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When a friend disappears, Skull must track him down. When Spooky's family is sent to a death camp, he proposes a suicidal rescue, and only Reaper can lead it. Bogged down in a war with the rebel state of Alaska, at odds with Canada and meddling in Mexico's politics, the Unionist-controlled USA proceeds down an ugly path toward fascism, tyranny, and genocide. Politics, assassination, and propaganda form the backdrop for a race against time to rescue hundreds of dying Edens held deep within the American heartland.

The Eden virus is spreading. Blessing or curse, it's apparent that it can't be contained. For the poor and the sick, the Plague is a godsend, yet it puts those infected in the crosshairs of people who fear their own power is slipping away. When these desperate Edens turn to Daniel Markis and the Free Communities for help, he can't refuse. Spooky, Skull, and Reaper are soon struggling to save these Edens - but someone on the inside may betray them.

When oppression by the Unionist-dominated federal government becomes intolerable, the Republic of Texas secedes from the United States. As the Unionists respond with immediate violence, Daniel Markis and Spooky Nguyen send Reaper and Skull on missions to help the fledgling nation survive in the face of overwhelming odds. Can they win through to establish a haven for Edens on North American soil? Or, shall the world edge further into darkness?

When an enormous and potent alien ship appears in the colony system of Gliese 370, EarthFleet's Marines must investigate. What they find within will change the course of humanity's future yet again, as they face Desolator. The risks are high and so is the price in blood - and the payoff: new technology far ahead of their own, which may provide the key to fight the alien Meme Empire

Guns blazing, Master Sergeant Jill Repeth and her team search the nuclear wasteland for her kidnapped fiancé, while Spooky Nguyen prepares Earth's first-ever Space Marines for duty aboard the experimental battleship Orion. But even commanded by the legendary Navy Captain Henrich Absen, Orion is hopelessly outclassed, and only by supreme sacrifice can Earth be saved. For now, that is - because the Destroyer is on its way.

The gripping conclusion to the Plague Wars series. Over 700 minutes filled with your favorite characters and the military science fiction action you have come to love. When the enormous world-killing alien Destroyer arrives in the Solar System, EarthFleet must use every resource and employ every tactic from sneak attacks to suicide ships to fend off its genocidal intentions.

Under the threat of impending alien invasion, when the Professor and the rogue Septagon Shadow cyborg program surface in Russia, the world has a problem. When they seize the government in a coup, the world faces disaster, and Jill Repeth and Spooky Nguyen must do everything in their power to shut them down while fending off rivals bent on assassination and subversion.

Colonel Muzik and Master Sergeant Repeth fight a life-and-death battle to return civilization to the nuked and plague-ridden nation's capital. With a homicidal alien spacecraft inbound at high speed, Skull and Raphaela fly to meet it in a desperate bid to buy time for the Earth. In the meantime, Brigadier Spooky Nguyen presses to build the world's first space battleship.

Die Republik, die Opters und eine seltsame kristallartige Rasse unbekannten Ursprungs treffen in einer Reihe titanischer Schlachten aufeinander. Strecher setzt Tausende von Schiffen der Republik ein, erkennt aber bald, dass er technologisch unterlegen ist. Da ein konventioneller Sieg unmöglich ist, versuchen alle Seiten die wichtigsten Welten der anderen zu zerstören. In dieser chaotischen Lage gibt es Verräter. Strecher erkennt, dass der schlimmste Feind der ist, den man als Verbündeten betrachtet hatte...

Nachdem eine tote Frau in Cal Corwins Auto gefunden wurde und Polizisten an Cals Tür klopfen, wird der Fall viel persönlicher als es zunächst erschien. Während sie von den Geistern ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit verfolgt wird, muss Cal nicht nur herausfinden, wer die Frau ermordet hat, sondern auch warum. Als sie eine Antwort nach der anderen enthüllt, stellt sich ihr eine beunruhigende Frage: Wer ist der Jäger, und wer der Gejagte?

Da es in ihrem Territorium nun ein Dutzend Rebellenplaneten gibt, nimmt die Gemeinschaft Dirk Strecher, den als Liberator bezeichneten Emporkömmling, endlich zur Kenntnis und versammelt eine enorme Flotte, um ihn zu vernichten. Strecher bereitet sich auf eine gigantische interstellare Schlacht vor, in der er keine Chance zu haben scheint. Seine kleine Enklave freier Planeten kann es nicht mit der Macht von tausend Welten aufnehmen. Seine Offiziere und Unterstützer erkennen das, und manche sind entmutigt.

When travel writer and werewolf Ashlee Scott is approached with a shocking offer to be the mother of a new race, she must decide where to place her trust: in the hot new werewolf in town, in her first love Will, or even in the shadowy vampire lurking in the background. Pulled in all directions by her family, she must confront her own demons while trying to exorcise others.

Zagubiona, odcięta od Ziemi załoga Nieustraszonego szuka drogi powrotnej. W jedenastym tomie serii "Star Force" Cody Riggs stawia czoła niepojętej potędze Pradawnych, dla których ludzie stanowią jedynie ciekawostkę. Cody'ego nękają duchy przeszłości i demony teraźniejszości. Odwracają się od niego wszyscy - dziewczyna, załoga, a nawet jego własny okręt. Musi poradzić sobie sam w zimnej pustce kosmosu. Wykazuje się jednak typową dla Riggsów siłą charakteru i wraca do gry, krzyżując plany zarówno wrogom, jak i sojusznikom.

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

After barely fending off the insectoid Scourge, Admiral Absen frantically prepares for another attack while dealing with politics and treachery from within, even as Spectre pursues his own hidden agenda. Can EarthFleet save humanity once more, and will a bold counterstrike by an elite force of AI-equipped ships buy time, or merely invite disaster?

Poised to reconquer humanity's home, Captain Absen and Conquest are confronted with a new enemy that upsets the balance of power and changes everything EarthFleet expected. Their struggle to free Earth becomes instead a desperate battle for sheer survival as they contemplate the unthinkable: total annihilation.

Armed with alien technology and a complete refit, Henrich Absen captains Conquest on a voyage to take back what humanity has lost. Along the way he must confront a new form of life as well as his own demons in this shocking episode of the Plague Wars/Stellar Conquest saga.

Three Plague Wars/Stellar Conquest novelettes in one volume. Steel's First Temper: Jill "Reaper" Repeth must complete a tough rescue mission on a Meme asteroid base while beginning to train a new protégé, Joseph "Bull" ben Tauros. Also published in the military science-fiction anthology Riding the Red Horse 2....

The Pope. The highest, holiest position a man can ascend to. A position of righteousness, we often think of the Pope as the official voice of Christ. But what if the man in the position has a different idea. Host David VanDyke takes you on a journey in the past to take a look at the Bad Popes. Bible

Da die Opters und die Kristalle ihre Invasion der Republik unbarmherzig fortsetzen, steigt die Zahl der vernichteten Schiffe und gefallenen Soldaten weiter an. Die Kristalle wurden durch einen Sieg der Republik momentan aufgehalten, obwohl der Blutzoll enorm war, während die Opters weiterhin in einem erschreckenden Tempo schwach verteidigte Systeme erobern. Strecher und Engels müssen neue Technologien entwickeln und verzweifelte Maßnahmen ergreifen, um die außerirdische Bedrohung aufzuhalten.