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ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH...U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, Admiral Johnny Jack McGirt, has never been one to back away from a challenge. Whether hanging his tail over the line flying missions that would give other pilots nightmares, or taking part in covert CIA operations, he's always ready for the next impossible task.Now in the twilight of his naval career, Admiral McGirt is dispatched to Manila to coordinate the reestablishment of U.S. military bases in the Philippines as a counter to China's growing military presence in the Pacific. But discussions come to a sudden halt when a Chinese fighter jet disappears over the South China Sea.If intelligence reports are accurate, the downed aircraft is carrying an experimental weapon that can fundamentally transform the nature of air warfare.With one phone call from the President of the United States, McGirt abandons his brief stint as a diplomat, and returns to a role he knows too well. Warrior.McGirt's Final Mission: Find the top-secret jet before the Chinese can reclaim it. If he fails, the age of America's air superiority may be at an end.

Tribe. Loyalty. Love.The year is 1932. Dr. John Rocklan, an arrogant trauma physician, attempts to bury the memory of a personal tragedy by disappearing into the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. Seeking solitude, Rocklan purchases an old ranch deep in a remote valley among the peaks of the Maseah Range. There, he hopes to put his past behind him through isolation and reinvention. Instead, he finds a new world, teeming with life, both human and animal.Reluctantly, he becomes entwined with the Shoshone bands resident among the soaring peaks, and is constantly challenged by both predators and prey, all living in balance in this beautiful and dangerous universe. Slowly, he begins to realize as well that the mountains themselves are alive and dominant, controlling all that falls within their shadow.A surprising tale of survival, adventure, healing, and self-discovery.

PIRACY... WAR... REGIME CHANGE...It begins with torpedo attacks against commercial tankers as the mercenary submarines Wraith and Specter glide beneath the seas, sowing chaos and choking off the flow of fuel to Greece. A secret cabal conspires to force the corrupt and failing nation from the European Union, even if it means fanning the smoldering tensions between Greece and Turkey into all-out war.While Greek warships scramble to locate the submarine provocateurs, international arms dealer Pierre Renard and expelled U.S. naval officer Jake Slate carry out an insane mission with unforeseeable consequences.The ocean battlespace is a crucible of drones, weaponized sea life, and lethal cutting-edge technologies.It's a new kind of warfare, and nobody knows the rules...

THE WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN THE TRUE NATURE OF TERROR. IT'S ABOUT TO BE REMINDED. A military revolt in southeastern Russia puts a former hard-line Soviet leader in command of a ballistic missile submarine and its arsenal of nuclear weapons. His goal: re-ignite the communist revolution, and recapture the might and glory of the fallen Soviet Union. Without warning, Russia, Japan, and the United States become hostages in a scheme of international nuclear blackmail. When the warheads start falling and people begin dying, no one can pretend that it's a bluff. As the earth rushes toward extinction, a lone U.S. Navy warship must penetrate the Siberian ice pack to destroy the submarine before it can destroy the world. It may already be too late.

The tables have turned...It begins with a daring commando raid to capture a highly-specialized warship. But this time, global arms runner Pierre Renard is not the mastermind behind the crime. He's the victim and the hijacked vessel is his hybrid combat/salvage submarine, the Goliath.In addition to its vital role in his plans, the lost sub is a stab at Renard's heart, a reminder that even his Machiavellian schemes cannot guarantee protection against clever enemies. For the first time, he's reacting rather than taking control, dancing on the puppet strings instead of pulling them.Leading the chase to recapture the Goliath is disgraced former U.S. naval officer Jake Slate, once again in command of Renard's mercenary fleet. Pitted against a crafty and deadly adversary, Slate knows that he can't continue to defy the odds indefinitely.Sooner or later, his luck is going to run out.

NOT JUST ANOTHER HOSTAGE RESCUE...U.S. Navy helicopter pilot Johnny Jack McGirt has always been a wildcard, but his superiors and fellow officers are stunned when he turns down Rear Admiral's stars to announce his retirement from active duty. After a career built around bold exploits in the cockpit and covert operations with U.S. intelligence agencies, he's become far too accustomed to following his gut and making his own rules. The thought of sitting behind a desk holds no attraction for him, no matter what rank the position carries. So he's more than ready when his long-time friend and former squadronmate, Bud Lammers, calls for assistance.Lammers, who left the Navy for the CIA, is trying to track down an American oil heiress who's being held hostage in the volatile, Muslim-dominated southern Philippines. It's supposed to be a straightforward mission to negotiate the woman's release, but things take a deadly turn as McGirt and Lammers collide with an extremist rebel group known as Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword.And those guys don't play by the rules either.

