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From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin.If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin's masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time - warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice and Fire.

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-20th century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil step her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.

The economic collapse started in China. But the world's economies were interconnected and interdependent. Within hours, the collapse had spread around the world. Eldon Waters was a prepper, and had been ever since he married Felicia Gomez. He heard news of the economic collapse as he was getting ready to start a new work week. He knew immediately that chaos and violence would quickly erupt. His first priority was defending his family. He took his marriage vows seriously. He was prepared to lay down his life to keep his wife and children safe. That meant that they would need to escape the ...

The year is 2026. China has taken over as the world's largest economy, while the United States, mired in an oil shortage, struggles to adjust to its diminished role. Then, a surprise attack throws the US into a chaos unseen since Pearl Harbor. As the enemy takes control, the survival of the nation will depend upon the most unlikely forces: the Navy's antiquated Ghost Fleet and a cadre of homegrown terrorists.

It is 1943 and Sweden’s neutrality in the war is under pressure. Laura Dahlgren, the bright, young right-hand of the chief negotiator to Germany, is privy to these tensions, even as she tries to keep her head down in the mounting fray. However, when Laura’s best friend from university, Britta, is discovered murdered in cold blood, Laura is determined to find the killer.

Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.

China's leaders watched the riots and looting that tore through America during the summer of 2020 carefully. The events of 1/6/21 confirmed what China's leaders had long suspected: that America is divided. World War 3: The Dragon Rises depicts how a Chinese EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon attack upon America would cripple the United States. China's leaders also unleash the world's first super-soldiers upon America in World War 3: The Dragon Rises. With altered DNA, these super-soldiers utilize the chaos that has gripped America after the electricity goes out.

In Operation Red Dawn and the Siege of Europe, we see what happens when war arrives on the shores of the US. As Chinese and Russians attack the frontier of Alaska, American forces are stretched thin. With battles raging in Europe, the Islamic Republic, and on their own doorstep, what will President Stein decide to do?

When Kirk McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents so many years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with Vladimir Putin. After Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save the himself, his friends, and the US of A in this engrossing international thriller from David Hagberg.

. A tale of international intrigue that will appeal to military-spy thriller readers around the world, Into Hell's Fire is an action-packed page-turner which pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction. Lucas Martin, a retired contractor of the U.S. government, is recalled to duty to help the U.S. State Department decide its Balkan policy at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo. Hired to accumulate accurate intelligence and monitor the crisis as it develops, little time passes before he is ensnared in a deadly struggle with a sinister, Yugoslav general. Crossing regional borders, ...

In this conclusion to the Curtain series, the spiritual battle lines are drawn between the forces of the light and the darkness. As the immediacy and dimensions of the threat become known in the physical world, there seem to be no good options and deliverance seems impossible, but President Strong calls America to stand before God before it faces its enemies.

The war isn’t over yet. They have allied the entire Middle East under a single flag. Israel is their first target. Then, Europe, the UK, and the United States homeland become targets, not just for attacks but for invasion. This wouldn’t be possible without a new alliance with China, the ability to turn the smart weapons of the world’s remaining superpowers back into stupid weapons, through a thermonuclear attack followed by a biological weapon larger than any the world has ever seen.

When Iran finally develops nuclear weapons it triggers the Last World War, and it will forever change the surface of the Earth. A president impeached. A vice president murdered. A relatively unknown Speaker of the House... A mere congressman elevated to the most powerful office in the nation, if not the world. With all of the political chaos in the United States, one of the world's power hungry regimes decides to play a card it has held close to their chest. Iran unloads five nuclear weapons.

On 12 March 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is conducting routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris ‘Wedge’ Mitchell is flying an F-35E Lightning, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt’s destroyer will lie at the bottom of the ocean. A terrifying new era is at hand.

The World War Offshore...no one knows how it started or who’s behind it, but one thing’s for certain: It’s the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen.

When the world breaks down due to a court case, the FBI agents in Indianapolis try to survive in a country without law and order.

With speculative fiction, the book focuses on the stories the writer conveys to help us understand and make a meaning out of our daily human experiences. The narrative criticism is used as a means of fundamental communication, to also provide a structure for human experience and serve as an influence for people to share common explanations. The book is addressed to people looking for a contemporary literary genre with elements of satire, along with genre fiction staples, provocative, though in order to create subversive and entertaining works.

A leader emerges and solves the world's problems, and then, enemies from all over the world want to blow up his utopia. Find out what happens as things explode throughout the book. This is the first book of a series.