Todd McLeod

A routine patrol north of Da Nang, and they enter a village pronounced deserted. It isn’t deserted, and Charlie is home. The Vietcong and Joe Walker goes after them with his best pal Bo Buc, the West Virginian marksman. Joe runs into a hidden punji trap, and the poisoned stakes deal him a...

Abu Habibi left the Afghan National Army to make his fortune. His scheme: to pillage the nation’s museums of valuable artefacts, killing any who stand in his way. The plunder is put on sale to eager overseas buyers. Habibi’s murderous rampage has attracted the scum and villainy of the...

The war in Vietnam has taken a new and deadly turn. The Communists have acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, courtesy of their Russian allies. American aircraft are going down, victim to missile batteries hidden deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, and they bring in an Air Force...

Pfc Eddie Hawkins has two passions in life. First-person shooters and his job as a cupola gunner in a Humvee in Afghanistan. His weapon is a Browning .50 calibre, and Eddie has acquired a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun....

B Company fifth Battalion seventh Cavalry Airmobile walks into a trap and falls back from an enemy ambush. Joe Walker and the rest of third Platoon fight back hard and pull the VC into a trap of their own making. They make it back to Da Nang, but the Hueys are laden with casualties. They have...

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up...

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop...

A nation in terror is under threat from a new enemy. Tossed out of Syria, the murderous Islamists are looking for new territory. ISIS has arrived on the border of Afghanistan. A battalion-strength ISIS force commanded by a former French Foreign Legionnaire, a convert to Islam, is massed just...

Private Joe Walker and Third Platoon run into an ambush, and this is no ordinary ambush. Waiting for them is a North Vietnamese armored unit. This is a place where no armor should exist for a long, long way. And Third Platoon has no way to engage enemy tanks. Yet they have a radio, and all it...

Six rookie army officers lose their way during a training exercise inside Iraq and cross the border into Iran. They are pursued by a fanatic and vengeful squad of Iran’s notorious paramilitaries – Hezbollah. Rod Cooper’s small fireteam, returning from a successful mission to cripple...

Rookie Joe Walker, 3rd Brigade, 7th Air Cavalry, was finding life in Vietnam tough. The war is building into a major conflict, yet despite his efforts, he feels like a square peg in a round hole. He can’t shoot straight, missed the bayonet course, and nothing ever goes right. He can throw a...

Joe Walker’s call-up papers arrive on the doormat, and within weeks, he finds himself shipped overseas to South Vietnam. It is 1965, and America is putting more boots on the ground to fight the communists who have sent their powerful People’s Army of Vietnam, the PAVN, south. Their aim is to...

SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper is the youngest son of a retired Navy hero, Master Chief Larry Cooper. His brother Daniel is a scholar and an academic, and to the horror and dismay of his family, he converts to Islam. To make things worse, he travels to Afghanistan to teach in a madrassah, the...

The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s army of powerful and vengeful fanatics, have bought a large consignment of uranium ore. The man behind the project, Colonel Ali Hatami, harbors an ambition to restart the country’s stalled nuclear program. His avowed intent, to turn the soil of his...