South Africa, the early 1970s. The nation is consumed by the paranoia of a border war, forced military drafts, and deep economic unrest. It is the perfect smokescreen. While the public's eyes are fixed on the threats over the horizon, a very different kind of terror is breeding at home. Things that cannot be explained or fought with conventional weapons. Things that hunt in the isolated dark.To combat a rising, undocumented tide of ritualistic slaughter and occult violence, the sta...

In the scorching chaos of Angola's 1970s war, a South African Special Forces team is deployed by Unit 14, a shadowy CIA offshoot, for a covert reconnaissance mission on enemy troop movements.Hardened by battle, they expect danger—but not the nightmare that awaits. As dusk falls, a monstrous creature emerges, its red-stained teeth glinting in the moonlight, slaughtering enemy soldiers with savage precision before turning its rabid hunger on them.By day, the team claws throug...

In the shadowy depths of the Atlantic, a forgotten Soviet submarine harbours a deadly secret: the last atomic warhead bound for Cuba during the Cold War's feverish brink.When a destitute Russian author unearths his father's diary, chronicling the doomed voyage as captain, he unwittingly ignites a chain of cosmic terror.Enter ambitious CIA agent Hauser, eager to claw his way up the agency's ranks by salvaging the relics hidden payload. He assembles a ragtag crew of saturatio...

Awesome! A memoir of a black man in a cultural journey from childhood to a successful career in the fire service. This “journey” is a powerful story of guts peppered with a dose of determination and is anything but an ordinary. Although wrought with both self-inflicted and societally applied barriers his career spanned 30 years. Thus he became the one of only three District chiefs (in the department’s 100+ year history.) He became the first black Chief of Rescue. He became the first black ...

**Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller is full of of powerful, life-changing lessons."Should be read by every leader in America" —Wall Street Journal**If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's s...

"David Ariosto is a lively and engaging guide to this recent tumultuous period in Cuban history that is so important on both sides of the Florida Straits." ―Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of NPR's Weekend EditionUSA Today "New and Noteworthy"One of The Washington Post 's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December"This is Cub...

A near-future military experiment thrusts a multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the US naval task force speeding towards Midway Atoll - and what was to be the most spectacular Allied triumph of World War II. The twenty-first-century sailors are a shocking spectre for these veterans of Pearl Harbor - men who have never seen a helicopter or a nuclear weapon, and who have never encountered an African American colonel or a female Australian submarine commander. But they...

**"An impressively well-researched and readable portrait . . . a useful reminder of what el Comandante did and didn't achieve, how he got away with it, and the danger of statesmen-as-showmen whose promises are too good to be true." —The New York Times Book Review"A deeply informative, sprightly chronicle of Venezuela's dizzying journey." —The Washington Post**In Comandante, acclaimed journalist Rory Carroll tells the inside story of Hugo Chávez’s ...

This emotional and honest memoir from a renowned biographer-historian recounts his experiences as a young soldier during World War II.The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after the war ended. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as...

"The finest account I've read on the Selous Scouts . . . Andy Balaam tells it like it was—the fear, the terror, the adrenaline highs of combat in the bush." —Chris Cocks, bestselling author of FireforceFrom the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, this is the story of one man's fight against terror, and hi...

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.

Joe Light, his computer hacking days behind him, kicks back in first class on board the QANTAS 747 bound for London.In the Hawaiian office of the National Security Agency, an electronic intruder within a Government computer network is detected. An unusual radio signal and non-routine troop movements in Indonesia raise suspicions further.An air traffic controller at Denpasar Airport is shocked by the sudden disappearance of Flight QF1 from his screen. He doesn...