Combat

By Dean Ing, Stephen Coonts, Ralph Peters, Dale Brown, Barrett Tillman, Larry Bond, David Hagberg, James Cobb, Harold W. Coyle, R.

Because the international strikes into the following millennium, the USA unearths itself on the vanguard of this new age, policing not just its personal shorelines however the remainder of the realm besides. And spearheading this overwatch are the lads and ladies of America's defense force, the "troops at the wall," who will cross anyplace, each time, and do no matter what it takes to guard not just our state however the remainder of the loose world.

Now, for the 1st time, Combat brings the easiest military-fiction authors jointly to bare how warfare should be fought within the twenty-first century. From the down and soiled "ground-pounders" of the U.S. Armored Cavalry to the recent frontiers of war, together with outer house and the net, ten authors whose novels outline the military-fiction style have written all-new brief tales concerning the women and men keen to place their lives at the line for freedom:

Larry Bond takes us into the wild frontier of area conflict, the place American squaddies struggle a deadly zero-gee conflict with a tenacious enemy that threatens each loose kingdom on Earth.

Dale Brown shall we us within an international that few humans see, that of an army promoting board, and exhibits us how the destiny of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot's profession can rely on a guy he's by no means met, whilst the pilot takes at the most recent danger to American forces within the Persian Gulf--a Russian stealth bomber.

James Cobb unearths a lone U.S. Armored Cavalry scout unit that's the simply army strength status among a defenseless African kingdom and an competitive Algerian recon division.

Stephen Coonts tells of the not likely partnership among an ex-Marine sniper and a feminine army pilot who workforce as much as kill the terrorists who murdered her mom and dad. yet, out within the Libyan wilderness, all isn't because it turns out, and those needs to use their abilities simply to remain alive.

Harold W. Coyle studies in from front traces of the data warfare, the place cyberpunks are recruited by means of the U.S. military to wrestle the becoming swarm of hackers and their shadowy masters who orchestrate their model of on-line terrorism round the world.

David Hagberg brings us one other Kirk McGarvey event, during which the C.I.A. director turns into entangled within the emerging tensions among China and Taiwan. whilst a innovative chief is rescued from a chinese language criminal, the chinese language executive pushes the USA to the edge of struggle, and McGarvey has to choose with the destiny of the area striking within the balance.

Dean Ing finds a state of affairs that may were torn correct from today's headlines. In Oakland, a personal investigator groups up with a bounty hunter and F.B.I. agent to discover a lacking marine engineer. What they discover is the shadow of terrorism looming over the USA and a conspiracy that threatens hundreds of thousands of blameless lives.

Ralph Peters takes us to the war-torn Balkan states, the place a U.S. military observer despatched to maintain a watch at the civil struggle is taken on a guided travel of the rustic at gunpoint. Captured via the very humans he's there to watch, he learns simply how some distance humans will opt for their notion of freedom.

R.J. Pineiro takes us to the a ways reaches of house, the place a lone terrorist holds the area hostage from a nuclear missle-equipped platform. to prevent him, a pilot concurs to a suicidal flight into the trail of an orbital laser with adequate energy to incinerate her area shuttle.

Barrett Tillman takes us to the skies with a gaggle of retired fighter jocks introduced again for one final mission--battling enemy jets over the skies of sunny California.