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  • Her Passionate Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Passionate Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Aliana Novak spent most of her school years being bullied. Her only refuge, was Hunter Diaz, until the day he graduated and left her to deal with the tormentors herself. But that was then, this is now. Those horrific experiences molded her into what she is today and made her the perfect candidate for Vice Principal of one of the toughest, schools in East LA...
  • Her Tempting Protector: Navy SEAL Team by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Tempting Protector: Navy SEAL Team by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CAN HE GET THEM TO SAFETY IN TIME? Navy SEAL, Cullen Lyons, knew the moment he saw Dr. Carys Adams treating her patients in an African war zone that she was stubborn, selfless and extraordinary. Ignoring the danger surrounding her, she concentrated on keeping the young mother and newborn alive...
  • 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 ratings
    Mitch 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...
  • Cowboy by Zoe Dawson

    Cowboy by Zoe Dawson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    U.S. Navy SEAL Wes “Cowboy” McGraw goes home on leave to attend his tenth high school reunion. This brings him back into the orbit of a woman he knew in high school: Kia Silverbrook, renowned for her hacking ability. She’s always intrigued him and when they meet again by chance, the chemistry is still there as strong as ever...
  • Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes

    Eye for an Eye by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In 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...
  • 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 ratings
    A 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...
  • HOT Angel by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT Angel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new standalone romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris. Sexy, action-packed, and thrilling!She's damaged...Brooke Sullivan's carefully ordered existence is spiraling out of control. Two years ago, she was violently abducted by a terrorist group and nearly killed...
  • Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Order to Kill by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In 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...
  • Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler

    Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Another 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 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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    war  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • First Strike by Ben Coes

    First Strike by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The violent terrorist group ISIS has launched a major military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has a major card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of arms underway...
  • True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy

    True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within. . . .It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S...
  • Tom Clancy Act of Defiance by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson

    Tom Clancy Act of Defiance by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a countermove in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project...
  • Forsaken Duty by Elaine Levine

    Forsaken Duty by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The long awaited conclusion to the Red Team saga is almost here!    The only truth Owen Tremaine's certain of is that everything in his life has been a lie. Not only is his former fiancée alive, but so is their son...a child he never knew existed...
  • Sleepers by Mark Dawson

    Sleepers by Mark Dawson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When 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...
  • Red Square by David Archer

    Red Square by David Archer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Team 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...
  • Full Black by Brad Thor

    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 ratings
    From 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...
  • The Colonels by W.E.B. Griffin

    The Colonels by W.E.B. Griffin

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    They 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..
  • 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...
  • 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 ratings
    A 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 ratings
    In 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...
  • Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor

    Ring of Fire by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former 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...
  • Deadly Creed by Elaine Levine

    Deadly Creed by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The dead just don’t seem to stay dead… A recent grad with a degree in gifted ed, Wynn Ratcliff jumped at the chance to be a young linguistic savant’s private tutor. The job let her stay near her grandmother while she was recovering from her stroke. Unfortunately, the terrific opportunity came with some horrific negatives…namely catching the eye of her employer’s enemies...
  • Jackson by Dale Mayer

    Jackson by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A bullet takes out his rig, but a mechanic captures his heart…When Jackson is forced to pull his rig to the side of the road as the radiator overheats, he’s not impressed, but when a bouncy mechanic in camo drives back to help him, he’s even less enthralled – with himself. She’s smart, capable, single and knows a whole lot more about mechanical things than he does...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  humor  military
  • Protecting Joselyn: Team Cerebrus Book 1 by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Protecting Joselyn: Team Cerebrus Book 1 by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For three terrifying years, Joselyn Kendrik lived a half-life in Witness Protection hiding from a serial murderer and rapist nicknamed 'The Gardener.' After he was killed while placing a slashed teddy bear dressed like her on her father's grave, she could finally look forward to some normalcy in her life...
  • Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes

    Coup d'Etat by Ben Coes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Wanting 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 ratings
    With 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...
  • Sentinels of Fire by P.T. Deutermann

    Sentinels of Fire by P.T. Deutermann

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    P.T. Deutermann's World War II navy series began with the award-winning Pacific Glory, followed by the brilliantly reviewed Ghosts of Bungo Suido. His new novel Sentinels of Fire tells the tale of a lone destroyer, the USS Malloy, part of the Allied invasion forces attacking the island of Okinawa and the Japanese home islands...
  • Pawns of the Pacific by Andrew Watts

