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This box set collects all four books in the acclaimed Defenders series by Kenneth Andrus featuring Nick Parkos and his clandestine military ops team handling dangerous missions for the US Director of National Intelligence. The set includes: Flash Point, Amber Dawn, Arctic Menace and The Curators.
An escalating regional crisis. World powers raising the stakes. Can one man prevent the ultimate disaster? SEAL Commander Mike Rohrbaugh has been assigned to a Pacific Fleet staff job. But an increase in threatening activity in the South China Sea sets diplomatic waters churning. And when rogue Chinese Navy operatives seize a Filipino fishing boat, he’s ordered back into the field for a risky undercover operation. With players in the Chinese, Philippine, and Vietnamese governments flexing their military muscles, Rohrbaugh knows the deteriorating situation could quickly lead to a world war. And when evidence surfaces of a nuclear threat, he knows he must beat the clock to neutralize a devastating act of revenge. With the fate of the globe in his hands, will Rohrbaugh succeed before the situation explodes into radioactive annihilation? Flash Point is the suspenseful first book in The Defenders action series. If you like complex plots, true-to-life themes, and take-charge characters, then you’ll love Kenneth Andrus’s pulse-pounding adventure. “… a fast-paced, action-packed international thriller pulled from today’s headlines.” Rick Ludwig, author Pele’s Fire
In his final mission, Nick Parkos must choose between saving his country—or saving himself. Parkos and his clandestine military ops team known the Curators are ordered to Prague by the US Director of National Intelligence. They must thwart a Czech transnational crime cartel and Russian operatives planning to smuggle arms into Mexico to foment rebellion and destabilize the southwest border of the United States. But Parkos has another goal prompted by the discovery of an ancient keepsake in his grandparent’s attic—learning the truth about his Czech roots. His search leads to an ancient family castle and a distant cousin who, by a twist of fate, has a clandestine connection to his mission. Caught in a web of intrigue and double-crosses, Parkos grapples with fundamental questions about his life. Where do his loyalties lie? His family? His colleagues? His country? Join Parkos and the Curators for this spellbinding thriller, an action-packed conclusion to the critically acclaimed Defenders series from military expert Kenneth Andrus. With the free world hanging in the balance, you do not want to miss this spellbinding adventure!
A Chinese sub in American waters. Rare elements every nation wants. Can Parkos prevent an environmental apocalypse—and a world war? National Security Analyst Nick Parkos, still recovering from the Amber Dawn incident, uncovers a plot to control the US supply of rare earth elements vital to its military-defense systems. Teaming with former Navy SEAL Geoffrey Lange, he travels to Cape Lisberne, just off the coast of Alaska, to investigate. What he doesn’t know is that a foreign mastermind is actively working behind the scenes to discredit Parkos and hide the truth. The situation soon escalates, and Parkos unearths evidence that a foreign power plans to explode a radioactive radiation dispe...
A terrorist bent on revenge. Nations on the brink of nuclear war. Can Nick Parkos stop a deadly fanaticthis madman before thethousands are killed world is destroyed by his unrelenting wrath? Nick Parkos is a low-level intelligence analyst when a when a shocking twist thrusts him to the forefront. All at once he’s sudden the man best qualified to deal with a dire threat to the stability of the entire world.world peace in history. Bashir al-Khulyter, seeking revenge for his family’s deaths by Russian paramilitary troops, detonates a dirty bomb in Moscow’s Red Square—and threatens to deploy four more bombs in the near future. With the world’s capitals nations on red alert in chaos and...
Spousal abuse. Crystal meth. Astrophysics. A man who claims he’s from another dimension. All in a day’s work for a cop on Maui. A wrong-way driver causes a devastating collision in paradise. Even police detective Keone Boyd, born and raised on the spirit-filled island of Maui, is not prepared for the investigation that follows. The facts lead him to an abused wife, an oily drug distributor, an observatory atop a dormant volcano, and a man who claims he’s traveled to Maui through an invisible passageway between universes. Here in paradise, Boyd knows the facts can take you far from where you want to go—but this case takes him where he’s never gone before. Frustrated, conflicted, and...
A beloved husband scientist is shot in Maui’s peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Olympic athletes are killed on luxury cruises around the world. Can two of Maui’s finest stop the violence? Detective Sergeant Keone Boyd travels to the Mediterranean with his new bride, while in Maui, his boss Tony Alcala investigates a horrific shooting in the normally peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Since the victim is a former neighbor of his protégé, Sgt. Angela Beyers, Alcala gives her the case. During her investigation, Angela discovers a file on the victim’s computer with clues to the shooting. But the file was saved while the victim was in a coma and no one else had access. So who left the clues? And how? As Angel...
Ebenezer Brown (1801-1879) was of the son of William and Hanna Sweet Brown. He was born in Herkimer (formerly Montgomery) County, New York. He and Ann Weaver were married in 1823. The family moved to Far West, Missouri in 1838. He married Phebe Draper Palmer in 1842 and joined the Mormon Battalion soon after.
List for March 7, 1844, is the list for September 10, 1842, amended in manuscript.