"Dr. Maya, I have an envelope here for you from my director, Antonio Del Falco," the elderly messenger said in halting English. He leaned forward to extend to Maya a manila envelope. The envelop bore the insignia of the Archaeological Museum of Naples.Crack! The moment was shattered by the sound of a single bullet whizzing by. "Everyone down!" McLaren yelled.The elderly man's face contorted in pain. He stumbled to the travertine floor. Blood trickled from the corners of his mouth.Three more bullets whizzed by. One shot hit the right side of an altar table beside Maya.She felt stone splinters pelt her arm.Maya dropped to her knees and crawled towards the motionless messenger. She was all too aware that he needed more medical attention that she could possibly provide. His eyes were lifeless. The bullet was imbedded in his back.Marcello's mission to bring the package to Maya had come at a high price. At a later time, Maya would relate that the incident happened so quickly. In his act of leaning forward, the elderly Museum security guard had saved her life."Stay down!" McLaren's mind was churning. A second of silence passed before he spoke. "Remember the Alamo!"

Beauty, professional baseball, and homicide...Baltimore in the spring of 1897: the lovely and enigmatic young actress, Fanny Darlington, discovers a corpse sprawled across the back alley stage door of the Academy of Music.The victim, a large man dressed in spats and an expensive overcoat, has been bludgeoned in the head and shot. The reason for the two different forms of attack is unknown, and so is the motive for the killing, because the body is still wearing a gold stick pin and watch chain. Whatever this might be, it's not a robbery gone wrong.When Fanny is identified as a prime suspect, Frank Van Sant steps in to help. Manager of the famous Diamond Café and a devoted fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Frank likes to imagine himself as a bit of an amateur detective. He'll need more than an amateur's skill though, as he's drawn into a bloody mystery interwoven with the desperate life of a runaway slave.Set against a punishing baseball season with the Dead Ball Era's brightest stars, John Thomas Everett takes us back to the turbulent city of Plug Ugly Ball with a follow-up novel that knocks one out of the park.

"The American aircraft carrier Coral Sea is on routine training in the Caribbean when, in a scenario ripped from the headlines, it is thrust into a deadly conflict no one expected. Fly a carrier-based FA-18 Hornet with the hero of RAVEN ONE, Commander Jim "Flip" Wilson, along with his wingmen Olive and Weed, as Captain Kevin Miller takes the reader behind the scenes in an authentic story that is loaded with supersonic action in Caribbean skies and human drama in the Pentagon, in the carrier staterooms, and in the covert safe-houses of high-tech illegal combatant enemies. More than a genre techno-thriller, DECLARED HOSTILE also explores the morality of conflict and the philosophy of warfare with those at the tip of the spear who actually fight."--Amazon.com.

"The Silver Waterfall is an unforgettable human story - factual historic fiction account honoring those who fought in one of the most pivotal naval battles in world history."

CIVILIZATION HAS AN OFF SWITCH...The Russians call it Lunnaya Pesnya. Moon Song. They bring the device aboard the International Space Station disguised as an experimental electromagnetic propulsion system. Just a harmless EmDrive prototype, ferried into space for testing in microgravity. But the device is not what it appears to be and it''s far from harmless.When military cosmonauts hijack the ISS, Russia''s plans of global conquest are revealed. Moon Song is a game-changing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of attacking any location on Earth from orbit.The first target is Kennedy Space Center. Uncounted kiloteslas of electromagnetic force slash through the atmosphere like an unseen sword-wiping out microchips, transistors, digital storage devices, and electronic circuits of all kinds. In an instant, Cape Canaveral-and the surrounding areas of Cocoa Beach, Rockledge, Titusville, and Patrick Air Force Base-are stripped of every necessity of modern existence.Throughout the target zone, microchips are fried; credit cards are slicked; hard drives are erased. Electronic systems of all kinds suffer catastrophic failure, taking out cell phones, landlines, radios, vehicles, aircraft, and every electrical component within the footprint of the EMP beam. A single pulse of energy has driven the U.S. manned space program into the dark ages.Now, Russia holds the high ground. From orbit, they can detect and neutralize any attempt to attack the ISS. The destruction of Canaveral shows what will happen to any nation that challenges Russian supremacy. With the world literally held hostage, there''s no way to fight back.Or is there?

