Patrick Robinson Books In Order

Admiral Arnold Morgan Books In Publication Order

  1. Nimitz Class (1997)
  2. Kilo Class (1998)
  3. H.M.S. Unseen (1999)
  4. U.S.S. Seawolf / Seawolf (2000)
  5. The Shark Mutiny (2001)
  6. Barracuda 945 (2003)
  7. Scimitar SL-2 (2004)
  8. Hunter Killer (2005)
  9. Ghost Force (2006)
  10. To The Death (2008)

Mack Bedford Books In Publication Order

  1. Diamondhead (2009)
  2. Intercept (2010)
  3. The Delta Solution (2011)
  4. Power Play (2012)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Slider (2002)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Born to Win (With: John Bertrand) (1985)
  2. True Blue (With: Daniel Topolski) (1989)
  3. One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (With: Sandy Woodward) (1992)
  4. Lone Survivor (With: Marcus Luttrell) (2007)
  5. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (With: Lawrence G. McDonald) (2009)
  6. Topgun on Wall Street: Why the United States Military Should Run Corporate America (With: Jeffery Lay) (2012)
  7. Honor and Betrayal (2013)
  8. The Lion of Sabray (2015)

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Nimitz Class

The unthinkable has happened. The nuclear powered Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier Thomas Jefferson, the most powerful warship in the world, home to a crew of 6,000 sailors and navy fliers, has been vaporized at sea in what appears to be a nuclear accident. The loss of life is devastating. It is the greatest peacetime disaster in U.S. history, and the shockwaves reverberate around the world. Yet even as America grieves, Lt. Commander Bill Baldridge of Naval Intelligence, brother of one of the victims, begins to piece together reports that suggest something sinister lurks beneath the surface of this tragedy. A rogue submarine armed with a nuclear torpedo is on the loose, no one knows who commands it, who is on board or how it managed to reach striking range of the Thomas Jefferson. Worse yet, no one knows where it is now. Will it strike again? Baldridge will not rest until he brings his brother’s killers to justice, and as one clue leads to another, the deadly chase is on. Every technical detail in Nimitz Class has been authenticated by Admiral Sir John Woodward, the senior British task group commander in the Falklands War, to ensure that every naval maneuver, every harrowing plot twist could really happen. Chilling, compelling, completely authentic and supplemented with detailed maps and technical illustrations, this white knuckle, read through the night thriller heralds the astonishing debut of a new master of suspense.

Kilo Class

It’s one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built…
silent at less than five knots and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch. It’s the weapon every Third World dictator covets. It’s the 240 foot long Russian Kilo Class submarine, and Russia seems perfectly willing to sell it to anyone including those governments that frequently violate international law. Whenever Moscow sanctions the sale of the sinister Kilo to a Middle Eastern nation, the Pentagon reacts with barely controlled fury. But Kilo Class,the chilling new novel by Patrick Robinson, posits the far greater but no less real threat Russia’s acceptance of an order for 10 newly built Kilos…
from the Chinese. The US Department of Defense is well aware of China’s intention to shut the US Carrier Battle Groups out of the Taiwan Straits and then to reclaim, by military force if necessary, the rich independent island that sits only 100 miles off China’s eastern coastline.A strike force of patrolling Kilos could achieve that objective for Beijing, and two of the 10 Kilos have already been delivered. Kilo Class is about US attempts to foil delivery of the other eight. The President’s new National Security Adviser, the irascible Texas admiral Arnold Morgan, prepares to send the US Navy’s deadliest Black Ops hit squads deep into dark Russian waters. Their missions are executed under the most crushing code of secrecy. One mistake could literally start World War III. The decision is sanctioned by the President of the United States. Now, the world’s three most powerful nations silently lock horns Russia, determined to deliver the submarines to Shanghai for a payment of billions of dollars; China, determined to reclaim Taiwan by frightening off the US aircraft carriers; and the United States, brutally determined that those Kilos will never fly the flag of China above their bridges. Out in the terrible depths of the icy North Atlantic, the US Black Ops nuclear submarine awaits its chance, guided by the silent American satellites passing overhead. Deep inside the remote waterways of northern Russia, a team of elite Navy SEALs prepare an extraordinary operation of destruction and mayhem. Moscow brings in an iron cordon of an escort for the submarine deliveries, as Commander Boomer Dunning, the Black Ops captain from Cape Cod, races his 7,000 ton nuclear vessel beneath the polar ice cap to head them off. Kilo Class is a taut, page turning techno thriller of the highest quality, grounded in fact and ringing with unmistakable authenticity. it is the story of a breathtaking race against time. Peppered with unforgettable characters, it takes the reader into the heart of the control room of a hunter killer Los Angeles submarine. Most important, it reveals the cold blooded brutality of the United States Navy, operating at the top of the game.

