Owen Parry / Ralph Peters Books In Order

Faded Coat of Blue

Veteran of Queen Victoria’s wars and recent immigrant to America, Abel Jones believed he had left his days in uniform behind. Now, firmly rooted on the shores of his adopted land where American has taken up arms against American in this most terrible of conflicts he has signed on as a confidential agent to General George McClellan, the man touted as the savior of the Union. Within hours Jones finds himself in a dark and unexpected world, where questions lead not to answers, but to other deaths Set against the backdrop of battles and bordellos, of the intrigues of war time Washington and the elegant mansions of old Philadelphia, Faded Coat of Blue reaches behind the myths and heroics to paint a ravishing, disturbing and deeply moving portrait of the United States in the midst of our harshest trial. A determinedly moral man in a troubled age, Abel Jones triggers a drama involving greedy immigrants and impassioned patriots, vicious politicians and the greatest president the country has ever known. His investigation draws him into a web of sinister relationships that reveals a hidden side to Fowler’s life and a shocking secret the youth may have died for. As a nation begins its long march into war and as President Lincoln agonizes over the coming carnage Abel Jones discovers that good and evil are easily intertwined, while heroes may be betrayed by those who cherished them the most. Vividly told, rich in history and compelling authentic detail, Faded Coat of Blue is a riveting tale of crime and punishment set amid the blood and tumult of the American Civil War; a startlingly original work of fiction that introduces Abel Jones, a most unusual crime solver, a true American hero, and a keen observer of a world on fire.

Shadows of Glory

In a snow swept Northern town, Union officer Major Abel Jones struggles to solve the riddle of Federal agents tortured to death, an act of stunning brutality cloaked in fear and lies. Confronted with murder and madness, sedition and seances, selfless patriotism and haunting passions, Abel is duty bound to succeed, even though the ghosts of his own past when his uniform was scarlet and not blue are waiting for him. From the dr ma of Civil War Washington and a divided home front, to the hardship and triumph of Grant’s capture of Fort Donelson, Shadows of Glory magnificently conjures up an American past and brings it to ravishing life with matchless authenticity and storytelling power.

Call Each River Jordan

The Civil War collapses from illusions of chivalry into bitter reality overnight. A Welsh immigrant to the Union and a veteran of Britain’s distant wars, Major Abel Jones survives the battle’s slaughter only to face the riddle of a different kind of massacre. Far from the cries and smoke of combat, forty murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. There is little concern for the lost lives, but political dangers worry the leadership on both sides. The blood may be upon Northern as well as Southern hands. In a country shocked by casualty lists and unready for emancipation, only one man, a plain speaking officer with a limp and a troubled conscience, insists on justice. Ritual murders spur merciless cavalry raids. Political chicanery conceals midnight brutalities. Guerrilla ambushes lead to an underworld of runaway slaves. Desperate men and women make a heartbreaking attempt to build a ‘city on a hill’ in the Mississippi backwoods. And a chain of death proves as relentless as war itself. Call Each River Jordan re creates the torment of a divided nation of shattered families and broken dreams yet the power of the human heart to hope underlies even the darkest moments of danger. A master of authenticity, Owen Parry captures the early reluctance of Grant and Sherman to free slaves as uncompromisingly as he portrays the hardscrabble reality of the Southern backcountry. Whether describing the miseries and joys of a common soldier’s life or recounting a slave’s lifelong humiliation, Call Each River Jordan provides a vivid and startling portrait of America’s past. Expanding the critically lauded panorama of Civil War America begun in Faded Coat of Blue and Shadows of Glory, Parry continues to reach beyond the familiar, cherished myths to depict a nation and its people as they really were: heroes and cowards, the faithful and the faithless, men and women honorable and less so and all of them very human. Suspenseful, swift paced, surprisingly humorous, and populated with the unforgettable characters who have already become a hallmark of his fiction, Parry’s latest novel offers a fresh and haunting vision of a past still with us today.

