Free Kindle Books 2-27-13

FROM THE TOP 100 FREE LIST

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.
[has been on the top 100 free list for a couple of days and previously.]

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
[was on yesterday's list too.]

The Dark Communion (The Midnight Defenders)
When Daddy, Gramps, drunk Uncle Billy…whoever it was, looked at you when you were a little kid, blankets around your neck, trembling in bed, sure-as-shit convinced that there was something out to get you under your box-spring, in your closet, and they told you there wasn’t anything there – that monsters didn’t exist – they were lying to you.

Jono Swyftt knows this because that’s what he does. He kills things. Bad things. Nightmare things: Orcs, trolls, haunts, gnomes…the bloody Easter Bunny.

Swyftt was a copper, a priest, a Night Hunter, a husband, a father. Now he’s just a burnt-out PI with an arsenal of big-ass guns – an unrepentant foul-mouth who keeps everyone at arms length – and yet, whether your problem is a mating orgy of Cyclopes, a murderous imaginary friend, or a strip club full of horny Sirens, everyone from US Senators to Julia Roberts knows he’s the one man to call. When a high-school student hires him to find a missing autistic boy and a catatonic billionaire runs away from a nursing home, it’s up to Swyftt, his partner, and his ward to piece together the clues and stop the nightmare that’s feeding on the city with an underground ring of serial-kidnapping bums. But that’s what Swyftt does. He’s the very last line of paranormal defense in the greater Seattle area.

And he ain’t bloody cheap.

NOT FROM THE TOP 100 FREE LIST

Honour and Glory - The Battle for Saxony
Like a bloody storm, Charlemagne’s armies ravage early medieval Europe, leaving devastation and misery in their wake. They have subdued the kingdom of the Langobards, defeated the duchy of Bavaria; they threaten the Moors in the west and, in the south, the pope in Rome.

[Note: this book appears to be a re-titled version of a book I read once before and gave 3 stars to. The author seems to have changed his pen name as well.
Blood and Honour - The Battle for Saxony (A Historical Novel Set in the Dark Ages)]

Dawn of the Tiger
In 2034, Australia's shores will be breached, its resources hijacked and citizens held hostage.

As dawn breaks on the Chinese New Year, a flotilla of Chinese warships is poised to strike an unsuspecting Australia.  China's intention is to secure Australia's enormous mineral and energy resources to fuel its relentless economy and stamp its primacy on the Pacific.

Amidst widespread panic and political turmoil, a young Sydneysider, Finn Hunt, becomes involved in a massive US-Australian guerrilla operation to repel the Chinese invaders. His journey takes him to the heart of The Outback where he is subjected to desert warfare, enemy capture and the harshest physical conditions.  His faith, resolve and sheer will to survive will be tested.

Dawn of the Tiger is based on current political and strategic events in the Asia Pacific region.  As China continues to grow and the US military "pivots" from the Middle East to Asia, the future of the Pacific is yet to truly dawn.

[Has > 30 4 and 5 star reviews.]

Desperate Times
Imagine waking up to the horrific news of an economic cataclysm. Around the globe, investors have panicked and the markets are on the verge of collapse. The unthinkable has happened. There is a run on the banks and the dollar is in a free-fall. With time running out, you rush out the door and try to prepare for the worst-case scenario; only to learn that hyperinflation has arrived and prices have already begun to skyrocket. This is the sad beginning of Desperate Times.

The tale is told through the eyes of an average Joe, Jimmy Logan. Jimmy’s employer, Ken Dahlgren, is waiting for him at the time-clock as he arrives for work. Jimmy is blissfully unaware of what is happening in the outside world, but Ken orders him into his office and gives him the bone-chilling news. Ken and his wife, Patty, own a lake home in northern Minnesota. For years, Ken and Patty have secretly prepared their northern retreat for this looming crisis. Ken invites Jimmy and his live-in girlfriend, Paula, to join a select group of close friends to ride out the storm. After quickly explaining his plan to Jimmy, Ken hands him an envelope filled with cash and the keys to the company truck. He then orders Jimmy to head into Saint Cloud and buy whatever he can lay his hands on. He allows Jimmy enough time to make a quick pit-stop at his trailer home, to explain the situation to Paula and for the two of them to pack their clothes, just as fast as they can.

[> 70 4 and 5 star reviews.]

The Sharp End (The Great Undead War prequel story)
The zombie apocalypse meets World War One in this exciting prequel story to BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES, book one in the Great Undead War series!

March 1921. The War to End All Wars continues, with no foreseeable end in sight. The Central Powers control most of Europe, with only a thin stretch of French coastline still in Allied hands. A beleaguered Britain fights resolutely on, but everyone knows that without the continued support of the United States it would fall within weeks. Even that may not be enough to defeat the brilliance of the Central Powers' scientists and the advantages their advanced weapons give their troops as wave after wave of zombie soldiers are sent against the Allied front lines...