Military Conspiracy

What if the conspiracy theories are true? In The Shadow Protocols: Five Tales of Conspiracy and High Strangeness, award-winning journalist Chet Dembeck presents five chilling stories that blur the line between fiction and reality. From secret government projects that breach the barriers between dimensions, to cyber warfare that threatens the fabric of society itself, these tales explore the dark corners where truth and imagination collide. The Niverna Project reveals a classified experiment gone terrifyingly wrong. Between Dimensions asks what happens when reality tears and something comes ...

Charlize Carson's career was in her rear view mirror. Retirement wasn't the terrifying leap she worried it would be. But when the phone rings, an old friend on the line, she and Mick consider taking the case. A body is discovered just outside the grounds of a military base, sending shockwaves through the surrounding community. The victim, a well-known advocate who spent decades fighting for the rights of veterans poisoned by the base's contaminated water, has made enemies in high places. As Charlize digs deeper, she finds herself caught in a web of government cover-ups, corruption, and ...

What are the odds of three serial killers working in the same college town? Astronomical. Unless two of them are twin brothers! The third is someone they hire to do maintenance at their nursing homes. A match made in hell! Using a pandemic's death toll as a cover, the brothers, who know a good thing when they see one, use their new hire to help them with their murderous insurance and "legacy" scheme. But they did not count on an idealistic -- and suspicious -- young woman. “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY....

Has cyber-crime escalated to murder? Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O’Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague’s teenage son goes missing, and his friend’s body is discovered, Kat finds herself working with DS Adam Jackson again. The murder enquiry leads Adam to an exclusive London school where allegations of drugs, gaming fraud and child pornography abound. As he gets deeper into the investigation, Adam is forced to face issues in his private life while ...

The War is here and Colonel Sthykar Karwyk takes his Mountain Troopers on a suicidal daredevil mission to infiltrate and attack the Narducat Empire’s mainland. Starfire Kingdom’s rapidly progressing atomic program was meant to halt the Imperial Aggression but the Empire will tolerate no rivals. Narducat Empire launches the largest invasion fleet in the history to directly target and destroy Starfire Kingdom’s experimental reactor with an atomic strike. But Colonel Sthykar has a plan of his own: launch a surprise attack on an Imperial Special Army base and seize Empire’s own Atomics!...

Colonel Sthykar Karwyk never imagined that he would be ordered to take his Mountain Division deep behind enemy lines for a secret rescue operation. Narducat Imperial Fleet has invaded Karaln Nation – whose scientists alone had mastered the deep mysteries of Atom – and now The Empire commands the sole Atomic arsenal in the world. But there are rumors of a secret base of Karaln scientists, hidden inside the territory occupied by the fearsome Imperial Special Army. Colonel Sthykar and Starfire Kingdom’s Mountain Troopers must find and rescue the atomic scientists even as they battle an ...

In this gripping archaeological thriller - a prequel to the Dr. Sarah Kensington series - archaeology student Sarah Kensington joins Professor Elias Brown and his tech-savvy son Tom on what should be a routine dig in Sudan. But when they uncover an artifact that defies explanation, the expedition becomes a race against time. Hidden beneath the desert sands lies a weapon of impossible power - evidence that an advanced civilization guided humanity's first steps toward enlightenment. When a ruthless military commander seeks to harness this deadly technology, the team must navigate ancient ...

A tangled web of revenge has conspired. With a jilted lover and a secret organisation ready to stop at nothing to kill. As tragedy strikes and the Colonel is killed in a fiery car crash, but something isn't quite right. The Stein brothers with their friend Kenny Macdonald are badly injured, and one will be set up for a crime they didn't commit. Revenge is on the mind of both parties. You don't leave the organisation, the organisation leaves you!

Newly appointed US Naval officer, Ensign Austin, is about to stumble onto the most powerful capability the world has ever known. Little does he know the submarine he has been assigned to has been secretly equipped with an experimental government time travel device that the crew will soon be testing. Those in control will stop at nothing to ensure the test goes as planned, confirming that they will soon have the power to transform our world, or destroy it completely. Things go awry when he is contaminated with a drop of the device’s fuel source, mentally connecting him to the heart of the ...

Extraterrestrials finally show their faces. Can one investigator use their technology to stop WWIII from destroying humanity? Dallas, 2072. Jack Slater has been piecing together evidence of alien visits for years. So as the head of a fully funded UFO research team, he’s excited to give an interview to a cute journalist about his unusual job. But when a real-life spaceship appears outside his window and beams in a powerful probe, only his split-second action saves them from an unknown threat. Believing the vessel may have been trying to issue a warning, Jack searches for more clues to the ...