Honor’s Kingdom

As casualty lists grimly mount in America’s Civil War, the death of a lowly man of the cloth in London attracts an unaccountable degree of attention. Confederate agents seek warships for their struggling navy at any cost. The Union’s representative to Britain the son and grandson of U.S. presidents maneuvers desperately to block them. And a federal officer with a limp and a Welsh lilt returns to the land he once left in hope of a better life. In a stunning re creation of 1860s London and Glasgow that reaches from the worst slums in Europe to the lobbies of Parliament, Owen Parry brings the past to ravishing life. Grotesque murders multiply as Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a well connected Confederate agent or a ghost from Jones’s bloody past in India or both. England’s political leaders including Benjamin Disraeli appear to have a great deal to hide. Everyone seems determined to thwart Jones’s search for justice but are they interested in supporting the Confederacy or in masking personal scandals? The threat of an ocean spanning war hangs over each new crime as Jones struggles to find a rumored warship that would serve the Rebels as a wonder weapon of the age and stop it from sailing. A music hall girl of doubtful morals may hold the answers he needs if Jones, the appalled moralist, can keep her alive. No single identity is certain, no motive unmarred. And psychotic violence lurks behind well tailored morning coats and flawless manners…
. Expanding his fictional panorama of the Civil War into the long neglected international arena, Parry continues to portray not only a war, but a lost world. In the gorgeous tones of a prim, proud Methodist soldier from the valleys of Wales, Parry conjures the sights, sounds, smells, and texture of the age with unparalleled authenticity, irresistible suspense, and droll humor. Featuring historical figures from Karl Marx to Anthony Trollope, this novel brims with the wonderfully rich characters that have become a hallmark of Parry’s fiction. From deeds of hellish darkness to acts of transcendent kindness, Honor’s Kingdom speeds irresistibly from the opening sentence to a startling, shockingly logical, and unforgettable conclusion.

Bold Sons of Erin

A Union general’s senseless murder is swiftly cloaked in lies and the evidence points to Irish laborers struggling to find a place in their new homeland. But the turmoil of war hides layers of dangerous secrets, and a Welsh immigrant nursing wounds old and new must overcome ancient hatreds to honor justice. Thousands of Irishmen serve valiantly on the fields of battle, yet others deny that the South’s rebellion is any concern of theirs. Amid maddening rumors and lingering superstitions, an effort to draft more Irishmen into the army leads to a violent confrontation. A local death threatens to become an international crisis. At the request of President Lincoln, Union Major Abel Jones follows the trail of guilt from a windswept graveyard to the killing fields of Fredericksburg and soon learns that no one really wants to know the truth behind the general’s murder. While heartbreaking revelations tear at his own family, Jones must work his way through encounters with Irish secret societies and past the distrust of men and women for whom starvation and oppression are recent memories. Political agendas disregard mere facts, and even the dead general might not be the man he first seemed. In this gripping novel, Washington intrigue and industrial corruption collide with hints of rural witchcraft and the sorrows of political exile. A wandering beauty who may be mad, a priest with an unbearable secret, revolutionary assassins, and a genuine Irish hero, Meagher of the Sword, are but a few of the vivid characters who rise full blooded from these pages. At once swift of pace and poetic, ablaze with suspense and rich with insights into the human heart, Bold Sons of Erin continues Owen Parry’s tradition of bringing America’s past to life with unrivaled storytelling ability, extraordinary historical accuracy, and a disarming sense of our common humanity.

Red Army

From the cockpit of a MIG to the foot soldiers and tankers on the scarred, bloody battlefields to the four star general commanding the attack, Red Army is a riveting portrayal of modern war and of human strengths and weaknesses. Seen entirely through Russian eyes, this extraordinary novel is destined to become a classic. HC: Pocket.

The War in 2020

In Soviet Central Asia, 2020, a decaying Soviet Union is on the brink of disaster. Their only hope is America’s Seventh Cavalry, who plunge into the horrors of war in the new millennium. ‘The military counterpart of Orwell’s 1984…
. is not for the fainthearted…
.’ New York Times Book Review. HC: Pocket Books.

