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Fulcrum by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith a Russian invasion force threatening, and a downed American pilot in the Sea of Cortez, John must set aside the most personal loss of his life and continue the battle to save what remains of America. Leading a lightning mission into Mexico, he encounters survivors who have formed militias and pose a threat to anyone who is not part of their group... -
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Indestructible by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPlease note this is the full-length edition of Indestructible, not available for Kindle Unlimited. Looking to borrow with your KU subscription? Visit my author page at www.amazon.com/author/dirkpatton and look for Indestructible Parts 1 through 5. Each part is available for KU readers, and when read in order are exactly the same as the full version... -
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The Undead Day Fifteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the post apocalyptic world moves into the third week, Howie is starting to feel the pressure. New faces, new rules and the infection continues its deadly evolution...Categorized as:
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Recovery by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTinker Air Force Base has fallen to the infected. Rachel's plane to Seattle has been shot down over a mountain wilderness in Idaho. Is she alive? It is up to John, Katie and Dog to race against time, invading armies, blizzards, herds of infected and vicious wild predators to reach the crash site... -
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![Merciless: V Plague Book 11 by Dirk Patton]()
Merciless: V Plague Book 11 by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohn is in the hands of the Russian military as the conflict escalates. His only hope is to escape as those he loves are threatened by nuclear attacks. When a new Russian plot is revealed, the survivors must battle to save the last vestiges of humanity from final annihilation... -
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Fractured by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the disastrous events at the end of Scourge, it is left to the Athena Project to set things right. But problems arise that change the course of events in a way that could not have been predicted... -
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Primal by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're called Mr. No One and Mr. Nobody, and wherever they go, death follows. Lee Harden is out for blood. After a month, the cartel is looking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows, worried about the madmen in their backyard, who seem obsessed with little else but killing cartel members... -
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Days Of Perdition by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKatie kidnapped by Roach, John must not only save her but also deal with the betrayal of the new President. Days Of Perdition opens with the story of how Katie survived and reached Oklahoma City... -
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Scourge: V Plague Book 14 by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrying to adjust to his return to civilization, John learns of the horrors yet to come that were revealed in Exodus. With Igor and Irina on their way to Siberia, he must travel to Australia to complete what may be his final and most personal mission; assassinate the Russian president... -
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The Bones of Valhalla by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFOR EVERY NIGHT, THERE IS A NEW DAWN.One night. That was all it took for the world to be forever changed. Creatures that once lived in the shadows rose, spreading like a plague across the globe, swallowing whole cities and collapsing unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge... -
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Carnage by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween love and savagery, only one can survive - and only one will prove stronger than death. ALPHA TEAM LOOKS THE DEVIL IN THE EYE After recovering Patient Zero, Alpha must escape Africa to end the ZA once and for all... -
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Empire of the Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies. The ARISEN series returns - putting Alpha team, MARSOC, and One Troop Royal Marines face-to-face with their most lethal adversaries ever - in the most blistering and heart-stopping chapter yet of the epic saga... -
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Defiant by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't ever let it break you.The United Eastern States is crumbling. The fragile house of cards that Lee Harden and Angela Houston have built has begun to fall. Lee is up against a ticking clock, as he is recalled from Texas and given the last thing in the world that he wants: A promotion... -
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Extinction Darkness by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrilling adventure continues in book 4 of the Extinction Cycle: Dark Age. After devastating losses and new intel about the enemy, Central Command is running out of options to prevent the total collapse of the Allied States. A scientific breakthrough and new allies might be the only hope of saving the country, and the world... -
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The Killing Line by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGabriel Garrett has faced many challenges. The battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the CIA, several years as a mercenary, and the end of the world among them. But now he faces a challenge none of his training, expertise, or combat experience have prepared him for—fatherhood...Categorized as:
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Extinction Ashes by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ashes have fallen and the dust clears to a startling discovery. . . . Beyond the reach of the nuclear infernos, the masterminds survived and continue their assault on outposts across the Allied States. Timothy Temper and Sergeant Ruckley narrowly escaped one of those attacks. On the run from hostile forces, they fight to get an urgent message to command-the monsters aren't the only threat... -
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Something To Fight For by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHome was supposed to be the endgame, but the Nation they came home to, is not the way they left it. Brad and the team find themselves quickly switching gears to embark on a greater mission, one that could cure the Primal virus. Loyalties are divided, new alliances made as old ones fall apart. The team discovers they can trust no one when they find out things are not what they seem.. -
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Endgame by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHIS IS IT.ALPHA TEAM GOES ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH On what will be their final missions ever in the Zulu Alpha - and the fight of their lives - Homer & Ali, and Predator & Juice, launch out into the terminal post-Apocalypse, as London is overrun by the very last rush of death covering the entire planet... -
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Walking In The Shadow Of Death by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA plane crash in the wilderness of Newfoundland. A band of survivors connected by a profound sense of duty. Home was the mission, but confronted with an enemy greater than the Primal virus they are sidetracked to once again put their unique skills to use for the greater good... -
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Death of Empires by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHope Never Dies.With over 175,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military zombie-apocalypse series returns, powering toward its epic and cataclysmic conclusion... -
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The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSOME 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... -
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Terminus by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only way out is through.Greeley, Colorado lies before him. Griffin’s army presses at his back.Lee Harden is out of options, and out of time.Inside the city, Sam Ryder is trapped behind enemy lines, and Acting President Briggs still maintains his stranglehold on the country—and Lee’s destiny.Choices. We are made by choices. And they make us... -
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Precipice by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Russian military has surged, invading the devastated United States in large numbers. Russian civilians are arriving, laying claim to the spoils of war. Events from John's past bring new dangers for the few remaining survivors as the Russians begin an all out effort to capture and send him to Moscow for trial and execution... -
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The Flood by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsLONDON UNDER SIEGEWith the tide of dead lapping at the walls of London, Major Jameson must decide whether to roll the dice and lead One Troop on a desperate mission into the fallen Russian Empire, to retrieve a designer pathogen so lethal it even kills the dead.. -
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Deathmatch by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHumanity's most fearsome enemy is no longer death. ALPHA AND MARSOC MEET THEIR MATCH Lurking in the bush is the dark shadow cast by the operators – a terrifying force every bit their equal in skill, ferocity, and sheer resolve… but utterly unconstrained by humanity, compassion, or brotherhood... -
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Refugees by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA SOLDIER'S MISSION IN A WORLD GONE TO HELL: SURVIVE, RESCUE, REBUILD He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Camp Ryder as a hub of safety and stability in the region... -
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Bound By Honor by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBound By Honor is the thrilling continuation of the Best Selling Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Series. Book 1 Escaping The Dead can be found here. ******************* Nearly two years after the fall, the survivors strive to make new lives for themselves in the Primal wasteland. With no government institutions and over eighty percent of the population gone, it is a cold and harsh new world... -
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The Ashes of Pompeii by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEVERY WAR REQUIRES SACRIFICES.The only way to survive in a post-Purge world is to keep your head down, but that's not always an option.Still stranded in the Louisiana countryside, Will, Danny, and Gaby race against the clock to get back to their friends, but the road home is treacherous and enemies lie in wait... -
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Extinction by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThis is the sixth and final novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90 percent of the population into a ravenous horde.The merciless tide of infected is flooding south, and time is running out to stop them... -
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Fractured by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought... -
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Savages by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEric Riordan thought he had seen the worst the post-Outbreak world had to offer. He was wrong. As the Midwest Alliance puts plans in motion to touch off a civil war, Eric and a group of elite warriors are recruited to stop them. To prevent disaster, they will venture into the heart of enemy territory on an assassination mission...Categorized as:
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Iron Wind by Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 5 in Anthony J Melchiorri’s The Tide series. The Democratic Republic of the Congo already faced the extreme ravages of war before the outbreak. But deep within the militia-controlled jungles, Captain Dominic Holland and his covert group, the Hunters, follow a lead in a desperate race to uncover who is responsible for the biological weapon turning humans into the monsters known as Skulls...Categorized as:
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The Darkest Place by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor Caleb Hicks, survival means hiding in plain sight. Trained from a young age to be a super-soldier, he has worked hard to keep his abilities hidden. But after a disastrous mistake forces him into military service, hiding his skills becomes increasingly difficult. To maintain his cover, he isolates himself, rarely speaking and discussing his past with no one. Until now...Categorized as:
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The Apocalypse Fugitives by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeaten and battered in mind and body, the fugitives limp west, unaware that the human world is fading all around them, unaware that the last remnants of the goodness of man is being ground under the heel of evil at every turn... -
