Raptor Force Corkscrew

With this elite covert strike team, terrorists don't stand a fighting chance. In the midst of a hotly contested election, the president's wife is kidnapped while touring Europe, and the commander of Raptor Force is gravely wounded in the attack. Now, it's up to Raptor Force to set things right-without any rules, and without any mercy.

When the president's wife is kidnapped while touring Europe, and General Buck Peighton, founder and commander of an elite covert strike team called Raptor Force, is gravely injured during the attack, Raptor Force must operate on their own to stop America's enemies and an oncoming war. Original.

Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend. They cut through the sky in their P-38s to go one-on-one against the enemy—and those who survived the deadly showdowns with enough courage and skill earned the right to be called aces. But two men in particular rose to become something more. They became icons of aerial combat, in a heroic rivalry that inspired a weary nation to fight on. Richard “Dick” Bong was the bashful, pink-faced farm boy from the Midwest. Thomas “Tommy” McGuire was the wise-cracking, fast-talking kid from New Jersey. What they shared was an unparalleled gallantry under fire which won them both the Medal of Honor—and remains the subject of hushed and reverent conversation wherever aerial warfare is admired. What they had between them was a closely watched rivalry to see who would emerge as the top-scoring American ace of the war. What they left behind is a legacy of pride we will never forget, and a record of aerial victories that has yet to be surpassed anywhere in the world.

Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart. No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at one of America's scariest and most popular haunted houses, she has seen grown men laugh, cry, and push their loved ones aside as they run away in terror. And she's kept careful notes on what triggers these responses and why. Fear is a universal human experience, but do we really understand it? If we're so terrified of monsters and serial killers, why do we flock to the theaters to see them? Why do people avoid thinking about death, but jump out of planes and swim with sharks? For Kerr, there was only one way to find out. In this eye-opening, adventurous book, she takes us on a tour of the world's scariest experiences: into an abandoned prison long after dark, hanging by a cord from the highest tower in the Western hemisphere, and deep into Japan's mysterious “suicide forest.” She even goes on a ghost hunt with a group of paranormal adventurers. Along the way, Kerr shows us the surprising science from the newest studies of fear—what it means, how it works, and what it can do for us. Full of entertaining science and the thrills of a good ghost story, this book will make you think, laugh—and scream.

After recently returning to her hometown, Emily—a thirty-something, divorced, mother-of-three—is determined to find some semblance of normalcy or happiness in her life. Her plans to spend the summer working and lazing with her sister are derailed as she meets her gorgeous neighbor, Alex, and his incredibly sexy friends, Troy and Max. A relationship that begins as a steamy summer fling is destined to end, but Emily wonders if they could end up as something more. However, not everyone is happy with their relationship in the small, Pennsylvania town. With jobs and children on the line, is Emily doomed to strike out in the romance department? Or will she be Sliding Into Love? **Please note this book has been republished with a new cover and title, though the content remains the same. The book was previously titled - "A Work in Progress" "18+ Why Choose Romance.*

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.