Flames of Heaven

A novel years ahead of its time, set in the final days of the Soviet Union and heralding the birth of the new Russia, this dark but finally transcendent novel proved controversial when first issued in the United States, but went on to sell out multiple editions in Russia and the states of Eastern Europe, where it was considered the finest and most accurate novel written by anyone about the human tragedies and triumphs at the end of the communist empire. Flames of Heaven follows the intertwined fates of a cynical artist squandering his talent, a failed idealist veteran of Afghanistan, a stunning Central Asian beauty, and a young woman for whom religious faith is her only certainty. This is one of the enduring novels of our time.

Perfect Soldier

Drawing on his inside knowledge of the Pentagon, the Beltway, and the Kremlin, Ralph Peters delivers his most explosive novel yet, focusing on the long concealed Soviet incarceration of American POWs. Deliberately maimed on a goodwill mission to the former Soviet republic, Major Christopher Ritter is headed for another land of intrigue: Washington, D.C. From the Pentagon to the Senate, he’s entering a different kind of war, in which sex, money and influence are wielded like laser bombs. At stake are a series of photographs said to depict the KGB murder of American POWs and the success of a secret, multi billion dollar oil deal. The Perfect Soldier and the perfect pawn Major Ritter stands on the firing line, seeking a measure of atonement in a city without shame.

Twilight Of Heroes

Twilight Of Heroes is a tale of international suspense set amid the recent drug wars in Latin America. The novel follows an American colonel plagued by his conscience, a female doctor fighting deadly odds, a dangerously arrogant American ambassador, a Bolivian playboy who falls in love with the woman he planned to betray, and a teenage assassin from the slums of Colombia. Ranging from the lawless South American backcountry to the halls of Washington, D.C., this is the finest novel or work of any kind written about the men and women whose fates are tied to politics, cocaine, and the gun.

The Devil’s Garden

The headstrong daughter of a prominent U.S. senator came to a forgotten corner of the earth to make a difference and to escape the influence of her powerful father. But Kelly Trost escaped too well for now she has vanished into the dark heart of a small, coreless Muslim nation struggling through a violent rebirth in the wake of the Soviet collapse. No one knows if she is a prisoner of fanatics or mountain warlords or even if she is alive as her fate suddenly becomes the concern of governments and multi national corporations jockeying for power in the area. Only one American, Lt. Colonel Evan Burton, has the courage and the local experience to track down Kelly Trost. Disillusioned by the hopelessness and cruelty of other men’s wars, and by the cynicism of his own government, Burton is prepared to hang up his uniform when the fate of one young woman calls him back to duty. It will prove to be the most difficult and brutal mission of his career, as he searches for her amid the chaos of a lawless country controlled by gangsters, religious zealots, warlords, oil executives, mutinous generals and foreign spies. For an innocent has become a bargaining chip in a cold and ruthless global game, and she may be more valuable dead than alive. Her only hope lies in her fierce will to survive and in a lone soldier who would give his life to save her. Powerful and provocative, rich in authentic detail and breathtaking in suspense, The Devil’s Garden is an extraordinary work of fiction that transcends genre, an unforgettable novel in which the fate of nations tomes down to the fate of two human belongs.

Traitor

A stunning terror bombing strikes a research facility in France, a much admired African American general is killed in a hit and run accident, and Pentagon staff officer John Reynolds finds an old friend now an influential lobbyist drunk and fearful. In short order, Reynolds must face a car bombing at his front door, his girlfriend’s murder, and the wrath of a retired Green Beret general as scarred as he is inexplicably wealthy. Struggling to behave honorably and to resist a beauty as corrupt as any human being on earth Reynolds finds himself at the center of an international plot to sell the Pentagon the most expensive fighter aircraft in history…
even though the weapon may not work. In homage to the great noir fiction of Hammett, Chandler, and Cain, Ralph Peters has written the most rapid fire, hard hitting novel of his career a story of Washington corruption that could have been lifted from today’s headlines.

