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Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war. This time it's in his own backyard . . . and even more deadly. A small band of fugitives escapes from a secret upstate New York military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Each fugitive has a target—an innocent...

First published in 1989 Chimera was Simon Mawer’s first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction. The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David...

In Chimera, John Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights; Perseus, the slayer of Medusa; and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant", Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world.

The Taiwan situation spiraling dangerously out of control, the US navy in the area is placed on high alert. America facing the aggressor implies to China that it won’t back down and a state of war between the two countries is imminent.

It's been 4 years since the events of Ascension. The dead have been buried, memorials put in place, and peace has been established to the surrounding countries. For most, the nightmares ended a long time ago, but to some the ghosts of the past haunt them everyday. Anfang never forgot his near defeat against Yama and trains the new Greifsburg guard to combat any soldier class despite the astronomical difference in strengths. These guard train night and day with their unique weapons preparing for a war that may or may not come to pass.

Dr. Corinne Dowd thought she was practicing medicine at the cutting edge. She was wrong. The Telluride Center wasn’t a hospital. It was a farm. And she was the livestock. Fused to her pelvic floor is the Bio-Weld—a synthetic, living stem-cell chimera that can stop a hemorrhage, restart a stopped heart, and knit shattered bone in seconds. The ultimate military asset. Two billion dollars of pure, engineered invincibility. There’s just one problem. It’s hungry. Deny it massive calories and it will cannibalize your organs and bone marrow to survive.

Cozy fantasy meets Christmas in this charming, spicy, second chance monster romance novella. Welcome to Claw Haven, where monsters go to find some peace and quiet. Going home for Christmas wasn’t on chimera Arthur Pineclaw’s to-do list, not since he left the sleepy town of Claw Haven over a...

John Frist was a soldier, a hero, and the victim of an IED attack in Iraq before his discharge. He returned home and committed a terrible act of domestic terrorism. Transformed by the StrikeForce technology, he saved New York City from a dirty bomb and nearly died in the process. For him, the ensuing two years has been a bone-wearying series of battles to protect the United States. Eric Wise has risen from Director of Project StrikeForce to Assistant Director of the Office of Threat Management.

Agent 32 or Leo wakes up on an operating table as the first successful genetically enhanced super soldier. She has one mission: destroy the Yidfield forces before they reach the Axian borders. But along the way Leo struggles to remember why she elected to be a part of what is an incredibly controversial project- or to remember much of anything prior to waking in the training base.

Told from the perspective of Victoria, a middle school student, the book offers a critical glimpse of a cultural crossroads in which the issues of cultural differences, the conception of home, and what it means to belong to a community in terms of language, human connection, and, ultimately, acceptance of self and others is examined in the authentic voice of young girl who is trying to determine who she is and where she and her family “belong” in the world.

When a terrorist group detonates a small nuclear device at a level four biohazard facility, it releases the infection vectors stored within and creates a contagion that devastates the planet. Entire species are wiped out, while those that survive are genetically transformed into prehistoric mutations of their former self. Secret Service agent Alex Durham is assigned to protect the president. As the dangers of the expanding nuclear fallout become apparent, he accompanies the country’s leadership as they seek shelter from the impending contagion.

Fans of Godzilla, Pacific Rim, and classic giant monster movies will enjoy this short story set in my story world Daikaiju Universe, where, on a planet Earth much like our own, horrific, ridiculously large, ambulatory forces of nature have been a periodic fact of life since the 19th century!