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Winter, 48 BC. Caesar and his small force are trapped in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Caught up in the dynastic struggles of the House of Ptolemy, the consul has sided with the clever and ruthless Queen Cleopatra. Her brother and fellow monarch, Ptolemy XIII, languishes in the palace, a hostage of Caesar's, while a huge army under the command of the Egyptian General Achillas closes on the city to free him.

Every story has a beginning — though we don’t always recognize it when we’re standing in it. Before the war stories. Before the headlines. Before the hard lessons that would come to define us — there were just a few young kids, trying to make sense of who they were and what they were meant to be. Big Boys in the Sand is where their story begins. It’s where loyalty was tested, courage was learned the hard way, and where a kid named Jack first started to carry the weight that would follow him the rest of his life.

Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking. Joining forces with Waleed, an Egyptian intelligence chief, Sam pursues the mastermind, Habid, who has been sending Gaddafi loyalists to their deaths. As innocent lives hang in the balance, Sam navigates treacherous waters to stop Habid and confront the evil lurking beneath the surface.

Retired Marine Master Sergeant Marcus Johnson returned to his family homestead in rural Alaska after 20 years chasing bad men. Now he wants nothing but to hunt and fish and run his trapline in peace and quiet, and no more war. Meanwhile, lurking deep in a long forgotten bunker in the remote arctic hills is a decades-old secret that could not be destroyed, and was never meant to be rediscovered.

The year is 1935. Beneath the sweltering sun of French North Africa only the tough, iron men of the Foreign Legion stand between the restless tribesmen of the interior with their dreams of jihad, and the innocent traders and colonists of the coastal towns. Lieutenant Crispin de Corville, a secret agent for the Legion, discovers a plot to unite the tribes and win the essential arms and ammunition for their revolt, taking them from the Legion itself.

In the year 1799, British army captain William Mason and fiery Irish convict Sean find their fates entwined. The sole survivors of a shipwreck, they find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Despite their mutual distrust toward each other, both men realise they must cooperate to survive and over time, animosity gives way to a fragile camaraderie. To pass the time, William tutors the previously illiterate Sean in reading, arithmetic, and even French, and he discovers an astonishingly brilliant and poetic soul within the young rebel.

Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp. Kate and Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal danger from the predatory men in her unit.

Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes: DIE RITTER DES VATIKAN. In einer verlassenen Kirche tief in der syrischen Wüste wartet Pater Jenkins zusammen mit einer Gruppe Kriegswaisen verzweifelt darauf, von den Vatikanrittern evakuiert zu werden. Doch ein Trupp skrupelloser ISIS-Terroristen macht sämtliche Hoffnungen auf eine sichere Rettung zunichte. Als letzter Ausweg bleibt ihnen nur eines: Die gefährliche Flucht durch die Wüste, verfolgt von den Soldaten des ISIS, die es auf eine ganz besondere Fracht in ihrer Mitte abgesehen haben.

Operations always start in places that it’s not supposed to. When Staff Sergeant Benjamin Daria and his squad head to Iran, they end up tangling with the Wonkas and Grays. Not to mention the paramilitaries disguising themselves as terrorists. Benjamin and his team will have to fight all sides just to extract a target out of Tabas. Benjamin has to struggle with his time at home. While keeping his team on code. They’re Warriors in a constant global struggle of politics and covert missions.

The black flags are returning. Sinister and apocalyptic forces are massing in the desert wasteland. Radical soldiers are ready to die. Their goal is to take back what they believe to be theirs. Mercenaries join the fight. A young American is torn between two worlds. A decorated Navy SEAL fights the same enemy he fought 10 years ago, but this time it’s with a different set of skills in the CIA.

The Dispersion series continues with Zach going back to the Middle East to clear up a government conspiracy. As tensions build, he enlists the help of the US-based agents. Enjoy the continuation of the saga.

Operating Base Cornucopia: A 300-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment - among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described broke nobody. Then, a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Raven and her elite mercenary group, The Flock, are thrust into a perilous mission to dismantle a shadowy network trafficking stolen artifacts to fund deadly arms deals. Their journey takes them across Egypt's ancient ruins, Ethiopia's rugged highlands, and the vast, unforgiving deserts of Niger. But as they unravel the smugglers' trail, they uncover more than just stolen treasures—a conspiracy that could ignite chaos across the region.