Along the Afghanistan border, a CIA agent meets secretly with a distraught Arab girl. She passes him a coded message before killing herself. But before the message can be deciphered, the world spins toward war: Within hours, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and the country's nuclear warheads go missing. Al Qaeda streams into northern Pakistan. Israel puts her combat forces on hair-trigger alert. CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic is given the impossible task of finding and destroying the missing warheads. Working with his best friend, a B-2 pilot, they develop a desperate plan to save the world from the threat of nuclear terror. From Publishers WeeklyStewart's experience as a fighter pilot comes into play in vivid flying scenes featuring the beautiful but tough-as-nails USAF Capt. Tai Lei, but the scope of his ambitious fourth thriller is much larger. The war in question begins with the murder of Pakistan's president and the theft of a cache of American nuclear warheads. The president and his brain trust respond while CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic engages in a complicated search for the stolen warheads, even traveling through Afghanistan and later Tajikistan on horseback. In Stewart's hands, many of the novel's surprising details feel entirely authentic. The complex plot has al-Qaeda's fingerprints on it and, engineered by a character identified as the Great One, targets two dozen world cities for destruction. Along the way, the story spins through more than 20 locations, including Qatar, Oman, France, Syria and Kyrgyzstan. Predictably, the world is brought to the brink of destruction. But Stewart is impressively skilled at presenting the entire tapestry of his war—the many threads of the terrorist, allied and American forces—and should hold his readers' interest. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review"Red-hot intrigue and combat action from a talented young writer." --Stephen Coonts"The Fourth War is a masterpiece, one that sets new techno-thriller standards. Chris Stewart's literary torque wrench cranks up the tension to an unbearable point in this stark tale of the war on terror. The Fourth War is more than a page turner, it's a mind blower as he tosses twists, turns and surprises on every page. Bound to be a movie!" --Walter Boyne For Chris Stewart's earlier books:"Better than Tom Clancy." --Douglas Preston"A splendid thriller. The aerial action scenes are outstanding." --W. E. B. Griffin"Full throttle...laced with intrigue." --Eric Harry, author of Arc Light

Shattered Bone: The theft, hijacking, or unauthorized flight of a B-1B bomber loaded with nuclear weapons. Such activity is to be considered a class "A" security violation. The incident aircraft will be destroyed using any and all means available. Its destruction is the highest priority. –Air Force code manual 13-12 A nightmare scenario becomes terrifying reality when the Ukraine calls in an undercover agent from the old Russian regime who has lived in America nearly all his life and is now an elite bomber pilot. Drawn back to his home, the agent is pitted against a Russia ambitious to rebuild its tyrannical power. As his stolen bomber sweeps down on its target, the world braces for nuclear war, and everyone is left to wonder: Who is the renegade pilot working for? Shattered Bone crackles with an authenticity and life experience rarely encountered in techno-thrillers.

“It really grips you….I lost a lot of sleep reading it.” –Tim LaHaye, co-author of the LEFT BEHIND seriesONE MAN STANDS ALONE... “The battle was in motion. The same battle from long ago. The battle for the souls of men, for the soul of their country, for their own family. Eons of waiting and preparing. And now the final days were here.”In the wake of a debilitating EMP attack on America, the rule of law has vanished. Amidst the chaos, the forces of Darkness use all means necessary to consolidate power into a new, illegal government formed without oversight or consent. As this clandestine group of powerful men prepares to introduce their handpicked leader to the world they learn of a major problem: The former Secretary of Defense, thought to be dead, may have somehow survived the attack. As next in the line of succession for the presidency, his presence would threaten the group’s entire plan.With time running out before the public reveal of the chosen president, and the SecDef’s life in grave danger, an all-or-nothing plan is hatched to infiltrate the illegal government and expose them to the world.Against the backdrop of torn-from-the-headlines Middle Eastern drama, the Wrath & Righteousness series is a fast-paced thriller that explores man’s role in the eternal battle between good and evil.Chris Stewart, a world-record-setting Air Force pilot (fastest nonstop flight around the world), is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Miracle of Freedom. Wrath & Righteousness is a ten episode e-book series by New York Times bestselling author Chris Stewart. Each episode is approximately 50,000-60,000 words (roughly two-thirds the length of a normal full-length novel). This series was adapted from the previously published The Great and Terrible series that was released from 2003-2008.