Patrick Robinson
1) Nimitz class
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea is sunk by a nuclear torpedo with the loss of 6,000 hands. The U.S. retaliates with an attack on an Iranian submarine base, but as Lieutenant Commander Billy Baldridge discovers the real culprit is a lone Iraqi submariner, a far more elusive terrorist.
2) Kilo class
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 442 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built-and it's about to set off World War III. Silent at less than five knots and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch, it's the 240-foot Russian Kilo Class submarine. Strapped for hard cash, the Russians have produced ten new Kilos for Beijing. The Chinese have already received three of the subs and now the last seven are ready to be delivered-a code-red situation the Pentagon...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A British submarine captured by an Iraqi terrorist proceeds to shoot down aircraft, including one carrying the U.S. vice-president. No one realizes this, the planes having simply disappeared. When the mystery is finally solved, an admiral goes after him. By the author of Nimitz Class.
Author
Language
English
Description
In June 2005, four Navy SEALs left their Afghanistan base for the Pakistani border to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell and that desperate battle in the mountains. It's the story of the teammates who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left. And it is the story of the Pashtun tribe that took Luttrell in and risked everything to protect him from the Taliban. (Bestseller)...
6) Slider
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid's celebrity status and decides...
7) Ghost force
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 418 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving...... and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years-unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship-killingtorpedoes....
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A crown prince, enraged over the careless, destructive rule of the Saudi royal family, is determined to bring about its fall-and secretly enlists the aid of a powerful Western ally. France, with its fleet of lethal Hunter Killer submarines, is willing to use whatever deadly force is necessary to shift the power structure of the world's oil giant for a guaranteed share of the wealth. Blind greed and duplicity have forged an unholy alliance-between...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945....
Author
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 383 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bomb explodes in Boston's Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, the most trusted adviser to President Bedford, must move quickly to break the terrorist cell responsible for the bloodshed. The Hamas high command hatches a vicious plan to assassinate him once he exits the United States. Leading this attack is chief Hamas assassin General Ravi Rashood. Meanwhile, President Bedford, in a desperate attempt to protect the admiral at all costs, summons...
11) Diamondhead
Author
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to save a life, he must take one... When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford's fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack recklessly avenges their deaths by gunning down the attackers, resulting in his expulsion from the Navy.
He learns that the Diamondheads were sold illegally by infamous French politician Henri Foche. Mack suspects that Foche will triumph in his campaign to become the next...
12) The shark mutiny
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
463 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second... and a third. To the President's National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a tragic coincidence-it is a brazen act of aggression that must not stand. In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy has mined the Strait of Hormuz, intending to hold the world's oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America's active sea power is being mobilized-including U....
13) Scimitar SL-2
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 420 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Canary Islands, in the southwest corner of the island of La Palma, lies the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja. Scientists theorize that one day the volcano will explode. Nine hours after the eruption, a mega-tsunami with waves of more than 150 feet high will crash onto American shores, destroying cities from Miami to Boston. Now, what if someone sent a nuclear missile into the volcano and blew it up? Ravi Rashood-America's most-wanted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 334 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fateful communication from the mountains of the Afghan side of the border is intercepted by Britain's secret surveillance station on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Al-Qaeda is almost certainly planning a new hit on the US mainland. The CIA is at its wits end, all their fears coming home to roost. They know there is only one man who can stop them - retired Navy SEAL Lt. Commander Mack Bedford - and he is called in to assist on one of the most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xviii, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a near-future world where Israel and the United States have eliminated nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea, Russia plots an aggressive military campaign against America, prompting U.S. Navy SEAL Mack Bedford to conduct a world-changing defense mission.
18) Lone survivor
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Pashtun warrior who defied the Taliban and saved the life of American hero and Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. Bestselling author Patrick Robinson helped Marcus Luttrell bring his harrowing story of survival in Lone Survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 to the page and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers--right from the belly of the beast--arguing that this collapse need not have happened.