Ivan Lazar was one of Russia's greatest generals until he was set up and ruined by his enemies. What followed was an epic plan for vengeance to not only destroy his enemies, but the world as we know it. Ex-assassin, Chuck Brandt, had tracked the General to Cusco, Peru. After a violent cliffside confrontation Brandt watched as the madman’s body fell hundreds of feet into the raging Apurimac River. Now, Chuck is living a quiet, peaceful life of service in a soup kitchen in Seattle when he gets a phone call from Maria Lazar. She tells a harrowing tale of survival at the hands of a Black ...

The future mirrors the past. In a near-future world teetering on the brink of a global takeover, GlobeVac Pharmaceuticals holds the key to a deadly secret. Chaylie Thorn, a determined analyst, stumbles upon a sinister plot to release a bioweapon disguised as a groundbreaking wellness vaccine. Military allies and a covert team of elite Space Force operatives called the Sentinels enlist Chaylie’s help as they race against time to counter GlobeVac’s plan in a pulse-pounding thriller where every second counts. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, can the allies unravel the ...

If you enjoy reading suspenseful, action-packed thrillers that surprise and engage you with unexpected twists, gritty action, and cutting edge technologies, you’re why I write. THE KILLING CHASE can be read as a standalone novel, but is the second book in the Beach & Riley series after THE KILLING CODE. Alan Beach and Jake Riley are back! More than a year after shutting down the Devlin Conspiracy, Beach and his new partner, James Foxx, are hot on the trail of a brutal serial killer. The killer’s modus operandi is startlingly similar to THE KILLING CODE’s infamous “Orphan-maker” ...

The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes - these notions are as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more popular and more widespread in the 21st century. Nowhere have they become more obvious than in revisionist accounts of the history of the Third Reich.

Experienced CIA agent Henry Jones finds signs of a covert agency penetration and wonders how extensively business interests have seized U.S. intelligence. Dubbed the Dark Protocol, this covert network turns real missions into mercenaries by controlling worldwide battles for personal benefit. Driven by allegiance to real national security—and troubled by the human costs he has seen—Henry dares to reveal the plot. Supported by Alex Carter, a moral whistleblower in hiding, and Elena Volkov, a disillusioned foreign agent, Henry runs against merciless surveillance under the mysterious ...

In a completely new type of mission in the explosive Joe Hawke series, the ECHO team must go into the dark heart of the Amazon jungle to track down an American government official possessing critical information relating to the location of their kidnapped friends. Framed for terrorist outrages they haven’t committed, and still on the Most Wanted List, Joe Hawke and the rest of the team must race against time before Jackson Moran, the official who is their only chance of locating the mysterious black site, Tartarus, vanishes into thin air, but deep in the Amazon basin they find horrors ...

When given a choice between prison or joining the J.A.N.U.S. Program, Blake Walker chose the latter. Right after he completed his training, Central thrust Blake right into his first mission. Terrorists stole a WMD consisting of deadly nanobots from a secret government laboratory in New Mexico. Blake races across the country to stop the terrorists from destroying New York City. Can he get to them in time? Who’s really behind these evil deeds?

Bill Reedy is a deadbeat reporter stuck in a mundane, self-destructive life with little hope for the future, until, one day, a young US Naval officer shows up on his doorstep. Bill is unknowingly transported through time on a journey that will take him to a secret laboratory buried deep within the Appalachian Mountains. Here, he will discover a government secret so dangerous and deadly, those in control will stop at nothing to ensure silence. He will have to use all of his abilities to manipulate those around him in order to get the help he needs to succeed, all while living a double life ...

A trusted member of Hitler’s inner circle, Artur Axmann, the head of the Hitler Youth, witnessed the Führer commit suicide in Berlin - but he would not let the Reich die with its leader. Evading capture, and with access to remnants of the regime’s wealth, Axmann had enough followers to reestablish the Nazi party in the very heart of Allied-occupied Germany - and position himself to become dictator of the Fourth Reich. U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps Officer Jack Hunter was the perfect undercover operative.

There are a wealth of conspiracies surrounding World War II, from covert assassinations to outlandish secret missions and shocking cover-ups. Intelligence agencies practiced stunning deceptions and disinformation was spread widely, but what truths lie beneath these elaborate theories? Military historian Alexander Macdonald examines the evidence.