Military Political Fiction

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.

It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other’s worlds.

Rome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But Agrippina, Emperor Claudius' wife, pardons Caratacus. Claudius is a drunken fool, and Narcissus and Pallas, his freedmen, are battling for control of his throne. Separately,they decide to send Vespasian east to Armenia to defend Rome's interests. Meanwhile the East is in turmoil.

Stand by, stand by är en nervkittlande politisk thriller av en mästare inom genren och första delen i serien om militären Geordie Sharp. Chris Ryan är själv före detta militär och tidigare medlem i SAS. Geordie Sharp har länge varit sergeant i det brittiska specialförbandet SAS. Efter att ha skadats under Gulfkriget tvingas han återvända till hemlandet, men får svårt att finna sig till ro där. Han ansluter sig till de brittiska trupperna i Nordirland, något som slutar med katastrof då en i hans familj blir mördad.

Ein deutscher Raketenforscher, eine junge englische Offizierin, ein dramatischer Wettlauf mit der Zeit. Europa, 1944: In einem letzten Aufbäumen setzt das Deutsche Reich seine modernste und tödlichste Waffe ein. Zehntausend V2-Raketen mit tonnenschwerem Sprengkopf sollen auf England niedergehen. Schon jetzt gibt es Tausende Opfer unter der Bevölkerung. Der Deutsche Rudi und die Engländerin Kay sind Feinde. Ein Ziel jedoch eint sie. Sie wollen den Wahnsinn beenden.

Ein Mann im Inneren des Krieges 1944: John Glueck ist im Krieg. Vor kurzem noch war er Student in New York, voller Liebe zur deutschen Kultur seiner Vorfahren. Dann, als Offizier der Propaganda-Abteilung der U. S. Army, traf er in Frankreich sein Idol Ernest Hemingway. Für ihn zieht Glueck in den scheinbar unbedeutenden, doch von der Wehrmacht eisern verteidigten Hürtgenwald in der Eifel. Er entdeckt das Geheimnis des Waldes, als eine der größten Katastrophen des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt: die "Allerseelenschlacht" mit über 15 000 Toten.

In Mesa County, Nevada, the tide of history was about to change. A tiny tribe of Indigenous Americans had just beaten the white man in his own court—and won title to some of the richest land in America. But some people were poor losers. And if they couldn’t hold on to the land … they’d simply eliminate its rightful owners. With a handful of poorly armed Native Americans facing a lynch mob led by the county sheriff and backed by corporate millions, Mesa County might be the setting for another Wounded Knee. Until the Black Berets get in on the action and show how professionals handle a massacre.

Someone wanted to overthrow the government of San Sebastian, a country whose tiny army, nonaligned status, and location on the deadly curve of Central America made it ripe for subversion. The first try was an attempted hit on its president on a crowded street in Washington. The second was an invasion from the sea. Both times the Black Berets were there to keep the worst from happening. But how long could five men and one boy hold out against an army of the world’s most skilled assassins? An army with limitless resources—and the patience to keep on killing?

Duncan Hunter is driven by his sense of duty. So when a plane crash forces the ambitious pilot out of the Marine Corps, he hungrily searches for another way to fight terrorism. And he finds it in an intelligence officer's invitation to come aboard a clandestine project scouting and destroying Mexican poppy fields in the War on Drugs.

A crazed terrorist. A rogue submarine. A nuclear bomb and a plan to wreak havoc and destruction upon the American coastline and murder millions of innocent people. US Navy Lieutenant Daniel Totter, “Teeter” to his friends, is a reluctant hero, but the one man who can stop the coming maelstrom of death and destruction. Aided by a secret agent, he races to discover the terrorist’s target, but time and a sudden war in the Middle East force him to take drastic action that pushes the US into a confrontation on the high seas with the Chinese Navy.

The cover of darkness was pulled back by the NODS scopes in their hands. The enemy had no idea what was about to befall them. With the rush of wings of dragons, the sounds of M-14s, M-870 shotguns, M-16s, and grenades spoke the finality of death. This gave the human pack mules a taste of what would continue to reign upon them in the House of the Dragon. North and South Vietnam were at war. Indeed, all of Southeast Asia was at war. Due to national commitments, the US military was drawn into the fray.

From the gold inlaid floors of a high-class casino in Macau to the windswept winter hills of Kurdistan, from the snow-covered top of Pike’s Peak to the halls of government in Washington D.C., evil men with evil plans create an ominous plot to topple the newly created Republic of Texas and incite civil war between Texas and America. Only a handful of freedom-loving patriots stands between the looming destruction of liberty and self-rule in Texas as a sinister cabal of rogue US political leaders and members of the Chinese underworld threaten to corner and control the global oil market.

When black-ops specialist Jon Reznick receives a voice mail from FBI assistant director Martha Meyerstein, hoping to explore their relationship outside of the federal government, Jon starts to imagine a new future, one where he can leave his past behind. But an unhinged killer with a grudge has other plans. He’s setting a trap for Reznick, one he knows the operative won’t be able to resist. In a picturesque fishing village on the Mediterranean coast, a luxury yacht has gone up in flames. Was it a terrible accident or something much more sinister?

Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?

The heroine, Hanne Kristensen, the beautiful Danish geologist appointed Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources for the newly independent Greenland, has to maneuver through a wave of setbacks to foil both a Chinese attempt to control Greenland’s natural resources and a more aggressive Russian attempt to gain hegemony over the sparsely populated fledgling country as well as to save her friend, the ousted Premier of Russia, Pavel Laptov.

Reed Montgomery's retirement is doomed to be short-lived. After the CIA receives intelligence from deep inside North Korea of a startling new weapon, President Trousdale green-lights an illegal mission to extract the informant.

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

During the Soviet-Afghan War an elite team of operatives were trained in the mountains of Afghanistan. Loyal to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, they were known only by their codename, Black Shuck. In the years that followed - betrayed from within by the internal power struggles of the IRA - the team members were hunted down.

Dahlia Barr does not suffer fools - or her own government, with which she is normally at odds. Shrewd, brash, and as tough as she is beautiful, the controversial Israeli attorney specializes in defending Palestinians accused of terrorism. She is also a devoted mother, a soon-to-be-divorced wife, and the lover of a handsome American television correspondent. To Dahlia’s astonishment, the Israeli security establishment one day approaches her with a tantalizing proposition: Join us.

Revelations 2025 is about the battle for America’s soul. Russell Williams left the US Army as a sniper with the 3rd Ranger Battalion after eight years in 2019. He found employment in building the wall on the southern border. After two bitter elections, the president gets his wall, and at the end of his second term, it’s 100 miles east of El Paso.

The inky black room and the horrible smells left little doubt this was a dungeon; a wretched hell intended to defeat the spirit and humanity of those it confined. The occupants were children, thrust into the hell they now faced through no act of their own, but by the depraved and morally bankrupt men and women who sold their lives and young bodies to fulfill their own greed. The door cracked open ever so slightly. Into the blackness, a wretch of a man crept.