Christopher Tietjens is the embodiment of an Edwardian English gentleman - his world is ordered, predictable, and hierarchical. His wife, Sylvia - beautiful, arrogant, reckless - is a symbol of the new times brought about by World War I. Their conflict is a chronicle of a family and an era.

"Sobre estos tres escenarios se han librado batallas: la isla gallega de San Simón albergó un campo de concentración durante la guerra civil española, Vietnam fue la gran herida de la Norteamérica de los sesenta, la costa de Normandía fue testigo del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Como las estrellas, que nos alumbran aunque estén extinguidas, los caídos de estas contiendas están unidos a los protagonistas de esta historia que, desde...

"From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive--first...

Yossarian wants to get out of flying war combat missions by being crazy, but is caught by Catch 22: the rule that said if he knew he was crazy, then he wasn't.

"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking...

"Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan...

Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.

With tensions escalating along the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. launches Operation Rampart under the command of Major Jason Richter and his Task Force TALON, who find themselves targeted by drug kingpin Enrique Fuera.

"Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in 1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was instead frozen murderously in place. After enduring...