The War After Armageddon

Shocking scenes of battle unforgettable soldiers heartbreaking betrayals . In this stunning, fast paced novel, a ruthless future war unfolds in a 21st century nightmare: Los Angeles is a radioactive ruin; Europe lies bleeding; and Israel has been destroyed with millions slaughtered. A furious America fights to reclaim the devastated Holy Land. The Marines storm ashore; the U.S. Army does battle in a Biblical landscape. Hi tech weaponry is useless and primitive hatreds flare. Lt. Gen. Gary Flintlock Harris and his courageous warriors struggle for America’s survival with ruthless enemies to their front and treachery at their rear. Islamist fanatics, crusading Christians, and unscrupulous politicians open the door to genocide. The War After Armageddon thrusts the reader into a terrifying future in which all that remains is the horror of war and the inspiration of individual heroism. A master at bringing to life the eternal soldier, Ralph Peters tells a riveting tale that honors those Americans who fight and sacrifice all for a dream of freedom.

The Officers’ Club

Spring, 1981. Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger. The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast off vet who seems to have no future dueling drug gangs along the Mexican border and the mutilated remains of a female lieutenant. Stunning, promiscuous, and brilliant at spotting the weaknesses in others, Jessie Lamoureaux may have been killed by a jealous lover, a drug smuggler or a ghost from a life she hoped she had left behind. Was her murderer the Green Beret she betrayed? The captain whose marriage she shattered? The senior officer hoping to save her from herself? A female sergeant fighting for dignity in a man’s world? Or a fellow lieutenant with a secret of his own?In this gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the land and the laws of the heart, a dark journey leads from a moonlit beach in Mexico to mayhem in Iran then back to a country looking for its soul. The Officers Club captures the passions and confusion of the times, the reckoning due after a decade of indulgence and the commitment of those who stayed in uniform through the bad years. As the military and society struggle to right themselves, their conflicts are embodied in the question: Who killed Lieutenant Jessie Lamoureux?

Our Simple Gifts (As: Owen Parry)

A Union officer struggles homeward through a Christmas Eve snowstorm, haunted by loss and doubtful of the future. Paroled from a brutal prison camp, a young southern soldier yearns to find the one person he loves most in the world and worries over the devastation rumored to have reached his family’s mountain. An immigrant private plans a startling Christmas surprise for his comrades. And a newly freed slave must choose between the desire for revenge and his longing to be a better man than his master…
From northern colliery towns to ruined Old South plantations and the divided loyalties of the Appalachian Mountains, Owen Parry casts his storyteller’s spell with a collection of unforgettable tales celebrating the enduring spirit of Christmas. Moving from darkness toward the light in the grand tradition of holiday tales, these stories are bound to become classics of the American yuletide season. Whether whispering an old fashioned Christmas ghost story or reminding us that not all who suffered war’s losses wore uniforms, the author always leads us back to the joyous beauty the miracle of Christmas. Moving and heartfelt, Our Simple Gifts revives the tradition of Christmas tales for grown ups. As quietly as snow falls on holly, these Civil War Christmas tales will insist on being read again, year after year.

Fighting for the Future

‘ Ralph Peters is considered to be one of the best military minds of his generation…
‘ Newsweek ‘Few have been more provocative or more diligent in pursuit of large and difficult truths…
a strong and clarifying case for radical policy review.’ The Washington Post ‘A thinking man’s Tom Clancy…
a fine writer…
an influential military theorist’ The Wall Street Journal Highly acclaimed military strategist and writer Ralph Peters challenges America’s defense establishment and national leadership with startling insights and no holds barred criticism. His radical reas*sessment of the future of conflict and the kinds of enemies we will face has already excited international controversy and influenced policy. Peters challenges our military leaders to stop dreaming about the kinds of wars they would like to fight. He identifies a ‘new warrior class’ and a new culture of conflict that could undo America on the battlefields of the future. He broadly reinterprets the meaning of strategy. His writing tough, yet elegant makes dramatic new ideas accessible to the general reader, as well as to businessmen, diplomats, and soldiers. Will America win? Yes, but only if her leaders open their minds to the new and dangerous international environment left in the wake of the Cold War. Ralph Peters is a former military officer with extensive experience abroad. He has provided commentary to National Public Radio, The Washington Post, Harper’s, The Washington Monthly, major television networks here and abroad, and to a wide range of military and policy journals. He is also a best selling novelist who has written eight books, including Red Army, The War in 2020, and the recent The Devil’s Garden.

Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World

Acclaimed military strategist and author Ralph Peters assembles 18 essays, some written before and others after the September 11 attacks, which show his writing at its best. Always one step ahead of other military strategists, Peters evaluates the status quo of world affairs and brings his years of experience as an Army insider to bear on the state of terrorism in the world today, and his vision for how the United States should be fighting the war against terrorists and terrorism. Peters proposes an unorthodox view of intelligence analysis, attacks the lie that the American people will not accept casualties, and, in a tour de force, reveals the human side of Clausewitz. Drawing on the experiences of an unusual military career and travel to more than fifty countries, Peters portrays a world undergoing the most dramatic changes in history. Beyond Terror takes us far beyond the intellectual prison of traditional wisdom to offer the most original thinking available on the strategic challenges confronting the United States in the 21st century.

Beyond Baghdad

In Beyond Baghdad, America’s most provocative writer on strategy recounts the liberation of Iraq and analyzes its implications for the future of U.S. military strategy and foreign policy. Author Ralph Peters describes future threats at home and abroad, offers startling insights into today’s most pressing issues, and highlights global opportunities that lie, unrecognized, within our grasp. Written in his trademark style powerful, lively, and accessible Peters’ themes range from the lessons of recent combat experiences to a proposed revolutionary redesign of Washington’s international strategy. Certain to be widely read and heatedly discussed, Beyond Baghdad is destined to become one of the most influential books of the decade.

New Glory

America is at a strategic crossroads. As the world’s lone superpower, we face savage hostility, at home and abroad, from critics furious over our power and success and their own failure. Should we retreat from the struggle for human freedom to please religious extremists, decayed European powers, and an irresponsible global media?

Absolutely not, according to Ralph Peters, a strategist with an unrivaled record of predicting future threats. America s heroic past should make us proud, but we should embrace the possibility of an even greater future. New Glory will augment the old in the years ahead if our leaders make the right decisions today.

In this sweeping, eye opening book, Peters delivers an insider s critique of our intelligence system and our overstretched military before describing an innovative strategy befitting the greatest and most virtuous power in history.

Never Quit the Fight

Drawing on his global experiences from Africa to Iraq, author Ralph Peters attacks today’s crucial issues of our time head on, with the clear eye and blunt voice that has won him a devoted following: Is Iraq worth it? What s the truth behind the politics?
Are our defense dollars buying a strong military or the wrong military?
Are we missing great opportunities elsewhere while hypnotized by the Middle East?
Must we accept that Islam itself is the problem?
Will we face a war with China? What would such a war mean?
Can Washington learn from its mistakes?
These are just a few of the controversial issues Peters takes on in a series of body blows to the status quo. Famed as the most original strategist of our time, Ralph Peters builds on the critical and commercial success of previous books, Wars of Blood and Faith 978 0 8117 0274 4 and New Glory 1 59523 011 4, to offer a stunningly fresh vision for our military, our country, and the world.

Wars Of Blood And Faith

In the no holds barred tradition that has won him so many fans across the nation and around the world, best selling author and strategist Ralph Peters confronts the crucial security issues of our time and the troubled times to come. With his trademark clarity and force, Peters argues that we have left behind the Age of Ideologies to enter a violent period in which ethnicity and religion blood and faith will continue to be the source of ferocious rebellions, genocide, and global terrorism. His compelling vision spares neither our foreign policy nor our domestic follies as he ruthlessly outlines what it will take to protect our country against this new breed of enemies.

Russia is back as an aggressive imperialist power.

We have forgotten what it takes to win wars, leading to tragic, unnecessary failures.

Too many Americans still refuse to take our enemies seriously, even though terrorists and foreign leaders are bent on inflicting apocalyptic destruction on us.

Those enemies will use nuclear weapons, if allowed to possess them.

Religious wars are impossible to prevent because our enemies desire them.

The Middle East is headed for greater chaos, and Israel may not survive.

Civilized approaches to combat no longer work.

Pop bestsellers have read globalization exactly wrong it’s leading the world to divisive crises of identity, not greater unity.

Despite these challenges, the United States will remain the world’s most successful and greatest power but the cost will be determined by our willingness to face a new century’s brutal realities.

