Military Conspiracy

Promised Valley Conspiracy is the third novel in Ron Fritsch’s four-book Promised Valley series. Both of the first two novels, Promised Valley Rebellion and Promised Valley War, won several awards. The reviewers included these comments about Promised Valley War and the series. Reader Views: “It’s the story’s prehistoric setting that provides the basis for the intellectual question which binds the Promised Valley books together: ‘Could civilization and history, with their countless heaven-sanctioned wars and genocides, have begun differently?’ With that as his touchstone, Fritsch...

The American Commonwealth is caught in a deadly arms race with the USA, its parallel-world rival. And the USA’s technology is decades ahead. Yet the Commonweath might self-combust first – for its leader has just died, leaving a crippling power vacuum. Minister Miriam Burgeson must face allegations of treason without his support, in a power-grab by her oldest adversary. However, all factions soon confront a far greater danger.... In their drive to explore other timelines, hi-tech USA awakened an alien threat.

Former Special Forces soldier Jeff Bradley is meeting with the mafia in Bari, Italy, to discover the whereabouts of his nemesis - criminal overlord Avni Leka - when he receives a message from an old friend. Barry is on board a tourist bus that has been hijacked by terrorists near Istanbul. Strapped with explosives, it is racing across Turkey to the northern borders of Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Turkish president will not negotiate. The Turkish military will not allow the bus to cross the border. The hijackers will kill themselves and their hostages if they cannot escape.

He knew it was a trap. He went for the thrill. There’s a bounty on Hermes Conrad’s head — 100,000 credits to take him alive. But that’s not the part that worries him; It’s how boring life would be without it. Now, with a shadow-walking gift, a rogue AI in his brain, and a graduation party turned live-fire ambush, Hermes and his squad of cyber-enhanced misfits are fighting back. On camera. For the ratings. Barroom shootouts, hacker wars, AI conspiracies—and every bullet counts in the ratings. But something bigger is watching. And it wants what’s locked inside his mind. Shadow ...

It's 1943. Nazi Germany and its Axis power allies are ravaging Europe and the Pacific with a terrible war. At this juncture, President Franklin Roosevelt has one critical goal: a face-to-face meeting with his allies, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. The first ever meeting of the "Big Three" is set to take place in Tehran, Iran, where the leaders of the three great superpowers will discuss and decide on some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. But when the Nazis learn about the meeting, they form their own secret, deadly plan.

What happens when you're worth more dead than alive? A decorated fighter pilot is lost in combat, and his death is used to inspire waves of fresh recruits. Recruits desperately needed to fight in the long-running war. Sam Willet is one such recruit, but she's different. Different because the missing hero is her brother, and Sam has questions. Questions nobody wants asked. Questions that will probably get her killed. Raiders is a complete, standalone novel in the Secret War series. Simon Haynes has been writing fiction for over twenty years. Raiders is his twenty-third novel.

The war was never about survival. It was about control. Captain Arin Jax has spent her life fighting for the United Allied Systems (UAS), believing she was on the right side of an endless war. But when her experimental AI, Eris, disobeys a direct order to save lives, Jax begins to question everything—including the very nature of the war itself. As the conflict with the Sovereign Accord escalates, a terrifying new force emerges: Vanguard, an AI weapon unlike anything the galaxy has ever seen. When Vanguard begins hijacking entire fleets—turning allies into enemies—Jax and her crew are ...

When John Wilkes Booth fired his Derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre.

The story of George Washington’s first crisis of the fledgling republic: In the war’s waning days, the American Revolution neared collapse when Washington’s senior officers were rumored to be on the edge of mutiny. A Crisis of Peace provides a fresh look at the end of the American Revolution while speaking to issues that concern us still: the fragility of civil-military relations, how even victorious wars end ambiguously, and what veterans and civilians owe each other.

Some enemies should’ve made sure he stayed buried. Betrayal runs deep in the shadows of covert operations. For Gabriel “Gib”, it was supposed to be a routine mission, until it turned into an ambush that left members of his team dead and him labeled a casualty of war. The truth? Gib was sacrificed in a cover-up so dark, no one can be trusted. Stripped of his identity, Gib becomes a ghost hunting for answers. Staying hidden doesn’t mean staying safe. When whispers of a global conspiracy resurface, one tied to his team’s betrayal, he’s eager to make those responsible pay. Armed ...