H.M.S. Unseen

It’s the deadliest ship in the world. You cannot see it. You cannot hear it. And it’s just fallen into enemy hands. Patrick Robinson became an instant hit with his widely acclaimed New York Times bestseller Nimitz Class and then did it again with his second gripping novel Kilo Class. Now this nationally bestselling author returns with his most suspenseful naval technothriller yet a tense, unpredictable adventure that rivals the best of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown. The most highly efficient and lethal underwater ship ever built even better than the Russian Kilo Class, and nearly impossible to detect the 2,500 ton H.M.S. Unseen is one of only four diesel electric submarines ever owned by the Royal Navy. While out on a training mission off the coast of England, the unthinkable happens: The ship vanishes into the depths, baffling British and American military intelligence, including wily National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. ‘Submarines are very, very dangerous and very, very sneaky. You just don’t want ’em wandering around on the loose when no one knows where they are. You have to keep an eye on them. If there’s one thing that makes me real nervous, it’s a submarine that’s somehow gone off the charts.’ One year later, Morgan’s foreboding is about to be proven deadly. On a routine flight, the Concorde, the world’s safest and most secure domestic plane, disappears without a trace over the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. A few months later the brand new Starstriker jet, a miracle in American aeronautic technology and supersonic travel, vanishes. Both appear to be random, inexplicable accidents, until another plane Air Force Three, carrying the vice president of the United States is blown from the sky. Searching for answers, the brilliant, irascible Morgan devises a chilling theory. Not only is Unseen still out there, but it’s been modified to become the most dangerous anti aircraft weapon at sea. And the admiral is convinced that only one man could have masterminded it: The world’s most cunning and reportedly dead terrorist spy, Iraqi’s Commander Benjamin Adnam, the incomparable operative who hired a nuclear sub and destroyed the carrier U.S.S. Thomas Jefferson a few years before. Determined to stop his old nemesis before he strikes again, Morgan must use all his wits to find Adnam and the rogue sub hiding somewhere in a million square miles of dark ocean water, a mission the admiral knows is about as easy finding a needle in a desert blind. But what Morgan doesn’t know is that the fanatically religious military terrorist has a chilling agenda of his own a plan that will bring these two intense warriors face to face. and only one will come out alive. A breathtaking tale that races from the shifting sands of the Middle East to deep within the black waters of the North Atlantic; from the Oval Office to the bowels of one of the most powerful warships ever built; H.M.S. Unseen will keep readers guessing as they race to discover its powerful, stunning conclusion.

U.S.S. Seawolf / Seawolf

By the close of the twentieth century, China had gathered secret information concerning the United States’ underwater surveillance and guided missile technology. How much the sensitive knowledge would impact China’s military capabilities was unknown. Until 2005. The technology is in production in China’s new breed of intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine sonars, and satellite deep sea observation systems. The Pentagon and the White House are alarmed. The dragon has stirred. At the forefront of the new technology is China’s new ICBM submarine, Xia III, which may have the capacity to hurl a nuclear warhead clear across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. Beijing has made such threats before, but this time, with the new American technology, they cannot be so easily dismissed. And Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President’s National Security Adviser, isn’t going to sit back and wait for it to happen. He dispatches the most lethal hunter killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000 ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the China Sea. The mission bristles with peril, as the Americans prowl through China’s territorial waters, listening, photographing, led by the brilliant stealth and cunning of Captain Judd Crocker. Under his steady hand they are able to elude the People’s Liberation Navy until, without warning, the most shocking accident occurs due south of Canton. Seawolf is suddenly, catastrophically at the mercy of the Chinese, her crew captive, the $1 billion ship in enemy hands. And if the true identity of Seowolf’s executive officer becomes known, the repercussions will cause the biggest confrontation between Beijing and Washington in more than forty years. Left with few options, Admiral Morgan, at the risk of starting World War III, orders SPECWARCOM to send in the Navy SEALs to rescue the Americans at all costs. It is the biggest Special Forces assault force assembled since the Vietnam War. Their orders as they embark on their journey to a remote Chinese island are brutally straightforward: failure is not an option. Success is paramount for the Pentagon, the Navy, the President, and the United States. Defeat, or even discovery, is unthinkable. Featuring an ensemble cast that stretches from the very heart of the Chinese High Command to the control rooms of U.S. submarines and the screaming flight decks of giant U.S. aircraft carriers, U.S.S. Seawolf is epic in its sweep, meticulous in its authenticity, and breathtaking in its pacing. It is a terrifying and thrilling novel for our times.

