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Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEcho 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... -
![Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn]()
Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMitch Rapp, the CIA’s top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order.Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington... -
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Owen by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOwen 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... -
![Surviving the Fall by Brittney Sahin]()
Surviving the Fall by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGone was the man Jake Summers had become; in his place, there were only questions...After having been abducted from an FBI operation, Jake Summers wakes up the victim of an explosion in London a week later. He is perhaps the sole witness to the start of a massive terrorist plot, but his memory of the event — and of the last twelve years of his life — have been erased... -
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![Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes]()
Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Ben Coes' latest, Eye for an Eye, Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey—and inflicts a horrifying loss.When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot... -
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Black Sheep by David Archer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNoah is called in for debriefing after the mission that lost Sarah and reveals his worries that one of the team members is a traitor.. -
![Ice's Icing by Dale Mayer]()
Ice's Icing by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIce 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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Joseph by Kris Michaels
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmber 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... -
![The Hard Truth by Brittney Sahin]()
The Hard Truth by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTrading bullets for board meetings, or so he thought...Connor Matthews, former Marine and gun for hire, is not what you'd call the quintessential businessman. But when his father's unexpected passing leaves the family business to him and his brother, Connor agrees to take over until his brother finishes his last tour of duty... -
![Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler]()
Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel... -
![Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn]()
Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the next thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, the anti-terrorism operative heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match.Mitch Rapp is used to winning... -
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Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnother fabulous read featuring heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.The next adventure featuring NUMA Director Dirk Pitt... -
![Once A Pilgrim by James Deegan]()
Once A Pilgrim by James Deegan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJohn 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... -
![Fallen King by Wayne Stinnett]()
Fallen King by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe quiet and solitude found in the back country and wetlands of south Florida has been shattered. Someone is using explosives to fish the ecologically fragile patch reefs in the shallow waters of Florida Bay, north of the Keys. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt doesn't like explosions in his backyard... -
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![Jax by Dale Mayer]()
Jax by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat 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... -
![Beau by Dale Mayer]()
Beau by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat 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 ratingsBooks 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... -
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Sleepers by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice.Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a confrontation with Directorate S, the agency responsible for seeding Russian sleeper agents around the world... -
![The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm]()
The Fix by Robert White, Nicholas Camm
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 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... -
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Danger Close by Cameron Curtis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey were powerful and ruthless, but they made one mistake. His name is Breed. Ex-Delta Force sniper Breed has spent most of his life at war and now he’s trying to make some time for peace. But when a veteran from his old unit is murdered in El Paso, Breed feels duty-bound to bring the killer to justice. A feeling that only grows stronger when his friend’s widow and son are also murdered... -
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Red Square by David Archer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTeam Cinderella has been sent into Russia to "fake" an assassination of a Russian Deputy Minister, in order to cover up the fact of his defection to the United States. They accomplish the mission, but then are compromised during their own escape and captured. They are quickly disavowed by the US Secretary of State, and sentenced to a public execution in Red Square only a week hence... -
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Full Black by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yet—a terrifying story of espionage and betrayal—brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist... -
![Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings]()
Red Metal by Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector... -
![Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris]()
Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the Black's Bandits series! This book is about Colt and Angie... -
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![The Colonels by W.E.B. Griffin]()
The Colonels by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThey were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come.. -
![Hard To Kill by Paul Heatley]()
Hard To Kill by Paul Heatley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne 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 ratingsA 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 ratingsA 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... -
![Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth]()
Unspeakable Prayers by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is the story of nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Watch a beaten and broken man survive against all odds. Later in life the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues... -
![The Wolf's Bite by David Archer]()
The Wolf's Bite by David Archer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNoah 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... -
![Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy]()
Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist... -
![Choosers of the Slain by James H. Cobb]()
Choosers of the Slain by James H. Cobb
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn the fall of 2006, the Argentines invade a scientific outpost in Antarctica and begin stripping the continent's precious minerals, and only the USS Cunningham, commanded by Amanda Lee Garrett, is in a position to stop them... -
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Ryker by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter 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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Axel by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife 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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![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 ratingsZack'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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Keane by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeading 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... -
![The Ninth Step by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe]()
The Ninth Step by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn Milton is a former assassin for the British government. He is a ronin, trying to atone for his past sins by offering his services to those people who have no one else to whom they can turn.Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets Eddie Fabian. Fabian confesses that he is considering suicide and that the reason for his depression was the abuse that he suffered as a child... -
![The Jungle by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe]()
The Jungle by Mark Dawson, David Thorpe
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents.John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British secret service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path... -
![Hit For Hire by David Archer]()
Hit For Hire by David Archer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter recovering from the shock of Neverland's recent attack, Noah and the team are sent back into the field to identify and eliminate a power player who uses his position as a legitimate arms dealer to manipulate terror groups and nations alike. Unfortunately, this means infiltrating the man's organization, and the only opening he's got is for an assassin of his own... -
![The Aviators by W.E.B. Griffin]()
The Aviators by W.E.B. Griffin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt 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... -
![The Polaris Protocol by Brad Taylor]()
The Polaris Protocol by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTaskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are used to putting their lives at risk, but in The Polaris Protocol it’s Jennifer’s brother and countless more innocents who face unfathomable violence and bloodshed.Pike and Jennifer are in Turkmenistan with the Taskforce—a top-secret antiterrorist unit that operates outside US law—when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack... -
![Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor]()
Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer Delta Force officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a relentlessly fast-paced, gripping thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America... -
![The Black Hornet by Rob Sinclair]()
The Black Hornet by Rob Sinclair
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Black Hornet: an action packed and utterly gripping thriller from the best-selling James Ryker series What do you do when the love of your life vanishes without a trace? If you’re ex-intelligence agent James Ryker you search for the answers whatever the cost, however much blood and sacrifice it takes.. -
![The Sword of God by Mark Dawson]()
The Sword of God by Mark Dawson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJohn Milton has blood on his conscience.He was an assassin for the British government for a decade until he got out. He treks into the Michigan wilderness for the solitude he needs to forget his guilt. He isn't looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to come looking for him.Morten Lundquist, a man with his own dark secrets, is a deputy in the town of Truth... -
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![Griffin by Dale Mayer]()
Griffin by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat 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... -
![North's Nikki by Dale Mayer]()
North's Nikki by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 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 ratingsJack 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... -
![Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes]()
Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins... -
![The Last Refuge by Ben Coes]()
The Last Refuge by Ben Coes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet.Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial... -
![Rogue State by Steven Konkoly]()
Rogue State by Steven Konkoly
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwenty years in the future, America perches on the edge of collapse, devastated by drought and dwindling resources. California, now a totalitarian surveillance state controlling the lion’s share of the nation’s economy, is on the brink of secession...
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