Author: Harold Coyle

Dead Hand

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Dead Hand
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When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.

The missiles are pointing at the United States and its European allies, and ultra-nationalist General Likatchev is willing to use them as blackmail to topple the government in Moscow and return Russia to her status as world power.

When Russia responds to world queries with cold silence, a NATO special operations unit is dropped into Siberia. Trapped in a region ravaged by freezing snow and the hellish aftermath of the asteroid impact, the NATO forces are racing against time to track down Likatchev and dismantle Dead Hand before a global holocaust is unleashed.

Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III

Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III
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During the second half of the Twentieth Century, East and West stood on the brink of war. No where was this more evident then in Central Germany, where ten thousand tanks belonging to NATO stood ready to resist a ground attack spearheaded by forty thousand Warsaw Pact tanks. It was a war that never was. But what if it had? How would the opening days of World War III played out?

Team Yankee, the New York Times best seller by Harold Coyle, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the soldiers who would have had to meet the relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. Using the geo-political and military scenarios described by General Sir John Hackett, former NORTHAG commander and author of ‘World War Three; August 1985’, Team Yankee follows the war as seen from the turret of Captain Sean Bannon’s tank.

Through Bannon’s eyes, and those of the men belonging to his tank heavy combat team, the reader lives through the first fourteen days of World War III. The action is vivid and exciting, the tension palpable. Defeat and death are as close as victory.

Set during the World War III scenario created by the british General  Sir John Hackett for the novel The Third World War: The Untold Story

Pandora’s Legion: Harold Coyle’s Strategic Solutions, Inc

Pandora's Legion: Harold Coyle's Strategic Solutions, Inc
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In this explosive new series from New York Times bestseller Harold Coyle and noted military author Barrett Tillman, a new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder.

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Using every resource it has, SSI launches an all-out search for the walking plague carriers before thousands more become infected and die.
Posing a frightening scenario that could become all too real in the near future, and filled with the details of the military world that have made Coyle’s books bestsellers, Pandora’s Legion hits the front lines of the new war against terrorism in this engrossing, high-stakes novel.

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Savage Wilderness is a historical novel of the French and Indian War, recounting a time when British forces, joined by colonial militias, fought the French and their Indian allies for possession of the untamed heart of North American. It is also a story of the people who fought it.
Ian McPherson, a young Scott who first saw battle during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 is exiled to Virginia. There, after serving as an apprentice to a wheelwright, he joins a campaign led by a 23 year-old colonel of militia named Washington to claim the Forks of the Ohio for Virginia.
Anton de Chevalier, the bastard son of a French nobleman and an artillery officer is an impressionable young man who is an adherent to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophy concerning the natural man. In time, his experience in the Americas and dealings with both the French Canadians and Native Americans cause him to see the world as it is, a place where the stunning, unspoiled beauty of the land hides a savagery unlike anything he ever thought possible.
Thomas Shields, the second son of a minor English baronet and dedicated soldier of the King sells his commission in the Coldstream Guards for a captaincy in the 44th Regiment of Foot, one of two regiments being sent to America under General Edward Braddock.
A Caughnawaga brave by the name of Toolah rejects efforts by French priests to ‘civilize’ his people, choosing instead to follows the ways of his warrior ancestors in order to rid his peoples’ land of the Europeans and their ways.
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Until the End: A Novel of the Civil War

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James and Kevin Bannon, Brothers introduced in Look Away, continue to serve on opposing sides as the Civil War enters it third year, James with the 4th Virginia Infantry and Kevin commanding a company in the 4th New Jersey. From the dark and inconclusive days of the Mine Run Campaign in the Fall of 1863, through the terrible ‘Forty Days’ that took the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to the gates of Petersburg, the brothers soldier on.

James, with Lee’s Army, watches as it slowly bleeds itself to death defending the state he has grown to love. Kevin, living with the realization his brother is serving in the army his nation is committed to destroy, is torn between a desperate search for James and his terrible duty as an officer, leading men he has grown to love into battles that claim their lives, one by one.

While the Bannons deal with their struggles on and off the battlefield, the women they love are faced with their own desperate struggles. Mary Beth McPherson, amid the devastation that years of war have brought to Winchester, Virginia, strives to hold her surviving family together and somehow maintain their farm, all the while clinging to the hope the man she has grown to love will return.

In the North, Harriet Shields, daughter of a prominent New Jersey judge, sets aside the duty and dignity of her social class and, with Kevin’s full support, ministers to the needs of the wounded under conditions that try her resolve, her stamina, and often, her own faith.

As the war drags on, claiming more lives and crushing the sprits and hopes of those who endure it, James and Mary Beth, and Kevin and Harriet come to understand that even if they survive, the world they knew will never be regained, that their futures have become as uncertain as their own survival. Yet each resolves, for his and her own reason, to carry on as best they can, until the end.

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No Small Thing: A Novel of the American Revolution
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The story of the American Revolution is the story of a people at war with themselves and each other. Caught up in what Thomas Paine called the American crisis, American colonists made decisions that often had nothing to do with the fight for independence from England or the loyalty to king and country.

No Small Thing follows the men and women as they chart a path toward an uncertain future, from the sloops of Breeds Hill where rebel and regular engaged in a bloody test of wills, to a desperate gamble launched across the frozen Delaware River on Christmas day, 1776.

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The opportunity afforded Captain Anton de Chevalier by the French foreign minister to return to the Americas and report on the condition of the American army besieging the British at Boston is seized upon for reasons that are very personal.

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God’s Children (Nathan Dixon Book 1)

God's Children (Nathan Dixon Book 1)
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Blessed are the Peace Keepers, for they will be called God’s Children.

[Matthew; 5:9]

It is from this Biblical saying that Harold Coyle has taken the title of his new novel, God’s Children. Yet peacekeeping is not child’s play. A tale of high-tech warfare set in near-future Slovakia, God’s Children is the story of the 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 13th Infantry, and two young officers who try to keep a peace that is falling apart before their very eyes.

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