    Pawns of the Pacific by Andrew Watts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A nation on the brink of war. A conspiracy that threatens the globe. And one military family, caught in the middle, fighting for freedom. Pawns of the Pacific is the electrifying third book in The War Planners espionage thriller series...
  • Rogue State by Steven Konkoly

    Rogue State by Steven Konkoly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twenty 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...
  • 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...
  • Rough Justice by Stephen Leather

    Rough Justice by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Dan "Spider" Shepherd is sent undercover to investigate a group of policemen in the Territorial Support Group. Fed up with all the paperwork and the fact that the system is geared to support the criminals rather than the victims, they have started to act as vigilantes, planting forensic evidence to frame known criminals, and moving on to more drastic methods...
  • Skystorm by Steven Konkoly

    Skystorm by Steven Konkoly

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Unmasking a treasonous American conspiracy is a dangerous move in a heart-pounding thriller about greed, power, revenge, and murder.After covert investigators Ryan Decker and Harlow Mackenzie demolished APEX, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise, a tenuous truce between the two factions suggested the battle was over...
  • The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The ninth thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series by Brad Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander who has lived for more than twenty years in the world about which he writes. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe...
  • Schlacht der Drachen by James H. Cobb

    Schlacht der Drachen by James H. Cobb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    James Cobb's first novel in the Amanda Garrett series, "Choosers of the Slain," was acclaimed for its "breathtaking sea battles" and its achievement as "the rare military thriller whose message is gender-blind and leading edge" ( "Publishers Weekly" )...
  • The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith

    The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa...
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    suspense  war  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic
  • A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith

    A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Sparrow Falls, another gripping installment in Wilbur Smith's Courtney Family Adventure seriesMark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe's Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other….In Africa, Mark's family estate has been despoiled...
  • The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    The Widow's Strike by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Invented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of the H5N1 virus—aka the “bird flu”—has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widows—female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent who have the highest kill rate of any terrorist organization...
  • Red's Salvation by Kennedy Layne

    Red's Salvation by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne concludes the Red Starr series with an extraordinary mission that will keep you riveted to the very last page… It has taken Catori Starr years to come to terms with the death of her husband during a failed hostage rescue mission...
  • Tom Clancy: Line of Demarcation by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy

    Tom Clancy: Line of Demarcation by M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew...
  • The Traveler by David L. Golemon

    The Traveler by David L. Golemon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    267,000 BCE. The continent was its own world, untouched by the planet-wide catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs over sixty-five million years before. A traveler arrives in the jungles of this ancient world who will fight to survive carnivorous creatures in a land never meant for human kind...
  • Ty and Eden: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine

    Ty and Eden: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Weddings are the spice of life… After reuniting with his bio dad, Cord Ryker, Ty Holt is all too aware of how easily life can change—for better or worse...
  • NAVY SEAL BOX SET - Black Dawn Books 1-3 by Caitlyn O'Leary

    NAVY SEAL BOX SET - Black Dawn Books 1-3 by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet the Men of Black Dawn in this three book box set. They are an Elite Navy SEAL Team who will take your breath away. In Her Steadfast Hero , the team is introduced when they go to the island country of Las Flores after an earthquake destroys the high security prison and lets loose the country’s most brutal convicts, who will stop at nothing to leave the island...
  • The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani

    The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Trident Deception by Rick Campbell

    The Trident Deception by Rick Campbell

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The USS Kentucky—a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads—is about to go on a routine patrol. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site...
  • Black Site by Dalton Fury

    Black Site by Dalton Fury

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From former Delta Force commander and New York Times bestselling author of Kill Bin Laden comes the first novel in an explosive new series. After September 11, 2001, Delta Force troop commander Dalton Fury was given the secret mission to hunt down and kill the most wanted man in the world, the details of which were recounted in his extraordinary New York Times bestseller Kill Bin Laden...
  • Tom Clancy Firing Point by Mike Maden

    Tom Clancy Firing Point by Mike Maden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jack Ryan, Jr. is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he's tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small caf�...
  • Act of Terror by Marc Cameron

    Act of Terror by Marc Cameron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Warning: The next attack on American soil will come from within.From coast to coast, our nation is witnessing a new wave of terror. Suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear. A flight attendant tries to crash an airliner. A police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium. And at CIA headquarters, a Deputy Director goes on a murderous rampage...
  • Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron

    Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A missing Chinese scientist, unexplained noises emanating from under the Arctic ice, and a possible mole in American intelligence are just some of the problems that plague President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor...
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