Showing results for "Brian Scott" in Genre Fiction

When Chechen terrorists manage to smuggle a Cold War-era Russian nuke across the Mexican-American border, the president is forced to reactivate the only unit capable of stopping them: Navy SEAL sniper Gil Shannon and his brash team of SEALs and Delta Force fighters.

Ninety-six hours. That's all the time they have. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have taken U.S. soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers hostage. While a politically savvy U.S. Senator, JOHN CARTER, navigates a treacherous landscape of local politics and a brewing government conspiracy, a Delta Force team led by the experienced SFC EDWARD HERNANDEZ races against the clock on the ground. Facing brutal firefights and the constant threat of death, Hernandez and his team fight their way towards the hostages, while Senator Carter's investigation reveals a shocking truth that puts everyone in greater danger.

Based on a true story. As the Korean War threatens to ignite a global nuclear inferno, the fate of the free world rests on a razor's edge, while on the home front, two towering American titans – the resolute President Truman and the legendary General MacArthur – engage in a perilous battle of wills that could either avert Armageddon or tear the nation apart.

For him, addiction was never a choice—just a means of survival. An escape. When a struggling addict stumbles into a shady pharmaceutical trial he thinks he’s finally found the perfect arrangement—getting paid to get high. But as he sinks deeper into the experiment, the lines between what’s real and what’s just a hallucination begin to blur. With each passing moment Utophine sinking its addictive fangs further into his life. It gives him the life he has always wanted, but nothing comes without a price. And the price for a perfect life could very well mean death.

The Last Letter Before the Silence is a sweeping speculative love story and dystopian resistance epic, perfect for fans of The Giver, 1984, and The Memory Police. Brandy Fischer delivers a haunting meditation on memory, identity, and the quiet, revolutionary power of language.

Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus. As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their coping mechanisms expand to include on-the-job sex, drugs, and a jellyfish. But when copium is no longer an option, @Sa>ag3 & @Jun1p3r turn to a more bizarre form of therapy: intimacy. Meanwhile a stream of ominous warning videos keeps popping up... COMING SOON... hinting at an event that will alter the American landscape.

Are your relationships helping you or holding you back? As his own family turns on him, Scott Calloway has trouble answering this question. After saving his aunt from her abusive husband, Scott finds himself managing her construction company.

Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix are back, 25 years after the CIA faked their deaths when a Soviet deep-cover agent outed the network of world-touring artists couriering sensitive agency documents. Jimi Hendrix is invisible. He was “recruited” for a top-secret Pentagon project after early results suggested marijuana users made the best test subjects.

The Byrnes family has fought fiercely for its ranching empire. And with success comes the fate of empires: The Byrnes have taken in far-flung family members, hired hands, and folks looking for another chance at life. The Byrnes clan has taken their fair share of hurt, too, taking on outlaws too deadly and powerful for the law.