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Modern War Fiction

Steve Alten, Goliath.
A group of renegades hijack a high-tech submarine and threaten destruction if the nations of the world do not disarm, but the sub has a mind of its own.

Larry Bond, Dangerous Ground.
Two female scientists board an aging U.S. submarine to investigate nuclear waste dumped in Russian waters.

Dale Brown, Battle Born.
A USAF brigadier general leads a squadron of hotshot pilots on a mission to prevent a nuclear war between China and a newly unified Korea. Part of a series.

Joe Buff, Deep Sound Channel.
Fascist coups in Germany and South Africa lead to war with the U.S. and Great Britain. First in a series.

Pete Callahan, Armored Corps.
A U.S. tank battalion stationed at the 38th Parallel in Korea has seen no action until a surprise attack is launched from North Korea on Christmas Day.

Ward Carroll, Punk’s War.
A young fighter pilot does a tour of duty on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in the period between the two wars in Iraq.

Dennis Chalker, Home Team: Hostile Borders.
An ex-Navy SEAL heads a commando team to stop a plot by terrorists and drug dealers to bring a dirty bomb over the border into the U.S. Part of a series.

Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October.
A Soviet submarine commander tries to defect with his state-of-the-art vessel, but his countrymen are in hot pursuit. First in a series.

James Cobb, Sea Fighter.
Navy Commander Amanda Garrett must stop a renegade Nigerian general on a catastrophic quest for power. Part of a series.

Combat.
A collection of stories from top authors of military thrillers including Larry Bond, Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, and Harold Coyle.

Stephen Coonts, Final Flight.
Navy pilot Jake Grafton must stop a plot to tip the balance of nuclear power by finding a spy aboard the supercarrier U.S.S. United States. Part of a series.

Dick Couch, Covert Action.
A Black Ops team goes to Zimbabwe when an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever may be the work of terrorists plotting a global epidemic.

Harold Coyle, Code of Honor.
The Colombian government requests U.S. troops to help combat the increasingly powerful drug lords, but the peacekeeping mission soon becomes a full-scale war. Part of a series.

Richard Dickinson, The Warlord.
A general must take command of a Special Forces team when his helicopter is shot down in enemy territory on a diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.

Michael DiMercurio, Voyage of the Devilfish.
As the United States and Russia scale down their military forces, a Russian stealth sub commander lurking under the Arctic ice hatches a scheme to restart the Cold War. Part of a series.

Keith Douglass, Hostile Fire.
A SEAL team goes on alert when they learn Al Queda is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in the U.S.

Sean Flannery, Winner Take All.
The U.S. and Russian militaries plan a mock battle to evaluate each other’s hardware, but renegades hope to turn the games into a real nuclear war.

Paul Garrison, Red Sky at Morning.
During Fleet Week in New York Harbor, a Chinese admiral mounts a submarine attack on the city to distract the U.S. from a planned invasion of Taiwan.

W.E.B. Griffin, By Order of the President.
The President calls in an Army intelligence officer when competing intelligence agencies are unable to find a Boeing 727 hijacked from Angola.

David Hackworth, The Price of Honor.
A Special Forces captain haunted by charges of cowardice against his father in Vietnam uncovers a long-buried secret while thwarting a conspiracy between politicians and defense contractors.

David Hagberg, By the Dawn’s Early Light.
A U.S. submarine is dispatched to rescue a team captured in Pakistan and to hunt another sub that disabled a surveillance satellite in preparation for a nuclear attack on India.

Payne Harrison, Storming Intrepid.
When a Russian agent hijacks a U.S. space shuttle carrying Star Wars technology, both sides race against time to bring it down.

Richard Herman, Dark Wing.
Colonel Matt Pontowski’s squadron of Warthogs are about to be phased out as obsolete, but when civil war breaks out in China they become key players in the struggle. Part of a series.

Stephen Hunter, The Day before Midnight.
A discredited Delta Force commander is called back in to lead a team to stop a terrorist group from infiltrating a missile silo.

James W. Huston, Balance of Power.
When the President won’t take action against terrorists who hijack a U.S. vessel, the Speaker of the House finds a Constitutional clause that allows Congress to go over his head. First in a series.

Mark Joseph, Typhoon.
A Russian admiral turns his submarine against his own fleet when a group of military leaders try to launch an attack on Tblisi to start a civil war.

Gordon Kent, Force Protection.
Alan Craik of the NCIS and his navy pilot wife investigate a connection between the bombings in Mombasa and Cairo. Part of a series.

Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior: Red Cell.
A retired SEAL is recalled to duty to stop the sale of nuclear detonators to North Korea. First in a series.

David Poyer, The Circle.
Dan Lenson is assigned to an aging destroyer on a mission to the Arctic Circle, where the extreme weather, a renegade nuclear submarine, a corrupt executive officer and an incompetent crew test his limits. Chronological first in a series.

Matthew Reilly, Ice Station.
A team of Marines race to be the first on the scene when several scientists disappear after discovering an unidentified object in the Antarctic ice.

Timothy Rizzi, Eagles of Fire.
Major General Duke James is negotiating with a North Korean general for reunification when their plans are revealed and the pair must flee across the Sea of Japan. Part of a series.

Patrick Robinson, Nimitz Class.
An aircraft carrier vanishes with all hands in the Arabian Sea in what first appears to be a nuclear accident, but a Navy physicist soon determines that the ship was torpedoed. First in a series.

Jeff Rovin, Tempest Down.
When an experimental U.S. submarine collides with a Chinese submarine sent to observe it, both are trapped under the Antarctic ice and must cooperate to survive.

Ed Ruggero, Firefall.
A group of U.S. Army Rangers parachute into Germany on a training exercise and find themselves under attack by a band of neo-Nazis.

Chris Stewart, The Third Consequence.
A new Stealth pilot suspects a traitor in his squad as Iran declares a blockade in the Persian Gulf.

Jack Terral, SEALs.
A SEAL team heads into the Afghan desert to extract a native CIA contact who has vital information of insurgent operations.

George Wallace, Final Bearing.
An aging submarine undertakes a final mission to bring down a Colombian drug lord with a powerful private army equipped with the latest weaponry.

Joe Weber, Shadow Flight.
In the early days of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB hijacks a stealth bomber and lands it in Cuba, prompting the U.S. to launch a full-scale strike against Cuban military installations.

John Weisman, Soar.
In the wake of a groundbreaking weapons summit, guerrillas capture an American team and hijack a Chinese nuclear missile, prompting the mobilization of a top-secret Delta Force unit.

Bing West, The Pepperdogs.
A team of biologically enhanced Marines set out to rescue a colleague from a Serbian renegade and become the focus of an international media circus.

Owen West, Sharkman Six.
U.S. Marines try to protect a Red Cross shipment in Somalia but are hampered by warlords and their own restrictive rules of engagement.

Robin White, Typhoon.
A Russian captain is ordered to deliver the last Typhoon-class submarine to China, but a U.S sub is sent in pursuit.

Michael Williamson, Confirmed Kill.
Two Army Ranger snipers are assigned to take out an al Qaeda cell in the jungles of Indonesia. Part of a series.

 

 

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