Free Kindle Books 2-26-13

From the top 100 free list

JET
Code name: Jet Twenty-eight-year-old Jet was once the Mossad's most lethal operative before faking her own death and burying that identity forever. But the past doesn't give up on its secrets easily. When her new life on a tranquil island is shattered by a brutal attack, Jet must return to a clandestine existence of savagery and deception to save herself and those she loves. A gritty, unflinching roller-coaster of high-stakes twists and shocking turns, JET features a new breed of protagonist that breaks the mold.
[It has been free before and the many 4 and 5 star reviews (>200) convinced me to download it. But I never got around to actually reading it.]

SECTOR C
A rise in stroke-like cases has CDC analyst Mike Shafer on alert. Patients in every demographic in the Great Plains area, from toddlers to healthy adults to the elderly, are succumbing to rapid deterioration - and death.
[Has been on the top 100 list for several days.]

Not from the top 100 free list.

Sacrifice: A Novel of the War for Southern Independence 
Sacrifice, based on the true story of four South Carolina brothers who enlist in the Confederate Army in 1861. Dennis Todd, a reluctant Rebel, follows his brothers from their quiet farm life into the inferno of battle. He soon finds himself charging with the gray legions through the smoke-filled woods of Tennessee and Georgia during more than three years of relentless struggle with the Army of Tennessee. From Perryville to Franklin and Nashville and the Confederacy's last grasp at survival at Bentonville, Dennis and his brothers experience glorious triumphs and dismal defeats, the horror of battle, long marches, carefree camp life, and the tragedy of personal loss. Through it all, the war careens ever closer to its heartbreaking end as the men come to see themselves as the ultimate price of freedom - the Sacrifice. But, when the war is over, is the worst yet to come?

Hammer Of The Gods
The Tides of war are shifting against Germany. For the last great armored offensive…Indeed the largest in history, a myth obsessed Adolf Hitler has bestowed the nickname Hammer Of The Gods on one of Germany’s most powerful tanks…The Tiger. He believes it will be the one that shall lead his most destructive force to victory over their dreaded enemy, Russia. As his personal banner flies over it, inside the tank rides the best crew and a decorated commander determined to restore his reputation as they fight off the hordes of enemy determined to destroy it for Josef Stalin. Accept the invitation to come along for the journey as the characters interact with actual figures and timelines and endure with them the sights and emotions amid the Hell and carnage of total war.

Ice Diaries
It's 2018 and Tori's managing. Okay, so London is under twenty metres of snow, almost everybody has died in a pandemic or been airlifted south, and the only animals around are rats. Plus her boyfriend never returned from going to find his parents a year ago when the snow began - but she's doing fine. Really. She lives in an apartment that's luxurious, if short on amenities, in a block which used to be home to rich City bankers. A handful of fellow survivors are her friends, and together they forage for food and firewood, have parties once a month and even run a book club. The problem is they have no long-term future; eventually provisions will run out. Tori needs to find transport to make the two-thousand-mile journey south to a warm climate and start again.

SEALed Justice - Book One Of The Jason Turner Saga
What if you were a Navy SEAL Commander on a top secret mission when you and your six man team were ambushed because of a leak---a mission only the President and six other people knew about? What do you say when a complete stranger walks into your hospital room and tells you a family secret that's been kept from you since birth? How would you handle the knowledge that five dead SEAL's, your best friends, were just collateral damage because someone wanted you dead?

Stripped of Innocence
“We were located in a DMZ (demilitarized zone) at the 38th parallel. The military is all about acronyms. Marches could be up to 20 miles over difficult terrain to move to a new position. Our weapons included the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and shortly after the M1 Garand. The BAR was replaced because it would freeze up in the wintery climate. You would have to piss on the receiver group so it would thaw enough to fire. The M1 Garand, also a .30 caliber weapon, had a clip that held 8 rounds of ammunition. After firing the last round, the clip would pop out with the distinct sound, “Ching!” The enemy would listen for it and then charge. If you were smart, you had another loaded rifle right next to you ready to go.”

[I downloaded this earlier today and read it at lunch time. A short story that really has little to do with Korea as the snippet might lead one to believe. A moderately depressing yet compelling tale. It only took about 15 minutes for me to read it. I gave it 4 stars.]

Pyongyang's Recruit
To prepare for an upcoming rocket launch, North Korea wants advanced missile technology and has come up with a plan to get it - from the United States!

Set in North Korea and Washington DC, Pyongyang's Recruit is the story of espionage, sex, and betrayal.

Sociopathic Surgeon
Surgeons must be smart, not sane. Sara is a sociopathic surgeon.

Sara lies on medical charts, trades prescriptions for favors. She abuses nurses, lawyers and “Doctors” who did not graduate from an American medical school.

Sara saves lives, but she never took the Hippocratic Oath. She practices medicine with her own ethics and rules.

A sociopathic bank clerk changes Sara’s life. A weekend of drinking convinces them to get married and have children. Their two daughters are not enrolled in school. They are raised outside society, without punishments or rules.

Sara’s precocious daughters want her to dissect a living person in the bathroom. Will she do it?

1632 (Ring of Fire)
"The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....

1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.

2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.

THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....

When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.

At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)."

[This is a great book and a very good start to the series. I have purchased all of the books in this series. I would rate them all as 4 and 5 star books except for one that was sort of mediocre.]