Wars Of Blood And Faith continues the ever popular series of works by Ralph Peters on strategy, conflict, and the military published by Stackpole Books titles that have not only excited and informed a wide range of readers, but have profoundly influenced our national security.

Looking for Trouble

Ralph Peters career soldier, controversial strategist, prize winning, best selling novelist, erstwhile rock musician, popular columnist, and old fashioned adventurer has always been good for a surprise. Now, for the first time, Peters recounts the personal experiences that shaped his views of the world, from the collapsing Soviet Union to the drug wars of the Andean Ridge, from quiet forays into Burma and Laos to military missions to Pakistan and the Caucasus and on to the Southwest border of the United States and the meanest streets of Los Angeles. As the U.S. Army’s chosen troubleshooter before he took off his uniform to write, Peters saw the greatest international dramas of our times and the personal tragedies they created from a truly unique perspective and took advantage of every moment ‘outside of the wire.’ The result is startling: the liveliest adventure memoir by an American in decades, a perfect balance of high drama and laugh out loud hilarity. Readers among them his many devoted fans will meet a faded beauty and former favorite singer of Josef Stalin’s, now in her nineties and still a hopeless coquette; KGB officers who refuse to let go of the past in Moscow’s back streets; a winsome princess adrift in a dying world; the corrupt Thai police general whose hobby was imitating Elvis to karaoke machines in rural bordellos; sentimental Caucasian gangsters; oblivious diplomats; wary Burmese colonels; doomed Mexican drug cops; Mennonite mari*juana farmers; lonesome Na*zi widows in Bolivia and their Jewish friends; Muslim fundamentalists who write love poetry to imagined sweethearts…
and, above all, the author’s two loyal brothers in arms who sometimes shared the dangers and the wonder at the ‘back of beyond’ and whose remarkable personal backgrounds, dashingly eccentric personalities, and appetite for adventure explode every cliche about military officers. Beautifully written and hauntingly told, Looking for Trouble is simply the book Ralph Peters was born to write. We can all be glad that he came back alive to write it.

Endless War

Endless War features controversial strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular, raising perceptive, often shocking questions others fear to ask. In a sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim triumphs a thousand years ago through the turning of the tide between East and West to the brutal unconventional struggles of today and tomorrow, former Military Intelligence Officer Peters extends his successful series of books on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness. Endless War engages the toughest security issues of our time, including, Does our Afghan war make sense? Do we even have a strategy? Has flawed military planning left our troops as virtual hostages in combat zones? Can Israel survive? What would an Iranian nuclear arsenal mean for the world? Is Islam a ‘religion of peace,’ or has the war between Islam and Western Civilization continued virtually without interruption for almost fourteen centuries? Why doesn’t the greatest superpower in history win more often? Are we our own worst enemies? Have we lost our sense of warfare’s reality? Why don’t we fight to win? Do terrorist prisoners really deserve better treatment than American citizens? What’s the true price of striking serious history courses from our schools? Who does deeper damage to the United States, our violent enemies or an arrogant ruling elite?In powerful prose combining clarity with passion, Ralph Peters continues to shape our country’s military and strategic thought, while standing up for our troops and American values. No book on strategy or foreign affairs this year will be fiercer or more brutally honest. As ever more dark clouds gather over the world, this is a voice we need!

