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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...

In this stunning thriller by a New York Times bestselling author, the Green Berets, the C.I.A., and the White House face off against a top army lawyer in an investigation that could put the U.S. military on trial—perfect for readers of Word of Honor and A Few Good Men. A battalion of Serbs has...

Being abducted from her home, given a new code name, and drafted into an elite Black Ops training program isn't Infinity's ideal way to start the week - or the next six weeks, as it turns out. Yet, here she is, competing against 25 other recruits in a cutthroat competition, known only as "The Program", for one of five spots on a super-secret intelligence and counterterrorism team.

Colonel Jack Adams crashes an AV-8B, Harrier in the middle of a North Carolina Bean field. The task of sorting out the cause of his friend's accident falls to Colonel Dan Breakheart, the Second Marine Air Wing's Safety Officer. Within days of the start of his investigation, Breakheart realizes that, not only sabotage was indeed a factor, regarding his friend's death, but that it may be murder as well. Using information Jack's wife provides, Breakheart begins delving into the last few days of Colonel Adam's life.

This is a fictional story about life aboard a navy combat cargo ship, where the murder of a navy skipper occurs. The main character is Lieutenant Bob Cantley, who is a maverick supply corps officer. The story takes place in the early 1980s and takes the listener from Bob's entry into the navy through his first ship and onward to his final ship, where he meets up with a ruthless navy skipper, Captain Manzack, known as the Spine Ripper. The Spine Ripper is an abusive skipper, much like Captain Qweeg in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny.

Sid Hansen is a remorseless, death-dealing super-soldier - and he works at Gamestop. That’s right. Kill Team One now has a job in a videogame retail store filled with cranky customers, shoplifters, crying kids, and people who just haven't figured out how to use Steam yet. A global organization of radical Islamists have tracked Sid all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan, where he may or may not have been kinda sorta responsible for just some itty bitty little crimes against humanity. Hell-bent on revenge, they’ve planned the largest martyrdom operation ever conducted.

Some of the homecoming "heroes" have committed crimes against humanity...but now they wear medals, not handcuffs. Camouflaged by anarchy, these malicious acts appear to be safely buried...but the truth, itself, is ever-explosive. One wrong step - or the right one. The Code of Honor neglected afar, is known to haunt a criminal faction. Native soil means nothing....

In a war-torn landscape where death and destruction are the order of the day, Charlie and her elite team are tasked with protecting priceless golden treasures hidden for centuries. With the very fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Charlie must navigate a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals, all against the backdrop of the unforgiving Iraqi desert. As alliances are forged and bonds are shattered, the crucible of chaos becomes white-hot, testing the limits of her resolve and strength.