Showing results by author "David Lee Corley" in All Categories

The fire doesn't care who started it. Mac does. Mac Tanner has fought wildfires before. He knows how they move, how they think, how they die. But this one isn't moving right. And when Mac finds evidence that someone set it deliberately — multiple origin points, accelerant patterns the drought didn't create — he goes after them. They almost kill him for it. Now Mac is operating without a badge, without a radio, without backup, presumed dead in a burning Everglades while the people who started the fire hunt him through the same swamp he's spent his life protecting. And the deeper he goes,...

A dying town. A dead man walking. One final chance for justice. A terrorist attack on a pipeline outside a quiet Pennsylvania town tears open the past when it reveals an abandoned mine filled with hazardous waste. Within hours people get sick. Within days they start dying. Local officials deny responsibility. Companies deny involvement. Records vanish. And the town is told to stay calm, stay quiet, and trust the process. Frank Kane doesn’t trust any of it. As the body count rises, Kane uncovers a chain of corruption that runs from corporate boardrooms to town hall offices—men who buried...

“A historical novel that reads like a modern political thriller, full of exciting action, larger-than-life characters, and unforgettable events.” — Kirkus Reviews A Daring Plan. A Deadly Trap. The Siege at Dien Bien Phu. Hanoi 1953. An American fighter pilot, Tom Coyle, volunteers to fly for the French military during the Indochina War. “Just cargo and troops, no combat” that is the deal. Make some money and head back to the states before he and his friend, Earthquake McGoon, get their asses shot off. But things rarely go as planned… French commander Major Marcel Bigeard is the ...

A worn-out veteran forged by a dark past is unwanted until an enemy comes home. Heavily scarred with a voice like broken glass, society has cast Frank Kane aside. A worn-out relic of forgotten wars. He's okay with that. He never liked people much anyway. Renovating a dilapidated lighthouse, he finds peace fixing a broken thing. Hard work. Honest work. The men who kidnapped his niece should have left the sleeping dog lie. Their actions forced Frank to return to his old ways. Unknowingly, they awakened something terrible – a relentless architect of pain who will stop at nothing to find ...

Frank Kane is dying. The bioweapon that nearly killed him has left his legendary skills in ruins. His hands shake. His strength fails. The man who once protected presidents can barely lift the stones he needs to rebuild his lighthouse. When a simple assignment protecting a foreign prince goes catastrophically wrong, Frank discovers the boy isn't just another spoiled royal. Sixteen-year-old Prince Alexander has been trained since childhood never to make a mistake—and it's broken him. He can analyze a hundred tactical options but can't choose his breakfast without having a panic attack. Now...

A conspiracy thriller where patriotism becomes treason A midnight raid on Camp Pendleton. The base commander, his wife, and a dozen Marines dead. Truckloads of military-grade weapons stolen. Enough firepower to start a war or end a government. Frank Kane is back and merciless as ever. But this time his assignment is not so clear… His body ruined by war, Frank is a map of scar tissue and broken bones. A man who sacrificed everything for his country only to be discarded when the fighting ended. Now that same country needs Frank for one final mission: stop Mitchel Walker, the former brother-...

There are those who would harm America. Terrorists. Assassins. Foreign operatives. The Border Patrol tries to hold back the lethal tsunami, but at times it’s just overwhelming. At times, America needs a scalpel, not a sword. That’s Billy Gamble. Billy is a Wyoming horse breeder. Mostly Quarter Horses and the occasional Appaloosa. He is also a Super Matcher, one of five in the world and the only one in America. Better than a machine and more accurate than artificial intelligence, Billy can pick out a face in a crowd and no disguise or even plastic surgery can fool him. It’s a talent he...

The true, untold story of the real beginning of the Vietnam War... In 1945, OSS sniper René Granier parachutes into the misty mountains of Indochina with his elite Deer Team. Their mission: ally with Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas against the Japanese. Side by side, they fight. Some die. Trust forms in the crucible of war. As the war winds down, old powers move to reclaim their colonies. Promises are broken. Branded a spy without a chance to defend himself, Granier finds himself betrayed by the very warriors who once called him brother. Now he stands at the crossroads of history with one bullet ...

Billy Gamble finds people who disappear. This time, it's family. They called it Thunder. Twenty-three million dollars of DARPA black budget. Reactive camouflage. Autonomous targeting. A weapons platform so classified that the soldiers who operated it didn't officially exist. Now it's gone. Stolen from a military testing range by a man who knows exactly what it can do — and intends to prove it on the streets of Washington, D.C. The Pentagon wants it back. The CIA wants it quiet. Billy Gamble just wants his brother alive. Lowell Gamble operated Thunder for eight years. Now he's a hostage, ...

THE STORM IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Wildlife Officer Mac Tanner knows the Everglades backcountry better than his own name. He’s walked every marl corridor and navigated every peat zone in the sector. So when a Category 3 hurricane begins its slow, violent crawl toward the Florida coast, Mac doesn't evacuate. He stays behind to ensure a stubborn old Cajun friend survives the night. But as the eyewall passes, Mac discovers something the storm was meant to hide: a floatplane corridor freshly cut into the sawgrass. In the eerie stillness of the eye, five men in tactical gear emerge from the ...

Eight operators. One wildlife officer. The swamp chose sides. Florida Fish and Wildlife officer Mac Tanner has spent eight years learning the Everglades — every slough, every cypress dome, every patch of ground that looks solid but isn't. When a routine call drops him into the middle of an assassination operation, Mac does what he knows: he uses the terrain. A federal witness. Eight trained operators. One wildlife officer who knows exactly where the ground gives way. The swamp doesn't care about federal authority. Neither does Mac Tanner. PROWLERS — Book 1 of The Glades Series.

In a divided America, the deadliest weapon isn't a gun or a bomb but an algorithm. Stone by stone, former military operative Frank Kane rebuilds a lighthouse on Maine's savage coast. A worn-out relic trying to bury a violent past. Then his former handler appears at his door, eyes cold with purpose. One last mission. Save America from itself. No choice just duty. Behind the glass walls of Helix, one of Washington's elite think tanks, lurks Fulcrum—an AI system designed to predict civil unrest. But Mitchel Reed, a brilliant and ruthless former intelligence developer, has secretly weaponized...

The most dangerous woman in the world doesn't want to be found. The most stubborn man in the world doesn't care. A device that can crack the encryption protecting every cryptocurrency on earth is stolen from a Silicon Valley lab. The thief is a mysterious woman no government can identify. With only her golden eyes as a lead, Billy Gamble — a Wyoming cowboy with a rare gift — is sent to find her. She's trying to disappear. He's trying to bring her in. And a North Korean kill squad is trying to make sure neither of them leaves San Francisco alive. As Billy closes the distance, he begins ...

The law failed her sister. She won’t let it fail again. The system didn't fail. It was bought. Dr. Erika Tsai speaks for the dead. As the city’s Chief Medical Examiner, she deals in cold, hard facts: the angle of the wound, the toxicology report, the silence of the morgue. She trusts the science. She trusts the law. Until her sister ends up on her table. The police call it an overdose. Erika knows it’s a lie. The toxicology confirms what she fears: her sister was murdered by Victor Reyes, the city’s most ruthless drug lord. But Reyes doesn't just sell drugs; he owns the precinct. ...

Justice failed Lily Alcott. The report said accidental drowning. The photos said otherwise. And for Erika Tsai—New York medical examiner and daughter of a woman the system already buried once—those details were enough. Erika doesn’t rage. She doesn’t plead. She documents. And when the evidence points to men untouchable by courts or prosecutors, she becomes something far more dangerous than a vigilante: precise. As bodies begin to fall, FBI Special Agent Kate Harding is assigned to the case. What she finds isn’t chaos, but pattern. The killings are disciplined. Clean. Intentional. ...

Three American backpackers are gunned down in a Lithuanian town square. Within hours, US Navy SEALs snatch the oligarch who ordered the massacre off his yacht and deposit him in a federal supermax to await trial. He offers one hundred million dollars for his freedom. An elite team of private military contractors accepts the contract. Former special forces. Disciplined. Lethal. Eighteen trained killers head toward American soil. Only one man can find them before it’s too late. Billy Gamble. The Super Matcher. The hunt is on. The Eighteen is the second book in the Billy Gamble Thrillers.

"He doesn't speak. He doesn't hesitate. He doesn't miss." Frank Kane seeks peace in silence and solitude. The war was supposed to be over. A key genetic researchers vanishes overnight. Her breakthrough could grant humanity centuries of life. Instead someone has turned healing into horror. The weapon ages victims to death in hours. Murder disguised as time. World leaders debate the ethics of longevity research. Who deserves to live forever? What happens when the poor die of old age while the rich live for centuries? Frank wants no part of it. His damaged throat barely speaks. His scarred ...

A stolen nerve agent. A manufactured cover story. The one man they can’t control. Frank Kane was building a quiet life on the Atlantic coast when a highway ambush in Nevada rips open a sealed chapter of America’s darkest program. The chemical compound known only as Stygian Mist is in play—and the people who moved it will do anything to erase their tracks. Dragged back into the hunt, Frank follows a trail of burned cutouts and dead handlers from the blast-scored desert to the back rooms of Washington, while a ruthless operator called Kozlov clears the board. Every lead points to ...

"Not only are the characters compelling, but Corley skillfully builds tension… using sensory details and vivid descriptions." — Forward Clarion In 1951, the Indochina War rages between French imperialists and the Viet Minh rebels. After several victories, the French Army is dealt its first major defeat by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh rebels. Cautious, China and Russia wait in the wings, watching America’s resolve. Nobody wants World War III. With the French desperately short on troops, weapons, and aircraft, America must wrestle with how deeply to become involved in the growing ...

How far will America go to win the Vietnam War? Torn by terrible loss, an American pilot finds distraction when he develops a new weapon that could change the war in Vietnam. As it appears in the night sky, the terrified Viet Cong call it “dragon.” Will it be enough or is it already too late? After enemy torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin, President Johnson decides to expand the war and bomb North Vietnam. When a second attack occurs, the US Congress gives the president the power to declare all-out war against the communists. But are the attacks real or ...