Eric Meyer’s Dirty Dozen: Twelve Short Stories of War in Iraq and Afghanistan

A blockbusting collection of no less than TWELVE Short Stories. This is war fiction at its punchiest and best, including stories from Hawkins' Heroes, SEAL Strike, Tank Platoon and Desert Strike. Why buy one, when for a low price you can download the entire compilation. That's right, twelve stories at an unbeatable price. TANK PLATOON: FOR HONOR AND GLORYThe invasion of Iraq is underway, and PFC Carl Yeager, an M1 Abrams driver, is about to experience the hell of the Second Gulf War.
Battling the much-vaunted Republican Guard, an elite force equipped with hundreds of Russian supplied T-72 main battle tanks. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: DESERT STRIKEArmy Ranger Rod 'Rottweiler' Weller leads a four-man fire team. They're a band of brothers, a brotherhood that is at breaking point after one of the team, Duane Slater, left them to die. SEAL STRIKE: BLACK SEA TERRORTony Chase, SEAL Master Chief leads a small SEAL unit, based aboard a US Navy Littoral Support Ship.
Just returned to duty after serious injury following a car crash, he has two battles to fight. His number two is sore he didn't get promoted, but the real battle is in the Black Sea. SEAL STRIKE: NIGHT HUNTERSWhen a bloodthirsty band of Taliban commanders escapes from prison, a SEAL unit led by Master Chief Tony Chase is called in to track them down. All of them under sentence of death for mass murder.
SEAL STRIKE: NUCLEAR STORMIran, a nation ruled by the Ayatollahs, fanatics who yearn to possess nuclear weapons. Their latest act of madness is the construction of a nuclear weapons plant in the north of the country. To avoid nuclear war, it must be destroyed without suspicion falling on America. SEAL STRIKE: BLITZ ON BEIRUTWhilst on patrol aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Springfield, SEAL Master Chief Tony Chase and his team are called to an emergency briefing.
A group of Lebanese Christian rebels has discovered Russian-built ballistic missiles deployed in their country. HAWKINS' HEROES: BAPTISM OF FIREEddie 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. HAWKINS' HEROES: HELL'S HIGHWAYOrdered 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.
HAWKINS' HEROES: CAULDRON OF FIRELeading 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. HAWKINS' HEROES: INFERNOPfc 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. HAWKINS' HEROES: THE ENEMY WITHINEddie recognized a hostile when he sees one, and he does not hesitate to open fire on a vehicle inside the Bagram perimeter fence. HAWKINS' HEROES: COUNTERPUNCHThe loss of their Humvee in a surprise ambush results in his crew being stood down.
The word is things have gone quiet, and they relax. Yet he is convinced the enemy is building their strength for a new offensive