Böcker av Heath Stallcup

We were warned. We didn't listen. After losing a 12-man Joint Terrorism Task Force and a full tactical SWAT unit to an unknown feral creature roaming the Catskills, the FBI wants revenge. Cop killers must pay the price, and this time the price is blood. Converging on the area with five dozen highly trained tactical operators, a full support team, and a combat helicopter, the Bureau brings war to the mountain. While utilizing drones, thermal optics, high powered weaponry and millions of dollars' worth of the best training Uncle Sam can provide, the battle still proves devastatingly one sided. As a last ditch effort, specialists are called in to bring the fight to the monsters. Special warfare operators face a foe unlike any they've encountered before and the hills run red with blood. Nobody fights harder than when they are defending their home. Add the burning desire for revenge, and that fight becomes a war!

While tracking a potential terrorist cell, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force sends a field team to investigate. Traveling deep into the Catskill Mountains, the Albany field office discovers something far more terrifying than a terrorist training camp. With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all Hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turns into a fight for survival against a foe that knows every inch of the terrain they are fighting on. Nobody fights harder than when they are defending their home. Add the burning desire for vengeance and the battle becomes a war!

Pandemics, race wars and civil wars pushed mankind to the brink. Then Mother Nature did her best to finish off the plague of Man with an asteroid dubbed Wormwood. When all seemed lost, Man did the last thing expected...they set aside their differences and worked toward a solution. Not only did they survive, they helped to heal the planet and the differences that had once divided them. However, Wormwood brought with it something that nobody was prepared for. A tiny life form, a prion, began to infect people and twist their DNA until an entirely new species sprung to the forefront. Mankind fell from his throne as the new species, the Nocturna, prepared to take its place as the world's newest Apex Predator. Nobody expected what was happening. Nobody knew the truth behind what was happening, either.

Twenty plus years as a Tier 1 operator is ended by one missed IED. In pain, alone, and without a plan, CPO Chris Nichols retires to a sleepy mountain town as far north as he can get without a passport. Nick, to his friends, wanted nothing more than to retire to the great white north and enjoy the peace and serenity that comes with a life well lived. His dream home comes with one little caveat: he has to pick up the mantle of the previous owner and play Santa to the community each Christmas. Begrudgingly, Nick agrees and his quiet retirement goes off the rails. He had no intention of falling for the girl. He certainly didn't want to become Santa Claus. He had no desire to go toe to toe with the Mountain Mafia. But Fate is a fickle bitch, and Nick finds himself thrust in the middle of all of it. A trail of not-so-idle threats leads to bloodshed; how many bodies have to be dropped before Santa can call it a day and go Ho Ho Home? Follow along as a Hallmark Christmas gets double dipped in Die Hard!

At a time when mankind should have been reaching for the future, life had devolved into a nearly apocalyptic present; neighbor plotted against neighbor and nation against nation as three different viruses reduced the world's population to a mere percentage of what it once was. Civil wars reduced that population even more. Then came the asteroid Wormwood and everything changed. Mankind did what nobody expected...they pulled together and worked as one to save the planet. Years after Wormwood did its worst, the monsters appeared and nobody was prepared for what came next. Man was no longer at the top of the food chain...but who exactly were the real monsters?This, the sixth and final installment of the Nocturna series will bring everything to a head and the real monsters will finally be revealed!