Wake of War
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Roger Wayne
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Sophie Amoss
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Zac Topping
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Zac Topping's breathtaking near-future thriller, Wake of War, is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to win back their freedom.
It's 2037, and the United States government is on the brink of collapse amid rebel uprisings and aggressive political maneuvering turning the country into an active war zone.
In a nation where opportunity is sequestered behind doors open only to the privileged, joining the Army seemed like James Trent’s best option. He just never thought he’d actually see combat. Now Trent finds himself on the front lines of a second American Civil War, fighting for a cause he’s not sure he even believes in. The last thing he wanted was to spend his days breaking down doors and chasing after fellow Americans—rebels or not.
Retribution is the only thing driving Sam Cross, and her sharpshooting skills have made her invaluable to the rebel efforts tearing their way across the Midwest. With every successful mission, she's reminded that she's enacting real change, but that hasn't made pulling the trigger any easier. And with each step she takes into the heart of the war effort, she can't help but wonder if there isn't another way.
When these opposing forces clash, alliances are shattered, resolve is tested, and when the dust clears, the only certainty is that the country and its fighting forces will never be the same.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this after books 1-3?
- By Tilo on 04-18-15
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Under a Graveyard Sky
- Black Tide Rising, Book 1
- By: John Ringo
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,958
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,791
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,793
Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines. When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family, Steven, Stacey, Sophia, and Faith, take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sorry to say....not so good. :(
- By Chris on 03-07-14
By: John Ringo
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Shooter
- The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
- By: Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. Davis
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 600
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 336
Now Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic battlefield memoir but the careful study of an exceptional man who must keep his sanity while carrying forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. military today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great...if you want another book about Iraq.
- By james on 11-09-05
By: Jack Coughlin, and others
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- By: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,505
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,052
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,042
The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three, the warrior elite of the navy. This legendary unit, known as The Punishers, included Chris Kyle ( American Sniper), Mike Monsoor, Ryan Job, and Marc Lee. These brave men were instrumental in securing the key locations in the pivotal 2006 Battle of Ramadi, told with stunning detail in this book.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, poorly read
- By Dusty on 09-03-16
By: Kevin Lacz, and others
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Level Zero Heroes
- The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
- By: Michael Golembesky, John R. Bruning
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,152
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041
In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley. What started out as a routine mission changed when two 82nd Airborne Paratroopers tragically drowned in the Bala Murghab River while trying to retrieve vital supplies from an air drop that had gone terribly wrong.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Worst narrator ever
- By Bob M on 07-03-15
By: Michael Golembesky, and others
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The Med
- Dan Lenson Series, Book 1
- By: David Poyer
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61 - carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines - steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold - alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Vulgar and boring
- By Caspar Blattmann on 01-24-20
By: David Poyer
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Redemption
- Ryan Drake, Book 1
- By: Will Jordan
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 679
Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a British soldier, he now works for the CIA, leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission - to free a prisoner, code-named Maras, and bring her back onto US soil within 48 hours - is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before. Hunted by his former comrades, Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great female protagonist
- By grael23 on 07-17-20
By: Will Jordan
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Outlaw Platoon
- Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
- By: Sean Parnell, John Bruning
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7,359
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,676
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6,663
At 24 years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon - a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws - and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book...Everyone should listen to this book!!
- By Chris on 04-09-12
By: Sean Parnell, and others
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Tin Man: A Galaxy's Edge Prequel
- By: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6,079
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,500
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,487
In the wilds of a jungle planet, the Legion fights in brutal combat as Republic marines fly their SLICS from one tragedy to the next. H292, a repurposed warbot, shows the heart of a hero as he wades into the battle not to destroy - but to save.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So cool
- By Chris on 02-01-20
By: Jason Anspach, and others
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Echo in Ramadi
- The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
- By: Scott A. Huesing
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 837
From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, 250 marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq, during the Multi-National Forces Surge ordered by President George W. Bush. The marines' mission: to kill or capture anti-Iraqi forces. Their experience: like being in hell. Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes listeners back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Combat is Combat
- By Calvin Guthrie on 05-21-18
By: Scott A. Huesing
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The Delta
- By: Tony Park
- Narrated by: Mark Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier-turned-mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run and heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart of Botswana. She's looking to rekindle a romance with her childhood sweetheart, safari camp manager Sterling Smith, and desperately wants a fresh start and to leave her perilous warrior lifestyle behind. But Sonja discovers her beloved Delta is on the brink of destruction. Soon Sonja finds herself caught in a deadly web of intrigue....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book
- By Lia on 12-16-10
By: Tony Park
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Cowboys Over Iraq
- Leadership from the Saddle
- By: Jimmy Blackmon, General David H. Petraeus US Army - Ret. - foreword
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Cowboys Over Iraq tells the amazing story of leadership, innovation, initiative, and a brotherhood that was forged in the crucible of combat during the invasion of Iraq.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New perspective
- By N.M. on 04-08-24
By: Jimmy Blackmon, and others
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Sons of War
- A Post-Apocalyptic War Thriller (The Sons of War Series, Book 1)
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,952
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,761
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,756
Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whole new story & a voice to capture us all
- By L.M. on 04-15-20
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The Reaper
- Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
- By: Gary Brozek, Nicholas Irving
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,483
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,513
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,498
Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable career total, including probables, is unknown. Irving shares the true story of his extraordinary military career, including his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, when he set another record, this time for enemy kills on a single deployment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By SteveS on 11-18-15
By: Gary Brozek, and others
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Lions of Kandahar
- The Story of a Fight Against All Odds
- By: Major Rusty Bradley, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,891
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,492
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,486
Southern Afghanistan was slipping away. That was clear to then-Captain Rusty Bradley as he began his third tour of duty there in 2006. The Taliban and their allies were infiltrating everywhere, poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, their strategically vital onetime capital. To stop them, the NATO coalition launched Operation Medusa, the largest offensive in its history. The battlefield was the Panjwayi Valley, a densely packed warren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'Merica!
- By NKeene on 03-07-15
By: Major Rusty Bradley, and others
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One Bullet Away
- The Making of Marine Officer
- By: Nathaniel Fick
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Fick
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 975
A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle, Recon, four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book incomplete.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-17
By: Nathaniel Fick
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- Anonymous User
- 05-20-23
Wow!
Zac Topping’s Wake of War is an outstanding war novel that encompasses the internal conflict among soldiers on opposing teams. It really makes you stop and think about past and future generations of soldiers as it relates to the physical and emotional toll of war. This is a must read for summer 2023!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- B. H.
- 02-26-23
Real military action but the plot is little dry
Book was hyped up, so was expecting a more intriguing story. Characters are little dull even with detailed back story. I wasn't really enjoying the characters or their motivations. Not really anything that made me care about them or kept me in the story.
If somehow I liked both the characters, I would have given this 4 stars. The plot didn't really have any hair raising or gotcha moments. The pacing is good, and the narrators did a good job.
The action is detailed so if you like military style fighting then you might find the story quick and complete.
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