"An exhilarating ride through an alternate history."-GEORGE GALDORISI, New York Times bestselling authorTHE YEAR IS 1862, IN A WORLD THAT VERY NEARLY WAS...In one of the most unsettling "what-if" reversals to American history, the Union Army is overrun at the Battle of Antietam. Left with no alternative, President Lincoln surrenders, and the Confederate States of America becomes an independent nation. It's a tragic twist that will produce dire, far-reaching ramifications.As the divided American nations move into the twentieth century, slavery has long since been abolished; but in the summer of 1941, America faces another challenge-an existential challenge. Almost a century after the Civil War, the disastrous consequences of the Union defeat are threatening freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.The Second World War represents the defining event of the twentieth century. History dictates the United States must play the decisive role in defeating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis-but that history is no longer intact. America has been divided into two nations, and the resulting shift in global power has altered the course of the conflict, bringing all of North America and Western Europe to the brink of annihilation.In the spring of 1945, as the Nazis are preparing to deliver the final blow, a young academic and a small, elite group of American airmen are about to determine the fate of the world.FREEDOM'S VERY SURVIVAL IS COMING DOWN TO ONE, LAST-DITCH MISSION.

In the world of fighter pilots, the most alpha of the alpha, competition is everything and the stakes are impossibly high. A Top Gun for the new millennium, LIONS OF THE SKY propels us into a realm in which friendship, loyalty, and skill are tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your afterburners.Sam Richardson is a fighter pilot's pilot, a reluctant legend with a gut-eating secret. He is in the last span of his tour as an instructor, yearning to get back to the real action of the Fleet, when he is ordered to take on one last class-a class that will force him to confront his carefully quarantined demons.Brash, carefree, and naturally gifted, Keely Silvers is the embodiment of all that grates on him. After years of single-minded dedication, she and her classmates can see the finish line. They are months away from achieving their life-long dream, flying Navy F/A-18 fighters. They are smart and hard-working, but they're just kids with expensive new toys. They're eager to rush through training and escape to the freedom of the world beyond, a world they view as a playground full of fast jets and exotic locales.But Sam knows there is a darker side to the profession he loves. There is trouble brewing in the East with global implications. If they make it past him they will be cast into a dangerous world where enemy planes cruise the skies over the South China Sea like sharks, loaded with real weapons and hidden intentions.Early Praise for Lions of the SkyPaco Chierici has written a humdinger of a book. Through vividly drawn characters, he takes us inside a Navy fighter squadron showing their incredibly difficult day to day lives, including the obstacles women still face in this tight knit community....a terrific window into a world very few people see.-The Honorable Ray Mabus, 75th United States Secretary of the NavyFrancesco "Paco" Chierici made flying some of the U.S. Navy's most treacherous fighters look easy. But it's his deep and lasting infatuation with that deadly aerial artistry - and his ability to describe it so accurately and vividly - that set him apart as an aviator, a documentary film producer, and writer. Paco's eye for detail, salty irreverence, and skill as both an aviator and a writer, make this fictional work very real. Strap in for an unforgettable ride.- Dave Hirschman, Author of Hijacked - The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705, and AOPA Pilot Editor at LargePaco is one of the best pilots I know, and a damn good storyteller. Lions of the Sky is gripping, fast paced, and authentic. If you want a real, edge of the envelope thriller, look no further!- Brandon Webb former Navy SEAL, pilot and New York Times Bestselling author.An experienced fighter pilot, Paco Chierici knows what he's writing about here. Fans of military fiction, strap into your favorite ejection seat and get ready for a high speed, G-pulling, missile-shooting thrill ride."- Ward Carroll, author of Punk's War, Punk's Wing, and Punk's FightPaco Chierici's debut novel is an unforgettable story of pride, lust, loss, betrayal and redemption...set today in a carrier-based fighter squadron in combat. Timely and gripping, Lions of the Sky is an exciting supersonic techno-thriller with well-written g-spikes of human drama that kept me turning the pages. Strap in and arm your seat!- Kevin Miller, bestselling author of the 'Raven One' trilogyA high-octane blend of seawater, adrenaline, and human drama. LIONS OF THE SKY comes off the deck with afterburners roaring and never lets up.- Jeff Edwards, bestselling author of 'Sea of Shadows' and 'Steel Wind'