Escalation
Maelstrom Rising Series, Book 1
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Steve Marvel
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Peter Nealen
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A Storm Is About to Break....
The mission was straightforward enough. Infiltrate civil-war-torn Slovakia, rescue the hostage, then get out undetected.
Except that it's not Matt Bowen's first rodeo. He and his teammates know well just how badly things can go once the metal meets the meat.
But even these hardened combat veterans aren't ready for what's about to go down....
A coordinated surprise attack. Massacres in the countryside. The next world war might have just kicked off, in a storm of blood, fire, and betrayal.
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- By JLS on 08-16-16
By: Nicholas Irving, and others
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The Reaper
- Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
- By: Gary Brozek, Nicholas Irving
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
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Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable career total, including probables, is unknown. Irving shares the true story of his extraordinary military career, including his deployment to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, when he set another record, this time for enemy kills on a single deployment.
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Great story
- By SteveS on 11-18-15
By: Gary Brozek, and others
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When the Killer Man Comes
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- Narrated by: Paul Martinez, Nicholas Irving - foreword
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America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the 75th Ranger Regiment. Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez was a Ranger Sniper with the 75th Rangers during the desperate fighting in Afghanistan in 2011 when the United States made the decision to try to withdraw from Afghanistan. It was never going to be easy. There were still a large number of senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists in secure locations throughout that country.
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Didn't finish.
- By Keenan on 11-12-18
By: Paul Martinez, and others
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Under a Graveyard Sky
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- By: John Ringo
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines. When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family, Steven, Stacey, Sophia, and Faith, take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity. What they discover, instead, is a sea composed of the tears of survivors and a passion for bringing hope.
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Sorry to say....not so good. :(
- By Chris on 03-07-14
By: John Ringo
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Shooter
- The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
- By: Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. Davis
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Now Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic battlefield memoir but the careful study of an exceptional man who must keep his sanity while carrying forward one of the deadliest legacies in the U.S. military today.
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Great...if you want another book about Iraq.
- By james on 11-09-05
By: Jack Coughlin, and others
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Dagger 22
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- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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The unforgiving Afghan winter settled upon the 22 men of Marine Special Operations Team 8222, call sign Dagger 22, in the remote and hostile river valley of Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. The Taliban fighters in the region would have liked nothing more than to once again go dormant and rest until the new spring fighting season began. No chance of that - this winter would be different.
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Good Story, but...
- By Donovan Russian on 10-10-16
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Sold Out
- By: Stan R. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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This is the book you've been looking for: a deep, dark conspiracy that should delight those who loved the Jason Bourne movies, as well as fans of authors Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy, and Stephen Hunter. You won't believe what happens when free speech slams into the messy realities of national security. Meet Nick Woods, a former Marine Scout Sniper, who used to be one of our country's greatest operatives. Meet Allen Green, a ballsy reporter in his fifties, who's desperate to break the biggest story since Watergate.
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If you like Greaney or Woods this book for you...
- By shelley on 01-17-16
By: Stan R. Mitchell
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A Fiery Sunset
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The plot by the Galactic Union’s Mercenary Guild against the Four Horsemen has culminated in an invasion of Earth. Faced with an overwhelming force, the human mercs had no choice. They’ve fled, leaving Sansar Enkh to go to the Mercenary Guild headquarters on Capital Planet to stand trial for humanity. On the run, Jim Cartwright and Nigel Shirazi have travelled to the Winged Hussars’ secret base of New Warsaw, in an effort to convince Alexis Cromwell to join the fight, while the other mercenaries who escaped the fall of Earth have gone to the perceived safe haven of Karma.
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had a hard time finishing
- By Connie Uriarte on 05-17-20
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Respawn: Lives 1-5
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You are no one. Level zero. Empty of mind and memory. Even your past has been stripped from your brain by the inscrutable System. A long, difficult road lies between you and remembering any part of who you are. A road punctuated with one death after another. You are too puny to survive by might alone. Information is the single resource that might keep you alive, but the brainless “digis” have none of it. Only those with experience can give you what you need, but most care nothing about you or your plight. In fact, some make it their mission to kill you.
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Garbage
- By Marlon on 03-02-21
By: Arthur Stone
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The Killing School
- Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Lou Lambert
- Length: 13 hrs
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In this revealing new audiobook, Webb takes listeners through every aspect of this training, describing how Spec Ops snipers are taught each dimension of their art. Trainees learn to utilize every edge possible to make their shot - from studying crosswinds, barometric pressure, latitude, and even the rotation of the Earth, to becoming ballistic experts. But marksmanship is only one aspect of the training. Each SEAL's endurance, stealth, and mental and physical stamina are tested and pushed to the breaking point.
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meh
- By Chip Porter on 07-28-17
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Whispers in the Tall Grass
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On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The companies never exceeded more than 30 Americans, yet they were the best source for the enemy's disposition.
