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Navy SEAL Keith “Chunk” Redman has been one of the military’s top doorkickers since the day he pinned on his trident: loyal, single-minded, lethal. Tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs—the most elite special operators in the world—Chunk can no longer simply rely on the status quo. To safeguard America, he needs help to stay a step ahead of its adversaries.

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.

Israel, late 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below, and promptly disappears. It soon becomes clear to Israeli intelligence that the pilot is a defector, desperate to come over to the US side. Houston Flight Controller and former test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is charged with bringing the pilot and his plane to the highly secret Area 51, in the Nevada desert. But every defection carries with it a risk.

After a shootout in Dubai left Hamza al-Saud dead and elevated brilliant aeronautical engineer Qasim Nadar to hero status in England, everyone assumes the terrorist threat from al Qadar has been eliminated. Everyone except JSOC counterterrorism analyst Whitney Watts. But when she decides to help MI6 penetrate Nadar’s secret network, Watts gets a little too close to the truth and finds herself in a deadly situation not even her teammates from Tier One can save her from.

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.

Mark Bronson, a young high-tech engineer blacklisted by Silicon Valley venture capitalists and desperate for a job, takes a position as a temporary lab technician for a month. In the lab, he accidentally discovers a death ray. Mark then gets sucked in to a world of government perfidy and power politics, of espionage and intrigue, and of stress that reveals true character.

Brad Peterson is a highly trained Special Forces operative with less than a month of military service left. He is looking forward to a bright future in the civilian sector. But when his last mission in Afghanistan goes horribly wrong, Brad is injured and his best friend dies. Back in the United States and recuperating from his injuries, he soon immerses himself in gambling and alcohol in an effort to erase the guilt he feels over his best friend's death. Only after he finds himself in jail following a bar fight, he sees the light and creates the Peterson Foundation.

Working with a team to analyze and defeat external threats to U.S. security, Dan must deal with a terrorist plot to smuggle in dirty-bomb material using the established drug-cartel methods. In the meantime, there's an internal threat from disgruntled military elements involving an attempt on the president's life using the "football": the mysterious suitcase that accompanies the president at all times, containing the codes and protocols to launch a nuclear strike.

Abu Habibi left the Afghan National Army to make his fortune. His scheme: to pillage the nation’s museums of valuable artefacts, killing any who stand in his way. The plunder is put on sale to eager overseas buyers. Habibi’s murderous rampage has attracted the scum and villainy of the nation, eager to participate in the robberies for a share of the loot. In a nation where many of the Islamic warlords are little more than cutthroats and butchers, Habibi is known as a coming man.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper is the youngest son of a retired Navy hero, Master Chief Larry Cooper. His brother Daniel is a scholar and an academic, and to the horror and dismay of his family, he converts to Islam. To make things worse, he travels to Afghanistan to teach in a madrassah, the religious schools that are a production line for Taliban terrorists. The new mission handed to Rod Cooper’s Team is tough. A better word to describe it would be "suicide". Their brief, to go behind enemy lines and locate and pinpoint a new and powerful Taliban combined arms warband.

The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s army of powerful and vengeful fanatics, have bought a large consignment of uranium ore. The man behind the project, Colonel Ali Hatami, harbors an ambition to restart the country’s stalled nuclear program. His avowed intent, to turn the soil of his country’s enemies into flaming, smoking pyres. SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper’s fire team is handed a tough assignment, to assault the vessel carrying the uranium and destroy the shipment. Yet nothing goes to plan.