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Black operations killer Will Slater has a choice to make: continue putting his life on the line for his country, despite the unrest brewing below his stoic exterior...or get out. Should he muster up the courage to tell his employers how he feels, accept that he’s rapidly approaching his physical and mental limits, and ask permission to step away from his role as a human wrecking ball? But he knows they won’t let him out, not with the state secrets swimming around in his head.

Jack Kane is a wanted man. Governments want him dead. And he is the last hope for a family facing a ruthless private military organization. A UK football club owned by a father-daughter team finds itself the subject of an aggressive takeover bid. Things get out of control when the buyers turn out to be a company backed by a private military group with links to the Russian government. Jack Kane and Frank Craven are the family's last hope as they try to survive brutal attacks and violent thugs in this life-or-death thriller.

John Beckett's retirement plan had been simple: escape the perilous game of espionage and seek solace in the peaceful Portuguese town he'd visited in his youth. But fate, it seems, has other plans. What he finds in Sao Lourenco is a community paralyzed by fear and in the malevolent grip of the Silva family. After a chance encounter puts Beckett in the family's crosshairs, he is torn between the allure of a quiet life and the moral pull to help the town overthrow their cruel oppressors.

An old SAS comrade finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game. A shadowy group of cyber terrorists have developed a highly dangerous computer virus known as the Prometheus Code. A virus that has the power to completely destabilize European financial systems at the click of a button. Kane's friend Cameron Jordan comes into possession of the Prometheus Code and finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of secret agents, assassins, and government agencies in this edge-of-your-seat action thriller.

After two months of relentless forward progress, Dante Jacoby has not only rebuilt his wildly popular Bay Area bar from scratch but expanded his operations with two brand-new venues in San Jose and Santa Cruz. Then, almost as soon as he has more money than he knows what to do with, he receives a message from a mysterious and powerful source: "Go. Be a vigilante. Consider yourself sanctioned for action."

An arranged marriage was always in Natalya Conte's future. Luca Moretti is charming and considerate. Handsome like the devil, he dotes on her and spoils her. But when two pink lines should have brought them unbridled joy, her husband ices her out. An arranged marriage gives Luca great power. To cement that power, he needs an heir. The quickest way to do it is to make Natalya fall madly in love with him. He will have her loyalty without risking his heart because love to him means weakness.

King and Slater have fought and warred all over the globe, from the desolate plains of the Russian Far East to the extreme altitudes of Nepal. Now, chaos strikes them at home. New York goes dark as malicious code infects the power grid in a devastating cyberattack.

When Matthew Riker returns to Iowa to attend the funeral of his high school wrestling coach, he finds a lot has changed since he last set foot in his hometown. His best friend may be involved in moving drugs, and his cousin is struggling to help at-risk teens. Worst of all, there may be more to his coach's death than the random carjacking the newspapers are reporting.

Eddie's a fighter, an instigator, and—despite his best efforts—an electromagnet for trouble in the fourth book of this monstrous action/horror series. Ever since he learned the arcane council of werewolf elders has been keeping track of him, trouble's exactly what Eddie Brown has tried to avoid. And after receiving a cryptic warning, he knows if he's involved in one more incident, it'll be his last. After a night of violence forces him to hit the road, all Eddie wants is a fresh start. But by his own admission, what he wants is rarely what he gets.

When a raid on an insurgent safehouse reveals a clue to decoding the world's most mysterious manuscript—and possibly a recipe for creating the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—Delta operator Jack Sigler must forge a new black ops team to avert catastrophe, a team of deadly warriors with dangerous secrets—the Chess Team.

1915. The Atlantic. The Kaiser U-boats prowl the seas. Only the Royal Navy stands in their way. The relentless threat of German U-boats has forced the Royal Navy to deploy its most secret weapon: heavily armed and cunningly disguised merchant vessels—the Q-ships. Commander Gordon Campbell, a seasoned officer in His Majesty's Navy, commands the Farnborough, a tramp steamer converted into a Q-ship. Under his leadership, the Farnborough becomes a deadly decoy, luring German U-boats into range for a brutal strike.

