Military Violence

1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott.

Hawk Gunner "HG" O'Neal is feeling a bit left out when his brothers and AJ are married within weeks of one another. He never thought he'd be the one to want a family. He also never thought a woman would show up claiming the child in her arms was his. HG knew immediately that the boy didn't belong to him, but he also knew that the woman was stirring something inside him he couldn't ignore. When he finds out she's in trouble, he can't turn her away. Fighting terrorist drug dealers, traffickers is a walk in the park compared to what they have to fight with this villain. It will change the RP ...

Benjamin Scott 'Hoot' O'Neal is one-third of the O'Neal triplets. Prolific members of MARSOC, the triplets are now retiring and heading home to Belle Fleur. With their father and uncle, Eagle and Hawk, they will become members of the RP team. But when his first op finds him carrying a dying woman into an emergency room, Hoot is starting to doubt the wisdom of leaving the Corps. Denied proper treatment for her breast cancer, the young woman is whisked away to Belle Fleur and the amazing medical team. But every time he sees her, something stirs inside of Hoot. Everything in his being is ...

In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.

Frank Gaspar Robicheaux is finally home with his family and friends. Being a part of the RP family means often taking on details that you don't really want to do. What starts out as a protection detail for the California Governor, quickly turns into a rescue mission for a battered young woman. His instant need to protect and cherish the bandaged woman seems odd for Frank. When they discover the meaning behind her strange tattoo, everything clicks into place for Frank and the memories flood his body. Everything has a new meaning for him. Everything. Lane Olivia Quinn has been gone a long ...

The stories of World War 2 will forever be imprinted in our collective human mind. Unrivaled in loss of life, boundless destruction, and decisions that changed the world as we knew it, these stories have gone down in history. From concentration camps to aerial strikes, the war waged in increasingly brutal ways as it progressed. But how much do you really know about what happened during those years? These are the stories you won’t read about in any textbook. The Wanton massacre of civilians and the torture of prisoners of war was only the beginning. It can be easy to forget the horrors ...

Hunter Michaels has watched both of his brothers find their place and their wives at REAPER-Patriots. He has zero interest to follow in their footsteps, but he is committed to protecting them all. When a suspicious woman steps foot in the compound asking for protection, he doesn't believe a word of it. Worse, she's gorgeous and makes his body feel things he shouldn't! Finding her voluptuous body naked in front of him was the worst possible thing that could happen to him. Or maybe, it was the best. Megan Scott is out to avenge the death of her sister and to bring down the motorcycle club ...

Joseph Alec Keith Robicheaux, better known as Jak, has fought a lot of bad men in his day. Terrorists, drug lords, traffickers, rapists, and more, as an Army Ranger, more importantly, a Robicheaux Ranger, he's now fighting one he can't really see. Haiti is falling apart. There is no government, no police to speak of, tourists are murdered, and children are disappearing. When one of his own men is found hanged and mutilated, Jak knows he might need more help than he has at his fingertips. He never imagined that he would have, not one, but two old women to guide him in this mission. He also ...

Tyran Eagle O'Neal, better known as Bone, is finally home with family and friends. Excited to begin his new life with RP, he's also a bit excited when he meets the new dentist. Londyn Vacarro is smoking hot, sexy, smart, and definitely hiding something. She might think she has the others fooled, but Bone is calling B.S. Just when he thinks he has her convinced to tell him the truth, she's attacked and left for dead. Thanks to Parker, she's alive, but for how long? Londyn Vacarro has never wanted anything except to be a dentist. Leaving her gang-leader father in Houston was the smartest ...

In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.

Patrick 'Saint' Humphreys is struggling with the idea of the young woman before him being, well, a woman and not a child. He's known her since she was just a child, and his morality was keeping him from pursuing a relationship with her. Seeing her as a grown woman, prepared to leave the safety of Belle Fleur changes his mind. That and the fact they now have more than a dozen new people on the property who are directly tied to Marilisa and the other geniuses. Someone is chasing them, determined to harness their gifts at all costs. Dead or Alive. Saint can't run from Marilisa. Now when he ...

Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science-fiction and fantasy works. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario: a new American Civil War. The American Empire has grown too fast, the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point, and the war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war.

With the new team members settling in, and the old team members getting used to their gifts, things are getting stranger and stranger. For one new face he finds himself looking at an old friend that is experiencing more trouble than she deserves. With the boys in the bike shop taking a keen interest in this one, there are more than enough able-bodied men and women to handle this issue. Of course, it never hurts to have the animals on your side, as well as Mama Irene and Matthew. How could anything possibly go wrong?

Aiden Wagner was supposed to be living life with a silver spoon in his mouth, running his father's investment firm and attending events at the country club. He was supposed to marry someone 'appropriate', have a son, and most importantly, make lots of money. At least, that's the vision his parents had for him. His vision was vastly different. An Army Ranger, fortunate enough to have been assigned to Eric Bongard's team, he was now in the company of legends. As an operator for RP, his life was everything he'd always dreamed it would be. Finding Brit Elig was not something he expected. But ...

Joseph Redhawk is nearing the end of his career as a Delta Operative. He's also in the darkest place a man like him can be. Senseless lives lost; acts against humanity; and a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that won't seem to leave him. Who would have believed that the sweet, shy, little sister of Paige Anderson would be his savior. Julia was always a surprise for Joseph, but now a grown woman, she was sitting across from him looking unbelievably beautiful. And just like that, the cloud was lifted. It happened so fast, he couldn't catch his breath. But someone is trying to kill ...

Kingston Miles felt lost after leaving the Army, but a chance meeting with the men of the Steel Patriots gave him a new lease on life. Always smiling, always in good humor he's surprised by his own abrasiveness when he meets Claire Evers, the sister of his brother, Tristan. Once he realizes there's no way around his feelings for the woman, he's all in. The question is, will Claire be all in as well?Claire Evers is the little sister of SPMC's, Tristan. When she calls to ask if she can stay with him, he's more the welcoming. What she didn't expect to find was King. He's beautiful; tall, ...

What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed.

Sean Liffey was well on his way to becoming a two-bit hood in a rundown neighborhood of Chicago. That is, until fate stepped in. Stealing the car of a gang leaders wife is a sure way to get yourself killed; joining the Army is the way to get out of it. He never anticipated making it his career, but the Rangers came calling and Liffey found his best friends in Eric and the other team members. When their mission in Michigan has him crossing paths with the beautiful Shay Lewis, he can't get her off his mind. But she's a hard one to catch. Finally back at Belle Fleur where she belongs, she's ...

Griffin "Griff" James, Jr. is an elite, albeit retired, Navy SEAL. Leaving the SEALs was the most difficult decision he'd ever made. Joining the Steel Patriots MC was not difficult. When he walked into Club Steel and saw the gorgeous woman standing behind the bar, he knew he was in the right place. It didn't matter that he thought she belonged to another man; she was his. When Amanda disappeared, he thought his chance was gone until a trip to Daytona changed his world. Now she was in his arms to stay. All he had to do was get her healthy, let her heal, allow her to get all the sleep she ...

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...