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Hostile Negotiations by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes one must face one’s fears to get something accomplished. Even if death would be preferred.Poaching is a crime. Poaching when a person is using the ZOO to help make it happen is a crime against humanity.That’s when McFadden and Banks get involved.Unfortunately, the trail heads off in multiple directions and one of those arrows goes straight back to the ZOO... -
![Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle]()
Dire Wolf Stakes by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove kills. So do bow-wielding assassins.Maine’s troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liqudator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn’t also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her... -
![Shadows of Olympus by Christian Kallias]()
Shadows of Olympus by Christian Kallias
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the arrival of a powerful new threat in orbit around Earth, the Alliance is forced to vacate Earth space while a small group stays behind to ensure humanity isn’t enslaved or worse, wiped out. Meanwhile, the rest of the fleet splits into separate missions, each of them vital in rebuilding the Earth Alliance forces and strengthening what’s left of the fleet... -
![It All Falls Down by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle]()
It All Falls Down by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLieutenant Gregor Popov is on trial for his efforts along with Heavy Metal to save the Russian Scientists. Will they go after Sal, Madigan and Courtney next? Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle… Will Popov get a light sentence, or something worse?Savage has been tasked with an operation, hidden from everyone... -
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![Get Out Of Our Way by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle]()
Get Out Of Our Way by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSal needs to work on something that has bugged him from the beginning. His dissertation. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle… There is a group engaging four new mercenaries, prepping them with simulated operations in the ZOO. How come? Courtney has approved a new member of her team in California and Sal isn't sure it was a good idea... -
![Backstabbing Little Assets by Michael Anderle, Michael Todd]()
Backstabbing Little Assets by Michael Anderle, Michael Todd
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot every creature in the ZOO is out to eat you. Some are humans who intend to stab you in the back. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle… Sal is hard at work trying to figure out if he can keep his crazy little company afloat, and now he wants to add more headcount? Kennedy isn’t sure what is going on inside his young and not-all-that-wise head... -
![Dumber Than Dead by Steven Campbell]()
Dumber Than Dead by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHank is getting married!The space station Belvaille has become home to a species of actors. The newest edition to the Post Colmarian Confederation Colmarian Confederation are the Damakan race. As a species they are capable of “broadcast empathy.” Their acting skills are so powerful they are able to make people believe their portrayals are literally happening—even over remote transmission... -
![Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per]()
Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPLEASE NOTE: This book was already released on Amazon and enjoyed considerable success with LitRPG readers. However, the inadequate amateurish translation of the sequel ruined the reading experience for many of the author's fans... -
![An Assassin's Accord by Michael Anderle]()
An Assassin's Accord by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the biggest monsters don’t have claws and look just like humans.Because they are!The world is different. An alien ‘infection’ of flora and fauna is contained by massive walls and substantial firepower over in the middle of Africa. It holds the promise of immortality, and infinite wealth.Now, when a country needs help finding and taking down the worst they have a new company to call... -
![Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! by Nate Crowley]()
Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! by Nate Crowley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsREAD IT BECAUSEFor the first time, get a grot's-eye view of the inexorable rise of the greatest ork warboss since the Great Beast, in a stunning limited edition novel packed with all the action and dark humour you'd expect from an ork tale... -
![Advent by Seth Ring]()
Advent by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom bestselling LitRPG author Seth Ring—creator of The Titan series and Battle Mage Farmer--Advent is the first in an epic new series of alien contact, fast-paced military action, and thrilling adventure that will leave readers hungry for more.All his life, Mark Fields has dreamed of joining the Defense Force to fight the vicious, alien Exlian, just like the rest of his renowned family... -
![Suck My Cosmos by Steven Campbell]()
Suck My Cosmos by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife is tough on the space station Belvaille. Not for the aristocratic nobles that call it home, but for the poor slobs like Hank. Hank is considered a "celebrated cutthroat" and the oldest living person in the city. His occupation is to be hired muscle for those people who don't want to get their hands dirty but still want dirty things done... -
![The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell]()
The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCommissar Ciaphas Cain is a man who, despite his best attempts to avoid danger and live the easy life, is constantly thrust into fame and fortune. He will be a hero, whether he wants to be or not... -
![A Fighting Chance by William C. Dietz]()
A Fighting Chance by William C. Dietz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe all-new, thrilling conclusion to the Legion of the Damned series from the national bestselling author of When Duty Calls. Earth has fallen. And the men, women, and cyborgs of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final stand against an alien aggressor.. -
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![Blackcoat by Steve McHugh]()
Blackcoat by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Celine Moro took a job as a Blackcoat, an elite agency tasked with investigating crimes throughout Union space, she thought she had finally put her past to rest.Now, betrayed by her allies, her world is falling apart. Running from the corrupt politicians that she had sworn to bring to justice, Celine is dusting off the skills of her old trade in order to bring truth to light... -
![Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt]()
Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town... -
![Acts of War by James L. Young Jr.]()
Acts of War by James L. Young Jr.
