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La Corée du Nord a les missiles nucléaires à longue portée et est prête à les lancer chez les Etats-Unis. Des emplacements nucléaires et chimiques d'armes sur la péninsule coréenne doivent être détruits avant qu'ils soient employés contre l'ouest par Kim Jong-il et ses alliés de Néo--Soviétique, escaladant potentiellement le combat et forcer d'une coupure avec l'alliance de l'OTAN qui pourrait mener au conflit mondial avec des armes de destruction de masse dans une attaque finale de spasme. Encore un autre récit à suspense de décollage de Dave, le roi de l'action et ...

In September of 1943, the preliminary Allied assault on Nazi-dominated Europe commenced with Operation Avalanche, the code-name for the invasion of Southern Italy via Salerno. It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who considered this region "the soft underbelly" of the European continent and the key to an Anglo-U.S. spearhead, first into Nazi-occupied France, and then into the heart of Hitler's Reich itself. Supreme Commander of Allied forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not of the same opinion as Churchill. Ike regarded Italy as non-essential to Allied victory in Europe. ...

"Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows as much about future military technology and the impact on past and present strategic issues on tomorrow's conflicts as does David Alexander. And nobody has the proven ability and unique flair necessary to put that knowledge and insight into the pages of some of the best thriller fiction going. David Alexander ranks among the most original, bold and thought-provoking authors ever to make a bid for recognition in the challenging arena of thriller fiction." -- Brian Condon, Book Reviewer "Alexander is so far ahead of the pack that they must be howling like ...

ROBERT HUNTER (Grateful Dead Songwriter and Lyricist): "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borgesque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. …His stories transcend interpersonal morality and ethics in a way calculated to elicit the pure subjectivity of the characters, without judgment. Unlike Dostoyevski's Raskolnikov, there is no redemption offered to readers demanding moral resolution. Poe's The Tell-tale Heart and much of Lovecraft's work come closest to what he does. Kafka gets the intellectual setup but doesn't develop ...

Operation Dragoon was the code name for the invasion of France by way of its Mediterranean coastline. Approximately two months prior to Dragoon, the Allied landings at Normandy had taken place. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel -- the famed "Desert Fox" of the Nazi campaigns in North Africa -- had personally seen to the construction of the Normandy's defenses; the infamous Atlantic Wall against which thousands of American, British and Canadian troops hurled themselves in wave after wave of assault formations. The bloody fight to take the beachheads of Normandy from Hitler was ultimately ...

Iran is bracing for war and poised to make an armed grab for regional hegemony. Its leadership in Tehran is preparing to play a secret military trump card. Long in preparation, Iran's nuclear warfare program has yielded an array of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems to drop nukes onto targets in the Middle East and as far away as the continental reaches of the United States. Shock and awe air strikes have so far failed to destroy Iran's hardened weapons development facilities, its protected missile launch sites, or its bomb-proof and hard-to-find aircraft hangars. Iran's vast ...

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AFTER THE NUKES CAME THE SUPERVIRUS ... WEAPONIZED CORONAVIRUS "See the Peak of Destiny!" Faraway gestured at the crest of the rollercoaster where a brace of badasses manned a .50 caliber Browning machinegun nest. "Through this storm of lethal lead the Cowardly Lion will travel after passing through the Pit of Fire." The spotlight fell on the machinegunners who cut loose a full-auto volley to the delight of the capacity audience. "And all the while, Phoenix will be chained to his car, hotly pursued by these fierce warriors you now see before you!" A four man badass crew stepped forward into...

Hollywood was betting a lot on this movie being a hit. It had a big budget and an A-list cast including Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid in the lead roles. To help insure it worked they wanted an author whom a studio chief called “Mr. Action” to rewrite a knotty script and novelize the movie. I, Dave, the “Mr. Action” in question, viewed the movie’s concept as a kind of serious “Twin Peaks” and part of a lineage of mountaineering thrillers dating back to the 1909 Where Snow is Sovereign: A Romance of the Glaciers. The script I got was titled “Going West in America.” I changed...

