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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a missile against a suspected terrorist halfway across the world, she realizes that though women and children are in the crosshairs of her screen, she has no choice but to follow orders. Ethan, a young Wall Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to war when he develops an algorithm that enables his company?s clients to profit by exploiting the international...
2) The crisis
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Assigned to improve an undisciplined patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea, Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group find themselves on a humanitarian mission in famine-stricken northern Africa, where a young jihadist coordinates a violent insurgency.
Author
Series
Night Stalkers (M. L. Buchman) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ace-pilot Captain Emily Beale goes undercover as bodyguard to the First Lady, with her rugged commander, Major Mark Henderson, who is determined to cover her back. Can she learn to keep desire at bay before her covert mission implodes?
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When a special mission slowly unravels, it is up to Kee and Archie to get their team out of an impossible situation with international implications. With her weaponry knowledge and his strategic thinking, plus the explosive attraction that puts them into exact synchrony, together they might just have a fighting chance"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Nothing sticks to "Crazy" Tim Maloney, until he falls hard for a tall Creole beauty with a haunted past and a penchant for reckless flying. Lola LaRue never thought she'd be susceptible to a man's desire, but even with Tim igniting her deepest passions, it may be too late now...With the nation under an imminent threat of biological warfare, Tim and Lola are the only ones who can stop the madness--and to do that, they're going to have to trust each...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
World War with China explodes, and Dan Lenson has been promoted to admiral, at least for the duration. China's naval and air forces utilize advanced technology and tactical nuclear weapons to devastate America's traditional sea power, while its massive army swiftly forces humiliating treaties on Japan, the Philippines, and other crucial allies. Lenson is fighting to keep sea lanes open in the Central Pacific, to turn the tide and buy time for the...
7) Lash-up
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond thrills again in Lash-Up, an explosive new novel. In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS satellites. America has only a short amount of time to devise some way of protecting its remaining satellites or China will gain an enormous advantage in the coming conflict. The only way the satellites can be protected...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The latest in David Poyer's acclaimed novels about the modern Navy and Marine Corps, Onslaught chronicles Dan Lenson's latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: domination of Asia and the Western Pacific. As the United States' computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated digital attacks, China and its associated powers begin to roll up and...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 14
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS Milwaukee, is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew takes...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East....
11) By break of day
Author
Series
Night Stalkers (M. L. Buchman) volume 7
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Two new captains join The Night Stalkers with two different strategies in life, love, and combat. When Brooklyn-raised Kara joins the crew, she knows one thing as an absolute truth: to stay safe, keep everything and everyone at a distance. Born in Texas, Justin knows only one honorable way to make up for losing his first crew to a suicide bomber: he flies with all his heart. When Kara and Justin collide on a top secret mission deep in the Israeli...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 17
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A beating heart of surveillance, intelligence, and defensive technology, run by a crack team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. Nothing could prepare director Paul Hood and his Op-Center team for what they are about to uncover, a very real, very frightening power that could unleash new players in a new Cold War.
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
14) Drone threat
Author
Series
Troy Pearce novel volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mediagenic, high-profile gastrointestinal doctor Robynne Chutkan distills the cutting-edge research on the microbiome into a radical and practical new program to restore our overall health"--
"Troy Pearce and his team of drone experts are called to action when ISIS launches a series of attacks on U.S. soil. On the eve of President Lane's historic Asian Security Summit, a hobby-store quadcopter lands on the White House lawn carrying a package and...
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