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  • The Darkest Night by Michael Anderle

    The Darkest Night by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Michael returns to fulfill a promise to his love, but the world isn't the same place.Michael just wants a little sleep. The last few days has been a bit of a learning overload after coming back a hundred and fifty years after he was blown apart by a backpack nuke.The world destroyed itself, there are anti-gravity cars and ships, and his love is in the stars... somewhere...
  • Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's been three years Bethany Anne and her team have been building, trying their best to stay off the radar and not fight with those they are trying to save. The emotions have boiled to the surface. The is a line drawn in the sand, and some idiots just have to step across it. Those that thought the cat didn't have claws are about to find out how very, very wrong they are...
  • Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Unity by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    United we stand, divided we fall Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them...
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    military  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  apocalyptic  book  dark
  • Black Autumn by Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross

    Black Autumn by Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When it finally happened, even elite soldiers could scarcely keep their families alive...An already weakened U.S. economy crumbles after a rogue nation detonates a small nuclear bomb in a Los Angeles port...
  • Black Legion by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Black Legion by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abaddon returns from exile and raises the dreaded Black Legion. The Sons of Horus may be no more, but rising from their ashes come the Black Legion. Returning after his long self-imposed exile, Abaddon offers the disparate Chaos Space Marine warbands within the Eye of Terror a simple choice - join him or die...
  • The Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The rise of Abaddon, successor to Horus and Warmaster of the Black Legion.When Horus fell, his Sons fell with him. A broken Legion, beset by rivalries and hunted by their erstwhile allies, the former Luna Wolves have scattered across the tortured realm of the Eye of Terror. And of Abaddon, greatest of the Warmaster’s followers, nothing has been heard for many years...
  • The Lion: Son of the Forest by Mike Brooks

    The Lion: Son of the Forest by Mike Brooks

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Returned. And yet... lost.The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and primarch of the Dark Angels.Awakened. Returned. And yet lost...
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    war  military  sci-fi  audiobook  fiction  dystopia  grim-dark  horror
  • The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SOME THINGS ARE STILL WORTH FIGHTING FOR.Killing has never been something Keo shied away from, but the events of the last year have made him rethink his bloody past. Except nothing lasts forever. Now, Keo has embraced his old ways and set his sights on a new target--and there is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose...
  • The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 10 in Anthony J Melchiorri's The Tide series.Humanity is on the edge of defeat.Soon no one will be free from the nightmarish effects of the virulent bioengineered Oni Agent. The fanatical organization responsible has pushed mankind to the brink of extinction and is on the verge of victory. In one final surge, they prepare to sweep the globe from ground zero in Siberia...
  • Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo

    Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    BOOK 3 IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to To Sail a Darkling Sea and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...
  • Void Stalker by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Void Stalker by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The third in the bestselling Night Lords series.Talos leads First Claw further down their dark path, until the eldar of craftworld Ulthwe foresee a great conflict centered around the Night Lords, and the xenos muster for battle!The third book in the Night Lords trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Aaron Dembski-Bowden...
  • Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jolie was three when she found she was ugly and deformed. She was five when she found she was a sub-human and an outcast. She was seven when five boys and two girls dragged her out of the orphanage and beat her unconscious, leaving her lying bleeding and broken in the street. She was content to lie there and die, tired of being hated and abused...
  • Shoot Like a Girl by L.L. Akers, Kevin Pierce

    Shoot Like a Girl by L.L. Akers, Kevin Pierce

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Would your neighborhood work together to survive if the s--t hit the fan?More chaos erupts in book two of the SHTF series when the lights don't come back on and there's still no word - or help - from the government. Tullymore is divided, and on the brink of an internal war...
  • Shakedown by Scott Sigler

    Shakedown by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "A gritty tale of cosmic dread.”— Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of RED RISINGFew know the warship’s actual name. Fewer still know what it really is. And almost no one knows of its unique ability, an ability that could tilt the balance of power if not outright win the war.But everyone has heard the rumors. Rumors about the worst place the Planetary Union Fleet can send you...
  • Betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron’s surprise attack on Calth, Lorgar and the rest of the Word Bearers strike deep into the realm of Ultramar. Their unlikely allies, Angron and the World Eaters, continue to ravage each new system they come across – upon the garrison planet of Armatura, this relentless savagery may finally prove to be their undoing...
  • Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo

    Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S...
  • Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    THE KENNEDY STARES INTO THE ABYSSThe world's last floating nuclear supercarrier looks into the face of oblivion – as her thinned, exhausted, and beleaguered crew face the largest herd of dead ever recorded. Soon, the ship's five-acre flight deck will become the scene of a furious and desperate set-piece battle – like no combat any modern army has seen since Stalingrad...
  • Only in Death by Dan Abnett

    Only in Death by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As the crusade to liberate the Sabbat Worlds continues, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt leads the Tanith First-and-Only into an unforgiving new warzone - the fortress world of Jago...
  • Blood Reaver by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Blood Reaver by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Driven on by their hatred of the False Emperor, the Night Lords stalk the shadows of the galaxy, eternally seeking revenge for the death of their primarch. Their dark quest leads them to a fractious alliance with the Red Corsairs, united only by a common enemy. Together with this piratical band of renegades, they bring their ways of destruction to the fortress-monastery of the Marines Errant...
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    military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesWhile the Hell Divers cross an ocean to battle the machines, an old flesh-and-blood threat returns to the islands.The mission to Rio de Janeiro ended in victory, but it came at a dire cost, killing most of those who set out to rescue the stranded survivors...
  • The Lost Colony by Vaughn Heppner

    The Lost Colony by Vaughn Heppner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    We fought the invading New Men to a standstill and defeated the alien Destroyer sent to obliterate Earth. The worst should be over, but it’s not. Perfect android replicas are impersonating high-level officials so trust is failing. Worse, the New Men have found allies with an impenetrable stealth technology. This time, however, Earth is going on the offensive...
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    military  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...
  • Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Night Lords were once among the most potent forces of the Imperium, Space Marines who used fear itself as their weapon. Now, cast adrift from the Emperor's light and hunted as heretics after their monstrous betrayal, the Night Lords clad themselves in symbols of death and fight the Long War, bringing pain and terror to all who worship the corpse-god of Terra...
  • Judgment Day by Arthur T. Bradley

    Judgment Day by Arthur T. Bradley

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Survivalist (Judgment Day) is the third book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist Series. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Looms - coming summer of 2014).The United States continues to devolve into total lawlessness as it struggles to recover from a pandemic that left billions dead. Gangs of convicts sweep through towns, raping and murdering with impunity...
  • Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles

    Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS. The country has become a warzone, and with a Coalition troop surge imminent, the resistance is on the ropes. Walter is in the city of Durham, fighting to survive. He has no idea that his wife, Carolyn, is only miles away, desperately trying to find him. She has information on a special target--a last ditch mission that could turn the tide for the resistance...
  • Dry Gallows by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    Dry Gallows by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 9 in Anthony J Melchiorri’s The Tide series. Humanity faces extinction. A few stubborn governments fight back, caught on the defensive. But even their concerted efforts may not be enough to stem the tide of the biological weapon sweeping the world. As people succumb to this genetically engineered weapon, they devolve into weaponized monstrosities hell-bent on destruction...
  • The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE OPERATORS FACE THEIR DEMONSMission complete, Alpha team enjoys their first chance to breathe and tend to their humanity. But the darkness leaves them alone with their demons - and those who have found love may yet learn that it is fatally incompatible with duty...THE CARRIER FACES UNIMAGINED THREATSThe JFK steams for Africa, despite rumours of lone Zulus still wandering below decks...
  • Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Humanity has finally found a new home, but the price is blood ...After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal king el Pulpo...
  • To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo

    To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    BOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...
  • The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Amidst the galaxy-wide war of the Great Crusade, the Emperor castigates the Word Bearers for their worship. Distraught at this judgement, Lorgar and his Legion seek another path while devastating world after world, venting their fury and fervour on the battlefield...
  • State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    State of Vengeance by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vengeance is coming. Monterey Bay, California, has barely survived a brutal attack from the evil invasion forces of Omega, and Cassidy Hart is exhausted. She has lost a friend and gained a new enemy. The militias seem to be weakening, and Omega seems to be getting stronger...
  • Nomad Redeemed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Nomad Redeemed: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sawyer Brown is no more, but he was just the minor opening act... Terry Henry and Charumati (Char) have to deal with her Alpha coming back, the new refugees getting settle in the town and .. Beer! With the FDG doubling in size, Terry Henry needs to bring about a little organizational structure to the group.While also deciding how to have that conversation with Char about her lineage..
  • A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill

    A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld pf Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret...
  • Bombtrack by Sam Sisavath

