Military Mystery

Eric Steele is the best of the best - an Alpha - an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program". A superbly trained Special Forces soldier who served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them.

For more than 40 years, the US government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the navy, air force, and army - and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs.

One troop of beyond-Tier-1 operators gone completely off the reservation. One platoon of stalwart Army Rangers, pledged to protect them, but now pushed too far. A thousand tribes of enemy fighters who just want them all gone.

The insurgents rule of terror is complete. They control everything. Everything except a band of patriots who want their town back. Reclaiming their home won't be easy. Not against overwhelming firepower. But Jack Bunker is ready. He has the skills and training to lead them in an explosive battle of survival. Victory will come at a steep price; however, when dark secrets are revealed, exposing some while protecting others.

Nathan Redhawk could be considered by most to be as dangerous as his father. He was certainly as dangerous as his twin. Retired from Delta, he was home now, with every intention of making Katrina Santos his own. She'd avoided him for years. Side-stepped him, blocked him, used every excuse in the book. But no more excuses, she belonged to him and he would make sure that by the end of the year, she would understand that. First, he had to keep her and her father alive. Miguel Santos was as much a part of their lives as anyone at RP. When his health fails and old enemies close in, Katrina is ...

First, a team of Navy SEALs wiped out in a surprise attack. Then, a motorcade of dignitaries is ambushed - and the US Secretary of State is abducted. Coordinated and flawlessly executed, this is no random act of terror. A vision of evil unprecedented in scope has been triggered....

After a shootout in Dubai left Hamza al-Saud dead and elevated brilliant aeronautical engineer Qasim Nadar to hero status in England, everyone assumes the terrorist threat from al Qadar has been eliminated. Everyone except JSOC counterterrorism analyst Whitney Watts. But when she decides to help MI6 penetrate Nadar’s secret network, Watts gets a little too close to the truth and finds herself in a deadly situation not even her teammates from Tier One can save her from.

Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen.

Two Spetsnaz officers are dropped into the ghost city of Prip'Yat and tasked with investigating mysterious disturbances around the city and the nearby Chernobyl power plant. Unaware of the special forces operation, two cousins from Kiev sneak away and travel to Prip'Yat under the cover of night, excited to finally explore and experience the forbidden place. And the abandoned city, a shadow has stirred.

The USS Kentucky - a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads - sets out on a routine cruise. 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. What the Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch orders didn't come from the US government.

Brax Pechkin has been carrying a secret with him for all of his adult life. A secret that he can't bring himself to tell the only woman he's ever loved. But when her life is threatened, and she's nearly taken from him, he knows that he can't allow her to leave again. However, things are never what they seem. Just when they were all prepared to go on the war path and kill her attacker, something changes their plans. Compassion. Stephanie doesn't even have a last name. Why would she? She's different, she's odd, she's a damn clone. Nothing about her is original. Or at least that's what she ...

Have you ever asked yourself the question “What if…”? Commander Robert Orson Tyler, USN will not only ask this question of himself as all humans unwaveringly do, but he will be the first person in history to learn the answer. Close to retirement, the former Navy SEAL sniper and instructor at Naval Weapons Station Charleston’s Nuclear Power School in South Carolina, Rob has been selected to participate as the first test subject in a genetic experiment with the ultimate goal of bringing peace and tranquility to every American family within the borders of the United States. But the ...

Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President of the United States is fed up and, as Commander in Chief, has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea — to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and get them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo’s guts, and has just had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo’s men are scattered far and wide, many of them in hiding.

Aislinn Carter has lived with pain for so many years she doesn't know anything else. Until one day her pain brings Kane Jackson into her life. Her unusual gifts seem to enhance Kane's own and together they discover their strengths. Stopping a killer is their number one priority. But that's easier said than done. Kane and Aislinn will need help from a few strange friends with some strange gifts of their own and along the way, love will help them both to see the beauty of their gifts.

Adam Robicheaux has never loved any woman the way he loves Jane Wolfkill. Since she started her own pediatric practice in Baltimore, it feels as though she's slipping away. When his grandmother asks him to go to Baltimore and check on her, he never dreams that he'll find Jane in the fight of her life. He doesn't waste a second calling in the troops and getting her home, but there's an evil lurking around Belle Fleur and they need to find out who or what it is. Jane Wolfkill has loved Adam Robicheaux for as long as she can remember. When he was deployed he sent her the most beautiful letters...

Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker.

Meet Kolt Raynor. A Delta Force operator and one-time American hero, he is still trying to make sense of his life - and duty - after a secret mission gone bad. Three years ago, in the mountains of Pakistan, Raynor made a split-second decision to disobey orders - one that got some of his teammates killed and the rest captured. Now he’s been given a second chance to do right by his country, his men, and himself. But Raynor’s shot at redemption comes at a price.

Twenty-six years ago, Dr. Cathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who'd been injured during an attack in the Bosnian War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan Jr. has agreed to track down the young woman and deliver a letter from his mother. The helpless child has grown into a remarkable woman. Aida Curic is a self-possessed beauty with a big heart and an even bigger secret who runs a controversial refugee agency near Sarajevo. Jack finds himself deeply drawn to both her and her country but soon finds himself in the crosshairs of seething ethnic tensions and ancient blood feuds.

For a dozen years, villagers along the ancient Da River in Vietnam have feared a nightmarish creature who hunts and consumes human flesh. Only in whispers do they mention its name, The White Ghost. To the United States military, this creature has a different name - Marine Lieutenant Trevor Brett, the chemically engineered experiment gone wrong that they will do anything to hide. Sole survivor of his platoon, Brett has stalked the jungle for prey. But the men who made him into a monster are searching for him, and when they find him, the line between hunter and hunted will be blurred.

Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe - a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind.