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A nuclear device has been assembled inside Iran. One asset knows the disarm code. Two governments want him — for very different reasons. Cole Ryder is a CIA contractor with a Farsi file, a go-bag under his bunk, and a six-year-old photograph of a woman whose father he failed to save. When a source codenamed FIREBOLT reports that a crude nuclear weapon is moving overland toward the Iraqi border, Cole is sent into Iran alone — no uniform, no backup, no official existence — to reach the physicist who built it before the device reaches its target. Yael Katz is a Mossad field operative ...

A modern Navy SEAL is thrown back to D-Day. His training prepared him for everything—except this. Cole Brannon is a Master Chief at DEVGRU, the most elite special operations unit in history. Sixteen years of combat across four continents. Night vision. Satellite uplinks. Precision-guided everything. None of it explains what he is doing in the English Channel at dawn on the sixth of June, 1944. Pulled through time by a force he cannot understand, Cole wakes in the surf off Omaha Beach wearing wool and a steel helmet, carrying a rifle that was obsolete before he was born. The fleet is ...

February 1968. A helicopter goes down over the Vietnamese jungle. Sergeant Marcus Coleman survives the crash, the fire, and the capture. He does not survive it unchanged. They take his weapon. They take his dog tags. They take the photograph of his three-year-old daughter from his wallet and put it in a stranger's pocket. For five years, Marcus endures bamboo cages, concrete cells, and the ropes of the Hanoi Hilton. He is starved, beaten, and ordered to read propaganda into a microphone. He refuses. They break him. He refuses again. The only thing that keeps him alive is a decision he makes...

Twenty-six men walked into the jungle. Twenty-one walked out. Central Highlands, Vietnam. November 1967. Lieutenant Daniel Elias leads his platoon on a routine five-day mission to secure a remote village. The intelligence says the area is quiet. The intelligence is wrong. What follows is ten days of combat, loss, and the brutal education of a young officer who discovers that command is not control — it is carrying what cannot be set down. A compass that belongs to a wounded point man. A bottle of hot sauce from a dead squad leader's wife. A three-sentence letter from a father who never ...

When the Strait of Hormuz closes, most captains leave. Captain Rodrigo Delgado does not leave. He has 1.9 million barrels of crude and a schedule to keep — and the schedule is the only thing holding his life in a shape he can recognize. His wife died three years ago while he was at sea. He was twelve days from port. He did not turn back. His daughter has not spoken to him since. Now the war burns around him. A Greek tanker catches fire two miles to his northeast. A drone circles the ship for forty-two minutes. Ships empty from the anchorage one by one. Eleven days. One anchor. The strait ...

Vietnam, 1968. Daniel Cofield is nineteen years old, a helicopter crew chief with the 1st Cavalry Division. He will spend twelve months in the air above a war that will never leave him. Daniel arrives at Bien Hoa with sixty-two pounds of gear and no understanding of what waits for him. He is assigned to a Huey helicopter crew — Chalk One — under a pilot who communicates in three taps on the cyclic and says almost nothing else. His crew chief, Lou, teaches him the only rule that matters: The gun wants to fire. You just let it. Over twelve months, Daniel flies into landing zones where the...

November 1950. The Chosin Reservoir. The temperature is thirty below zero. The Chinese have sent 120,000 soldiers to kill them. The road south is seventy-eight miles long. Corporal Oren Lockhart counts everything. Rounds. Steps. Seconds between mortar impacts. Men still breathing after a firefight. He has been counting since Okinawa, since a hillside covered in bodies taught him that numbers are easier than feelings. For seven years, the counting has kept him alive. It has also kept him empty. Then a nineteen-year-old kid from Omaha named Fisk starts talking about a girl. He talks about her...

In 1978, a VA hospital clerk named Thomas Crane made a discovery that would change everything. While processing the personal effects of James "Rabbit" Morrison—a Vietnam veteran who had died alone in Richmond's VA hospital—Crane found something extraordinary: forty-seven letters that had been written but never sent. These weren't ordinary letters. Hidden in Morrison's footlocker were confessions that five soldiers from Firebase Charlie had carried in secret for a decade. Letters to fiancées explaining why gentle farm boys had become efficient killers. Letters to parents confessing to ...

November 1967. Central Highlands, Vietnam. Six men walk into the jungle on a routine patrol. None of them will come back the same. Sergeant Hargrove carries the weight of a brother who came home in a box. Jefferson walks point, running from a secret he's never told anyone. Delacroix reads the jungle like his Louisiana bayou, counting the days until he sees his wife again. Chen carries the radio and the unbearable weight of coordinates that turn men into smoke. Kowalski is nineteen, writing letters to a girl in a yellow dress, terrified of becoming what the war needs him to be. And Tran, the...

Mekong Delta, 1968. Five men on a fiberglass boat. A river that hides everything beneath its surface. PBR 621 patrols the brown water of the Bassac River—searching sampans, running canals, and counting the days. Harlan is the boat captain on his third tour. Pope cleans the twin .50-calibers every morning in the same order and reads Louis L'Amour westerns between firefights. Sugar is nineteen and writes letters to a girl he met twice. Vien is their Vietnamese Navy liaison who sees things in the water that no American can see. When the Navy's new SEALORDS campaign pushes the crew from the ...