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Torment by W.J. Lundy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and The Invasion Trilogy. TORMENT From the War on Terror a world crippling Bio-Weapon is released. The United States scrambles teams of scientists from the Centers For Disease Control. America's top field agent are tasked with collecting samples and developing a cure. In a national laboratory scientists race against the clock searching for a cure... -
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Extinction Inferno by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe government said the Variants were dying off...That the beasts would be extinct in a matter of years...That the Allied States had returned to prosperity and freedom ...The government was dead wrong. Deep under the cities, the Variants weren't just hiding, they were breeding... -
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We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Third Season by K.C. Wayland
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA small riot in LA has spread past its containment. Three reserve soldiers are called to their deserted duty station. Believed to be the last remaining armed servicemen in the area, Michael, Angel, and Saul witness the true cause of the riot; people are starting to change and attack each other... -
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Crucifixion by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the pulse pounding continuation of the V Plague series, John, Rachel and Dog have escaped from Atlanta, finding refuge at an Air Force Base in Tennessee. After being recalled to active duty, John strikes a deal with the Army that will help him rescue his wife in Arizona, but all of his plans are quickly put in jeopardy as a second wave of infection rips through the surviving population... -
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Nemesis by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsARISENHope Never Dies.Africa Wasn't Ready.Between the fall of man and the arrival of the JFK, the Horn of Africa is a battleground.Salvation. Vengeance. Vanity... -
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The Fires of Atlantis by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSeparated but not out of the fight.Gaby has been captured by a familiar figure from her past. Some might take captivity lying down, but they aren't Gaby.Will and Danny are close on Gaby's trail, but their rescue mission is detoured in a city under siege by a very dangerous new breed of ghouls. The reunited ex-Army Rangers will face their toughest fight yet if they want to get out alive... -
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Cataclysm by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHope Never Dies.This is the end game - and it's not going well.The battle to keep the undead tide from the walls of London is lost. Africa is a deadly hall of mirrors, leaving Alpha team riven with dissension and doubt. And the one man who might save the world is crashing to Earth half a world away. Only our greatest warriors can walk through this fire.Betrayal. Chaos. Courage... -
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Transmission by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the virus mutating, new dangers appear that threaten a bloody end to the struggle for survival. The next wave of infection sweeps across the remaining population. Betrayal threatens the alliance with the GRU. Roach descends deeper into madness, hiding in plain sight as he plots to capture Katie... -
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Three Parts Dead by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA world fallen - under a plague of seven billion walking deadA tiny island nation - the last refuge of the livingOne team - of the world's most elite special operatorsThe dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have...Alpha team, the world's best and last surviving Tier-1 operators, are adrift on Lake Michigan - and fast drifting into what looks like a damned hostile shoreline...Categorized as:
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Warrior Within by James N. Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere are those who do not wish for peace.As the Free Legion declares war on the survivors of Hollow Rock, Gabriel and Eric find themselves drawn ever deeper into the growing conflict. Aided by a fledgling militia, and a small contingent of federal operatives, the two warriors must find a way to defeat an unyielding enemy that threatens to destroy all they have grown to love... -
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Extinction End by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHope rises in the hearts of those still left standing, but safety seems to be just an illusion. In a single night of shattering terror, Plum Island is destroyed, and key scientist Dr. Kate Lovato is abducted.The end has arrived...Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world... -
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The Spears of Laconia by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE A STAND.They've been relentlessly hounded ever since The Purge decimated the world, and every day since has been a struggle to stay one step ahead of the enemy.Keo has returned, claiming to have information that can turn the tide of war against the ghouls... -
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Allegiance by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the fifth, never-before-published, novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces Captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into a ravenous horde.Through an overwhelming storm of pain and adversity Captain Lee Harden has fought and survived... -
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Extinction Age by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook III in Nicholas Sansbury Smith's #1 bestselling and top-rated Extinction Cycle Series continues the fight for survival!On the eve of extinction all seems to be lost, but there is still one final hope...Operation Liberty has failed. Humans are losing the war. With no other option, General Kennor decides to pull back the troops and give science a second chance... -
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Extinction Evolution by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere's a storm on the horizon...Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking point. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr... -
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Convoy of Carnage by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe first book in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world were fiendishly clever. After decades of planning, the contagion was unleashed and overnight hundreds of millions died and came back as rampaging, undead monsters...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia epidemy medical post-apocalyptic survival zombies action-adventure
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