Showing results for "The Shadow" in War & Military

Only one man can foil a plot set to change the course of history.... Ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope is enjoying life at Le Val, the facility in Northern France where he trains others in the dangerous art of hostage rescue, until a chance incident forces him to take on the role of bodyguard to the Swiss billionaire Maximilian Steiner. The victim of a recent abduction attempt, Steiner believes that a neo-Nazi terror group are bent on seizing a prized document from his personal collection.

As Imperial Rome forges its empire upon the ashes of war, its provinces feverish with religion, ambition and a thirst for power compete in the shadows without conscience. Save for one. An adopted Jew of a long dead son of Rome who is playing a dangerous game. Driven by a vision he is certain is the future if he does not act, he is forced to make an unlikely alliance. An alliance that is fated to bring unwelcome attention. Not all those seeking prominence in Rome are men. At great personal cost, a provincial governor and his unwitting sons will be caught in the middle.

Wall of Hadrian, Britannia, AD 367. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus is scouting north of the Wall when he first sees the smoke. Riding south he finds a province in chaos, the local populace in flight, the soldiers absent. Britannia is ablaze, overrun with barbarians and Valentia is the word on everyone’s lips. But no one seems to have the first clue what it means... Victorinus may have let his life run to ruin and drunk his youth away, but now he must forge himself into the soldier he always wanted to be, the hero his children think he is.

Europe has spiraled into chaos. A conspiracy years in the making combined with general unrest led to upheaval and revolution. In the midst of the murderous disorder, mercenary Michael Valentine is in Europe with a small team of his Exodus personnel, trying to track down the evil and highly dangerous Katarina Montalban. She has initiated a mysterious plot to do away with those who stand between her and ultimate power. The team is on their own, with few friends and few resources - and racing against the clock.

Deep below the Indian Ocean lies a rusted shipwreck with a dark secret. A very dark secret. In its hold, a fortune in Nazi gold. A rogue Russian agent, determined to grab it. An insurance investigator on a mission of mercy, and two formidable forces are about to collide. What could possibly go wrong?

For David Rivers and his team, the mission was supposed to be simple—retrieve a defecting militia leader and deliver him to CIA interrogators. But nothing is simple in Yemen, where vast swaths of terrain are controlled by Houthi and Al Qaeda fighters. When they locate the asset, the team discovers why he has been deemed critical to their intelligence effort.

An Evil Shadow Falls is the final part of the Sam Holloway trilogy, in which the former Special Forces officer and her team of warrior contractors face their most dangerous mission yet, in a wild adventure that starts in London and ends in armed intervention and death on the high seas.

When a suicide bomber shatters the peace of a winter afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone - a mysterious figure named The Emissary wants to play. Nick and his covert unit - the Triple Seven Chase team - soon find themselves drawn into battle against an unknown opponent who has resurrected an ancient order of assassins: The legendary Hashashin.

Shadow Soldiers is a series of novellas focused on exploring the world of the soldier, especially how their code of ethics is affected by the challenges of real evil in the world today. More morality plays than action-adventure, these episodic stories ask the audience to judge their role in the world's challenges.

Three orphans of mixed race struggle to survive on the streets of Saigon amidst the calamity of war, the total rejection of their culture, and adversaries that hunt them daily. Will they live to see the sunrise of another day? That is the question that haunts them during their constant struggle.

In the background of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Iraq, with a dedicated soldier as their pawn, two powerful men play a high-stakes game. One works on the side of good, corrupted when he realizes what he could gain by utilizing his position to his own advantage. The other has been working for years, patiently waiting for his chance to possess his prize. But which of them is the lesser of two evils? The young soldier struggles to figure out who to trust when the line between right and wrong is blurred by a shadow that grows darker with each carefully crafted lie.

When his former senior chief, Steve Auger, is brutally assassinated, former Navy SEAL officer Matthew Barrett has a choice to make. He can slide back into an all too familiar pattern of alcohol abuse and depression, or he can shake his demons and hunt down the murderers responsible for his friend’s death.

April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Two trains. One treasure. And a question worth millions. As the US Civil War was drawing to a close, and Grant was about to take Richmond, two trains left the city in the dark of night. One carried Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. The other carried the Confederate Treasury guarded by a young midshipman from the CSA Navy. A few weeks later, Davis was captured by Federal troops near Irwinville, Georgia, and the treasure...was gone. People have been speculating on what happened to the Confederate treasure for decades.

How he put his fist through the oak-panel of the game-room door; how, when Long Merridew was carrying the ball, he caught up Merridew, ball and all, and ran swiftly past every opponent to the goal. It did not seem fit to us that such a one as he should trouble his head about spondees and dactyls, or care to know who signed Magna Charta. When he said in open class that King Alfred was the man, we little boys all felt that very likely it was so, and that perhaps Jim knew more about it than the man who wrote the book.

An exciting epic action adventure awaits fans of international crime stories that starch into a contemporary semi-military thriller fraught with wild car chases, gun battles, and a plan to exact revenge from America on a monumental scale. Capt. Kramer, USMC, continues his campaign to bring down the Valdiron criminal empire, at a terrible cost to himself. However, this time he faces a woman’s thirst for revenge that unleashes a plan that makes 9/11 pale in comparison - but she is not finished. She has one more target in her sights. The fight reaches new heights.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos --César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás--, son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos -César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás- , son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

Shadow was in a living nightmare. Groomed as a child to be a cold-blooded killer by "The Foundation." Trained to act without emotion, and tasked with finding proof of crimes against humanity in Communist East Germany. The evidence was a double-edged sword. Cold War in name only, this was an active and brutal battleground. One that Shadow would triumph over, living to see freedom in the form of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Section 8: The men and women called upon by The Organization to do the impossible. They are the soldiers with nothing to lose, making up a top–secret unit. Captain Jim Vaughn is an officer in disgrace. Forced into the shadows by the scandal, Vaughn is offered a chance to redeem himself when he is approached by a government agent working for The Organization. Vaughn is soon shocked when he meets his new teammates. But, this group of misfits has been assembled for two reasons - they are skilled and they are expendable.

In a near-future world ruled by corporate greed and political corruption, The Flock is a covert LGBTQ+ mercenary group that operates in the shadows, taking on high-risk, off-the-books jobs for governments and powerful elites. Bound by their skills and their shared pasts, they fight for more than money—they fight for justice.