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  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . .Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President.When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • Owen by Riley Edwards

    Owen by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Cullen was a dream. Not a dream come true because I’d never dared to dream. He was my wildest fantasy, a hallucination, a delusion. The handsome man who’d saved my life—twice. He was a real-life hero, and I was…what was I? Filth, that was what I was. The daughter of a gangster, the niece of the reigning king of Chicago’s underground. I tried my best not to fall in love with Owen...
  • Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Government secrets are being sold and the newly-sworn-in President of the United States already feels out of options. Without knowing the full scope of the scandal, the president decides to turn to the one person he knows he can trust--former FBI Agent, Elizabeth James. Her deep distrust of the system is rooted in her unfair discharge from service...
  • Ryland’s Reach by Dale Mayer

    Ryland’s Reach by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to a new stand-alone but interconnected series from USA Today bestselling Dale Mayer. This is Bullard’s story—and that of his team’s. All raw, rough, incredibly capable men who have one goal: to find out who was behind the attack on their leader, before the attacker, or attackers, return to finish the job...
  • Five Decembers by James Kestrel

    Five Decembers by James Kestrel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this novel of World War II, an American police detective trapped while trailing a killer overseas struggles to survive with only the help of a total stranger and his daughter, who risk their lives to protect him. December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever...
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    crime  noir  war  20th-century  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Ice's Icing by Dale Mayer

    Ice's Icing by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ice wanted only one thing in her life, and that was Levi—and maybe someone who was a blend of both of them. When he asked her to marry him, she was thrilled, but now she’s struggling to pin down a wedding date for fear he’d been caught up in the moment and didn’t really want to go through with it...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction  military
  • Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ember Harris has sworn to save lives. Joseph King is an assassin. Death is their common ground, only they stand on opposing sides. A dead man’s plea pushes Dr. Ember Harris headfirst into a swirling mire of drugs, death and political corruption. The Cartel boss who murdered Ember’s friend will stop at nothing to get the information entrusted to her...
  • Innocence & Betrayal by Brittney Sahin

    Innocence & Betrayal by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Reserved biochemist Ava Daniels has spent the last six months working on a top secret assignment for Homeland Security. One morning, after a night of finally letting loose, she discovers her lab empty and her boss missing. Interrogated by the very organization she works for, followed by unknowns, and attacked, Ava finds herself in search of answers as the clock winds down...
  • Zane by Dale Mayer

    Zane by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Going home wasn’t part of his plan …Agreeing to travel home to Maine to hunt down Ketch, a K9 dog the system had lost track of, wasn’t an easy decision for Zane. It meant facing his drunk of a father, his cold older brother and, worst of all, Angela, his kid brother’s widow—who used to be his girlfriend.Finding Ketch looked to be the easiest part of this dysfunctional homecoming...
  • Once A Pilgrim by James Deegan

    Once A Pilgrim by James Deegan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    John Carr has recently left the SAS, after a long and distinguished career, and is now working for a Russian oligarch in the murky world of private security.But an incident from his past – in which three terrorists were brutally killed – suddenly comes back to haunt him.Tracked by a hitman out for revenge, John Carr is forced to step over the line to defend himself and his family...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  military
  • Papal Justice by C.G. Cooper

    Papal Justice by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kidnappings and brutal killings in Mexico... A border problem that the United States won't fix... A Pope and a president faced with a common enemy..
  • Jax by Dale Mayer

    Jax by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  drama  fiction
  • Beau by Dale Mayer

    Beau by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
  • Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Books 1-4 in the Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series Justice for Mackenzie Daxton Chambers, a member of the oldest and most distinguished law enforcement agency in the state of Texas, never understood why people killed. But this new case, where someone was kidnapping and burying women alive, is a whole new level of depravity...
  • Geir by Dale Mayer

    Geir by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Geir Winthrop, a former SEAL, has recovered from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine more than two years ago. Six other team-mates were also badly injured, the seventh--Mouse--dead, in what their team leader realized later had to be a trap. Geir has been trying to uncover details about Mouse’s history...
  • The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm

    The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the winter of 1996, on the orders of HM Government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA.Rick Fuller headed that team.Days later Fuller’s wife was brutally murdered at his home.Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers and the men who gave the order...
  • Hard To Kill by Paul Heatley

    Hard To Kill by Paul Heatley

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One man can’t start a war. But he can end it.Laying low in Mexico, Tom meets Carmen who is searching for her little sister, Rosa, recently abducted and trafficked by a vicious gang. Tom sees that Carmen is likely to get herself killed and decides he is duty bound to help her...
  • Her Dominant SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Dominant SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Cry for Help It only takes one phone call, and Navy SEAL Drake Avery is rushing back to Tennessee in the middle of the night. His sisters are in danger, and he will do whatever it takes to protect them. A New Twist Now is not the time for a relationship, but damned if Drake doesn’t cross paths with a smokin’ hot kindergarten teacher named Karen Eastman...
  • National Burden by C.G. Cooper