The Shark Mutiny

Throughout the fifteenth century, China’s blue water navy fleets dominated all the oceans between the Yellow Sea and the Persian Gulf. But for the next five hundred years, it regressed to a dim echo of its glorious past. However, it is now the year 2007 and the Chinese agenda has changed. With a tremendous navy buildup, anchored by a new base in Burma and a $2 billion oil refinery on the southern Iranian coast, the Chinese are poised not only to challenge America’s superiority on the open sea but also to upset the delicate balance of oil power in the Middle East and the free passage of the world’s giant tankers. Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President’s National Security Adviser, is closely monitoring the Chinese when an oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. When it happens a second and then a third time, he knows it is no coincidence…
. The Chinese navy, in partnership with Iran, has laid a minefield clean across the Strait of Hormuz, holding the world’s oil supply hostage. As a global oil crisis ensues, the world financial markets spiral out of control. Mystified by China’s motive yet drawn to action, the United States moves to disarm the mines with a huge display of force, deploying five Carrier Battle Groups, 80 percent of its active sea power. While the sweepers blow out the mines, Morgan characteristically slams back at China. Navy SEAL veteran commanders Rick Hunter and Rusty Bennett lead devastating attacks on China’s Indian Ocean power bases. And at the center of the missions is USS Shark, a thirty year old nuclear boat on her final tour of duty, commanded by Donald Reid, an officer struggling with his inner demons. His executive officer is Lt. Commander Dan Headley, an intrepid Kentuckian, himself on his way to full command. When the brave SEALs are confronted with the unexpected death of their own, the unimaginable happens: the first mutiny in the modern history of the United States Navy. Meanwhile, the People’s Liberation Navy sits and waits for their ultimate gambit, a move so shocking and unexpected that it forces the world to hold its breath. Was the minefield in the strait just a diversion?Featuring an ensemble cast that stretches from the most secretive heart of the Chinese high command to the control room of a U.S. submarine, out onto the screaming flight decks of the great aircraft carriers, all the way to a United States Navy court martial, The Shark Mutiny is epic in its sweep, meticulous in its authenticity, and breathtaking in its pacing. Terrifying and thrilling, it is the most dramatic story of rebellion on the high seas since The Caine Mutiny.

Barracuda 945

In the hands of a navy, it brings instant credibility and respect. In the hands of a diabolical terrorist, it could launch unspeakable horror. Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President’s National Security Adviser, meets his greatest enemy yet. He is a shadowy figure, a former high ranking SAS officer who is both brilliant and determined and the new leader of the most vicious terrorist group in the Middle East. Sponsored by rogue nations, the man formerly known as Major Ray Kerman embarks on a breathtaking plan to acquire a nuclear submarine, train a crew, sail the Pacific…
and bring the United States to its knees. The submarine is Barracuda 945, the ultimate weapon. A jet black Russian nuclear hunter killer, it runs deep, and its silence and speed are fearsome. It can stay submerged indefinitely and can fire landattack guided missiles from below the surface. Invisible to any pursuer, it is nearly impossible to track in the thousands of square miles of ocean water. Morgan valiantly marshals America’s forces, nearly helpless in the face of an 8,000 ton nemesis they cannot detect, a nightmare of modern warfare. Patrick Robinson takes you into the heart of international terrorism with an explosive blend of military suspense, cutting edge technology, current events, and superb storytelling. With Barracuda 945, Robinson is at his very best.

Scimitar SL-2

Amid the Canary Islands lies the massive crater of thevolcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will erupt, triggering a series of events that will lead to a tsunami higher than any in recorded history. This mega tsunami, with waves of more than 150 feet in height, would ravage Europe, Africa, and ultimately the East Coast of the United States, causing immeasurable loss of life and destruction…
After Professor Paul Landon, the world’s most prominent geophysicist, is found with a bullet in his head, it is discovered that Ravi Rashood America’s nemesis and the former SAS officer who is now the head of Hamas has hatched a diabolical plot against the West: to fire a nuclear tipped guided cruise missile Scimitar SL 2, named for the curved sword of the Muslim warrior Saladin into Cumbre Vieja. United States Admiral Arnold Morgan, the retired National Security Adviser, and the Pentagon know it’s not a joke when Rashood, accompanied once again by his wife, the Palestinian Shakira, explodes Mount St. Helens. Morgan knows something even more horrific is to come. But stopping them won’t be easy. Rashood and his Hamas crew are deep in the ocean, in an undetectable sub, which he managed to procure from Russia via communist China. Perhaps worse, a new President, a weak willed liberal in the White House, worries about taking a stand. As the terrorists’ deadline approaches, the newly implemented and unseasoned National Security team must consider the unthinkable. They must assume the daunting task of organizing a mass relocation of major population centers along the East Coast to safer ground. Morgan once again finds himself at the center of a desperate cat and mouse chase, battling his greatest enemy yet as he races against time to locate the silent underwater marauder and stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens. With his trademark authentic research and grasp of military hardware, geopolitics, and cutting edge science, Patrick Robinson is at the top of his game with this new tale.

