Being stuck in a small, claustrophobic submarine in the Arctic while trying to prevent a nuclear attack calls for a drink! So cool down with this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Arctic Gimlet” cocktail, inspired by Larry Bond’s sixth Jerry Mitchell thriller,…
Arctic Gambit by Larry Bond is the sixth book in the Jerry Mitchell series and an explosive military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author. Read Chapter 1 over at Tor/Forge! Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel…
Fatal Thunder by Larry Bond is the 5th Jerry Mitchell novel (Available May 3, 2016). India and Pakistan are stalemated in a war that India launched to “remove the threat of terrorism, once and for all.” But India's early successes have stalled, and with the coming spring, the tide may turn against them. A small…
For this Memorial Day, we offer our best wishes, deepest thanks, and a commemorative bouquet of military-related links: Author Joseph Koenig's personal list of the Best Fiction of World War II. “Afghanistan: My Green Zone Symphony,” is a 4-part feature on his deployment by military veteran Weston Ochs, author of the SEAL Team 666,…
Lash-Up by Larry Bond takes to space in a thriller where China ignites a military crisis by shooting down GPS satellites belonging to the United States (available May 5, 2015). In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS…
Shattered Trident by Larry Bond is a submarine-centered, military thriller set in the not-too-distant future (available May 7, 2013). China is the new Russia, a writer’s go-to country for worldwide threats. Larry Bond’s latest SUBNOV, Shattered Trident, highlights this status with an intriguing, plausible, premise: the Chinese take over various long-disputed Spratly Islands in the…
Blood of War by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice is the fourth—and final—Red Dragon Rising thriller (available January 15, 2013). It is 2014, and climate change has left the world on the edge of chaos. As depression and drought wrack China, the country’s new premier has launched a deadly war with Vietnam. The assault has…
This book is the third in Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising series. I really appreciated the cast of characters listed at the front of the book because the story moves so quickly I often referred to it to keep up with who was doing what! The story of Red Dragon Rising began with Shadows of…
