Military Violence

My husband, in a rage, hit me in front of the wrong person. Diego, or Kincaid to most, beat the hell out of him for it. I left with Diego anyway. Even though he could turn on me just like my husband did, I knew I had a better chance of survival with Diego. That was until I realized Kincaid could hurt me so much worse than my husband ever could. Physical pain pales in comparison to troubles of the heart.

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed". In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. In Korea, about 50 percent. In Vietnam, the figure rose to more than 90 percent. The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill.

The World is Dead. The Hunt Has Begun. It started as a calculated attack—terrorist squads infected with a deadly virus unleashed on the U.S. and Europe. But no one predicted what came next. The virus mutated, spreading like wildfire, consuming entire nations. Millions died. The unlucky ones came back. Mindless. Rabid. Driven by a single, relentless instinct—to hunt and kill the few who remain. Hunter, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, was ready to leave violence behind. But when civilization collapses overnight, he finds himself back in the fight of his life. Teaming up with a band of...

The scourge of the Savage Lands, an ancient dragon allied to a gathering storm of dark forces threatening the world of Ruin, becomes the next target of the most fearsome shock troops ever conceived, prepared, and trained for total war: US Army Rangers. Deep beneath a once-fantastic ruined empire, a creature more terrible, diabolical, and malevolent than any myth ever told lies atop a vast horde of wondrous treasure and deadly magic, dreaming dreams of greed and terror.

A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world. Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves. Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight. With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization. During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a ...

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave. You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger, and something stops you. You interview a potential new employee who has the résumé to do the job, but something tells you not to offer the position. These scenarios all represent "left of bang", the moments before something bad happens.

Patrick 'Saint' Humphreys is struggling with the idea of the young woman before him being, well, a woman and not a child. He's known her since she was just a child, and his morality was keeping him from pursuing a relationship with her. Seeing her as a grown woman, prepared to leave the safety of Belle Fleur changes his mind. That and the fact they now have more than a dozen new people on the property who are directly tied to Marilisa and the other geniuses. Someone is chasing them, determined to harness their gifts at all costs. Dead or Alive. Saint can't run from Marilisa. Now when he ...

It has been a year since the initial outbreak of an infection resulting from a failed terrorist attack. No corner of the globe was spared. Millions simply died during the early days of the outbreak, many more survived with most of those survivors turned into permanently brain-damaged feral creatures. All forms of modern society had collapsed, governments no longer functioned, and electric lights and running water become a thing of the past. A handful of survivors with natural immunity to the virus are alone in a world that now belongs to the infected. Hunter Ashcroft, a wounded vet of the ...

Losing a member of the family is never easy. When this loss hits so close to home, the men and women of Gray Wolf decide to take it head on and find the persons responsible. Except nothing makes sense at all. The animals are behaving strangely, the genius kids are acting odd, and everyone seems to act as if something big is going to happen. For Trak, it become personal when he saves the life of a young woman who brings back memories he didn't need or want. As with everything at Belle Fleur, there is magic in the air and this times, its genuine magic. Things are about to change for the ...

Jack "Doc" Harris is one of the most dangerous men to ever come out of the Army Rangers. His skills as a medic are unequaled, but his skills with women are seriously lacking. When beautiful Dr. Aubrey Collins makes him lose all common sense he can barely hold it together. He wants her so desperately he will go to any lengths to make her his and only his. But he never anticipated having to save her life and then keep her alive...all while tracking down a shipment of little girls headed to nowhere good. Dr. Aubrey Collins - Bree to her friends, is about the most inept thirty-five year old ...

The stories of World War 2 will forever be imprinted in our collective human mind. Unrivaled in loss of life, boundless destruction, and decisions that changed the world as we knew it, these stories have gone down in history. From concentration camps to aerial strikes, the war waged in increasingly brutal ways as it progressed. But how much do you really know about what happened during those years? These are the stories you won’t read about in any textbook. The Wanton massacre of civilians and the torture of prisoners of war was only the beginning. It can be easy to forget the horrors ...

Quincy "Zulu" Slater spent his life serving others, first as an elite Navy SEAL, then as a member of the Steel Patriots motorcycle club. But for fifteen of those years he's been plagued with dreams of an ethereal, angelic woman leaning over him. Her sweet lips, luscious scent and striking coloring letting him know she wasn't real. He thought he was losing his mind until the woman of his dreams literally walked through the gates of the Steel Patriots club. Now he would do everything in his power to make sure she was not only safe, but never left his side. Dr. Gabrielle London was an ...

In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.

General Stonewall Jackson was like no one anyone had ever seen. In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause. By middle June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western World. He had given the Confederate cause what it had recently lacked: hope.

1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott.

My name is Gunner Michaels. I'm a hard-core, badass ex-Marine. I love my motorcycle, my gym that I'm a part-owner in, and food. That's pretty much it until she walks into my gym needing my help. She nearly knocks me off my feet but when she turns and runs, I chase her pretty butt down. I've never been affected by a woman like I am by Darby Greer and when I find out she has a little girl who looks exactly like her...I'm cooked. Call me daddy - because I'm done. I've never had much luck with men...like zero. My ex-husband didn't want me, didn't want our daughter, didn't want our life. His ...

Violence of Action is much more than the true, first-person accounts of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Global War on Terror. Within this audio are the heartfelt, firsthand accounts from and about the men who lived, fought, and died for their country, their regiment, and each other. Objective Rhino, Haditha Dam, recovering Jessica Lynch, the hunt for Zarqawi, the recovery of Extortion 17, and everything in between...

Hawk Gunner "HG" O'Neal is feeling a bit left out when his brothers and AJ are married within weeks of one another. He never thought he'd be the one to want a family. He also never thought a woman would show up claiming the child in her arms was his. HG knew immediately that the boy didn't belong to him, but he also knew that the woman was stirring something inside him he couldn't ignore. When he finds out she's in trouble, he can't turn her away. Fighting terrorist drug dealers, traffickers is a walk in the park compared to what they have to fight with this villain. It will change the RP ...

Diego "Razor" Salcedo is in a dark pit of despair and struggling to find a way out from the sick, dark things he heard. With one horrible job behind him, the thoughts still staining his soul, now he was charged with protecting the sister of a man incarcerated for multiple counts of murder. He thought he could push the responsibility to someone else, let them handle this small detail. But when a killer makes an attempt on her life, he can't just let it go. He never expected Isabella Castro. Never expected to fall in love with her and he certainly never expected to have to fend off a deranged...