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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, ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some enemies don’t disappear. They regroup. Luke Ryder walked away from the world of covert warfare, trading black ops for mountain air, silence, and the woman he loves. Nestled deep in the Idaho wilderness, he’s building a new life—until the past finds him again. When remnants of a mission gone dark resurface in the form of a brutal cartel hit squad, Luke and his closest friends are ambushed at his secluded home. As bullets tear through the forest and bodies hit the ground, Luke is forced back into the fight—this time on his own soil. What begins as a desperate defense spirals into...

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 ...

The military-industrial complex (MIC) consists of government defense agencies, government policy agencies, government oversight agencies, their counterparts in the armed services, a nationwide network of academic and military defense labs, the US Congress, and defense contractors large and small, domestic and international. Military-Industrial Complex is an in-depth narrative of the origins and history of the MIC, and a cogent analysis of its past, present and future. From the close of WW II, to the perilous zenith of Cold War superpower confrontation across nuclear battle lines, to the ...

A gripping story of resistance, sacrifice, and the unbearable price of defiance. Tom’s life is shattered the day his homeland is invaded. What was once ordinary and familiar—family dinners, laughter in the garden, the steady rhythm of daily life—vanishes beneath the shadow of occupation. Everyday worries dissolve into something primal: fear for survival, fear for those he loves, and fear of what he might have to become to protect them. Things Tom once took for granted are stripped away as his fatherland is ravaged by invaders Would you fight back—even if it meant losing everything? ...

A black ops extraction. A city crawling with Russian intelligence. No room for failure. When Aegis deploys Luke Ryder to Istanbul to recover a high-value asset hunted by the FSB, the mission is supposed to be fast and deniable. It turns into a war. A Russian general ends up dead. Turkish police flood the streets. Surveillance closes in. And Luke is cut off—alone—with the asset and a shrinking window to escape. Now it’s a race to the runway. If Luke can’t fight his way through the city, the asset disappears… and so does he. From the mountains of Idaho to the back alleys of Istanbul...

Luke Ryder was home in Idaho. At his mountain house. Quiet mornings. Snow on the ridgeline. Elena beside him. For the first time in months, life felt steady. Then the call comes. An MI6 safehouse in Edinburgh has been hit—hard. Coordinated shooters. Professional tradecraft. One target: Natalie. She survives. Barely. Now Luke and his Aegis team are pulled back into the shadows, tasked with protecting a woman marked for assassination by a ruthless Russian network. The enemy isn’t just hunting her. They’re hunting through her. What follows is a relentless game of counter-surveillance, ...

The story of Jan's and Zofia's epic trek to reach besieged Toruń City completes with a battle to get through the berm gate. Meet General Amiya Constance, who forces Jan to face his inner Ulysses and marks him to lead the Exodus armies offworld, in exile. But he has to get there first, leave Genève on the Exodus fleet commanded by Magda Aklyan. The chances of making it to the farside jump zone, in the umbra of a blue-green gas giant called the Wasp, are slim to none. They must get past the enemy's orbital patrols, boost for the Wasp with larger numbers of enemy warships in hot pursuit, ...

A Mission Meant to Build Trust Becomes a Fight to Survive. At first light, a joint patrol steps into a quiet Afghan village expecting conversation, diplomacy, and the fragile promise of progress. Instead, they walk into silence. No children. No animals. No elders waiting. Just the ridge above them… watching. When The Shooting Starts, There Is No Way Out. Staff Sergeant Nolan Pierce has led patrols through danger before. He understands tension. He understands uncertainty. But this is different. This feels deliberate. The kind of quiet that exists only seconds before chaos. Then the first ...

When the Rain Falls, Men Break Vietnam, 1968. The jungle does not forgive. The rain does not stop. And the enemy does not sleep. In the suffocating heat of a country torn apart by war, a platoon of American infantrymen is dropped into terrain so hostile it feels alive. Their mission is simple on paper: locate and destroy a North Vietnamese stronghold buried deep within the jungle. But nothing in Vietnam is ever simple. The monsoon season has begun. The sky turns black. The trails dissolve into rivers of mud. Radios fail. Air support vanishes behind walls of storm. Visibility shrinks to ...

When plunging enrollment forces two rival high schools to merge, two class presidents must work together to make the schools unite. But when a mutual crush emerges, they'll both have to figure out what they want and where their loyalties lie before they become the most hated people at school...

Author David Alexander's Puzzle Palace is a remarkable achievement. The Pentagon is more than building, symbol or icon; from almost the first moment of its construction it became one of the world’s most critical power centers. Puzzle Palace tells the story of the Pentagon from its beginnings in the years between the two World Wars to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and beyond in panoramic prose that combines virtuoso writing with sure-handed scholarship and penetrating insights. Puzzle Palace is nonfiction that is written with a novelist's brilliance and a scholar's keenly ...

Most sci-fi authors imagine what space systems do. This one spent 20 years supporting real space missions. From space industry insider Pål A. Hvistendahl comes a novel that reads like tomorrow's classified briefing. 2040. The digital thread connecting civilization is about to snap. As secret wars simmer in orbit and the race to the Moon accelerates, Vice President Jackie Jill — a sharp, witty political powerhouse — confronts a crisis that could shatter the fragile network connecting nine billion lives. Space Force Colonel Kiril MacKay, astronaut-engineer and shadow operative, must ...

The Zin had watched silently. They had planned thoroughly. They had prepared relentlessly. They came by surprise. Theirs was a very feline plan. It failed. And so the sudden, victorious leap became a desperate grapple. A savage struggle without rules, the outcome of which loomed increasingly uncertain... Triggered Melting Snowflakes’ Society Uber Super Reddest Red Extremely Intense Trigger Warning: Contains societal collapse, alien occupation, ruthless revolution, horrible savagery, jackbooted thuggery, scheming cultists, power-mad dictators, merciless guerrilla terror, child abuse, adult...