Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying Master Sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame Hawkins. Held in contempt by his crew, the next operation offers him a chance to put things right. Except the same Master Sergeant has command of his platoon.It is make or break time. Time for him to put the record straight. Or die in the attempt.Hawkins' Heroes: Hell's Highway is the second short novel in the Hawkins' Heroes series. A collaboration between Todd McCleod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war

Pfc Eddie Hawkins has two passions in life. First-person shooters and his job as a cupola gunner in a Humvee in Afghanistan. His weapon is a Browning .50 calibre, and Eddie has acquired a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun. It wasn't always that way, but after a shaky start, he has learned how to handle the gun like an expert. There is no looking back.But Hawkins is about to face his biggest challenge yet. On patrol near the Afghan city of Ghazni, they run into a strong force of Taliban. A logistics Major wo is temporarily in command insists on retreating and leaving the city in enemy hands. The brass are unhappy at this retreat, and send them back to Ghazni in overwhelming force. The city is now bristling with hostile fighters, a place they have nicknamed the 'Inferno.' Yet the coming battle will throw them a big surprise. The only question is which bodies will be left on the battlefield after the last bullet is fired.Hawkins' Heroes:...

The 82nd Airborne Division is still fighting its way through the Ardennes forest.Every yard of ground takes them closer to Germany. And every yard is bitterly contested by the Germans, who have amassed infantry and armor to block their advance.The American commanders have prepared a counter-attack to sweep the enemy out of the forest and pushed them back across the border. Sent out on reconnaissance, Ray Cassidy and his buddy Harry Byrd stumble upon the main concentration of German forces. Attempting to flee through the dripping forest, with thick snow making every step for sure, Cassidy is captured by the enemy. Harry Byrd, hiding in the forest, is in no doubt about two important factors. The first, the Germans plan to attack soon. The second, that before they attack, they plan to murder Cassidy.Harry manages to get back to the platoon and tell them what he saw. The news is passed on to HQ and they plan an artillery strike before dawn the next day. If the...

A parachute jump into history. The early hours of June 6th, 1944, and the beginning of the battle to sweep the Germans all the way back to Berlin and beyond.Before the landings can take place, paratroops have to take and hold strategic crossings to hold back the German armor. Not everything went to plan.A bridge outside a remote French town, vital for the Germans and vital for the Allies. Company B is traveling in C-47s when their aircraft are hit by flak, and First Platoon jumps into the darkness, dispersed across the entire region of Normandy. A few men land close to the objective. And close to a unit of SS. The company commander is not amongst them, wounded after a bad landing and taken prisoner.They reach the bridge, and have more obstacles to taking and holding it than they can believe. Including the ominous threat of enemy armor, forging up from the south to throw the Allies back into the sea. And the discovery the CO is a prisoner in a nearby town. Of...

Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner Eddie Hawkins enjoys his work, and he is good at it. His other passion is first-person shooters. Stationed in Afghanistan, Eddie has a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun, after an initial shaky start. Life is good for Pfc Hawkins, until the night the Taliban arrive at Bagram.Eddie recognized a hostile when he sees one, and he does not hesitate to open fire on a vehicle inside the Bagram perimeter fence. Yet the vehicle escapes, and the Afghan's stationed at Bagram insist he shot at one of theirs. His punishment is seven nights sentry duty, and he begins on a bitter night, with snow lying thick on the ground. His biggest enemy is the cold, until he sees an Afghan military convoy approaching the gates. Could this be another enemy? If he shoots, Bagram will become engulfed in gunfire and flames, and if he is wrong, innocent men will die.He has a decision to make, and the result is...explosive. The start of a...

Eddie Hawkins is part of a four-man crew, the cupola gunner on a Humvee in Afghanistan. His job, firing the .50 caliber Browning. His mission, to protect his buddies and kill the enemy. He's also the newest and youngest member of the team. The guy they won't listen to, even when he's saying something important. Why listen to the kid who can't shoot straight? At least that's what they keep telling him. Until the day he sees something so vital he forces them to listen and they have to take notice. Eddie saves countless Coalition lives, and nothing will ever be the same again.Hawkin' Heroes: Baptism of Fire is the first short novel in the Hawkins' Heroes series. Baptism of Fire is a collaboration between Todd McCleod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.

Pfc Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul up by an Intelligence Major. As if it couldn't be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.Facing enemy machine guns and RPG rockets, they come close to destruction. Hawkins uses his formidable shooting skills to hold back the enemy onslaught. Yet when everything looks lost, he falls back on his renowned skill as a top gamer to stave off certain defeat.Hawkins' Heroes: Cauldron of Fire is the third short novel in the Hawkins' Heroes series. A collaboration between Todd McCleod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.

America is shrouded in ice. The outside temperature has dropped below Arctic levels, and people have no choice but to tunnel into the ice to create living spaces. In one of these communities, former Army Ranger Brad Jensen battles to keep his wife and young son alive. Attacks from predatory groups are a constant danger, and life in the tunnels means always keeping one eye open for attacks, and one hand holding the butt of a gun. Struggling to cling to life, and nothing could be worse. Until it gets worse.An outbreak of a life-threatening disease strikes, and early on his son falls sick. Brad's wife Scarlett, the community doctor, predicts he will die soon unless she can administer a vaccine to fight the disease. A drug only available in a distant city, buried deep beneath the ice. A city already occupied by feral men and women sworn kill anyone who enters.Time is running out, and Brad Jensen faces his toughest challenge. To hack a new tunnel through the ice to...