NOMAD SOURCE CODE FOR THE MATRIX 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION In the "Matrix" room, "Wireheads" with "WIRE" "hardware drug chips" plugged into their bodies await insertion into a totally immersive virtual reality environment. Nomad spelled backwards is "Damon" which is similar to the name for a self-configuring, self-actuating computer program that runs in the background, or throughout the digital space inside a computer. The groundbreaking cyberthriller series by author David Alexander. Nomad: Source Code for the Matrix. Complete and unabridged with additional never-before-published bonus ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - December 2021 The Truth As We Know It: Celia's child, Theo, is continually bullied at school and his new step-father tries to "make a man" out of him. For Your Safety: Zoe is visited by the government for having sexual relations without first filing an "Intimate Partnership Agreement." The Growing And Weeding Of Dandelions: A space arc arrives at a new planet only to find it is already inhabited and must decide to colonize, or keep moving. Prometheus Bound In ISS: A high school student hacks into the teacher network and finds more than he bargained. ...

In Under Attack David Alexander tells the story of the next phase of the continuing war against international terrorist forces. As the book opens, the successors to Al Qaeda are planning a bold new series of terrorist strikes against high-priority military, civilian, government and commercial targets around the world. Under Attack is not only an unforgettable page-turner ... it is also a warning of what might happen tomorrow if America grows careless again. David Alexander -- dubbed "the best damn action writer in the business" -- has a gift for extrapolating tomorrow's history from today's...

A Guided Tour of the Digitized Battlefield "You are tomorrow's soldier. You will play your part in the next major war America will wage." From these opening lines of Tomorrow's Soldier, David Alexander's excellent book on 21st century warfare, the author builds on this theme in a series of eight carefully researched and well-written chapters on combat in the combined arms battlespace of near-future conflicts. Sometimes in clear and concise descriptions of complex weapons systems such as stealth aircraft, main battle tanks and nuclear submarines, at other times in fast-paced narrative that ...

Iran has nukes. We have stealth.... And David Alexander, bestselling master of action, adventure and intrigue, has written Black Manta to deliver a mindblowing high-tech thriller with the shattering impact of a precision-guided weapon which takes the reader closer to the limits of suspense than ever before. This action-packed technothriller features characters and developments that revolve around a plot that's fast-paced, believable and frightening because it might conceivably happen. Iran has developed a lethal arsenal of lethal nuclear warheads and long-range missiles that can be launched...

In his novel Brothers of the Gun, David Alexander has redefined the technothriller. What is more, he has succeeded in writing a novel that is not only a fast-moving adventure tale that stands on its own merits, but which has unearthed the story of an incredible array of pre-20th century military technology that has, in its totality, never before seen publication in fiction or nonfiction. The way he tells the story, these weapons might well give anything in today's 21st century arsenals a run for the money. But as incredible as these early superweapons appear, Brothers of the Gun is no mere ...

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of crimes and their punishments. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job. Community Of Peers: A foreigner wanders into a remote village just before a convicted criminal is about to be punished and is asked to throw the first stone. Form Seven...

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION When spy satellites detect the existence of a nuclear weapon aboard a hijacked cruise liner, US special forces are activated. And when it's learned that the same terrorist mastermind who escaped the destruction of his secret training camps is behind the new threat, it's clear that only one hard-charging commando unit can meet the challenge. TERRORIST HIJACKING The terror chieftain's plan is to sail the liner into the Med and explode the nuclear weapon, creating a global choke point for US sea power that would have fatal consequences for the future of America and ...

A daring secret agent of the worldwide D.A.V.E. spy organization is sent on a perilous mission to save humanity from a weapon as futuristic as a space-based high-energy laser and as ancient as the burning ray of ancient weapon master Archimedes of Syracuse. The action begins in Germany, races across Europe from France to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, then booms across Eastern Europe and roars across the Balkans into Greece, from where it hurtles eastward to the Black Sea port of Odessa, and then rockets into orbit. Plus, this thriller even has its own sound track. So don't wait until the ...

What is War? Nobody can really say. “Everybody was in a different War. Nobody's War is quite the same as anyone else's.” These words were from a Vietnam Veteran counselor. Truer words have never been spoken, so in this book we don't try to answer the question. Instead we bring you thoughtful stories not only of War, but the people affected, and the aftermath. In this book you'll find stories of alternative Wars as imagined by 26 authors of speculative fiction. Perhaps some of them will provide some insight into why we keep repeating what simply seems like a really bad idea.

A novella by David Alexander. Praise for David Alexander's Short Fiction "There are few story writers working today more vibrant, innovative and exciting than David Alexander. His stories jump off the page in fits of sensory attack, spiritual complication, emotional trouble. I don't know where he came from, but I know where he's going -- to the front rank of American storytellers." -- Frederick Barthelme "Alexander is a modern de Maupassant with a Kafkian sense of linearity, a Borgesque bent for the uncanny, and a unique pile of resources to draw on. ...His stories transcend interpersonal ...