Combat

As the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of this new age, policing not only its own shores but the rest of the world as well. And spearheading this overwatch are the men and women of America’s armed forces, the ‘troops on the wall,’ who will go anywhere, anytime, and do whatever it takes to protect not only our nation but the rest of the free world. Now, for the first time, Combat brings the best military fiction authors together to reveal how war will be fought in the twenty first century. From the down and dirty ‘ground pounders’ of the U.S. Armored Cavalry to the new frontiers of warfare, including outer space and the Internet, ten authors whose novels define the military fiction genre have written all new short stories about the men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom:Larry Bond takes us into the wild frontier of space warfare, where American soldiers fight a dangerous zero gee battle with a tenacious enemy that threatens every free nation on Earth. Dale Brown lets us inside a world that few people see, that of a military promotion board, and shows us how the fate of an EB 52 Megafortress pilot’s career can depend on a man he’s never met, even as the pilot takes on the newest threat to American forces in the Persian Gulf a Russian stealth bomber. James Cobb finds a lone U.S. Armored Cavalry scout unit that is the only military force standing between a defenseless African nation and an aggressive Algerian recon division. Stephen Coonts tells of the unlikely partnership between an ex Marine sniper and a female military pilot who team up to kill the terrorists who murdered her parents. But, out in the Libyan desert, all is not as it seems, and these two must use their skills just to stay alive. Harold W. Coyle reports in from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited by the U.S. Army to Combat the growing swarm of hackers and their shadowy masters who orchestrate their brand of online terrorism around the world. David Hagberg brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the C.I.A. director becomes entangled in the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. When a revolutionary leader is rescued from a Chinese prison, the Chinese government pushes the United States to the brink of war, and McGarvey has to make a choice with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Dean Ing reveals a scenario that could have been torn right from today’s headlines. In Oakland, a private investigator teams up with a bounty hunter and F.B.I. agent to find a missing marine engineer. What they uncover is the shadow of terrorism looming over America and a conspiracy that threatens thousands of innocent lives. Ralph Peters takes us to the war torn Balkan states, where a U.S. Army observer sent to keep an eye on the civil war is taken on a guided tour of the country at gunpoint. Captured by the very people he is there to monitor, he learns just how far people will go for their idea of freedom.R.J. Pineiro takes us to the far reaches of space, where a lone terrorist holds the world hostage from a nuclear missle equipped platform. To stop him, a pilot agrees to a suicidal flight into the path of an orbital laser with enough power to incinerate her space shuttle. Barrett Tillman takes us to the skies with a group of retired fighter jocks brought back for one last mission battling enemy jets over the skies of sunny California.

Combat, Vol. 3

As the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of this new age, policing not only its own shores but the rest of the world as well. And spearheading this overwatch are the men and women of America’s armed forces, the ‘troops on the wall,’ who will go anywhere, anytime, and do whatever it takes to protect not only our nation but the rest of the free world. Now, for the first time, Combat brings the best military fiction authors together to reveal how war will be fought in the twenty first century. From the down and dirty ‘ground pounders’ of the U.S. Armored Cavalry to the new frontiers of warfare, including outer space and the Internet, ten authors whose novels define the military fiction genre have written all new short stories about the men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom:Larry Bond takes us into the wild frontier of space warfare, where American soldiers fight a dangerous zero gee battle with a tenacious enemy that threatens every free nation on Earth. Dale Brown lets us inside a world that few people see, that of a military promotion board, and shows us how the fate of an EB 52 Megafortress pilot’s career can depend on a man he’s never met, even as the pilot takes on the newest threat to American forces in the Persian Gulf a Russian stealth bomber. James Cobb finds a lone U.S. Armored Cavalry scout unit that is the only military force standing between a defenseless African nation and an aggressive Algerian recon division. Stephen Coonts tells of the unlikely partnership between an ex Marine sniper and a female military pilot who team up to kill the terrorists who murdered her parents. But, out in the Libyan desert, all is not as it seems, and these two must use their skills just to stay alive. Harold W. Coyle reports in from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited by the U.S. Army to combat the growing swarm of hackers and their shadowy masters who orchestrate their brand of online terrorism around the world. David Hagberg brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the C.I.A. director becomes entangled in the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. When a revolutionary leader is rescued from a Chinese prison, the Chinese government pushes the United States to the brink of war, and McGarvey has to make a choice with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Dean Ing reveals a scenario that could have been torn right from today’s headlines. In Oakland, a private investigator teams up with a bounty hunter and F.B.I. agent to find a missing marine engineer. What they uncover is the shadow of terrorism looming over America and a conspiracy that threatens thousands of innocent lives. Ralph Peters takes us to the war torn Balkan states, where a U.S. Army observer sent to keep an eye on the civil war is taken on a guided tour of the country at gunpoint. Captured by the very people he is there to monitor, he learns just how far people will go for their idea of freedom.R.J. Pineiro takes us to the far reaches of space, where a lone terrorist holds the world hostage from a nuclear missle equipped platform. To stop him, a pilot agrees to a suicidal flight into the path of an orbital laser with enough power to incinerate her space shuttle. Barrett Tillman takes us to the skies with a group of retired fighter jocks brought back for one last mission battling enemy jets over the skies of sunny California.

