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During a war, bad things happen to good people. That point is driven home repeatedly in this book. Without warning, the peacekeepers are attacked by a relentless foe bent on their destruction. This time they face a foe that can match and defeat their armada. Suffering one defeat after another, the council tries to adapt and overcome an enemy that has spies working in Washington to turn the new government against them. The enemy intends to defeat them in war or have the American government seize their assets.A peacekeeper fighter squadron goes missing and El Morro, the Cuban peacekeeper base...

Five years have passed as the peacekeepers continued to develop their spacecraft and build the new Guardian. That megaship will be placed in orbit to become the largest and most advanced space station in the history of mankind. It’s being positioned there to protect the United States from foreign aggression.The Chinese and the Russians are committed to the destruction of the Guardian and are building massive fleets to accomplish that goal.Beth convinces Gabe that they need to steal an APC from the Guardian and make an unauthorized round trip to the moon. What follows is a harrowing ordeal...

The peacekeepers believed the city was abandoned until a bored drone pilot saw a plume of smoke and diverted his drone to investigate. The Athens, dispatched to learn the truth, is recalled to deal with an emergency.The Women’s Elite Corps is asked to help. Nora’s team enters the city to attempt to solve the mystery. They soon discover that nothing is as it seems in New York City.

Two peacekeeper ships are dispatched to New York City to organize the evacuation and resettlement of the survivors. The peacekeepers soon find themselves facing a myriad of problems. Wild animals roam the streets of the city, and the tunnels beneath it are home to millions of starving rodents. The underground is also home to cannibals who prey on other humans as a means of survival. Compounding matters is the hatred and mistrust the above-grounders have for the people who live beneath the city streets. The peacekeepers must somehow prevent the different factions from fighting long enough to...

In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, the peacekeepers discover the base for Phoenix Rising, which was a secret government project that planned to utilize the work of the development team who’d designed the Peacekeeper. The project plans called for storing one hundred fighters in the subterranean base. Those fighters would provide air cover for America in the event of a nuclear conflict. The fighters had not been delivered prior to the night of the quakes.Inside that base, which the peacekeepers had code named the citadel, they discovered an aircraft unlike any other they had ever seen. ...

Edited by Frankie Sutton July 17th 2011. The peacekeepers travel to Saginaw Michigan in the hopes of locating the factory where the alloy that composes the backbone of their technology was manufactured. They locate the owner of the factory and a trade arrangement is worked out that will secure the peacekeepers a supply of the alloy. A boat loaded with the sick and the dead washes ashore in southern Louisiana. One of the passengers makes it to a small city and hitches a ride with a kind hearted man who transports him to New Orleans. Along the way they stop at every small town gathering food ...

You’ve seen her mentioned many times throughout the peacekeeper series. Lina has played a significant role in many of the books, but there have always been unresolved issues regarding her from book one of the series onward. This book solves those mysteries.What was Lina’s last name?Where was Lina and what was she doing during the natural disasters that preceded the night of the quakes?Where was she the night of the quakes?What was her life like in the aftermath of the quakes?Why was she so adamant about going to Texas?What was she doing prior to being captured in Texas?What were the ...

Far across the Atlantic Ocean, a great pirate fleet was assembled. For the past several years, these pirates had looted the coastlines of the western European nations. Now they were turning their attention to American, and only the Peacekeepers could stop them. They plan to loot the natural resources and treasures of America. And they are coming with 5,000 ships that are armed to the teeth.

When Russian Special Forces troops penetrate the security at Area 51, they pull off the biggest defeat of a peacekeeper ship in history. Fourteen men succeed where the Chinese base ship and the Russian navy failed. They manage to down the Guardian, trapping dozens of crewmen in the corridors of the ship. Time is running out for the trapped survivors. The peacekeepers are reeling from the devastating blow that has slaughtered hundreds of their number. Captain Evan Wilison is charged with the task of using the Athens to lead a peacekeeper armada in a strike to retaliate against Moscow. ...

A small Peacekeeper Armada goes to Mars where their terraforming efforts have begun to make the red planet habitable. Not long after they arrive, they are informed that a large Russian fleet, along with the remnants of the Colombian drug cartel’s pirate ships, is headed for a showdown with the American forces working to prepare a colony site for the first colonists.Knowing they will be outnumbered almost three to one, and that it will take a miracle for their forces to defeat those arrayed against them, the Peacekeepers in the Mars planetary system call on their secret weapon to help them...

The people of the small farm community of Arley Tennessee are attacked by a well organized group of Marauders who plan to return in a few days and annihilate the men and take the women captive as sex slaves. But the sophisticated radio equipment aboard the Peacekeeper intercepts a message detailing the plot. The men and women of the newly christened Peacekeeper face their first real test. A routine call causes a six man team to be dispatched to deal with a rogue bully who is tormenting the residents of Jewel Mississippi. But when the team arrives they find no ordinary bully. As a sniper ...

A rogue nation decides to take advantage of worldwide chaos to attack America with nuclear weapons. The American intelligence network learns of the plan and the government decides to launch a first strike at this rogue nation. This information leaks out to other nations and soon the world is poised on the brink of all out nuclear conflagration as the nuclear nations choose sides in the coming conflict.

From California to the east coast, it rained across most of the continental United States. From Los Angeles to New York City, residents reported an odd, whitish-grey residue that coated everything.Cats groomed the residue from their bodies, because that’s what cats do, and then they turned to their feed bowls with increasing hunger.The most deadly biological weapon ever created had been unleashed. It was one that would effectively pit most forms of animal life against mankind.Humanity was immune to the growth hormone. However, exposed to massive doses, mankind was not immune to the ...

A small group of survivors makes radio contact with the refuge requesting help escaping Newport, Arkansas. Herb leads a team of men on a rescue mission, but it’s complicated when they meet other people who need their assistance. Compounding matters is a woman who was brought into the refuge by the team before they left. She wants to run the camp herself, and she knows just how to make that happen.

A collection of short stories and the novella The North Room. This collection is brought to you by the author of the Peacekeeper series. The Test: (fiction.) A high ranking martial artist takes his master’s test. The Doll: (paranormal fiction.) After a young girl’s twin is killed she is devastated by that loss. Then one day her father gives her a new doll which has a surprising impact on the girl. The Blizzard: (fantasy.) Three companions must survive a blizzard in order to save a city population. The Tank: (science fiction.) A government funded research project goes bad. The Hunt: (...

Seeking allies for her murderous plots against the people of the refuge, Dana Rainey encounters Shaunna, an Alpha female zombie, and her anizombie Yorkie named Lily. What happens next sets in motion a long chain of events culminating in a savage confrontation between Dana and the people of the refuge. Can Herb Bennett’s fledgling group survive that encounter, or will Dana have her vengeance?