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John Puller novels volume 1
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John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has...
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John Puller novels volume 4
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"Two men. Thirty years. John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since. Until now. Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie's,...
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Sons of valor volume 02
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They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the world-they are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith "Chunk" Redman.
When a former teammate of Chunk's is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team-Saw, a skilled and lethal...
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 8
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A SUNKEN SECRET. A MISSING WOMAN.A RACE AGAINST TIME. Former SAS major Ben Hope is relaxing at his home in Normandy when he hears the worst news of his life. His ex-girlfriend Dr Brooke Marcel has been kidnapped. Racing against the clock, Ben's frantic search for Brooke leads him from Ireland to the Spanish mountains and the rainforests of Peru. What is the mysterious link between the kidnapping, the salvage of a sunken 16th-century Spanish warship...
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2015
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"In the Somme Valley a British soldier teaches his fellows to hide cigarette coals inside their mouths. Half a world away, a war-ruined photographer drinks in a bar beneath a Colorado butchery, blood dripping from the floorboards into ashtrays. Gutierrez writes with a metaphorical gift and fine hand of an age of war and upheaval where anarchists, coal barons, Pinkertons, corrupt police, broken idealists, and broken families fight to claim history's
...6) Alibi
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A World War Two Murder Mystery NovellaDecember 1940: London's burning. Bombs fall every night. Toby Whitby must save a man from a death sentence…for looting! The suspect's alibi, if revealed, would rock the world!Ralph Pemberton, a mild-mannered man whose weak heart kept him out of battle, has been accused of a smash and grab. His fingerprints place him at the scene but he refuses to offer an alibi. While Ralph waits in jail for the judge to pass...
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Winter 1945. The Second World War is over, but it is a time of armistice, not peace. Austria is grieving its defeat and the loss of a generation of men; it is a land without leaders. To men like Major Mark Hanlon, Occupation Commander of the alpine town of Bad Quellenberg, falls the task of destroying the legacy of the Nazis once and for all. When his driver is murdered by an Austrian soldier, Hanlon is determined to bring the man to justice. But...
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Owen Jackson, also known as Arc1, is the head extraction specialist of SEED, a special unit that is called upon to extract deep-cover intelligence operatives working anywhere in the world. When a double agent named Atifa Naifeh sends a coded message from Pakistan, Jackson springs into action, knowing that time is of the essence.He sets up a plan to track Naifeh and bring her to safety, but when no one shows up at the extraction point five days later,...
10) Butterfly
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Lucien and Nataša might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn't caught up with her. Nataša finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nataša disappears that night, running for her life. Her vanishing is connected to the discovery of a video, secretly filmed in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Butterfly is a novel that charts a controlled descent through the dark legacy of war and the...
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Sumérjase en la conmovedora narración de "Gaza, la pesadilla", una profunda exploración literaria del actual conflicto en Gaza. Este libro ofrece un conmovedor retrato de la condición humana con el interminable asedio como telón de fondo, tejiendo un tapiz de historias que captan la esencia de la desesperación, la resistencia y el espíritu indomable de la humanidad. A través de los ojos de Yatim, el protagonista, los lectores son transportados...
13) Liberty Call
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Walter is the newest arrival to the U.S. Navy Base at Olongapo, in the heart of the Philippines. Handpicked by Chief Parma to acquire new radio expertise for his ship in response to The Iran Hostage Crisis, Walter expected his training to be a clean-cut operation. His training doesn't go as planned, however, and the crimes he and his shipmates commit could never be kept in any book, for their sake. After all, Olongapo is a city that never forgets,...
14) Beau Geste
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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A Cold War attack by Soviet helicopters on an Afghan village. A knife-edge CIA operation that goes wrong. And a vengeful mujahideen tribesman, armed with Stinger missiles. When CIA officer Joe Johnson is handed the tough task by his boss of capturing a Soviet helicopter and forging better contacts among the mujahideen, he unknowingly finds himself up against a sinister KGB rival who wants him dead.But after coming under fire, Johnson comes to suspect...
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2019
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Get ready for another gripping read from USA Today bestselling author of THE SILENT WOMAN! Will she find the truth? England, 1940 When a cryptographer is murdered, Thomas Charles is sent on a secret mission to uncover the killer – and it's the perfect opportunity to rekindle his romance with Cat Carlisle, the woman who helped uncover a double agent and solve her own husband's murder. The victim's niece – and the police's top suspect – is Cat's...
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One fateful decision pushes a soldier from a life of stifling order to a life of freedom as doomed as it is thrilling. Macrae, a nice kid from a small town in Tennessee, joins the army only because the boys he grew up with enlisted before him. But when military life doesn't suit the young dreamer, he goes AWOL, and his wanderlust leads him to New York and a partnership with a charismatic hustler named Charlie. Soon the toxic chemistry between the...
18) Shadows
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There is insanity in keeping secrets. So Aiden "Mac" McManus, a young Navy Underwater Demolition Team leader, believes when he is, sent by World War II's Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower, to protect two French Résistance spies carrying microfilm of Hitler's Secret Notebook. It contains all the formulas and processes for advanced weaponry created by Nazi scientists. But, the mission goes horribly wrong.
Twenty-two years later, in a time of social...
19) Cobra Gold
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A rogue band of SAS commandos rob a bank in war-torn Beirut-and return decades later to find the gold-in this military thriller based on a true story.
Beirut, 1976. As war ravages the country, an unknown band of armed men blast their way into the Imperial Bank of Beirut. Over the next forty-eight hours, they load three trucks with gold bullion and then disappear without a trace.
Two weeks earlier, a new SAS Major had tasked his men with planning...
20) Hand of Glory
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In Passchendaele near the end of the Great War, Captain Giles Hardy is trapped on barbed wire, wounded in mind and body, convinced he should be dead. But, Giles's true battle begins after he's rescued and sent home. In the small town of Stafford, he struggles with terrifying visions of the atrocities he's witnessed-and a recruit he served with.
The visions lead Giles to a man who exploits the grief of the bereaved with the help of a Hand of Glory,...
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