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Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When the stock markets crash and the American economy falls into a crippling recession, the president must make massive cuts in the federal budget, including the public safety budget. In response, entire communities of armed citizens band together for survival and mutual protection. Against this dismal backdrop, an entire FBI SWAT team is ambushed and radioactive materials are stolen by a group calling themselves the Knights of the True Republic....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"To honor bonds forged twenty-five-years ago at West Point, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery leads an illegal mission deep into ISIS-held territory. Flying across Iraq in a stolen helicopter, Army Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery knows that tonight will be his last mission. He and his crew will either be shot down by ISIS, or court martialed when they return. Sam doesn't care. He can't care. There is too much at stake. As the chopper flies through the night...
6) True valor
Author
Series
Uncommon heroes volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Gracie is a Navy pilot; Bruce works Air Force pararescue. When she is shot down behind enemy lines, Bruce has got one mission: get Gracie out alive.
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
9) Strike force
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 13
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
11) Goshawk Squadron
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set during the height of World War I in January 1918, Goshawk Squadron follows the misfortunes of a British flight squadron on the Western Front. For Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums into his men is simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you're there. Even so, he believes the whole squadron will be dead within three months. A monumental...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As Hitler's Third Reich crumbles, an aristocratic Prussian woman and her child flee west away from the approaching Russian army. Eventually they form an unlikely alliance with a Jewish man escaping from the concentration camps.
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Helen Carlisle, a young war widow covers her pain with the frenzy of volunteer work until the spark of her romance with Lt. Raymond Novak, a WWII pilot, propels them both into peril.
Author
Series
Wings of the nightingale volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bold, sophisticated, and flirtatious, Army Air Force flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies, leaving men pining in airfields all across Europe. So how can ruggedly handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be all but immune to her considerable charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies,...
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Landing in the army hospital after a plane crash, Major Jack Novak tries to win the heart of army nurse Lieutenant Ruth Doherty, but Jack soon realizes that he has his work cut out for him as he tries to break down her defenses.
18) Dark vector
Author
Series
David Slaton and Tru Miller novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"In the wilds of Siberia, a top-secret Russian fighter goes missing on a test flight. The Russian Air Force begins a search, oblivious to their error: they are looking in the wrong spot. The pilot, Colonel Maxim Primakov, has crash landed during an attempted defection.The new chief of CIA clandestine operations, David Slaton, wants desperately to find him, but only one man is in a position to reach Primakov -- Tru Miller, a rookie operator. Slaton...
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