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All three grand military SF adventures featuring the Fifth Foreign Legion - on the front lines in the hottest and strangest conflicts in the galaxy. Contains the complete novels March or Die, Honor and Fidelity, and Cohort of the Damned.

Jack was forced to move down the wall toward the front...he could see the young mother's face. He watched her intently as she clutched a little brown teddy bear and a picture of her daughter, who now lay only feet away in a small casket...Sick of a court system that lets monsters out of prison to torture and kill again and again, he decides there is only one way to stop them. Using his own resources, his credentials as a retired police officer, and his .380 Walther, he and his dog begin to hunt-bringing justice to those whom the system cannot control. After all, enough is enough.

Baxter Parish, Louisiana, is a bloody place where family tradition is stronger than the law and pride more valuable than life. Thirty-year-old Jesse Tadlock returns home to Packwood Corners to claim his inheritance after a peaceful, if not dull, 12-year Army hitch. With a steady job, a past love back in his life, and his own land, he thinks he's outlasted the legacy of violence that has haunted his family. But then a neighbor turns up at his door with a loaded rifle on his arm and a bloodthirsty pit bull in tow.

After saving former Confederate officer Ben Winthrop from a lynch mob, black mountain man, Caleb Johnson is talked into guiding him from Colorado to Oregon. He then lets himself be talked into spending two years there helping Ben get his ranch started. But he wants to get back to his little cabin near Bear Creek, Colorado, even though he’ll miss Ben’s wife, Wenona, the Shoshone princess, and her two sons. Finally, though, Caleb puts his foot down. He saddles his horse, named Horse, and calls his dog, named Dog, and sets off for home, a journey that is anything but routine—or peaceful.

Shadows Over Pine Hollow is a gripping Christian suspense novel set in a small American town reborn from darkness. Pastor Ethan Carter arrives in Pine Hollow seeking to rebuild both the church and hope. He’s quickly drawn into the shadows when he uncovers a criminal ring hiding beneath the town—disappearances linked to a crime boss and a web of corruption reaching back years.

Enter the mysterious world of Stinger...a romantic spy thriller with a twist. When a secret shipment of Stinger missiles goes missing near the Khyber Pass, "rogue" CIA officer Nick Daley becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a San Francisco journalist and her former lover, now an elusive Afghan leader with a price on his head. These characters lead us into a realm of intrigue and betrayal, where hidden agendas provide their own kind of veil until the truth is revealed in a shocking climax.

Caesar Wells takes the mantle of The Named's leader, and after six months of intense preparation, begins his assault on The Genesis, intent on destroying the artificial intelligence that enslaves humanity. Others around Caesar have intentions as well, though. Those inside The Named that don't trust Caesar. Those inside The Named that would rather him die than lead. Caesar, focused only on his end goal, can't see the signs of rising insurrection all around him.

This boxed set includes four detailed and insightful writing books by New York Times best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson, two of them coauthored with Rebecca Moesta. Subjects include productivity, professionalism, world building, and collaboration. These four volumes form the cornerstone of the celebrated Million Dollar Writing series from WordFire Press.

A Creole beauty. Eccentric sisters and a black rose. One granny woman and a red button. Church suppers and bingo nights. A poet out of his element. Dreams of Mexico. The shadowy world of thoroughbred horse racing. If the Creek Don't Rise is a collection of hard-used characters, tangled relationships, family angst, and fortitude. Eighteen tales and six vignettes make this collection a skillful and moving exploration of the commonplace, the hidden, and the unforgettable.

Pick up where Hammerhead left off and follow Nick Bradshaw as he and other Government Agents address a new global threat. A few months after the operation in Mexico, Nick Bradshaw has taken a new job at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. On the other side of the world, Don Powers has uncovered a new weapon that threatens not only the United States but other peaceful nations across Europe.

When dreams and nightmares collide, there’s no place left to run. Dawn breaks over Bison Creek, a sleepy little Wyoming town, to reveal a scene of mayhem. Two bodies lying inside the police station. Both brutally killed. One of them a cop. A man covered in blood sprawled on the steps outside. Conscious but disoriented. Beside him, a gun and a stained Ka-Bar knife.

In these 10 stories (three of which appear here for the first time), Levi S. Peterson demonstrates his continuing engagement to take seriously the duty of the fiction writer to illuminate and entertain. His subject remains Latter-day Saints caught between the polarities of conscience and passion.

John Hilt lives the American dream. His corner office looks out on Dallas' beautiful skyline. His amazing wife and children love him. His father and sister adore him. John has it all. Except every few years, when Harry shows back up. Harry wants John to kill people. Harry wants to watch the world burn.

John Hilt's life may look perfect, but his problem is growing; he can't stop killing. And his dead friend, Harry, absolutely loves it. John, lost in this murderous obsession, doesn't see the world collapsing around him. Police officers Alan Tremock and Susan Merchent think they found their man and will do anything to take him down. They're connecting the dots, and realizing wherever John Hilt goes, people die. Only one issue, though: Harry wants John to kill them, too.

To beat an assassin, become an assassin. The deep state isn't pleased with the current president. An assassination would put the Vice President in a prime election position - if intelligence specialist Sean Havens doesn't thwart the power players' agenda. Sent undercover to Martha's Vineyard, a historic presidential summer retreat, Havens is tasked to conduct a recovery under the guise of a routine security assessment in advance of POTUS's arrival.

A team of CIA contractors travel to Southeast Asia to investigate a series of bombings that have taken the lives of Tier One Advance Force Operators. When the mission fails, intelligence specialist Sean Havens is sent to the jungles of Burma to determine the missing soldiers' whereabouts. On the ground, Havens learns of an unlikely axis of Russia, China, and Iran that may have plans beyond illicit trafficking. But is this a ruse to mask a global financial market manipulation to fund elections and buy alliances?

What would you do if the world burned around you while the sky rained down gasoline? John Hilt fled to Mexico, hoping to escape the police investigation centering only on him. If he could get away for a while, perhaps Detectives Tremock and Merchent would look elsewhere. Perhaps the cops' heat on him would dissipate.

Battletech authors launch a new high-octane, non-stop military epic. An alien race simultaneously slaughters Commonwealth diplomats and command officers while attacking a partially completed Fifth Foreign Legion fortress. The surviving troops try to reach the League's primary base, where they plan to consolidate and attack the aliens (in book number two).

Wild Bill Burnham, the Gulf Coast's leading billboard shyster, rakes in millions every year and doesn't care how he gets it. Now he's rigged a trial on the wrong guy. Payback time. A MIT hacker and a former Navy SEAL are on a rampage to rip every dime from Burnham's bones. He's only the first. They want millions more, and they know the lawyers who have it. Zeus is a cunning master of the hacker playbook. Lucky possesses special forces skills for vigilante-style assassinations. They both have a flair for the dramatic.

Black Ops soldiers become unwittingly embroiled in unsanctioned government assassination programs to stage proxy attacks and false-flag terror events on US soil, only to jumpstart military spending for a federal contractor. The story is permeated with JT Patten's personal experience supporting covert activities. Listeners will experience jaw-dropping twists and ultimately question who is good or bad in the blurred lines of morally ambiguous national security.