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomehow I doubt that this is quite how anyone expected Adolf Hitler's death to turn out...--Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, No. 303 (Polish) SquadronAugust 1942. London is in flames. Heinrich Himmler's Germany stands triumphant in the West, its "Most Dangerous Enemy" forced to the peace table by a hailstorm of nerve gas and incendiaries...Categorized as:
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![Early Years by Steven Campbell]()
Early Years by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollection of short stories featuring Hard Luck Hank and his early days on Belvaille... -
![Delovoa by Steven Campbell]()
Delovoa by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollection of short stories featuring Delovoa and his life pre-Belvaille... -
![Sabbat Worlds: Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities by Dan Abnett]()
Sabbat Worlds: Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDan Abnett takes the Tanith First back to the beginning. On Voltemand, long before they gain fame and glory as Gaunt’s Ghosts, the Tanith are a broken unit. Crippled by doubt and hating their commander for his part in the death of their world, they are fractious and undisciplined. Leading a patrol into no-man’s-land, Gaunt is ambushed... -
![Iron Warriors: The Complete Honsou Omnibus by Graham McNeill]()
Iron Warriors: The Complete Honsou Omnibus by Graham McNeill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA great omnibus, collecting together Iron warriors stories from two great Black Library authors. The traitorous Iron Warriors are masters of siegecraft, builders of nigh-impenetrable defences – and just as good at tearing down those of their foes, as these action-packed tales of siege warfare demonstrate... -
![Counting the Cost by David Drake]()
Counting the Cost by David Drake
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe hottest science fiction mercenaries of the decade are back, so why count the cost? The other guy is going to pay for it! Hammer's Slammers must win a two-front war while maintaining the civilian power structure against hordes of religious fanatics... -
![Basketful of Crap by Steven Campbell]()
Basketful of Crap by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHank was a dying breed on the space station Belvaille. The criminal gangs that had once made their homes there were forced out by the corporations that had taken over since the facility became an Independent Protectorate... -
![Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell]()
Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 10 in the Ciaphas Cain Series... -
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![Prince of Suck by Steven Campbell]()
Prince of Suck by Steven Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn increasingly crippled Hank struggles to keep the various factions of Belvaille in check after the collapse of the Colmarian Confederation. Hank, as Supreme Kommilaire and Secretary of City, has several hundred police to try and maintain order among the millions of inhabitants on the space station while simultaneously preparing for Belvaille's first ever election... -
![What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis]()
What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGretel has wires in her head. Gretel likes to pick wildflowers. Gretel is one of the subjects on the farm, and she is Doctor Gottlieb's responsibility, but she knows something she isn't telling -- and if Doctor Gottlieb doesn't figure it out, it may be his body in a ditch next. This story is set in the world of Ian Tregillis's Milkweed series, which began with Bitter Seeds...Categorized as:
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![Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire by Timothy Zahn]()
Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollowing the dramatic events of Terminator Salvation, a recovering John Connor grants Barnes permission to return to the destroyed VLA lab and bury his brother, killed in the explosive opening of the movie. At the ruins Barnes and Blair Williams hunt through the debris for the remains of their comrade but instead uncover a mysterious cable leading up into the mountains... -
![Eclipse Penumbra by John Shirley]()
Eclipse Penumbra by John Shirley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE SA HAD BEEN HIRED TO MAKE ORDER.AND THEY PLANNED TO KEEP IT…FOREVER.From the beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance had been the first priority of the New Resistance; now the SA had decided it was time to return the favor. Resistance could not be allowed to interfere with the progress of the SA’s master plan... -
![Eureka: Road Less Traveled: Road Less Traveled by Cris Ramsay]()
Eureka: Road Less Traveled: Road Less Traveled by Cris Ramsay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Global Dynamics researcher has a breakthrough on her project visualizing another dimension. And since GD's experiments have a bad tendency to affect the entire town, Sheriff Jack Carter heads over to check it out. What he sees blows him away... -
![Kill Orbit by Joel Dane]()
Kill Orbit by Joel Dane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hostile fleet. A planet killer. And one shot to make it right. In this gripping new military science-fiction novel, a battle-tested infantry squad pursues an inhuman enemy into the vacuum of space.Maseo Kaytu's squad is yanked from a much-deserved furlough by an emergency deployment off-planet... -
![WWIV: In the Beginning by E.A. Lake]()
WWIV: In the Beginning by E.A. Lake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat will we do when suddenly our power, our phones, and our cars don't work? What will we do when we realize our government is missing and we have no protection; no police, no national guard? What will we do when our food runs out or spoils, and fresh water becomes scarce? What will we do when we realize we are completely and undeniably on our own? What could possibly happen next? What happens... -
![Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton]()
Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe humans are fighting again. Go figure.As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills... -
![Sabbat Worlds by Dan Abnett, Christian Z. Dunn]()
Sabbat Worlds by Dan Abnett, Christian Z. Dunn
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAcross the Sabbat Worlds, a bitter conflict is fought, a conflict that can only end in victory or annihilation. This anthology opens the gateway to the Sabbat Worlds like never before, featuring new stories from some of the Black Library's best-known authors including Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and many more... -