    National Burden by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new president under pressure... Threats coming from every angle... The SSI team caught in the middle... Following his predecessor's abrupt departure, newly appointed President Brandon Zimmer must deal with aggressors at home and abroad. The sharks sense his weakness and are out for blood. The burden might just be too much to handle for the young president...
  • The Wolf's Bite by David Archer

    The Wolf's Bite by David Archer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Noah and the Camelot team are handed their most unusual mission yet: Sarah must infiltrate the infamous Bangkok Hilton women's prison in order to make contact with and plan the rescue of a young American woman. Noah, Neil and new team member Marco are tasked with planning their escape, but something goes terribly wrong...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  military
  • Ryker by Dale Mayer

    Ryker by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After his last assignment, Ryker is ready for a rest. And he gets it—but only a few hours …That’s even too long for a geologist kidnapped by guerrillas in the Columbian jungle. Ryker has plenty of experience in jungles around the world but, keeping Manila safe—along with the two men she’s traveling with and their injured guide—exposes them for who they are...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction  military
  • Axel by Dale Mayer

    Axel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life was never boring, but, for Axel, things kick up a notch when he helps in an underwater rescue of a downed submarine that’s low on oxygen. What they find is nothing like what they expected. All the crew but one was dead—as in shot to death. The last remaining crew member was alive but in rough shape...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Zack's Zest: A SEALs of Honor World Novel by Dale Mayer

    Zack's Zest: A SEALs of Honor World Novel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zack's Zest, book 24 in the Heroes for Hire Series.Zack wasn’t someone to focus on his mistakes, but he’d made a big one, and it was hard to move on from it. Still he was determined to work with Levi’s team to find new meaning in his life and to get his head on straight. At least that was the plan...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction  military
  • Keane by Dale Mayer

    Keane by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heading out on a last-ditch rescue mission to Puget Sound one day after two women go overboard in a sailing accident isn’t exactly what he’d expected … But Keane is nothing if not adaptable. He can only hope the two women are alive and doing everything they can to stay that way...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • The Aviators by W.E.B. Griffin

    The Aviators by W.E.B. Griffin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It is 1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the United States Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, a force critical to its chances of success. The obstacles are staggering--untrained men, technical mishaps, interservice rivalries...
  • Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty

    Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave...
  • Griffin by Dale Mayer

    Griffin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option: The Mavericks...
    Categorized as:
    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer Gabriella Maria Flores desperately needs a big win to save her career. A case that proves that she has her act together, something non-controversial to make people forget the recent scandal she's been involved in. Instead, the murder she catches couldn't be more high-profile, the number one suspect her boss's brother. Means, motive, opportunity--check...
  • Tanner by Dale Mayer

    Tanner by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tanner Kosta is the newest member of the team. Active in sports, particularly aerial types, he's training with a new military harness used in paragliding. The design was developed by Wynn Rider and her brother. As they run two SEAL teams through rigid training, Wynn's glider fails mid-flight, sending her plummeting toward the ground...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic  female-mc
  • Tucker by Dale Mayer

    Tucker by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tucker is always ready to fight for the underdog. So when he’s offered a mission to save the life of a dog unfairly judged and slated for termination, he can’t let her go down without a fight. Plus the dog is in Miami, where his sister lives, and … no way he can refuse to attend her upcoming wedding...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  dogs  drama
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
  • The Protective SEAL by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    The Protective SEAL by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack Williams has never felt so lost. For him, being a Navy SEAL wasn’t just a job, it was a way of life. Protecting people had always been his strength, until a career-ending injury forced him into retirement. He’s struggling to start over when he stumbles across a car in a ditch, springing him back into action. Only this is no random citizen in distress...
  • Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Aaron's Honor by Lindsay Cross

    Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Aaron's Honor by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a Special Forces operative, Aaron Spears treated relationships like Tangos. He’d seen the wreckage of his Task Force brothers' attempts and had no desire to put any woman through the hardship. He had one purpose – serve his country and protect his teammates. Then Celine Latimer walked into his life and turned his world upside down...
  • Prime Asset by C.G. Cooper

    Prime Asset by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you get when old enemies return?Nothing good. Nothing good at all...Cal Stokes’s good friend, Neil Patel, has disappeared. Following the trail to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Stokes and his men must find the culprit and rescue their colleague before it’s too late. The only problem is that the enemy lies in wait, hoping for a final showdown...
  • Dead Men by Stephen Leather

    Dead Men by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Belfast 1994. Five masked men brutally murder an RUC Special Branch officer. Days later, the IRA announces it is laying down its arms. 2007. The men who killed the RUC officer have been released from prison under the Good Friday agreement and one by one someone is killing them, in exactly the same way that the RUC officer died...
  • Presidential Shift by C.G. Cooper

    Presidential Shift by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The vice president is dead...The first lady narrowly escaped...What's an embattled president to do?Cal Stokes, former Marine and owner of Stokes Security International (SSI), has had a busy year. Trying to calm his inner demons and forget the tragic loss of his men, Cal dives headlong into his work, taking the battle to the enemy...
  • Council of Patriots by C.G. Cooper

    Council of Patriots by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A beautiful woman butchered…A Congressman blackmailed…A secret cabal of Japanese imperialists…A small group of retired politicians form to protect America. The Council of Patriots is born. Former Marine Cal Stokes, and his team at SSI, head to Las Vegas, to uncover an invisible enemy that threatens to infiltrate the Democratic National Convention...
  • Asher by Dale Mayer

    Asher by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A born protector, Asher signs up for jobs even the most trained men won’t take …But finding a set of female autistic twins in mainland China—after someone has gone to a great deal of effort to make sure they are never found—isn’t easy...
  • Drax by Annabella Stone

    Drax by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drax Mitchell had been one of the rising stars in Delta Force, when a yearlong mission undercover behind enemy lines, cost him the friend he always swore to protect. Or so he thought. Recruited by his friend’s former Navy Seal commander, to Red Squadron, a JSOC Task Force. Drax and Roman are reunited to cause havoc all over the Middle East...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Hot Louisiana Knight by Em Petrova

    Hot Louisiana Knight by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Known as the brainiac of the Knight Ops team, Dylan Knight is okay with the guys making fun of his nerdier tendencies because he can still split a hair with open sights at twenty paces. When the special ops force is dispatched during Mardi Gras to a formalwear boutique suspected of harboring a terrorist cell, Dylan gets the nod to take point on the operation...
  • Hollywood Dead by Richard Kadrey

    Hollywood Dead by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Life and death takes on an entirely new meaning for half-angel, half-human hero James Stark, aka, Sandman Slim, in this insanely inventive, high-intensity tenth supernatural noir thriller in the New York Times bestselling series.James Stark is back from Hell, trailing more trouble in his wake. To return to L.A...
  • Missy's Operation Demon Lore by P.G. Allison

    Missy's Operation Demon Lore by P.G. Allison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After gaining yet another new ability, Missy is seeking her proper balance back at West Point. The routine of studies, sports, duties … these all help her adjust. So do having friends and helping others. Of course, her life can’t be that simple...
  • Dirty War by Stephen Leather

    Dirty War by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE NEW MUST-READ SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLERThe target - the Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose.The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shepherd.But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan.Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved...
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    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  espionage  fiction  mystery
  • Renewed Faith by Kennedy Layne

    Renewed Faith by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kevin and Elle's story. Is it possible to renew one’s faith in love? Injury ended former Marine Kevin Dreier’s enlistment much too soon, leaving him with unwanted pins and screws in his right leg to serve as a constant reminder of what he’d lost. Being a team member of Crest Security Agency, however, gives him a sense of purpose and accomplishment...
  • Unexpected Guardian by Willow Summers

    Unexpected Guardian by Willow Summers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final book in the Skyline Series by USA Today Bestselling author, Willow Summers. Desperate to accomplish her dream and finish her building, Jenna returns to New York City to hit the project by storm. Unfortunately, the threat that was neutralized in the woods of Colorado wasn't enough to see her safe...
  • Girl in the Water  (no series name  (3 loosely connected, stand-alone titles)) by Dana Marton

    Girl in the Water (no series name (3 loosely connected, stand-alone titles)) by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nominated for the BookLife Prize in Fiction He doesn't mind breaking rules, just never his own. Rule #1: You don't seduce the woman you protect. “Freaking amazing!” "…a brilliant story of courage, hope, and love…” "…fun, fast-paced, and emotionally satisfying…" After the death of his wife and twin sons, Army vet Ian Slaney is a shadow of his former self, on the path of self-destruction...
  • Malik's Redemption by Annabella Stone

    Malik's Redemption by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ex- Mossad agent Malik Dahan has lived for years in the shadows, straddling the very fine line between his own moral code and the missions his assassin role required. Two years ago, refusing an order from Mossad's Operations Base near Glilot Junction on the west end of Tel Aviv put him on a collision course with Team Panther...
    Categorized as:
    crime  war  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Flash Fire by Dana Marton

    Flash Fire by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When an American teenager disappears abroad, Clara Roberts, a by-the-book investigator on a secret mission, joins forces with Light Walker, an ex-SEAL turned lawless mercenary, to save her. The sparks they generate—and the trouble they stir up—threaten to set the jungle ablaze. Nothing is what it seems in this fast-paced romantic thriller...
  • Lavender Beach by Vickie McKeehan

    Lavender Beach by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There is courage in each step no matter how small After losing her leg in Iraq it’s been an uphill battle for Eastlyn Parker. When Nick and Cord decide to confront her in Bakersfield, the ex-helicopter pilot reluctantly agrees that starting over in Pelican Pointe might be the only option for her. It won’t be easy though. She has addiction problems that go beyond her low self-esteem...
  • Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the one you were meant to be with…Marisol Lorenzo landed her dream job as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and is working on the case that could make her career; now she’s determined to put away the most dangerous drug lord in the country. But his incarceration has opened up a lethal turf war among his lieutenants...
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