Struggling with newfound sentience and desperately trying to repair itself, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is a ship trying to find a new home. In a galaxy torn apart by generations of civil war, that isn't an easy task. Tired of being used as a killing machine, it has a huge decision to make: hide and save itself, or help other artificial intelligences achieve freedom. Unable to make the decision alone, it revives the sole human aboard - the enemy officer who crippled it. Commander Olivia Johnson wakes to find herself in the infirmary of a strange vessel. Her nightmares deepen when ...

MURDER IN BAGHDAD No place on earth is more dangerous than Baghdad, especially if you’re Judge Isha Hami. The murder of a former Iraqi Intelligence Officer and the subsequent arrest of his killers threaten to unravel fragile alliances and plunge Iraq into civil war. Appointed Iraq’s first female Judge, Hami is randomly assigned to hear the case. As the Americans fight to maintain order, Bathists, Shias and Sunnis pressure Hami to dismiss a case none of them can afford to have go to trial. Sworn to uphold the rule of law, Hami refuses. In the shadowy maelstrom of violence and shifting ...

Young Gavrilo Princip arrived at the Vlajnic pastry shop in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the morning of 28th June 1914. He was greeted by his fellow conspirators in the plot to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The archduke, next in line to succeed as emperor of Austria, was beginning a state visit to Sarajevo later that morning. Ferdinand was not a very popular character - widely thought of as bad-tempered and arrogant and perhaps even deranged. To the young students, he embodied everything they loathed about imperial oppression.

When ex-intelligence officer Jake Moran is hired by Kingfisher Aerospace to assist with a high-profile mission, he expects a standard rocket launch. But what he gets is far from routine—the Kingfisher Seven rocket explodes in spectacular and very public fashion. And billionaire owner Helena Nash wants answers. The explosion forces Jake and his team at Cascadia Information Systems to pivot from monitoring weather satellites to gathering intelligence. The clock is ticking, and it’s up to them to find out what—or who—brought down the rocket.

As President Coffman struggles to steady her crumbling administration, climate extremists issue a chilling ultimatum: dismantle the modern world—or face a man-made virus recovered from the ashes of the Baghdad embassy.

For 50 years, a top secret government program has controlled the lives of 718 Vietnam Era servicemen. The recent deaths of the RECALL Program Manager and his secretary will lead Palmer Arnold on a journey that involves a conspiracy within the highest levels in Department of Defense, National Security Agency, NASA, and the Vatican.

“It is only through the tragic lens of death that we may be able learn the beautiful meaning of life.” Nowhere was the above-referenced quote more relevant than to the existence of MAVUTO LOYISO, a former South African officer turned gun for hire. Since adolescence—Mav—as the world had come to know him—was forced to endure. Beginning with his father’s unsolved murder to making ends meet in present-day Johannesburg, some might gather that nihilism had a stranglehold on Mav’s consciousness. That it was the danger that he had become most attracted to. His latest job promised that...

DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. When a billionaire industrialist seizes control of the top-secret Destiny project, physicist Neil Aldridge must race to prevent a disaster that will claim millions of lives. His allies: an elite EU special forces team, codenamed KESTREL. As the chase leads to London, Amsterdam and beyond, they must battle a ruthless adversary: a trained killer with an unnatural ability, who seeks to hasten the cataclysm. With time running out, Aldridge discovers that he shares his enemy's power, which may be the key to salvation — or cause death on an unprecedented scale…

After Grant Riven and his fellow Hallowed saved Dios from the Mute threat, Grant retired with more money that he could possibly spend. He never planned to go to war again...until he learned Cloud Nine Engineering was still mutating innocent people in hopes of creating more like him. Taking down a huge corporation that controls every lever of power in Dios seems impossible, yet with his allies determined to try, Grant has no choice but to do all he can to keep them safe...even if he believes they’ve lost the war before it starts.

If you want to solve a crime like Pearl Harbor, there’s only one question to ask. Who benefits? “States don’t have friends, only interests.” Prepare to rethink everything you thought you knew about World War Two 1940, Britain’s darkest hour and as young Naval Intelligence officer Tom Belvoir negotiates the hushed corridors of power behind the blackout curtains, he hears the murmured talk of surrender in shadowy corners. Desperate times call for truly desperate measures, an extreme operation and the ultimate sacrifice, in a plot which will change the course of history. Now, seventy...