Violet Chase has always been off-limits. The girl I wanted... but could never have. In my teens, her father warned me to keep my hands to myself. Boys like me don't get girls like her. His family saved me, and I owed them. Her brothers, my best friends, made it clear where I stood: below them. We had one stolen moment of passion, then I ran. That was fourteen years ago, and I've regretted it ever since. Now, she's back in London, but life for both of us is very different. Her past decade has been filled with lies that she thought were true.

Dante Jacoby is a slave to the trappings of the modern world. Twenty-six years old and hopelessly addicted to booze, cigarettes, and procrastination, he’s squandered every ounce of his potential. His corporate raider father, Dorian, reaches the end of his tether and cuts Dante off as heir to the Jacoby family fortune. His mother, Fiona, is smarter than her husband: she hasn’t spoken to Dante in months. But Dante’s no victim. He knows he brought this on himself.

A midnight call has Leopold scrambling to gather and deploy his available assets. But there is a high-stakes game being played, one at the highest levels of government. The members of Leopold’s original team—Cira, Estella, Yergha—quickly find themselves in over their heads, prompting Leopold to summon Kiera, and then to fetch his wild card: Atlas Hargrove. This caged lion is itching for a new job, something to bring him closer to finding his daughter. With his enemies stacking up and the warden no longer offering his protection, Atlas will jump out of one nightmare into another.

Two months ago, he challenged the Director of the CIA to war, and it’s been radio silence since. Unable to return to the family he loves, he steels himself for the first strike, which D/CIA Jack Raynor delivers in the unlikeliest of forms. Then it’s all-out carnage in dreary Iowa. But in the heat of battle, whispers make their way to Slater’s ears, rumors of an all-powerful puppet master. He hears a moniker, "The Golden One," the name of a faceless serpent who shapes the country from the shadows.

What if The Gladiator smashed into The Highlander, and then careened into Jason Bourne? You would get The Last Roman: Exile. Some debts you cannot repay, even if you live forever. Seasoned imperial officer Marcus Sempronius Gracchus leads the 9th Roman Legion into a bloody battle against a fierce barbarian tribe. It's a battle he won't survive. When he awakens three days later, clawing his way from a shallow grave, Marcus must face the reality of his new existence. He will never see the afterlife...but that won't stop him from dying time and again over the next 2,000 years.

Want to be a god? Start a cult. Something sinister brews deep in rural Wyoming; a movement; a liberation; an uprising. Meanwhile, chasing loose ends in Nassau, King and Slater witness an act so shocking they can hardly comprehend it. They realize they have no choice but to investigate...

Attempting to infiltrate a shadowy private military company, an old foe of Dante Jacoby's dies spectacularly in Saint Petersburg. The CIA asset takes a whole cadre of mercenaries with him to the grave. At risk of humiliation, the Kremlin prefers to suppress what happened rather than admit a sole U.S. operative slaughtered nearly a dozen of their own. Dante himself is oblivious. That is until he gets in a war of his own in sun-soaked Santa Cruz, aligning two separate worlds through sheer bad luck.

From 20,000 feet, the crew of a US Navy fighter jet sees it all. After decades of simmering tension, the uneasy stand-off between China and Taiwan has erupted into a full-scale civil war. Facing defeat, China threatens a thermonuclear firestorm... Only the U.S.S. Cunningham stands between them and World War Three. Thrown into a deadly cat-and-mouse pursuit, the clock is ticking, and the odds are against them. To prevail, the Captain and crew of the cutting-edge stealth destroyer will have to dig deeper than ever before. But will their best be good enough?

It’s been a year of peace. Now it's over. A vicious and mysterious assassin surfaces in the tiny town of Millinocket, and there’s only one conceivable reason for their presence. As King and Slater watch those they know added to the body count, their world begins to shift: their desire for a normal existence is irreconcilable with the brutal reality of their lives. They’re in Groundhog Day, hunted again and again by malevolent forces, and something has to change. Decisions must be made, changes that will shape their lives forever.