Eagle Strike

The Pacific is a lit fuse and only one group can put out the fire before it explodes: the Eagle Force, U.S. Navy Seals is backed by a crack clandestine unit of Air Force special operatives. In an age when billionaires fund private terrorist armies and outlaws brandish nuclear arms, the time-honored rules of engagement have become obsolete. And a brave and able few, armed with the devastating firepower of many, must use any means necessary to win—as they leap fearlessly into the flames to perform an impossible rescue...and prevent a new World War from tearing the Earth to pieces.

In a world more dangerous than ever before, victories will be won with daring, swiftness, and stealth. Guadalcanal...The Solomons...The Coral Sea...The legendary Pacific battlegrounds of a bygone era are about to erupt again—as the U.S. Navy embarks upon a war of nerves and strategy against a powerful Chinese military machine. Meanwhile, in an impregnable compound in the mountains of New Zealand, a madman sets the world on the road to Armageddon with a brazen, unthinkable act: the kidnapping of the wife and son of the President ofthe United States.

Orr Kelly, a veteran Washington newsman, has covered the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the nation's intelligence agencies for the Washington Star and U.S.News & World Report magazine. He has written extensively on military history, with books on the Army's M-1 Abrams main battle tank, the Navy's F/A-18 strike fighter, the Navy SEALs and Air Force Special Operations. SEALs Eagle Force:Eagle Strike is his second work of fiction. It follows the first book in the series for Avon, SEALs Eagle Force: Desert Thunder. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, with whom he co-authored Dream's End: Two Iowa Brothers in the Civil War.