Black Ops Heroes of Afghanistan

Rafe Stoner is a tough, hard fighting, embittered former Navy SEAL. He makes a precarious living inside Afghanistan with a loss-making surplus machinery business. Although he earns his real money by other means. Stoner is a gun for hire, and business is brisk in the lawless country. Yet his life is going nowhere, and most everyone he was ever close to is dead, victims of the insurgent violence. He finds his comforts in booze and whores, and it is a life he increasingly despises. Until a miracle occurs.His best friends, Greg and Faria Blum, invite him to be Godfather to their three children. Including the oldest, Ahmed Durani, a teenage boy to whom he owes a lot, including his life. At last, Stoner's life if starting to turn around. Until Ahmed embarks for America, to attend college with a view to training to be a doctor. He arrives in Los Angeles, and disappears. Kidnapped, by person or persons unknown.It is the start of a long and brutal hunt for Stoner and Greg Blum to find him and get him back. A hunt that takes him to Mexico, where they meet Carmen, Ahmed's sultry Afghan-Mexican cousin. She helps them fight a vicious drug lord, and leave his empire a smoking ruin. Yet there is still no sign of Ahmed, and in desperation Stoner calls in every favor ever owed to him. It means a return to Afghanistan, more violence and more killing, before he gets a lead. His godson is held prisoner by one of the most vicious and powerful warlords in the country. A man he fought before, long ago, and lost. This time, he will win. He has to win. His promise to always take care of Ahmed is a vow a godfather must fulfill.This is an incredible story of tough, violent men in a tough, violent land. Black-Ops: Heroes of Afghanistan - Godfather is the latest title by the bestselling author of many Special Ops novels. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, the Raider series, Echo Six, and a number of Devil's Guard titles.

A new insurgency is brewing on the Afghan-Pakistan border. General Ishaq Khan, known as the 'Hammer of God,' is the architect of this new terror. During a bloody battle, Khan kidnaps a group of journalists following Congresswoman Barbara Adams. Her work was to highlight injustices against women, yet now Adams and her party have become the victims.The Bin Laden raid on Abbottabad has left diplomatic ties shattered, making an official rescue mission impossible. The Congresswoman's husband turns to former Navy SEAL for help. Rafe Stoner is a drunk loner with little to live for. His refusal is brief and to the point. Until he discovers General Ishaq Khan, beloved leader of the Haqqani insurgency, has made the biggest mistake of his life. He has given Stoner a reason to live. A reason to fight.He agrees to take on the mission with his best friend Grigory Blum. They are about to enter the gates of hell as they pit their skills and weapons against the might of the Haqqani. What began as a rescue becomes a desperate fight for survival. At the end, one question remains. Who will live, and who will die?Heroes of Afghanistan: Hammer of God is an incredible story of tough, violent men in a tough, violent land. This is the latest title by the bestselling author of many SpecOps series. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.

In the final weeks of his US Navy SEAL tour in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Rafe Stoner leads his unit in a desperate mission to rescue the daughter of a diplomat, an aid worker kidnapped and held for ransom. The girl is found raped, tortured and murdered. Soon after, he leaves the Navy. In his new life he launches a colorful career as the part owner of the brothel, and in his spare time, a gun for hire.His best friend is Greg Blum, who works a remote farm outside Jalalabad with his pretty wife Faria, his three adopted children and a Marine-trained dog named Archer. The Blum family enjoy an uneventful life. Until someone attempts to wipe out the entire family in a vicious blaze of gunfire.The trail to the killer leads to Russia. And to an assassin known as the Widowmaker. To an impossible and bitter fight to defend the family he regards as his own. A fight that will leave a long trail of corpses along the way. Black-Ops: Heroes of Afghanistan Widowmaker is by the bestselling author of many Special Ops novels. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, the Special Operations: Grant series, Echo Six, and a number of Devil's Guard titles.