When terrorists attack Boston, Louis Massina races against time to save the city with a high-tech counteroffensive… On Easter Sunday morning, the city of Boston is struck by a widespread and coordinated series of terrorist attacks: an explosion in the T, a suicide bomber at Back Bay Police Station, and heavily armed gunmen taking hostages at the Patriot Hotel. For robotics innovator Louis Massina, aka the Puppet Master, this is far more personal than a savage act of political terrorism. Boston is *his *city — and one of his employees, Chelsea Goodman, is among the hostages facing certain death. As Chelsea fights from the inside, Massina leads his team of tech geniuses at Smart...

In Dale Brown’s Puppet Master, intelligent machines take center stage as America battles the Russian mafia in Eastern Europe Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina’s creations makes a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam — and not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent’s brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance “bot” that uses artificial intelligence to follow its target. But when he’s thrust into a dangerous conspiracy, the billionaire...

Is there a traitor at Dreamland? When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with nothing to lose. Someone like Air Force ace Turk Mako. Yet as Mako and Freah learn, the conspiracy is deeper and darker than either imagined. With the situation worsening, the Whiplash team finds itself in a desperate race to recover...

Автобиографическая книга, написанная Крисом Кайлом при сотрудничестве Скотта Макьюэна и Джима ДеФелис, вышла в США в 2012 г., а уже 2 февраля 2013 г. ее автор трагически погиб от руки психически больного ветерана Эдди Р. Рута, бывшего морского пехотинца, страдавшего от посттравматического синдрома. Крис (Кристофер Скотт) Кайл служил с 1999 до 2009 г. в рядах SEAL — элитного формирования «морских котиков» — спецназа американского военно-морского флота. Совершив четыре боевых командировки в Ирак, он стал самым результативным снайпером в истории США. Достоверно уничтожил 160 иракских боевиков, или 255 по другим данным. Успехи Кайла сделали его популярной личностью не только среди...

On the President's orders… one man is tasked with averting nuclear war When the U.S. develops intelligence showing that Iran is in the final stages of assembling a nuclear bomb, the President orders Breanna Stockard and the Whiplash team to destroy it before the renegade nation can destabilize the shaky Middle East. Left with no other choice, Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines. His orders: pilot a squadron of high-tech nano-UAVs from inside Iran to destroy the weapon and its assembly bunker. Turk and his accompanying Delta Force team succeed, only to discover another site and another device. With the fate of the region hanging in the balance, Turk and Delta...

In the final installment in Jim DeFelice's HOGS First Gulf War series, Colonel Michael “Skull” Knowlington has wrestled long and hard to conquer his addiction to alcohol, fueled by his anguish for pilots who died under his command. Disgusted with himself after falling off the wagon one night, Knowlington decides to quit the Air Force. A new hotshot, Major Horace “Hack” Preston, seems to be after his command, using Devil Squadron as a stepping stone to a generalship. Hack doesn’t hide that he's rather be flying anything but Warthog A-10A. He is just as disrespectful towards Knowlington, whom he knew as an “alky” colleague in the Pentagon. Knowlington is willing to make it easy for Preston,...

Things are looking bleak at Fort Apache, the desolate U.S. outpost one hundred miles deep into Iraqi territory. Hog rookie Lieutenant William “BJ” Dixon is left for dead, wounded, starving, and desperate to survive after being ambushed and separated from his ground team at a secret chemical weapons depot. Weapons expert Captain Bristol Wong is captured by an elite Iraqi force who are moving Scud missiles loaded with chemical weapons. Tech Sergeant Rebecca Rosen is in trouble simply by being in a combat zone, working by the seat of her pants to repair a malfunctioning helicopter so the stranded Special Forces ground team that guards Fort Apache can bug out. And Hog Devil Squadron...

Desperate to get back into the war before it ends, Hog jockey Lieutenant William “BJ” Dixon volunteers to do something useful — act as a ground forward air controller, coordinating attack targets with the bomber pilots. Easy, right? Wrong, as he realizes while shivering in an unpressurized cargo hold, ready to plunge into enemy territory on a nighttime airdrop. As a newbie, he’s barely tolerated by the well-oiled team of commandos who are tasked with building an allied airstrip within spitting distance of Baghdad — code name Fort Apache. BJ soon learns that ground war requires a whole different skill set — from humping 60 pounds of bulky equipment over rocky terrain to backing out of a...

As Director of Operations for the A-10A Warthog unit in the Gulf War, Major James “Mongoose” Johnson is considered an Ace. When his plane is shot down over Iraqi territory, he must call upon a whole different set of skills to survive a brutal desert climate and one determined Iraqi officer. His men are are determined to rescue him. But looking for a HOG DOWN in the middle of a desert isn’t easy — even for his hotshot wingmate who relishes shooting enemy tanks into oblivion, and his Vietnam-era commander who’s in search of his own personal redemption. Their mission is simple — rescue Major Johnson, and rain death upon anything that gets in the way. Hogs #2: HOG DOWN is the second of...

After his capture by elite Iraqi forces, Captain Bristol Wong uncovers a brilliant piece of intelligence in HOGS #5: TARGET SADDAM — Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may be en route to a small village only a hundred miles behind enemy lines. It’s a long shot, especially for skeptical CentCom generals who don’t want to risk their assets for such slim odds. But Colonel Michael “Skull” Knowlington pushes for action, volunteering his A-10A Devil Squadron to set up an ambush for the Iraqi leader. Because it’s not just Saddam he wants — Wong also believes he spotted downed rookie Hog pilot Lieutenant William “BJ” Dixon in the area. If there is any chance at all that BJ is alive, Knowlington, Hog Devil...