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American Praetorians
Series · 4 books · 2012-2015

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Task Force Desperate

2012

For more than a century……America has been the world’s superpowerIs that about to end?Jeff and his fellow Praetorian Security contractors are about to find out the hard way. They know the world’s on the downslide. The global economy’s tanked. Piracy’s up. Which is why they’re riding shotgun on a freighter in the Gulf of Aden.Then they get the call.There aren’t many of them. They’re far from home, far from support, and they don’t even know who exactly the enemy is.But they’ll go, because they’re fighters. It’s what they’re hard-wired to do.Will they find the hostages?Will they even survive that long?You’ll love this military thriller because it once it hits the ground running, it never lets up!Get your copy now.
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#2

Hunting in the Shadows

2013

CHAOS IS OPPORTUNITY They were just guarding the oil fields in Kirkuk… But that put Jeff Stone and the shooters of Praetorian Security into a prime position to go on the hunt. Iraq is crumbling. The Arabs and Kurds are on the brink of open war, and terrorists run amok. The US has no official presence in the country anymore, and the violence is accelerating. Jeff and his fellow contractors declared war after the bloodbath in East Africa. And as the chaos spreads and the body count rises, they’re going to slip through the shadows and take some bad actors down. The American Praetorian series continues in bloodshed and gunsmoke, as the Praetorian shooters blast their way through irregular war at its worst! Run toward the sounds of gunfire and get it today!
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Alone and Unafraid

2014

A Country In Flames… …And Jeff Stone’s Praetorian contractors are right in the middle of it. Mullah Abdullah Al Hakim has established himself, with Praetorian assistance, as the leader of the autonomous province of Basra in the wake of the bombing that killed the Iraqi Parliament. But an Iranian-aligned Iraqi General-turned-Warlord is descending on Basra with more force than either Al Hakim or Jeff’s two reduced teams of Praetorians can resist. They have to escape from both the oncoming troops and treachery from within their erstwhile allies. Once out, however, they receive a new mission. During the fight for Basra, Jeff’s team stumbled on a rogue American operation, supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham, the most notoriously savage jihadist organization in the region, as a proxy weapon against Iran. Now they’ve been hired to shut down the operation, known simply as “The Project,” by any means necessary. With their new employers’ identity just as shadowy as The Project’s backers, Jeff and his brother contractors have to navigate political pitfalls as well as a raging civil war as they drive into Baghdad, and the heart of an Iraq coming apart at the seams…
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The Devil You Don't Know

2015

He is called “El Duque.” No one knows his real name. Only vague descriptions and fuzzy photos of him exist. What is known about him is that he is the up-and-coming power in the converging underworlds of guerrilla warfare, spies, terrorists, and organized crime. He is known to have ties with Islamist extremists, Communist guerrillas, drug cartels, gun runners…if it is involved in global chaos, he has a hand in it. Now Praetorian Security has been contracted to hunt him down. Jeff Stone and his team pick up the scent in northern Mexico. But the closer they get, the more elusive El Duque seems to become. Jeff and his compatriots have long since learned that in the shadowy world of modern conflict, little is ever exactly what it seems. But as the manhunt leads them into some of the darkest, most lawless corners of the Western Hemisphere, they come upon an explosive revelation that changes everything. No one is coming out the other side of this mission the same. The Special Operations contractors of Praetorian Security go to the darkest corners of the world, to face the worst that the underworld of modern conflict has to offer.

Author

Peter Nealen
Peter Nealen
Author · 17 books
Peter Nealen is a former Recon Marine, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and something of an aspiring renaissance man (emphasis on aspiring). He has long been a reader of history, philosophy, folklore, science fiction, and fantasy, and is the author of the American Praetorians series of paramilitary thrillers as well as the Jed Horn series of supernatural thrillers.
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