"Devastating and necessary. A masterpiece of historical fiction that reads like the American epic we should have learned in school but didn't." In 1873, fifty-two warriors held off the entire United States Army in the lava beds of California. You've never heard their names. That's not an accident. From the bestselling tradition of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NIGHT WATCHMAN comes an unforgettable novel of resistance, survival, and the American story you were never taught. Captain Jack didn't want war. He wanted his people to survive. When the Modoc Nation was forced onto a reservation ...

AN IMAGINATIVE JOURNEY INTO THE GOSPELS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This novel made the Gospels come alive for me in ways I never expected." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Beautifully written, theologically sound, and deeply moving." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Sent me straight back to my Bible to read the real accounts with fresh eyes." A HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO IMAGINE JESUS'S PERSPECTIVE This is not Scripture. Only the Bible is the Word of God. But what if you could walk through the Gospel accounts from a new perspective? What if a gifted novelist attempted to imagine what Jesus might have been thinking and feeling during the ...

From the author of the Vietnam War novel, Brown Water A literary novel about the tunnel rats of Vietnam. Until now. Cu Chi, November 1967. The tunnels run for two hundred miles beneath the red dirt of South Vietnam—three levels deep, carved by hand, invisible from the surface. The Viet Cong live in them, fight from them, vanish into them. The U.S. Army sends men down to find them. Earle Cain is one of those men. A coal miner's son from Virginia, he carries a .45 pistol and a flashlight into tunnels so narrow he cannot turn around. Fourteen inches wide. Twenty inches high. Absolute dark. ...

Dean Mercer was the kind of detective prosecutors asked for by name. At the Woodland Police Department, his cases were clean, his testimony held, and his reputation for excellence reached from courtroom to command. So when the LAPD recruits him into an elite lateral detective role handling the city's most sensitive investigations, it feels like the reward he's earned. Bigger cases. More money. More prestige. The job of a lifetime. Then a woman vanishes from one of LA's most powerful political families. A witness dies under convenient circumstances. A report changes after Dean signs it. And ...

Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls made a choice: steal a Confederate warship or die trying. He was twenty-three years old. Enslaved. A ship's pilot who'd memorized every signal, every channel, every gun placement in Charleston Harbor. That night, he put on a stolen captain's hat, loaded his family and crew aboard the CSS Planter, and sailed past Fort Sumter's cannons in the darkness. If the Confederate sentries saw through his disguise, sixteen people would die—including his wife and children. They didn't. He delivered the ship to the Union Navy, became an instant hero, and met ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Grisham meets To Kill a Mockingbird. I couldn't put it down." When defending your family means destroying everything you've built, how far will you go? Commander Jake Morrison has spent twelve years running from Mississippi—and he's built the perfect life to prove it worked. Naval Academy graduate. JAG Corps prosecutor. Promotion to Commander at thirty-one. Clean record. No mistakes. No looking back. Then the phone rings at 0200. His aunt, crying. Danny's been arrested. Murder. He confessed. The victim: Their childhood mentor, the one white man in Harmony Creek County who...

In March 1968, Soviet submarine K-129 sinks in the North Pacific. The official cause: mechanical failure. The truth lies three miles underwater. Captain Vladimir Kobzar watches his command dissolve as fifteen unidentified men conduct a satellite transmission test that exposes his submarine to American surveillance. He documents everything in a letter to his seven-year-old daughter—the only record he can control. Three days after the transmission, the submarine sinks with all hands. Six years later, American engineer Sherman Wetmore designs the impossible: a system to lift the wreck from ...

“I expected a Pearl Harbor novel. What I got was something far more intimate and unsettling. This book stays with you long after the last page.” “I’ve read a lot of WWII fiction. I’ve never read anything that put me inside survival the way this does. Claustrophobic, quiet, and devastating.” “This book doesn’t shout. It whispers—and somehow that makes it hit harder than anything else I’ve read about Pearl Harbor.” Six decks below the waterline, survival comes down to one breath. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor is under attack. While bombs tear through the sky, Petty ...

Eight Navy SEALs. Five days on a hostile island. Forty mines that will close the Strait of Hormuz. One man who refuses to destroy them — because the children sleeping above the mines are the reason he can't press the button, and the sailors who'll die in the strait are the reason he must. Chief Mercer has a targeting laser pointed at a fishing village on Larak Island. Beneath the village: forty Iranian mines that will shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Command wants him to mark the target. The airstrike is fourteen minutes away. There's a family inside the house. He puts down ...

El Capitán: José Francisco Ortega and the Birth of California sweeps you onto a saddle beside the little-known scout who changed the map of the American West—then asks why you’ve never heard his name. Ride shotgun on Spain’s last great gamble. Feel fog sting your cheeks as Ortega becomes the first European to glimpse the vast, hidden harbor we now call San Francisco Bay—and watch an empire pivot on his hastily penciled sketch. Build a frontier—in real time. March into wildfire heat, mix adobe alongside Chumash brickmakers, and raise the guns of Santa Barbara’s presidio before ...