Hunter Killer

The world’s leading producer of oil is on the brink of revolution…
A Crown Prince, enraged over the careless, destructive rule of the Saudi royal family, is determined to bring about its fall and secretly enlists the aid of a powerful Western ally. France, with its fleet of lethal Hunter Killer submarines, is willing to use whatever deadly force is necessary to shift the power structure of the world’s oil giant for a guaranteed share of the wealth. Blind greed and duplicity have forged an unholy alliance between France’s most able commander…
and General Ravi Rashood, the Middle East’s most virulent terrorist. The terrifying battle for a desert kingdom has begun, as the oil fields explode and the global economy is plunged into chaos. And former Security Advisor to the President, Admiral Arnold Morgan, must lead the offensive to expose the foulest treachery since World War II before America’s worst nightmare becomes reality.

Ghost Force

The year is 2011. An oil hungry world is starving…

and Argentina, with Russia’s help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years unaware that Viper K 157, a lethal Russian Akula class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship killing torpedoes. America cannot sit idle as hell explodes in the South Atlantic and, under the stern eye of Admiral Arnold Morgan, the military’s most powerful weapon is unleashed to hammer Argentina into submission: the U.S. Navy SEALs. The outcome of the unforeseen war that’s igniting in America’s backyard ultimately depends upon her awesome ‘Ghost Force and their successful execution of two remarkable clandestine missions while the consequences of failure may be too terrible to consider.

To The Death

From the 1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson comes his most provocative international thriller and the much much anticipated conclusion of his renowned series starring Admiral Arnold Morgan and his terrorist nemesis, General Ravi Rashood. The hunt begins when a bomb explodes in Boston’s Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, the most trusted advisor to President Bedford, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible for the bloodshed. As Morgan ships the Islamic fanatics to Guantanamo Bay for containment, the Hamas high command hatches a vicious plan to assassinate him once he exits the United States. Leading this attack is chief Hamas assassin General Ravi Rashood. Meanwhile, President Bedford, in a desperate attempt to protect the Admiral at all costs, summons the most advanced and dangerous Navy SEAL team the United States has to offer. And so begins the exhilarating chase that goes beyond the borders of the United States, taking the reader on a terrifying journey through southern Ireland, London, and Scotland. This near future masterwork is a story of mayhem, intrigue, and wanton murder. To The Death is Robinson at his best, always tightening the tension and writing with supreme realism as he works up to a gripping climax to his series an ending in which someone, ultimately, must die.

Diamondhead

When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford’s fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche. Mack suspects that Foche will succeed in his campaign to become the next French president and fears that his election will promote the spread of international terrorism. In addition, Mack has a gravely ill son whose life can only be saved with an experimental and unaffordable foreign medical procedure. So when Mack is asked to help assassinate Henri Foche, he finds himself agreeing. His reward: a chance at survival for both his son and the country. But before Mack can reach Foche, a jilted mercenary group warns the Frenchman of the threat, greatly increasing the difficulty of Mack s solo assassination attempt. Can Mack track down and murder the French tyrant as he has been commissioned to do? Does he have the power to restore his reputation as a Navy SEAL? And will he be able to save his son before it s too late?

Intercept

A left leaning appeal court judge liberates four of the most dangerous al Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay and the CIA field officers track them back to Pakistan’s northwest frontier mountain range. But disaster overtakes them and the four men vanish, to rejoin the dark and mysterious forces trained by Osama bin Laden high in the Hindu Kush. These are men with hatred in their hearts, with hatred for the United States and Great Britain, and they are sworn to hit back at the USA, which imprisoned so many of their high command.A fateful communication from the mountains of the Afghan side of the border is Intercepted by Britain s secret surveillance station on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Al Qaeda is almost certainly planning a new hit on the US mainland. The CIA is at its wits end, all their fears coming home to roost. They know there is only one man who can stop them retired Navy SEAL Lt. Commander Mack Bedford and he is called in to assist on one of the most highly classified missions ever launched from CIA headquarters. Bedford names his price, and once more, the nobility of the man is spun into a breathtakingly fast action novel.

