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The Vikings on the Cotentin try to live in peace with their neighbours, the Franks, but when they are attacked they have to fight. Aided by fellow Vikings they begin to make inroads into the land of the Franks until disaster strikes and the new allies meet defeat. When the full force of the Franks descends upon the Haugr every member of the clan must fight to prevent their extinction.

War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events - a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a French emigre shot in a seedy Notting Hill flat, a mysterious letter written by a British officer gunned down in Crete. With action spanning Buenos Aires, New York, Cairo and occupied France, Merlin and his team are plunged into a dark world of espionage, murder, love and betrayal.

Captain Frank Sherman rolls into a dusty Northern California town to visit his oldest friend—only to find him dead and the sheriff's story full of holes. The deeper he digs, the more bodies pile up. Crooked cops. A corrupt sheriff. A town so rotten it's begging to be burned down. And Sherman? He's just the man to light the match.

Frank Sherman doesn't want to be found. But when a message arrives from Ruby—a woman tied to his last blood-soaked mission—he knows he can't ignore it. She's vanished into a remote Idaho town—and whatever she was running from just caught up. The locals won't talk. One body's already in the morgue. And the people hunting her aren't amateurs—they're pros with money, muscle, and no mercy. Sherman digs in. Bodies drop. And as the lies tighten around him, he realizes Ruby isn’t the only one being hunted.

West Africa is already a tinderbox when Captain Frank Sherman touches down. A refugee camp lies in ruins. Experimental U.S. drone tech is missing. And someone's doing everything they can to make sure Sherman's team never comes home.

They stole weapons and buried the trail. Now Sherman's digging up the truth. Frank Sherman returns to the California desert to visit his dying mother. But when her nurse asks for help finding her missing brother, Sherman gets pulled into something far darker than expected.

Captain Frank Sherman has spent the last year trying to outrun the war he left behind. But when a call comes in about a friend who never made it home, he doesn’t hesitate to do what no one else will. The trail leads from Kabul's collapse to a dark pipeline of human trafficking, where profit hides behind politics and no one’s hands are clean. Sherman's only lead? A cold trail through the Rocky Mountains—and the kind of enemies who never leave loose ends.

It's 1940 - France has fallen, and Britain stands alone against the might of the German war machine; a fierce battle for supremacy of the air rages in the skies as the Battle of Britain hits full stride.

Frank, an Army Special Forces veteran, screwed up, went to prison, and is now out, living in small-town Wyoming and trying to go straight. But then some old "friends" from the big house come to collect on a favor, and everything goes totally nuts, forcing Frank to go outside the law to save the one thing he cherishes most.

US Army Sergeant Harry Archer has been listed as "missing in action" since the Vietnam War ended 40+ years ago. When he suddenly escapes his Vietnamese captors, he's armed with the knowledge of a classified top-secret agreement that was reached between former US President Richardson and North Vietnam's leader. The agreement enabled Vietnam to retain specific POWs with skills vital to rebuilding that country.

In Victory at Hawaii: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, the decades-old question is explored—how could the US be so surprised and defeated on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? And how could, six months later in June 1942, the US Navy deal a crushing blow to the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Midway? We all know that the US had intelligence indicating that the Japanese were going to attack at Midway Island. What if earlier in 1941, America had specific intelligence about the upcoming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and acted on it?