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JAKE TYLER BOOKS

NOTE: While each of our Jake Tyler books can be read as a stand-alone novel, you may want to read them in order for the most enjoyment as there are spoilers that reference the first book in the series. To start there, skip to IN THE DARK OF THE SUN.

DIG TO THE DEATH

a JAKE TYLER thriller, Book 3

Jake Tyler has decided what comes next in his life, and his newest mission seems to fall right into place. After a series of grueling and gut-wrenching ops, he is more than ready for some restorative respite, ready to embrace a joy that has eluded him over his hardened years as a military operative. But, as with most things in his realm, it doesn’t happen as he expects. A life-affirming event is nearly shattered by the deadly demons from his past and puts him back on the defensive just as he is preparing to enjoy his new bliss and step up to the rewarding work of military veteran rehabilitation in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Providing support for a dig in the Greek Islands with an archaeological organization benefiting challenged warriors, Jake is once again joined by his long-time brother-in-arms, Nash Remington, and his civilian friends, Eddie Falcone and Curran Niles, the project centering around the search and recovery of a Greek-American OSS squadron downed during World War II. But once the mission is underway, the discovery of a murdered scientist and what got him killed—ancient artifacts and a mind-blowingly advanced compound with the potential for modern-day military consequences—begins a turbulent spiral of events. It soon becomes clear that Jake and the group’s presence pose a threat to an oligarch on a crusade for power and vengeance, and who is hellbent on taking out anything or anybody standing in his way. As ongoing surveillance escalates to deadly intent, Jake and those closest to him become targets of the oligarch’s relentless mercenaries who seem to be everywhere. Scrambling to get Callie home, even as he is unsure of the security there, Jake then finds himself facing yet another dilemma with the disappearance of Falcone and Niles, who may have gotten themselves in the most serious trouble of their lives. By the time an endgame is exposed, it may be too late to extinguish the flashpoints for war amidst a volatile conflict already brewing within the seas and beyond the shores of the sparkling blue Mediterranean.

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UNDER A HARD BLUE SKY

a JAKE TYLER thriller, Book 2

Barely two weeks have passed since Special Forces veteran Jake Tyler’s return from a harrowing mission in Colombia, South America, one with tragic and life-altering consequences. Recovering at his Costa Rican home, he is struggling to provide comfort and care to Callie Kane, who is deeply traumatized from the experience. He is tormented by the reality that his love for her became an exploitable vulnerability for his adversaries and determined to embrace whatever time is needed for healing…and to build a new life together. So when Jake gets a call from Eddie Falcone and Curran Niles, urgently summoning him to the Congo, he is impossibly conflicted. Falcone and Niles, who had joined him in Colombia as clients and emerged as comrades and friends, have been documenting wealthy young philanthropists Cyrus and Amelia Keogh, and are clearly in over their heads. Gratitude for the risks they took in Colombia on his behalf ultimately prompt Jake to go. What seems on the surface to be a straight-forward, if not daunting quest, quickly escalates into far more, stirring deep-seated emotional connections from Jake’s past African conflicts and to encountering an old foe who has set up shop on the region’s front lines. At home, Callie is battling nightmares of a demon she cannot exorcize, but is he in her tortured mind or real again? As Jake’s efforts take him across the continent, he finds himself in pursuit of predators of the worst kind and a man whose lust for power and notoriety knows no bounds.

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IN THE DARK OF THE SUN

a JAKE TYLER thriller, Book 1

On the final day of a counternarcotics mission, Special Forces operative Jake Tyler is searching for a downed pilot. It's the first in a series of life-altering events that ultimately puts him in the sights of one of the most powerful and deadly drug cartels in South America.It seems Jake's friend and military comrade, Haskell Delaney, has been playing both sides in their operations, and the duplicity has just caught up with him.With a bounty now on his own head, Jake has no choice but to go after the cartel kingpins before they can take him out. With a rogue and gutsy execution, and the help of two civilians, he pulls off an operation he believes will put an end to his plight.But the stakes are raised when Jake's new love, Callie Kane, is abducted and used to lure him for a final showdown with Adonis Valentín, the unimaginably evil drug lord who has, like Jake, eluded death.Now one of them is going to die, either at the hand of his adversary or from the siege of artillery converging from ground and air...as a massive interdiction closes in. The only way out is back through the jungle.Terror in the world takes many forms, much of it gratuitously bloody, but now in the oft forgotten and interminable drug war, it's become personal.From the tropical beaches and rainforests of Costa Rica, to the terrifying darkness of Colombia, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN smolders with the grit of a seasoned warrior on whose life it is based. While racing through a relentless stream of action and suspense, the story delves into the fine line between darkness and light...in friendship, in life, and in love.With the rapid-fire intensity found in Proof of Life and Tears of the Sun, the familiar elements of Traffic and Blackhawk Down, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN stands unique with its combination of eloquent beauty and raw reality.

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BOOKS BY MYKEL HAWKE

Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive. With more than 200 how-to illustrations and complete survival-training information, this is the most useful and user-friendly survival book available.