The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona. One of Charles Bowden's earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center. Bowden's quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape,...

Everyone leaves. It's all Kayla knows. So, when things finally go right, she can't believe her good fortune. During the summer, she escapes her sheltered life, and spends time with her Aunt Susan. It's helps that Aunt Susan's neighbors have three hockey playing sons, and one almost son all around her age. They are her bridge to a normal world. If only her stupid crush on two of them would stop getting in the way. Her seventeenth summer should...

Sarah Randolph believes she's just an ordinary woman, at least until the day she meets Ramsey-a mysterious man who tells her that not only is she not ordinary…she's not even human. John Sherlock Ramsey, an Earth-born Eudoran, is a Protector. He's assigned to help Sarah complete her Shift, a period of intense transformation experienced by those of his species. But her Shift is different and risky, because she's a Red-Line, a member of his kind not...

"World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. But before the sun rises they...

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would cross "a red line," warranting an American military response....

The Red Line is the story of a train journey from London to Hong Kong. It is set in 1981, the year Christopher made the first of twenty-four such journeys as a tour guide, when the Cold War was still very much a fact of life. Although China appeared to be on the brink of significant change, no one could know for certain; Poland was stirring but the prospect of change in the USSR and its other allies seemed remote. This made a journey by train across...

Jones's classic novel of the battle of Guadalcanal: a portrait of American soldiers facing the horror of war in intense jungle combat   In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jones fought in that battle, and The Thin Red Line...

This official prequel to the Extinction Cycle series is the story of Lieutenant Brett who is introduced in the prequel of book 1, Extinction Horizon. For a dozen years, villagers along the ancient Da River in Vietnam have feared a nightmarish creature who hunts and consumes human flesh. Only in whispers do they mention its name, The White Ghost. The ghost is what is left of Marine Lieutenant Trevor Brett, a chemically engineered experiment gone wrong....