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Eight operators. One wildlife officer. The swamp chose sides. Florida Fish and Wildlife officer Mac Tanner has spent eight years learning the Everglades — every slough, every cypress dome, every patch of ground that looks solid but isn't. When a routine call drops him into the middle of an assassination operation, Mac does what he knows: he uses the terrain. A federal witness. Eight trained operators. One wildlife officer who knows exactly where the ground gives way. The swamp doesn't care about federal authority. Neither does Mac Tanner. PROWLERS — Book 1 of The Glades Series.

They built it in secret. They ran it in the dark. Frank Kane burns it down in the open. Elena Marsh was doing aid work in Chad when she photographed the wrong man. Forty-eight hours later she was hooded, airborne, and imprisoned on a decommissioned oil platform eighty miles off the Louisiana coast — a facility that officially doesn't exist. Colonel Lyle Hargrove built it for the CIA. Then three years ago he stopped reporting to anyone and started selling what it produced to the highest bidder. Foreign intelligence services. Private contractors. Anyone who could pay and provide subjects ...

When every instrument fails, you navigate by instinct — or you die. The electromagnetic storm rolls in like nothing Cal Walker has seen before. GPS fails. Radios die. The instruments in the fire lookout spin uselessly. Somewhere deep in the backcountry, a small plane drops off radar. No coordinates. No signal. No way to call it in. Cal launches into the mountains the old way — compass, terrain, and memory. Dead reckoning. The method sailors used to cross oceans before satellites existed. You know where you started. You know your speed and heading. You calculate where you must be. You ...

The river that was supposed to save them is trying to kill them. The Black River hasn't run high in years. The drought turned it into a dusty channel — cracked mud, dead fish, a trickle you could step across without getting your boots wet. Then the creek breaches upstream, and the river remembers what it is. A wall of water roars through the valley without warning. A family is stranded in the middle of the torrent with no way out and the water still rising. To the south, a wildfire is crowning through the canopy, cutting off the only road into the canyon. Cal Walker has faced fire. He's ...

Cal Walker has been hiding. Assigned to the Black Mountain fire lookout after a rescue gone wrong, he's spent months watching the forest from a distance — close enough to help, far enough to avoid the cost of failing again. Then dry lightning strikes a ridge ten miles out, and five teenagers are trapped in the burn zone with no way out. Getting them home is the job. But when Cal walks the fire line, the scorch patterns are wrong — metal fused, earth glassed, heat concentrated in ways no natural fire produces. Someone made this fire burn hotter. And they had a reason. Cal starts asking ...

They took the boy. He takes them apart. A twelve-year-old boy vanishes in broad daylight. Three minutes later, he’s across the border. The kidnappers want money. Daniel Hyde doesn’t pay. A former elite recovery operator, Hyde works one way: find the target, break the system, bring them home. But this isn’t a ransom job. No proof of life. No negotiation pattern. No mistakes. As Hyde pushes into Juárez, he realizes the truth— this wasn’t about money. It was about something far worse. And now there’s no one left to negotiate with.

Three survivors. One body in the snow. A story that won't stay buried. On the northeast face of Mount Huntington, SAR specialist Silas Kincaid finds what the wind was trying to erase: a blood trail, panic tracks, and three survivors in an ice cave who aren't saying what put them there. Getting them off the mountain is the easy part. The fourth member of their party is still out there — somewhere on the face, somewhere under the snow — and the three people who came down alive have three different versions of why. When the story breaks and the cameras arrive, Kincaid is the only one who ...

Denali's deadliest face. One man. No backup. No way out. Search and rescue specialist Silas Kincaid has pulled the dying off Denali's worst faces. He's never pulled them out of a conspiracy. When a solo climber's distress call leads him to a crashed plane and a cargo of encrypted financial records, Kincaid becomes the only thing standing between a ruthless mercenary named Kane and the survivors who witnessed something they weren't supposed to see. Minus forty. Whiteout incoming. No backup. The mountain will kill you if you stop moving. Kane will kill you if you don't. The White Tomb — the...

The storm is cover. The killer is already on the mountain. When whistleblower Dale Fitch flees into the Denali backcountry carrying evidence that could bring down Vance Industries, he thinks the mountain will protect him. He's wrong. A professional hunter named Brecht is already on the glacier. The storm closing in will ground every helicopter within three hundred kilometers. And the only man standing between Fitch and a corporate cover-up is SAR specialist Silas Kincaid — who doesn't know any of this yet. Zero visibility: the weather condition. The operational state. The corporate policy...

A dying town. A dead man walking. One final chance for justice. A terrorist attack on a pipeline outside a quiet Pennsylvania town tears open the past when it reveals an abandoned mine filled with hazardous waste. Within hours people get sick. Within days they start dying. Local officials deny responsibility. Companies deny involvement. Records vanish. And the town is told to stay calm, stay quiet, and trust the process. Frank Kane doesn’t trust any of it. As the body count rises, Kane uncovers a chain of corruption that runs from corporate boardrooms to town hall offices—men who buried...

