New Military Fiction

Set in David Drake's Hammer's Slammers universe (with his gracious permission) this is a story about a vectored-thrust (aircar) unit that I developed while deployed in Afghanistan. I decided to write this as a way of staying away from the canon stuff, and wanted to do my own thing. The story is set after The Sharp End, and is commended by Lt. Karen Juniper. She leads the troop fighting the El Cator gang in the mountainous Pollo Mountains. It's a counter-insurgency book, so if you're looking for great space battles, this book isn't for you. But it hightlights the vagaries of mountain warfare...

Starting a business is hard, especially when making your living requires staying alive long enough to get paid. Our troublesome trio, Chill, Ivan, and Kortez, haven’t exactly hit the big time yet, but they’ve got dreams. Big ones. But big dreams, big plans, and big guns mean that they’re looking at some big problems. When you’re establishing a mercenary company, let’s just say the complications start to pile up like shell casings.

Jackson Chase served with the New Zealand SAS for many years, but a mission in Afghanistan leads him into a world of intrigue and betrayal that will put all of his skills as a special operations soldier to the test.From a hostage rescue mission in Afghanistan to a worldwide manhunt and ultimately to the potential assassination of a foreign leader, Chase and his team relentlessly pursue a deadly traitor who always seems one step ahead.The action is true to life and hard hitting as Connor Black introduces Jackson Chase, an exciting new character with a quick wit and fierce sense of loyalty ...

When Korene's employees are taken hostage on Mars, she's thrust into an uneasy alliance with Roland, her former Master who deserted her a decade ago. Despite their tumultuous history, the undeniable chemistry between them reignites the moment he strides back into her life, his chiseled presence stirring long-buried passions. Roland is determined to fulfill his mission, yet battling his intense longing for Korene proves to be his toughest challenge. Witnessing her fierce independence tested once more stirs emotions he thought long suppressed. But as hidden truths threaten to unravel their ...

While the DEMC haven’t gone native, they’re finding that their particular brand of varied vector violence is appreciated in the Bast Station populace. Deck by deck, meter by meter, they are leading the efforts at reclamation. Remarkably, they’ve found the rough-and-ready inhabitants of the station rallying around them. That’s before other mercenaries come to Coil Cove, drawn by the DEMC’s success. The more the merrier, right? Except these newcomers threaten to throw the hard-won balance into chaos.

The enemies they are about to be pitted against make their endeavors so far look like a cake walk. Killer bugs and government conspiracies are old hat. Armies of mutants spreading like a plague, a host of life-snuffing cyborgs that won’t stop “cleaning,” and fierce competition between the various factions. Let’s just say that when this is over, the DEMC are going to need some serious R&R…assuming they make it through this in one piece. Survival was never a given, but the DEMC have just the give-‘em-hell attitude needed to see this job through.

Cowboy After Dark: White-water rafting guide Liam Magee is a cowboy at heart - happy to return to his country roots at Thunder Mountain Ranch for his foster brother's wedding. And when Hope Caldwell shows up as a guest - well, the occasion just got more interesting. Make Mine a Marine: Matt Ryan wants to settle down to a peaceful life as a helicopter instructor at the local base. When he meets free-spirited antiques dealer Chelly Richardson and finds out she's homeless, well, he has to help.

After months of mystery, the true power of the blue men has finally been revealed, plunging the fate of both new and old worlds into question. Working together with their new dragon allies, Britain and the United States must find some way to survive in a cosmos at war.... But when a new blue man threat is discovered, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, and all the heroes of the new world, must rally for a dangerous mission - one that offers them only a slim chance of survival. The time has come for humanity to truly face the Empire....

They call me criminal. Monster. Cursed. But the truth? I’m just a girl with powers I never asked for and a sister they stole. Now I’m on the run, hunted by a city that would rather see me dead than free. My only shot at survival lies with a rebel group determined to expose the government’s twisted experiments on people like me. And Jameson—the infuriatingly charming operative with secrets carved into every smile. I want to trust him. I want to believe he’s on my side. But in a world where betrayal comes easy, falling for him might be the most dangerous move of all. The clock’s ...

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...

Sophie Shields has been captured by the man she's been trying to escape for most of her life... This time, no one can save her. Not even Cole. Benjamin Powell is the powerful politician who molested Sophie when she was only a child. She changed her name, her hair color, and moved across the country multiple times to get away from him, but her enemy has been intent on finding her. And when he finally has her in his grasp, he will make her pay for abandoning him and leaving him crippled. Unless Snow can stop him. But this man is so evil that even Snow, the violent, unhinged, fearless part...

What happens when you combine a feisty female journalist with a former Special Forces operative? Olivia MacMillan wonders what she's let herself in for when she agrees to accompany Josh Morgan to the European Riviera. Josh says he wants her contacts in the casinos so he can play in exclusive, high-stakes poker games. But she soon learns that his motives are more sinister than a simple game of poker. What could make a former Special Forces specialist come out of retirement for one last, kick-ass mission? Author Caution: Unlike my usual sweet romances, this book contains explicit sexual ...

There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of 12 Australian POWs who fought and survived the battle for Malaya, then captivity and slave labour, followed by the unimaginable hardships of Outram Road Gaol.

It is a story of how they dealt with the brutality of the Japanese military police, the feared Kempeitai.

In the town of Duskhelm, the people have been taught that magic isn’t real.... Dragons, elves, and dwarves are found in the realm of fairy tales and lore. The dangers facing the town are based in reality, with marauders lurking beyond their walls, waiting for any opportunity to sneak in and quietly raid the down. Enter Mani, a young and unrefined cadet training earnestly with the hope to one day be able to serve in the King’s Service.... Together with his friend Goby, he is about to find out, along with the rest of the people of Duskhelm, that what lurks in the darkness beyond and above...

Know your enemy. Liam Scott is back in Afghanistan, this time with 4 Rifles. No longer the new guy, it's his chance to prove himself and take the lead. But the warzone has changed dramatically, and so have the rules. Working alongside the Afghan National Army, Liam and his new patrol face daily attacks from Taliban insurgents. But the real threat seems to be coming from within his unit. It looks like there's a traitor in their midst.

Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has played cricket with the Turks in the opposing dugout, dodged rocket fire and rescued drowning, freezing men when the blizzard snow melted. He is one of the few trusted with the secret kept from even most of the officers: how an entire army will vanish from the Peninsula over three impeccably planned nights.

The Katieran Prime Series continues with New Horizon. Morinian Commander Kayley became the only female commander of the Morinian Fleet. Well, one transport ship didn’t make a fleet, but she couldn’t do anything about that situation. However, on board the Katieran transport ship the Horizon, she wasn’t the commander. She played the part of a passenger with a mission to find a new home world for her people. Everything would be fine if she didn’t have the scourge of her people hunting her down, Katieran purists trying to annihilate her species, and constantly having to fight her ...

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The controversial Battle at Xa Long Tan was not only a critical episode in Australia's Vietnam involvement; it was also a textbook nightmare in the history of jungle warfare. Reconstructing this dramatic action from secret documents and the vivid recollections of many diggers who fought at Long Tan, Terry Burstall challenges the official army version.

It's finally Kenneth Alexander and JeNelle Towson's wedding day. They have weathered so many trials to get to this point. Still, there is danger to be dealt with in the form of JeNelle's former husband and Kenneth's nemesis. Can anything else go wrong for them?