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None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis book is a window into Britain's secret wartime past, step through it and this inspirational story of life and love will make your heart soar.It is March 1941, large swathes of the East End of London lie in ruins. Lily Heywood is just one more victim of the Blitz, lying beneath the rubble of her home. An unbreakable spirit, this is not the end for Lily, it is merely the beginning... -
The Third Target by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen "New York Times" foreign correspondent J. B. Collins hears rumors that an al-Qaeda splinter cell--ISIS--has captured a cache of chemical weapons inside Syria, he knows this is a story he must pursue at all costs. Does the commander of the jihadist faction really have weapons of mass destruction? If so, who is the intended target? The U.S...Categorized as:
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Battlefield Pacific by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe communist threat is real……and the socialists at home are emboldened.Can the President fight a war and a PR battle?The Philippines must not fall. Despite the devastating loss of two aircraft carriers, the U.S. forces make a bold move. Will the Atlantic carrier group be enough? The formidable Chinese drones make this war unlike any fought in human history.The Allies must hold their ground...Categorized as:
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Battlefield Taiwan by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fate of Taiwan hangs in the balance. If it falls to the Chinese, they will be one step closer to dominating all of Asia. Japan, Thailand, the Philippines--no one is safe from their hostile takeover. While North Korea no longer poses a significant threat, the incursions there have greatly weakened the United States military force...Categorized as:
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An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRobert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895... -
Legacy of War by Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA brand-new Courtney Series adventure.The action-packed new book in the Courtney Series and the sequel to Courtney's War. The war is over, Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power... -
The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA BRUTAL MURDER. A HORRIFYING SECRET.ONLY BEN CAN EXPOSE THE TRUTH.A lost, aimless and hard-drinking Ben Hope has wandered back to his old haunt in Ireland. The ex-SAS soldier is searching for peace, but trouble soon appears when Kirsten Hall, a young journalist, is brutally murdered right in front of him. Unable to prevent it, Ben is driven by guilt to hunt down the killers... -
Bloodline by James Rollins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsJames Rollins takes you to the edge of modern medicine, genetics, and technology, revealing the next evolutionary leap forward: Immortality — a future conceived through the monstrous ingenuity of man...Galilee, 1025...Categorized as:
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The Hunters by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDelta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin's exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists–The Hostage debuting at #1. The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off... -
State of Emergency by Marc Cameron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCountdown To ArmageddonTwo agents, Russian and American, are brutally murdered. College students, working as drug mules, die gruesome deaths from radiation poisoning. Powerful dirty bombs explode minutes apart in San Francisco and St. Petersburg, Russia--slaughtering citizens and spreading blind panic throughout the world. But this is only a warning. The next attack will be nuclear... -
Secret Sanction by Brian Haig, John Rubinstein
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a battalion of Serbs is senselessly murdered in Kosovo and the Green Berets stand accused, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned the case of a lifetime. However, as he begins investigating this unspeakable atrocity, he soon realizes the case is much more than he bargained for... -
Operation Red Dragon and the Unthinkable by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContinuation of the World War III Series, an Amazon Top Selling Series See what happens to America when the country refuses to surrender their forces in the Middle East and capitulate to the Caliphate's demands. In this second installment of James Rosone and Miranda Watson's World War III series, we discover the fate of New York City as the Islamic Republic steers a freighter into New York Harbor...Categorized as:
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Defender of Rome by Douglas Jackson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe new book in the Roman trilogy, from the highly acclaimed historical novelist, Douglas Jackson. Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. Now hailed a 'Hero of Rome', Valerius is not the man he once was -- scarred both physically and emotionally by the battles he has fought, his sister is mortally ill, his father in self-imposed exile... -
The Devil Colony by James Rollins
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsDeep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery — hundreds of mummified bodies — stir international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts to the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script...Categorized as:
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The Lost Relic by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA SUPER-CHARGED THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermottA WEB OF DECEIT.AND BEN HOPE IS CAUGHT UP IN THE MAYHEM…Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a distracted Ben nearly runs over a young boy – and unwittingly walks into his deadliest mission yet...Categorized as:
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Black Ops by W.E.B. Griffin, Dick Hill
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsUnabridged CDs • 15 CDs, 17 hours The Russian bear is stirringand it's hungry in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series' thrilling fifth novel...Categorized as:
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The Tiger's Prey by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure...Categorized as:
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The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsW. E. B. Griffin's #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this action-packed thriller.U.S... -
By Order Of The President by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts—and the truth behind them...Categorized as:
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The Doomsday Key by James Rollins, Peter Jay Fernandez
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAt Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peters Basilica. In Africa, a US Senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh...Categorized as:
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Stand Your Ground by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNational bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone know what it takes to fight for the red, white and blue. When the battleground is Texas, the outcome is sure to be explosive. . .Freedom Is Never FreeAfter the President closes Guantanamo Bay to hold civilian trials for the terrorists, some of them are relocated to Hell's Gate Prison in West Texas...Categorized as:
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Blacklist Aftermath by Peter Telep, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSam Fisher must save one man’s life to save his own country. Eccentric billionaire Igor Kasperov owns one of the most influential and successful anti-virus software companies in the world. But when the Kremlin orders him to unleash a catastrophic computer virus against the United States, he is forced to flee for his life... -
Stigmata by Colin Falconer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1206: When Fabricia Berenger was struck by lightning in the main square of Toulouse, her troubles were only just beginning. Soon she develops mysterious wounds on her hands and feet - and some people credit her with the gift of healing. To keep her from the attentions of the Inquisition her family flee into the Languedoc and finally put her into a Convent in the mountains... -
Covert Warriors by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times- bestselling series. here's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S...Categorized as:
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Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAttorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man.The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never heard from again...Categorized as:
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Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an all-too-plausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major American cities... -
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYears ago, John Wells was an all-American boy from Montana. Now, he is wandering through Pakistan as a member of al Qaeda. After a decade away from home, he despises the United States for its decadence. He hates America's shallow, mindless culture of vice and violence. He is a devout Muslim. He is a brave warrior for Allah.He is a CIA operative.And he is coming home..Categorized as:
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Eye of the Storm by Jack Higgins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFormer allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnam have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon’s strengths and weaknesses … and brilliant mastery of espionage. — Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers... -
Exile by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDavid Wolfe is a successful American lawyer being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif—the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school—he begins a completely unexpected journey.The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco... -
The Last Nazi by Andrew Turpin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer. And the wartime secrets of a U.S. presidential hopeful’s Jewish family, hidden for seven decades. War crimes investigator and ex-CIA officer Joe Johnson is more than intrigued when he learns of a link between the contents of a Nazi train, hidden by Hitler's Third Reich, a ruthless blackmail plot, and financing for a U.S...Categorized as:
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The Assassin by Andrew Britton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times BestsellerA weapon of catastrophic destruction. A nation on the brink of unspeakable disaster. And the ultimate enemy lies closer to home than anyone realizes.Only maverick CIA agent Ryan Kealey sees the threat for what it really is--but Washington refused to listen. With the lives of millions at stake, Kealey has only one option: to take matters into his own hands...Categorized as:
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Air Battle Force by Dale Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn military circles it's known as Air Battle Force -- an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerialwarfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan,capable of launching stealthy, precision-guidedfirepower to anywhere on the globe within hours. And now McLanahan and his warriors have their first target...Categorized as:
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Red Cell by Richard Marcinko, John Weisman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Richard Marcinko wrote his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell -- a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself as the hero... -
Dark Winter by Andy McNab
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden’s network of terror. But there are complications — not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside.Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems... -
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The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts—now available as an ebookWhen the Soviet Union collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads go unaccounted for, and it’ll take someone of Jake Grafton’s talents to make sure they don’t end up in the wrong hands Promoted to deputy director of a new U.S... -
The Scarlet Thief by Paul Fraser Collard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe new Richard Sharpe bursts onto the historical adventure scene in a brilliant, action-packed debut of Redcoat battle and bloodshed.1854: The banks of the Alma River, Crimean Peninsular. The Redcoats stagger to a bloody halt. The men of the King's Royal Fusiliers are in terrible trouble, ducking and twisting as the storm of shot, shell and bullet tear through their ranks... -
Foreign and Domestic by Anthony J. Tata
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne year ago, Captain Jake Mahegan led a Delta Force team into Afghanistan to capture an American traitor working for the Taliban. The mission ended in tragedy. The team was infiltrated and decimated by a bomb. An enemy prisoner was killed. Mahegan was dismissed from service—dishonored forever. Now, haunted by the incident, Mahegan is determined to clear his name...Categorized as:
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Phoenix Rising by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The Land Of The Free" Is No Longer FreeThe new President of the United States is sharing the wealth, rewriting the Constitution, and changing the National Anthem. America's liberals are thrilled with the election of the first foreign-born candidate... -
Firebase Freedom by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Nation, Under God--TheirsEighteen months ago, America was invaded from within--by the self-proclaimed "Army of Allah." Now, U.S. veteran Jake Lantz and a ragtag team of survivalists have built a safehold on Pleasure Island. From this home base in the Gulf, they can reclaim our nation's natural gas wells for Phoenix, freedom's last defense against Islamic invaders. But when U.S...Categorized as:
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Icon by Frederick Forsyth
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets...Categorized as:
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Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReturning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter... -
Deep Black by Andy McNab
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNick Stone’s future looks bleak. The only person he’s ever loved is dead. The only people who might save him have turned their backs.Until a chance encounter reunited him with a man whose life he saved 10 years ago.What seems a simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy, from violent Bosnia, through lightening-paced action in Iraq... -
A Devil is Waiting by Jack Higgins, Michael Page
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years,” wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Strand Magazine agreed: “With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers.”And in his new novel, a devil is indeed waiting. . . -
The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Feather Men is the riveting story of the efforts by a private British vigilance committee to eliminate a band of coldblooded contract killers. From 1977 to 1990, three hired assassins known as the Clinic tracked down and murdered four former British soldiers, one at a time...Categorized as:
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Mission Auf Leben Und Tod by Patrick Robinson, Karl-Heinz Ebnet
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a devastating, new anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process... -
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsPower and Prejudice: France, 1562. War sparks between the Catholics and Huguenots, dividing neighbors, friends, and family--meanwhile, nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: She knows that you live...Categorized as:
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Retribution by Anderson Harp
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Retribution proves that the scariest story is the true story. Here's the real intelligence operation." —Brad Meltzer A shattering debut thriller in which an unstoppable force of destruction is about to strike at the heart of America. . .The remote and impenetrable Pakistani mountains have offered refuge to the worst enemies of civilization since the time of Alexander...Categorized as:
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By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site... -
Sword of God by Chris Kuzneski
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe cracking second novel from Chris Kuzneski. Tunnelling deep under one of the most holy cities in the world, an ambitious young archaeologist slowly works her way towards an unthinkable goal. Somewhere ahead is a chamber containing the collected fragments of an ancient scripture, a find of unimaginable significance...Categorized as:
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The Malacca Conspiracy by Don Brown
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane—your favorite JAG characters from Don Brown’s popular Navy Justice Series—a story of hope for a longstanding romance that is now or never...Categorized as:
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