    Bombtrack by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BEHIND ENEMY LINES, BUT FAR FROM HELPLESS.Six years ago, Gaby was the most popular girl in high school. Then the world ended. Times have changed, and everyone's unanimous choice for homecoming queen is all grown up.These days she's part of something greater than herself: a group whose sole mission is to restore order to a ravaged world that badly needs them...
  • Madness Rules by Arthur T. Bradley

    Madness Rules by Arthur T. Bradley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Survivalist (Madness Rules) is the fourth book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist Series. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Rules, Battle Lines - coming soon).Description: Few heroes remain in the apocalyptic wasteland of the United States. Deputy Marshal Mason Raines is one such hero...
  • Battle Lines by Arthur T. Bradley

    Battle Lines by Arthur T. Bradley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Battle Lines is the fifth book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist series. It features six full-page illustrations. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Rules, Battle Lines, and Finest Hour).Description: Convinced that a militia leader holds the key to finally exacting justice, Deputy Marshal Mason Raines enters the destroyed city of Lexington...
  • River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BESTSELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. Sequel to The Valley of Shadows. Tom Smith used to be somebody. Now he's just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization. Well, maybe not just another refugee. Late of the Bank of the Americas where he used to be the global managing director for Security, Tom and his fellow survivors watched New York City burn...
  • Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    They will dive, but will humanity survive?Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier “X” Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero...
  • First and Only by Dan Abnett

    First and Only by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, Imperial Commissar Gaunt must lead his men through as much in-fighting amongst rival regiments as against the forces of Chaos. For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule...
  • War Factory by Neal Asher

    War Factory by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity...
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    military  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Malleus by Dan Abnett

    Malleus by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In the 41st Millenium, the enemies of mankind are legion, omnipresent and utterly deadly. While the warriors of the Imperium fight with firepower and faith, the Holy Inquisition hunts the shadows for the most terrible of foes – rogue psykers, xenos, and daemons. Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus...
  • Hereticus by Dan Abnett

    Hereticus by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In this concluding novel of Dan Abnett's sensational trilogy, a dark figure from the past returns to exact a cruel vengeance upon Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark  demons
  • The Damned by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    The Damned by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The deadly hunt ends in the fourth and final installment of the bestselling Trackers saga...The mountain town of Estes Park, Colorado is scrambling to recover from the betrayal of two of their police officers, and prepare for threats outside their borders...
  • Topia by Brandon Hale

    Topia by Brandon Hale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Three in the Day Soldiers Trilogy.After more than a decade of fighting, the end has finally arrived. The war is almost over.Topia has been born.A few courageous Day Soldiers have chosen to make a final stand against a world of vampires. They know it’s a battle they’ll probably lose, but they made a promise to protect the day and it’s a promise they intend to keep...
  • State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    State of Destruction by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Lane is surely worth picking up and reading, whoever you may be." - Daniel M. Harrison, #1 Bestselling Author of Butterflies and Editor of MarxRand The destruction of California is at hand. Cassidy Hart and Chris Young have survived a dangerous mission into the heart of Sky City, a secret Omega base hidden deep in the mountains, but their vengeance has come with a price...
    Categorized as:
    military  war  action-adventure  apocalyptic  book  crime  dark  drama
  • Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

    Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream for humanity nearly accomplished, the emperor hands over the reins of power to his warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra...
  • The Lords of Silence by Chris Wraight

    The Lords of Silence by Chris Wraight

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The galaxy has changed. Armies of Chaos march across the Dark Imperium, among them the Death Guard, servants of the Plague God...
  • The Valley of Shadows by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    The Valley of Shadows by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES From his corner office on the forty-fourth floor of the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park—and a ravening zombie horde. Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires, and other clients...
  • The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley

    The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With the solar defences overcome through the devastating strength of the Traitor armada and the power of the warp, Horus launches his assault on the Throneworld in earnest. After withstanding a ferocious barrage of ordnance, an immense ground war commences outside the Palace with every inch gained paid for in the lives of billions. On the thirteenth day of Secundus, the bombardment of Terra began...
  • The Emperor's Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Emperor's Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Grey Knights are all that stands between mankind and the ravages of Chaos. Since their secretive beginnings during the Horus Heresy, these legendary Space Marine daemon hunters have journeyed into the dark realms of the warp – and beyond – in pursuit of their supernatural enemies...
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