Victory

Victory: Volume ThreeForeword by Stephen CoontsBreakthrough on Bloody Ridge by Harold CoyleThe Eagle and the Cross by R. J. PineiroFrom The New York Times bestselling editor of CombatA stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. Here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II, in thrilling stories of war as it was really fought. An exciting sequel to the bestselling Combat, Victory brings together today’s greatest military, espionage, and technothriller writers in all original, thrilling tales of World War II great short novels that range from the home front to the battlefields of Europe to the depths of the Pacific. Join Coonts, Ralph Peters, Harold Coyle, David Hagberg, Jim DeFelice, and R. J. Pineiro, in works filled with nonstop action.

On Glorious Wings

Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect of how we live today. Along the way, the airplane has inspired writers in every decade of the twentieth century to celebrate this world changing creation. From the wild first years of aviation when daredevil men challenged each other to set altitude records to the terrible three dimensional landscape of combat in the air through all the wars of this century, authors from around the world have written of the airplanes and the men and women who fly them. Now, bestselling author Stephen Coonts has collected some of the finest fiction about flying in one volume. On Glorious Wings contains stories and excerpts from world renowned authors, including Dale Brown, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louis L’Amour, James Michener, Joseph Heller, Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, William Faulkner, Ralph Peters and Stephen Coonts himself. From the rickety wire and wood contraptions of the 1920s to the possible future of warfare in 2020, this collection invites you to take to the skies with some of today’s most acclaimed authors, including:’Five Weeks in a Balloon’ by Jules Verne: Take a fanciful trip through the air as imagined by one of the great authors of the nineteenth century.’All of the Dead Pilots’ by William Faulkner: One of America’s greatest storytellers looks at Britain in World War II, where a brash American pilot and an unflappable British officer clash over the same woman.’Wings over Khabarovsk’ by Louis L’Amour: The great Western writer also penned many tales for the pulp magazines of the 1930s and ’40s, including this classic of the genre about an American pilot framed for spying on the far side of the world.’An Hour to San Francisco,’ from The High and the Mighty, by Ernest K. Gann: When a four engine plane loses an engine over the Pacific Ocean, what had been an uneventful trip becomes a white knuckle race for survival.’Corey Ford Buys the Farm,’ from Flight of the Intruder, by Stephen Coonts: During the Vietnam Conflict, pilots took lightly armed A 6 Intruders on harrowing near suicide missions against the North Vietnamese army. Here, the master of the military thriller takes you along for the ride inside the cockpit as three Intruders head out to destroy some Russian MiG fighters grounded in Laos.’Power River MOA,’ from The Sky Masters, by Dale Brown: At the Powder River weapons testing site, the jet fighters may fire blanks, but the air combat simulations are as real as can be. Strap yourself in for a ride in the latest in bomber technology the EB 52 Megafortress.’Retaliation,’ from The War in 2020, by Ralph Peters: In the near future, America is threatened by a joint Iran Japan military force that threatens the Middle East and Europe. Saddle up with the high tech, hard hitting cavalry soldiers of the future and their armored, fire breathing future flying machines as they take to the air to raid on an enemy base. With an introduction and story notes written by Stephen Coonts, On Glorious Wings is a must have for any aviation enthusiast.

Victory: On the Attack

Ralph Peters follows a German officer in the starving days after World War II as he makes his way on foot back home, where a defeat far more terrible than the Allied victory awaits him. Jim DeFelice takes us to the height of the war when information was bought dearly on both sides. When an American pilot parachutes into Germany to gather information, he lands right in the middle of the viper’s nest a place deadlier than anything he could have found in the skies above. James Cobb sends a special detail of PBY Catalina flying boats hunting for a hidden enemy radar station that provides the Japanese Navy with an edge in the War in the Pacific. Dean Ing takes us into the world of espionage as the Army Air Force becomes convinced that a Na*zi superweapon can reach New York and Washington. As an interceptor is rush developed, a plane crazy young Texan begins to suspect that someone on the team has an agenda all his own…