special operations (military science)

A simple mission turns deadly when Captain Tucker Wayne attempts to rescue a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil and obtain his secret to a deadly bioweapon.

Dr. Joseph serves as medical director of Morning Star Development and oversees public health, preventive health, and clinical projects in rural medical clinics in Afghanistan, providing access to those without health care options. Kidnapped by the Taliban on December 5, 2012 while on the way back to Kabul, Afghanistan came as a shock and Dr. Joseph hoped for a quick death when the time came. But first he had to endure a nine-hour march into the mountains, gruesome images of torture and death, and repeated threats of execution. Fortunately he was freed four days later in a daring rescue by a SEAL Team Six.

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALS, this is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history, including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

When an unidentified drone crashes in Antarctica, and the research station nearby stops communicating, Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron are sent to investigate--but their job is complicated by a Russian special forces team, and an officer of Phantom Cell who is more interested in the device than the safety of the American scientists.

Navy Master Chief Gil Shannon, one of America's most lethal SEAL snipers, launches his own bold mission comprised of SEAL Team Six and Delta Force fighters to free a female helicopter pilot being held and brutally mistreated by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron have been assigned to recover a chemical weapon that has been stolen by an extremist wing of the Syrian rebels before it can be launched against an unknown target.

Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

The elite US sniper team of Shadow Squadron's latest mission is to protect Heshem Shadid, ex-terrorist who has turned politician and now is on the side of the US, and a target for his former terrorist friends.

Sergeant Edgar Brighton of the Shadow Squadron is in Colombia, assisting on an anti-drug operation--but when he is captured and tortured by the rebels he must find a way to escape before they break him.

In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater, takes us inside America?s new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.