A worn-out veteran forged by a dark past is unwanted until an enemy comes home. Heavily scarred with a voice like broken glass, society has cast Frank Kane aside. A worn-out relic of forgotten wars. He's okay with that. He never liked people much anyway. Renovating a dilapidated lighthouse, he finds peace fixing a broken thing. Hard work. Honest work. The men who kidnapped his niece should have left the sleeping dog lie. Their actions forced Frank to return to his old ways. Unknowingly, they awakened something terrible – a relentless architect of pain who will stop at nothing to find ...

A conspiracy thriller where patriotism becomes treason A midnight raid on Camp Pendleton. The base commander, his wife, and a dozen Marines dead. Truckloads of military-grade weapons stolen. Enough firepower to start a war or end a government. Frank Kane is back and merciless as ever. But this time his assignment is not so clear… His body ruined by war, Frank is a map of scar tissue and broken bones. A man who sacrificed everything for his country only to be discarded when the fighting ended. Now that same country needs Frank for one final mission: stop Mitchel Walker, the former brother-...

In a divided America, the deadliest weapon isn't a gun or a bomb but an algorithm. Stone by stone, former military operative Frank Kane rebuilds a lighthouse on Maine's savage coast. A worn-out relic trying to bury a violent past. Then his former handler appears at his door, eyes cold with purpose. One last mission. Save America from itself. No choice just duty. Behind the glass walls of Helix, one of Washington's elite think tanks, lurks Fulcrum—an AI system designed to predict civil unrest. But Mitchel Reed, a brilliant and ruthless former intelligence developer, has secretly weaponized...

The true, untold story of the real beginning of the Vietnam War... In 1945, OSS sniper René Granier parachutes into the misty mountains of Indochina with his elite Deer Team. Their mission: ally with Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas against the Japanese. Side by side, they fight. Some die. Trust forms in the crucible of war. As the war winds down, old powers move to reclaim their colonies. Promises are broken. Branded a spy without a chance to defend himself, Granier finds himself betrayed by the very warriors who once called him brother. Now he stands at the crossroads of history with one bullet ...

There are those who would harm America. Terrorists. Assassins. Foreign operatives. The Border Patrol tries to hold back the lethal tsunami, but at times it’s just overwhelming. At times, America needs a scalpel, not a sword. That’s Billy Gamble. Billy is a Wyoming horse breeder. Mostly Quarter Horses and the occasional Appaloosa. He is also a Super Matcher, one of five in the world and the only one in America. Better than a machine and more accurate than artificial intelligence, Billy can pick out a face in a crowd and no disguise or even plastic surgery can fool him. It’s a talent he...

Geysers. Scalding steam. A canyon that breathes fire. Devil's Bowl is a chimney. Fire enters the box canyon and the geometry does the rest — swirling winds, unpredictable drafts, flames that reverse direction without warning. Every firefighter in Echo Creek knows you don't go into the Bowl when it's burning. Five teenagers are in the Bowl. Their radio cuts out mid-sentence. The fire is bad. The terrain is worse. But the river is something Cal Walker has never seen. Underground fire has heated the water table to boiling. Geysers erupt from the riverbed. Steam vents hiss between algae-...

Billy Gamble finds people who disappear. This time, it's family. They called it Thunder. Twenty-three million dollars of DARPA black budget. Reactive camouflage. Autonomous targeting. A weapons platform so classified that the soldiers who operated it didn't officially exist. Now it's gone. Stolen from a military testing range by a man who knows exactly what it can do — and intends to prove it on the streets of Washington, D.C. The Pentagon wants it back. The CIA wants it quiet. Billy Gamble just wants his brother alive. Lowell Gamble operated Thunder for eight years. Now he's a hostage, ...

As the Cold War gains momentum, the world comes dangerously close to a nuclear holocaust during the Suez Crisis… Ushered into power by a military coup, the boldness of Egyptian President Nasser knows no bounds. His once great nation is destitute, his people without hope. To set things right, he will risk all and defy the world. He will take back what rightfully belongs to Egypt – the Suez Canal. Handpicked to succeed Churchill, Prime Minister Eden is a frail, unscrupulous man filled with vengeance and determined to return the British empire to its former glory. He is only too happy to ...

Frank Kane is dying. The bioweapon that nearly killed him has left his legendary skills in ruins. His hands shake. His strength fails. The man who once protected presidents can barely lift the stones he needs to rebuild his lighthouse. When a simple assignment protecting a foreign prince goes catastrophically wrong, Frank discovers the boy isn't just another spoiled royal. Sixteen-year-old Prince Alexander has been trained since childhood never to make a mistake—and it's broken him. He can analyze a hundred tactical options but can't choose his breakfast without having a panic attack. Now...

"He doesn't speak. He doesn't hesitate. He doesn't miss." Frank Kane seeks peace in silence and solitude. The war was supposed to be over. A key genetic researchers vanishes overnight. Her breakthrough could grant humanity centuries of life. Instead someone has turned healing into horror. The weapon ages victims to death in hours. Murder disguised as time. World leaders debate the ethics of longevity research. Who deserves to live forever? What happens when the poor die of old age while the rich live for centuries? Frank wants no part of it. His damaged throat barely speaks. His scarred ...