These 8 High-Octane Veteran Thrillers Are Your Duty to Read

Plagued by PTSD and on the brink of losing his family, Afghanistan veteran Dexter Grant agrees to a risky heist with his old unit to save their former interpreter by robbing a drug queenpin.

When the operation violently unravels, Dex's wife and daughter become targets, forcing him to unleash his combat skills and confront his own spiraling darkness to protect the ones he loves.

In a desperate mission for survival, Dex soon discovers the heist was a setup with a devastating secret—and the real battle has just begun.

When veteran Captain Marty Mitchell performs a life-or-death maneuver to save his jet after colliding with a commuter plane, his impossible choice lands him directly in the crosshairs of an ambitious district attorney.

Betrayed by the system and facing prison, Mitchell finds his only hope rests on the shoulders of an inexperienced corporate lawyer, Judith Winston, in a high-stakes trial used as a political audition.

Now, with the pilot's life and the lawyer's career on the line, the unlikely duo must fight a corrupt legal system determined to make Mitchell pay for saving the lives of others.

When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited for trial, he unleashes his private army of vicious mercenaries upon Washington, D.C., plunging the nation's capital into unprecedented chaos.

As the assassins begin targeting high-level government officials, including the President, the defense of the city falls to veteran fighter pilot Jake Grafton.

Now, Grafton must race against time with the help of an undercover agent to eliminate the enemy hit men before they can complete their devastating attack on American democracy.

A U.S. Senate candidate's political career is threatened by the revelation of long-hidden atrocities he committed in Vietnam, leading him to retreat with his wife to a remote cabin in northern Minnesota.

Just days after their arrival, his wife vanishes without a trace into the watery wilderness, leaving a terrifying void and an inescapable mystery.

Now, the candidate's wartime secrets must be uncovered to determine whether his own dark past is responsible for her sudden disappearance.

When a clandestine government project successfully tests a superweapon capable of making things vanish from reality, a commercial airliner is lost and a passenger gains dangerous, strange powers.

After his friend—an air traffic controller investigating the missing plane—suddenly disappears, Vietnam special-forces veteran Joshua Bane is drawn into the conspiracy.

Now, Bane must expose the lethal Project Vortex and the government secrets behind it before a third world war is triggered by the ultimate reality-bending weapon.

When Marine One mysteriously crashes, killing the president during a secret late-night flight, the government blames the manufacturer, igniting a national scandal and a massive wrongful death lawsuit.

Mike Nolan, a trial attorney and Marine veteran, is hired to defend the helicopter company but quickly uncovers a deadly conspiracy surrounding the crash.

Facing a high-profile trial designed to pin blame, Nolan must fight a system that wants him silenced to find the truth about the crash and the secret meeting that cost the president his life.

Haunted by the horrors of war, US Army veteran River Roulet flees to the vibrant chaos of Rio de Janeiro, only to fall into a dangerous, passionate romance with Natal, the spirited mistress of the city's reigning drug lord.

When the two lovers go on the run into the Brazilian interior, River is forced to rely on his combat training to evade the sadistic gangster and his men.

Now, pursued by both the drug cartel and the Brazilian government, River must fight for his life and his freedom, knowing that failure means certain death for the woman he loves.

When an abusive stranger claims to be the long-lost son of a dying veteran and offers to care for him, Detective Jack Carver is tasked with investigating the shocking reunion.

Digging into the background of the veteran's vanished wife, Carver unearths a baffling forty-year-old cold case involving a suspected serial killer.

Now, Carver must determine if the abusive "son" and his nurse girlfriend are frauds or murderers before the tangled threads of the past ensnare the present.