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A single pilot can fly the U.S. Air Force's powerful fighter plane, DreamStar - and he's a KGB mole. Captain Kenneth Francis James - a.k.a. Andrei Maraklov - has been ordered to steal DreamStar, an XF-34 fighter that has the frightening ability to respond to its pilot's thoughts and issue its own commands. It's up to Lieutenant Colonel Patrick McLanahan - the hero of Dale Brown's earlier thriller, Flight of the Old Dog - to remove the DreamStar threat.

Australia has been invaded. While the outnumbered Australian Defence Force fights on the ground, in the air, and at sea, this quickly becomes a war involving ordinary people. Ben, an IT consultant, has never fought a day in his life. Will he survive? Grant, a security guard at Sydney's International Airport, finds himself captured and living in the filth and squalor of one of the concentration camps dotted around Australia. Knowing death awaits him if he stays, he plans a daring escape.

Action and bloodthirsty suspense from the master of the game. Simon Vaughan knows what it's like to fight a dirty war; he's had firsthand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army propose a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn't haven't any choice. If he wants his freedom back, he'll have to conquer a new battleground....

The incredible story of how a handful of men at arms and less than 5,000 archers defeated more than 20,000 men at arms and 20,000 other warriors. The story of how a king won a crown! The last time an English king had come to France, it had been led by the Black Prince. Now a new king, a throwback to those days, contemplated retaking what he believed to be his birthright!

299 Days: The Community, the third book in the 299 Days series, reunites Grant Matson with his family after his wife, children, and in-laws accept that the only way to survive the Collapse is to flee the comfort of their suburban lives and join him at his isolated cabin in the woods. With riots becoming more violent, power outages more widespread, and the military crumbling, Grant and others throughout Washington State realize they must organize if they want to endure.

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.

It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other’s worlds.

The Visitors, the fifth book in the 299 Days series, follows Grant Matson, the Team, and other Pierce Point residents as they adjust to a rapidly changing post-Collapse reality. When the Team is summoned to bust a meth lab and protect their neighbors, they find themselves in an intense crime scene that results in the community having to decide innocence, guilt, and punishment.

Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided.

Bombings in Copenhagen, Budapest, and Rome litter the streets of Europe with dozens of victims. The ensuing investigation into the attacks points the finger at a Saudi banker with close ties to the House of Saud, Saudi Arabia’s Royal Family. A group of US and Israeli operators is soon dispatched to Paris to ensure the banker pays for his crimes, but when things go horribly wrong in the City of Lights it becomes clear the team has been betrayed at the highest levels. The team will then have to find those responsible and make certain they atone for their sins.

This novel is set in the very center of the time of most difficult combat experienced by a United States Marine Corps rifle company. A second lieutenant, only days from training back in the States, is ordered, under fire, to assume command of a company of cast-off marines, all out in the brutal, bloody jungle because of either the worst of luck or the most minor of offenses or infringement.

It's 1996. A terminally ill father desperately seeks answers to what happened to his son, missing for 20 years. He has the names of two Argentine men - one in Mexico City, the other imprisoned on the Colombian island of Providencia - but no one to ask the questions. A missing girl's family have given her up for dead when they stumble upon a Miami newspaper story mentioning two of her friends. One has just died; the other, half deranged, tells a garbled story of sexual slavery on a Caribbean island which sounds suspiciously like Providencia.

Sara Durell is missing. Sara was the best friend of Carol, Jack Cody’s late wife. Cody now shares a deep platonic bond with Sara, whose compassion and counsel have contributed to his emotional recovery in the wake of that traumatic loss. Jack owes Sara...and Sara has gone missing on a deep-cover mission in Afghanistan. When a SEAL team rescue operation goes terribly wrong, Sara and Cody have no one but themselves to rely on as they forge their way across a harsh desert frontier in a desperate trek for survival against the elements and a relentless Taliban hit team on their trail.

What if Genesis was real, or edited before being released to the world? Finding the original manuscripts discloses the location of Eden, the real Watchers, and the Tree of Life. The final journal reveals events from 2012 through 2019. In the future, the Order is ready to release a virus to the world. Jane and her Reapers are trying to stop the end of days. If they succeed, our world is saved; if they fail, our fate is sealed. As the last book in the Reaper Series, the ending or a new beginning will be revealed.

Der vorliegende Band "D-Day Normandie 44" lässt Sie in die Materialschlachten nach der alliierten Landung in Frankreich eintauchen. Die wenigen deutschen Divisionen müssen sich einem an Material und Menschen weit überlegenen Feind stellen. Erleben Sie durch die Augen des Kompanieführers Bergner das erbitterte Ringen um die Küstenstadt Caen.