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The crew of the Damroyal locates the incoming comet Wormwood. Once they establish computer projections of its orbital path, construction begins on the moon base and rail gun that they plan to use to divert the threat.The Peacekeeper Council learns that their current plans to affect the orbit of the comet will succeed, but that alteration will have disastrous consequences in the next pass of the comet that will end in a direct hit on their home planet. To prevent that extinction level event, they devise a plan to deal with Wormwood once and for all, but it will take most of their fleet to ...

In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, the peacekeepers discover the base for Phoenix Rising, which was a secret government project that planned to utilize the work of the development team who’d designed the Peacekeeper. The project plans called for storing one hundred fighters in the subterranean base. Those fighters would provide air cover for America in the event of a nuclear conflict. The fighters had not been delivered prior to the night of the quakes.Inside that base, which the peacekeepers had code named the citadel, they discovered an aircraft unlike any other they had ever seen. ...

During a patrol over the Atlantic Ocean, the Athens is attacked by Russian fighters and ships. Russia has declared war on America, and the crew of the battleship find themselves in one of the most difficult scenarios they have ever encountered when their air and weapons superiority are tested to the limit. For the first time in many years, Evan finds himself confronted by a superior enemy.

Edited by Frankie Sutton July 17th 2011. The peacekeepers travel to Saginaw Michigan in the hopes of locating the factory where the alloy that composes the backbone of their technology was manufactured. They locate the owner of the factory and a trade arrangement is worked out that will secure the peacekeepers a supply of the alloy. A boat loaded with the sick and the dead washes ashore in southern Louisiana. One of the passengers makes it to a small city and hitches a ride with a kind hearted man who transports him to New Orleans. Along the way they stop at every small town gathering food ...

In the mid-nineties, my wife was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which had metastasized to her lymph nodes. The essay “Coping with Breast Cancer” details what happened in the wake of that diagnosis. We decided to release this composition in the hopes of helping other couples confronted with this terrible disease. Here is a brief excerpt from Coping with Breast Cancer. In the fall of 1994 we were living the good life. We’d just bought our dream house and moved in the previous July and were looking forward to our first holiday season in our new home. Only one thing placed a cloud...

A large group of peacekeepers on their return trip to Base One stopped to camp for the night just south of Birmingham Alabama. These men and women had been serving as guards and in other support duties for the temporary peacekeeper airbase in Mobile Alabama. In the middle of the night these peacekeepers are attacked, but the lieutenant in charge of the unit gets a message to the base and activates the unit’s emergency beacon. The Peacekeeper and a squadron of fighters head for the location at top speed. When they arrive they find an incredible nightmare awaiting them as they investigate ...

Far across the Atlantic Ocean, a great pirate fleet was assembled. For the past several years, these pirates had looted the coastlines of the western European nations. Now they were turning their attention to American, and only the Peacekeepers could stop them. They plan to loot the natural resources and treasures of America. And they are coming with 5,000 ships that are armed to the teeth.

The peacekeepers believed the city was abandoned until a bored drone pilot saw a plume of smoke and diverted his drone to investigate. The Athens, dispatched to learn the truth, is recalled to deal with an emergency.The Women’s Elite Corps is asked to help. Nora’s team enters the city to attempt to solve the mystery. They soon discover that nothing is as it seems in New York City.

Two peacekeeper ships are dispatched to New York City to organize the evacuation and resettlement of the survivors. The peacekeepers soon find themselves facing a myriad of problems. Wild animals roam the streets of the city, and the tunnels beneath it are home to millions of starving rodents. The underground is also home to cannibals who prey on other humans as a means of survival. Compounding matters is the hatred and mistrust the above-grounders have for the people who live beneath the city streets. The peacekeepers must somehow prevent the different factions from fighting long enough to...

During a war, bad things happen to good people. That point is driven home repeatedly in this book. Without warning, the peacekeepers are attacked by a relentless foe bent on their destruction. This time they face a foe that can match and defeat their armada. Suffering one defeat after another, the council tries to adapt and overcome an enemy that has spies working in Washington to turn the new government against them. The enemy intends to defeat them in war or have the American government seize their assets.A peacekeeper fighter squadron goes missing and El Morro, the Cuban peacekeeper base...

Five years have passed as the peacekeepers continued to develop their spacecraft and build the new Guardian. That megaship will be placed in orbit to become the largest and most advanced space station in the history of mankind. It’s being positioned there to protect the United States from foreign aggression.The Chinese and the Russians are committed to the destruction of the Guardian and are building massive fleets to accomplish that goal.Beth convinces Gabe that they need to steal an APC from the Guardian and make an unauthorized round trip to the moon. What follows is a harrowing ordeal...

The peacekeepers intercept a message from a Chinese troop transport ship that originated near Alaska. A task force of several ships is sent to investigate. They also have to deploy a string of communications buoys to establish a link with the state. When they arrive, they learn that the Chinese have established bases in the state, which they are claiming as an official province of the Imperial Empire of China. They also learn that China now has an emperor. Qin Shi Huang plans to use the seizing of Alaska to galvanize the Chinese people and rally them to his standard in his civil war with ...

When Rex, the loyal service dog and companion of combat veteran and Deputy Sheriff, Ray Nix, is killed by a large strange flying creature, no one believes it really happened. Ridiculed for the story, Ray finds himself terminated from the department. Now begins the quest to find who or what took his friend from him. During one such hunt, he is approached by a group of three strangers seeking to recruit him, but what were they asking him to do?

In western Nevada, the towns of New Carson City and New Virginia City are on the brink of war. In the aftermath of the disasters and the plague that have devastated America, the people of those communities have reverted to a more primitive, western-oriented, lifestyle. Like their forefathers, they are dependent upon horses and cattle for a subsistence existence, and there aren't enough present for both towns to share. Complicating matters is the fact that the leaders of the cities were once best friends whose friendship was torn apart when Andy took Clay’s girlfriend away from him prior ...

Division within the ranks of the peacekeepers threatens to tear them apart as they battle the Colombian drug cartel and a mystery enemy. Adding to their growing list of problems is the fact that the unidentified enemy is attempting to master the technology that permits them to travel submerged in their ships, which appear to be clones of those of the cartel. If ships can approach the coastal cities of America undetected, it would be all but impossible to stop them from attacking.

A rogue nation decides to take advantage of worldwide chaos to attack America with nuclear weapons. The American intelligence network learns of the plan and the government decides to launch a first strike at this rogue nation. This information leaks out to other nations and soon the world is poised on the brink of all out nuclear conflagration as the nuclear nations choose sides in the coming conflict.