Doug Beason
1) The Cadet
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"Timeless and absorbing. . . . An astonishing and authentic portrayal of the military academy experience." -Jerry Pournelle, New York Times–bestselling, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Lucifer's Hammer
A military epic that chronicles the birth of the United States Air Force. The arduous training of America's future leaders as they prepare to serve from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of the Middle East. The first in the Wild...
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AIR FORCE TWO WAS MISSING!
When last contacted, Air Force Two, with the Vice-President of the United States aboard, was flying high over the Philippine jungle. On board was not only the Vice-President, but the "football" that gave him the power to initiate nuclear war. For in Washington, D.C., the U.S. President lay dying. At the newly reconstituted Clark Air Base, the orders went out: Air Force Two, aloft or downed, had to be found. The Vice-President,...
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Five thousand miles from the U.S., the president of the United States is facing death.
In one hour, an American force will strike back-with the most daring rescue
mission ever!
The RDF-Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force-can strike anywhere in the
world in under an hour. Their secret weapon: the Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle flown at
15,000 miles per hour by the Air Force's most elite pilots, carrying a deadly cargo of
highly trained marines....
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The Greatest Power on Earth
is about to be
Stripped of its Defenses
Alpha Base. It's the home of America's nuclear stockpile, over 5,000 warheads protected by a formidable high-tech security system deep in the salt flats of Nevada.
If Alpha Base is ever penetrated, no one on earth will be safe….
From the heart of remote Africa, a terrorist army has launched a daring plot.
Their objective: seize Alpha and steal its deadly cache of...
5) The Officer
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"Timeless and absorbing. . . . An astonishing and authentic portrayal of the military academy experience." -Jerry Pournelle, New York Times–bestselling, Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of Lucifer's Hammer
The Officer continues the historical saga chronicling the United States Air Force Academy. Unveiling the arduous training of America's leaders, The Officer showcases empathetic, larger-than-life characters set against a fascinating tapestry...
6) Kill zone
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Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone , a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access...
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"When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS--and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...
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Baen
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2023.
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"The future of cybernetic warfare: Robosoldiers. They take many forms, from disembodied AI to humanlike androids and more. But at their cores beat the cybernetic hearts of warriors! In these stories of hard military SF, you will journey to the battlefields of tomorrow with the veterans who have been there and the researchers developing the next phase of battle and get a glimpse into the future of warfare. Contributors: M.T. Reiten, Martin L. Shoemaker,...
9) The E-bomb: how America's new directed energy weapons will change the way future wars will be fought
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Da Capo Press
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2005
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An environmental disaster leads to global chaos in this science fiction thriller by the authors of Assemblers of Infinity.
It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as a PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill.
What the company didn't realize is that their...
11) Ignitiion
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An injured astronaut must save NASA from terrorists in this high-tech adventure by the bestselling authors of Lifeline and Ill Wind.
Terrorists seize control of the Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle Atlantis and its crew hostage on the launchpad. But astronaut "Iceberg" Friese, grounded from the mission because of a broken foot, is determined to slip through the swamps and rocket facilities around Cape Canaveral and pull the plug on the...
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Earth's thriving lunar colony faces a mysterious, growing threat on the far side of the Moon . . . an alien invasion or nanotechnology run amuck.
The crew of Moonbase Columbus makes an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon-a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and...
