Jim DeFelice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nation's two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. This book traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouri 1,500 miles west to Sacramento.
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A Chinese assassin follows CIA officer Mara Duncan and the scientist she has sworn to protect all the way from wartorn Hanoi to New York City, while U.S. Army advisor Major Zeus Murphy hatches a daring mission into the heart of a Chinese fleet in order to prevent them from landing on Vietnam's coast.
Author
Series
Puppet master novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Boston is hit by a coordinated string of terrorist attacks, robotics innovator Louis Massina leads a team of tech geniuses to deploy every bot, drone, and cyberweapon at their disposal to save the city and bring the plot's mastermind to justice.
10) Shock of war
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Trapped behind enemy lines after fulfilling a mission to sabotage a Chinese invasion fleet, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy and erratic fellow officer Win Christian make their way into Vietnam, where Murphy defies orders to save a woman he loves.
Author
Series
Red dragon rising volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy leads a covert Vietnamese counterattack against China , SEAL Lieutenant Ric Kerfer is sent by the president to destroy a Vietnamese doomsday weapon capable of destroying Southeast Asia.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Kyle and DeFelice have collected true stories of suffering, survival, and triumph from people across America. In embodying the 'American spirit' of resilience, faith and togetherness that has built the nation, these anecdotes profile how love, passion, and service can combine to help us persevere over personal pain and heal our communities. The stories these individuals tell can teach us how to find purpose, no matter the difficulties we face. --...
Author
Series
Rogue Warrior series volume 17
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL is kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico, Rogue Warrior Richard Marcinko and his band of Red Cell International warriors embark on a rescue mission during which they uncover a secret Hezbollah camp and an elusive surprise enemy.
19) Domino theory
Author
Series
Rogue Warrior series volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 12
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
While searching for a Russian army of genetically enhanced assassins, Danny Freah stumbles upon Dreamland's deadliest secret--One Wolf, the most powerful warrior in the world, who Danny saw die more than a decade before.