIRST EVER airborne invasion pitched the cream of the Nazi military, the Fallschirmjaeger, headlong into battle with the island's British and Anzac defenders. Confident of a quick victory, the German paratroopers jumping over Crete in May 1941 were blissfully unaware they were leaping into a cauldron. The defenders, fresh from the debacle of the Battle of Greece, knew they were coming and prepared for them as best they could. Short of ...

Twelve men jumped into the dark over Normandy. Before the sun is up, Sergeant Calvin Pruett can't find one of them. He comes down two miles off his drop zone with a dead radio, a rib that healed wrong over Sicily, and no one from his stick in sight. The objective is a flooded causeway across the Merderet River. Between Pruett and that bridge lie three miles of Norman hedgerow, a scattered handful of paratroopers he gathers as he finds them, and six days of fighting decided one field, one gun, one decision at a time. On the far bank waits Oberleutnant Werner Brandt — a German company ...

Amidst the rubble of war, a boy searches for hope. When thirteen-year-old Zaid is forced to flee his home during the Siege of Aleppo in 2012, he’s thrust into a nightmare no child should ever face. Bombs rain from the sky. Streets once filled with laughter are now cloaked in fear. Families are torn apart. But in the midst of chaos, Zaid must find the courage to survive—and lead others to safety. The Heart of Aleppo is an emotionally powerful, fast-paced young adult novel based on real events from the Syrian Civil War. Through Zaid’s journey, readers are taken on a heart-wrenching ...

Editorial Review A gripping, high-stakes thriller that blends survival, secrecy, and human resilience into a story that feels both personal and vast. With tight pacing and unforgettable characters, Beneath the Silence propels readers into a world where every truth has a cost and every choice shapes what remains. This compelling narrative balances heart-pounding tension with emotional depth, delivering a narrative that lingers long after the final page. You were never meant to see what lives beneath the silence. For decades, unexplained military encounters, sensor failures, and vanished ...

Helmand Province is falling apart. The Taliban are surging back into the fight. Marines are dying. Intelligence is failing. And deep inside southern Afghanistan, whispers begin spreading about a terrifying new weapon smuggled across the Iranian border — one capable of changing the battlefield overnight. Caught in the middle of the chaos are two Marine squad leaders: Sergeant Morgan and Corporal Dean. Battle-tested and exhausted from endless deployments, the two men are forced to navigate collapsing leadership, impossible orders, and the brutal realities of combat in one of the deadliest ...

A drug lord with a powerful secret… Alvaro Gutiérrez is the most dangerous drug trafficker in Mexico, the head of a vast criminal network that DEA special agent Rainn Darson has vowed to bring down. Yet, despite her best efforts, her superiors have refused to make him a priority. That is until the mutilated body of a British soldier washes up on the shore at Veracruz. Now, all fingers point to Gutiérrez, bringing the drug boss to the attention of both the White House and Downing Street. Darson is sent to Mexico to lead a joint agency task force to find Gutiérrez and get him extradited ...