![Ascending by James Alan Gardner]()
Ascending by James Alan Gardner
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty's dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar's transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race... -
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![Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh]()
Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSolid Snake is a soldier and part of a worldwide nanotechnology network known as the Sons of the Patriots. Time is running out for Snake though, as he will soon succumb to the FOXDIE virus, but not before spreading the disease to nearly everyone he encounters, in essence becoming a walking biological weapon... -
![Out of the Soylent Planet (Rex Nihilo Adventure) by Robert Kroese]()
Out of the Soylent Planet (Rex Nihilo Adventure) by Robert Kroese
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInterstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head. Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband corn to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from an insidious corporation named Ubiqorp, which reaps obscene profits by keeping planets dependent on shipments of synthetic rations... -
![Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster]()
Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, Terminator Salvation, starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009.In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator chronicles, Judgment Day has come to pass and Skynet has destroyed much of the world’s population. In this post-apocalyptic world, the resistance, led by John Connor, continues its brutal fight for survival...Categorized as:
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![The Repairman by Harry Harrison]()
The Repairman by Harry Harrison
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles. "This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever -- or damn close to it... -
![The Root of All Rage by Bernd Perplies, Christian Humberg]()
The Root of All Rage by Bernd Perplies, Christian Humberg
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Federation races to discover the culprits of several terrorist attacks, sending their flagship, the USS Prometheus, to stop war breaking out in the galaxy.A dangerous evil is growing in the Alpha Quadrant... -
![Gorgon Child by Steven Barnes]()
Gorgon Child by Steven Barnes
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA virtual superman, a streetfighter trained by the Mob, Knight turns his awesome powers on those who created him. Fighting alongside his beautiful mate, he takes on a corrupt television evangelist who schemes to enslave America. The action-packed, near-future adventure sequel to Streetlethal... -
![The Savior by Tony Daniel, David Drake]()
The Savior by Tony Daniel, David Drake
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSequel to The Heretic, Book 10 in the nationally best-selling General series.FROM HERETIC TO SAVIORDuisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism... -
![Star Trek: The Next Generation: Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season by Mike McMahan]()
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season by Mike McMahan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader... -
![War in Heaven by Gavin G. Smith]()
War in Heaven by Gavin G. Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe high-powered sequel to VETERAN sees an unlikely hero make an even more unlikely return to take the reader back into a vividly rendered bleak future. But a bleak future where there are still wonders: man travelling out into the universe, Bladerunneresque cities hanging from the ceilings of vast caverns, aliens that we can barely comprehend... -
![Legacy by Andreas Christensen]()
Legacy by Andreas Christensen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Covenant has ensured global dominance, with one exception; Buchanan. The staunch defenders of liberty, who have stood up to the tyrannical Moon people for two centuries, are fighting a covert battle to remain independent, to protect their people from subjugation and slavery...Categorized as:
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![Cyber Shogun Revolution by Peter Tieryas]()
Cyber Shogun Revolution by Peter Tieryas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Man in the High Castle meets Pacific Rim in this action-packed alternate history novel from the award-winning author of United States of Japan and Mecha Samurai Empire.NO ONE SURVIVES AN ALLIANCE WITH THE NAZIS. NOT WITHOUT USE OF FORCE.California, 2020... -
![Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow]()
Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break... -
![Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter]()
Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGems - genetically modified people - were created to save humanity. But they, too, are human and now they must fight to save themselves. For years the human race was nearly decimated from a deadly syndrome, but when a cure was found--in the form of genetically engineered human beings, Gems--but the line between survival and ethics was radically crossed... -
![The Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold, Jerry Pournelle]()
The Voyage of the Star Wolf by David Gerrold, Jerry Pournelle
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho will keep the starways safe when bioengineered superhumans make war on the human race? Executive Officer Jonathan Thomas Korie and the crew of Alliance Liberty Ship LS-1187 made the mistake of surviving an ambush by the Morthan Solidarity. The attack had come without warning., devastating the Alliance fleet... -
![Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel]()
Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny, nanotechnological artificial intelligences whom the tyrant Amés has declared non-human... -
![The Shadow Wars by Rod Rees]()
The Shadow Wars by Rod Rees
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe shadows of war grow ever darker across the Demi-Monde.Norma Williams knows she was a fool to be lured into the virtual nightmare that is the Demi-Monde. When the agent sent in the game to save her goes rogue and a long forgotten evil is awoken, it falls to Norma to lead the resistance...Categorized as:
cyberpunk dystopia historical-fiction military action-adventure adult alternate-history book
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