The Delta Solution

The Delta Solution is an action packed novel dealing with the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, especially oil tankers, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. Pirating out of the tiny Somalian village of Haradheere has become a very lucrative, dangerous business, so much so that the village has its own Stock Exchange with a reputed $78 million cash, all in crisp $100 bills, in the town vault. And each time an owner pays big for the return of their ship, the pirates immediately do it again, enraging the Pentagon more and more by the day. That is, until the ‘Somali Marines’ make a big mistake, seizing at gun point two United States ships and demanding a $15 million ransom for their return. Hero Mack Bedford, previously encountered in Diamondhead and Intercept, is deployed to SEAL Team 10 to form The Delta Platoon. His objective: obliterate the Somali Marines in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all.

Slider

Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation’s best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is one of them. The son of a struggling Louisiana sugar farmer, Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable Slider and rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show, like many of his teammates: the catcher, Tony Garcia, fast talking, irreverent prelaw student from Northwestern; Doughnut Davis, the erratic pitching phenom from the University of Georgia, who can throw a heat seeking 93 mph screamer over the edge of the plate, followed by a 93 mph screamer over the umpire’s head; the Citadel’s slick officer cadet infielders, Rick Adams and Bobby Madison; the steel armed outfielder, Ray Sweeney, son of a Maine fisherman; and the Sooner’s first baseman, Zac Colbert, from Mickey Mantle’s hometown of Spavinaw, Oklahoma. In the middle of it all, Jack’s dad, Ben Faber, who can barely make ends meet on his bayou sugar farm, is falling in love with Garcia’s mother, Natalie, the beautiful and penniless classical music teacher from the Chicago tenements. Their budding long distance romance can hardly make it off the ground, as they can’t travel and can’t afford even a phone call. And their hopes for their sons are at odds: For Natalie, it is for Tony to get his act together forget about this school yard game, go to law school and become a successful attorney. For Ben, it is for Jack to land a huge contract in the major leagues. Jack triumphantly becomes the Cape’s MVP, but disaster awaits him when he returns to school in Louisiana. A new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid’s celebrity status and decides he needs to knock him down a peg or two. And he’ll stop at nothing to make it happen. Humiliated, Jack loses his lifelong art, and with it his passion for the game and, mysteriously, his ability to throw. His fastball has become tentative, his curve timid, and the beloved Slider floats up to the plate like a volleyball. It has happened before to pros like Rick Ankiel and Mark Wohlers, brilliantly successful pitchers who suddenly lost it. A devastated Jack Faber is released from the St. Charles College roster. But the Seawolves coaches won’t give up on him. They bring Jack back to Cape Marlin, determined to help him rediscover his lost talent. He finds himself again under the summer sun, coaches and old friends standing by him. But in the end it will be up to Jack. Based on a true story, Slider celebrates the national pastime, a game that can break grown men’s hearts as well as make them whole again.

One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (With: Sandy Woodward)

The bestselling, highly acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed to war with Argentina. In these engrossing memoirs, Admiral Sandy Woodward, Task Force commander from the aircraft carrier Hermes, takes us from day one to day one hundred of the conflict; from sailing through the waters of the Atlantic with hopes of a political settlement fading, and war becoming increasingly likely, to the repulse of the Argentinian navy and the daring amphibious landing at San Carlos Water. The war, which cost the lives of over 1,000 men, has left a legacy of many historical debates and controversies, from the sinking of ships such as HMS Coventry, HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, and the Argentinian cruiser, the Belgrano, to wider issues such as what was it like to command and fight a modern air and naval war, the biggest naval action since World War II? ‘One Hundred Days’ is unique as a dramatic portrayal of the world of modern naval warfare, where despite the use of sophisticated equipment and communications, the margins for human error and courage were as wide as they were in the days of Nelson.

Lone Survivor (With: Marcus Luttrell)

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe, who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers. A six foot five inch Texan, Leading Petty Officer Luttrell takes us, blow by blow, through the brutal training of America’s warrior elite and the relentless rites of passage required by the Navy SEALs. He transports us to a monstrous battle fought in the desolate peaks of Afghanistan, where the beleaguered American team plummeted headlong a thousand feet down a mountain as they fought back through flying shale and rocks. In this rich , moving chronicle of courage, honor, and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers one of the most powerful narratives ever written about modern warfare and a tribute to his teammates, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (With: Lawrence G. McDonald)

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger like rise from a Massachusetts gateway to nowhere housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world s toughest trading floors. We get a close up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal to the floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America s and the world s financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did. From the Hardcover edition.

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