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OUTSTANDING
- By James on 12-21-19
By: Nick Brokhausen
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No Planet for Good Men: A Sheriff Duke Story
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Earth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own. His mission was to protect the innocent, including his son. Instead, he's the only survivor.
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A Sheriff in Battle Armor
- By Sailfish on 11-04-19
By: M.R. Forbes
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- David
- 07-08-21
Meh
Just one more book in this genre that is a thinly vailed right wing political screed masquerading as a novel.
There used to be great stories in the military thriller genre like Team Yankee that avoided the political lecture and just told a great story.
This novel is a dystopian future where a PMC is fighting against former NATO allies who have formed a globalist alliance against nationalist forces in Europe. The American military has been too infiltrated with godless liberals so a Christian PMC has been charged with doing the hard wet work. All the right notes to give right wing fascists a serious boner and feed into their delusions of persecution. Just check out the 5 star reviews and you'll see what I mean.
There are some interesting projections on the evolution of military tech that are in line with real world experimental kit. I just would prefer my military fiction without the political BS.
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- BRUCE R.
- 02-05-23
great action
great series s o far the narrator was accomplished and believable. I enjoyed the book.
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- badguybuster
- 05-07-21
Good story
This isnt as far fetched as we would hope. We have a weak President and an extreme left wing Administration
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- Ronald A McBroom-Teasley
- 11-18-19
Decent for a first person shooter
There aren't many books like this told from first person. That part was definitely a breath of fresh air in a crowded genre. However the author shows his clear hatred of the US military and the millennial/gen Z generation. He takes every opportunity to release his "OK Boomer" rage at modern society. Maybe he forgot millenials have been involved in this nations conflicts for the last 20 years and served just as honorably as any other generation. If you can get past the constant millenial bashing it's a decent read.
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- Brian
- 01-02-20
An Intense Military Thriller
Escalation was one of those books that I went into with completely open thoughts on. I hadn’t heard much about it or it’s author and I was pleasantly surprised by the pacing and the overall story arc that Nealen wrote. You can tell that Nealen was a military man himself (from his Amazon author bio: Peter Nealen is a former Recon Marine, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and something of an aspiring renaissance man). The book itself is a lot of intense military action.
The way the action and firefights were written are believable and honestly almost too much. I mean that in a nice way though. They were so intense that I had to catch my breath after reading them.
The story itself is an interesting one. The opening half of the story is set up like any other missions. Maybe a little different (thankfully this was in audio, I would have butchered the pronunciation of Triarii (which is the group the main characters are members of). The bits and pieces of information that are sprinkled in about the Triarii were fascinating and it definitely makes me wonder if there are real Black Ops groups out there similar to them.
The story feels ripped out of the headlines (and literally opens with headlines explaining how the world is falling apart). I think that Nealen wanted to write about a near-future (10ish years) in the future, but we’re so close to what he was writing now it feels almost like non-fiction instead of a near-future military thriller.
I had two minor issues with this book. The first was that, while I applaud Nealen for not doing a full-on info dump in the introduction of this book (we are thrown right into a rescue operation) there wasn’t enough information about each character given to help differentiate them from each other. While this was done as the story progressed, by then I was already confused as to who was “important” and who was ancillary to the story.
The second was that the “pick ups” done by Steve Marvel were distracting-ly obvious (a pick up is when a narrator has to go back and fix things that were wrong like pronunciation of words). They weren’t everywhere but Nealen wrote a book with a lot of foreign places and names in it, so every time one of those was wrong, you’d hear a completely different tone come in (not just a different tone of voice, but the recording itself sounded different). While normally these things don’t bug me, I wanted to point it out since I was surprised to hear it in a Tantor Audio book.
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- Careful Consumer
- 10-05-20
terrific book and performance
I strive to read authors with real world experience. Nealen has it. He is a talented writer. He is insightful. He puts the reader/ listener in the middle of warfighting. Great marks for Marvel, too. Looking forward to more.
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- Big G
- 07-13-24
Action packed
Held my attention from start to finish and that says a lot. Thank you for a very captivating experience.
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- T.K.
- 04-15-24
Not good
The story started ok but when it got to the part of the mixed group of women in the group of soldiers that really put me off and now going to delete both books from my library.
It would have been ok to do a soft touch on mixed groups but it went a step too far in pointing out being light weights and getting pregnant.
Thanks bud as I was trying to hang in the moving passed this but nope couldn’t do it .
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- Dred
- 02-17-21
Addictive, informative, and realistic
Once you get started you won’t be able to stop. The world Nealen builds is so close to our own; drawing on the very real strategic and social tensions present in the world currently. This plays out like a commentary on things to come; almost predictive in a nature as though someone asked for the realistic worse case scenarios. Also it’s great tactical porn; you can tell there is someone with experience behind this.
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- Richard P. Strader
- 07-11-24
Great Story
Good story, from another viewpoint of veterans who continue to serve their country in civilian roles in a hostile environment.
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