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  • When faced with a national security threat, the President of the United States may call upon the State Department to resolve the issue

    through diplomatic means.

     

    When the situation demands a military response, the President calls on the Department of Defense.

     

    In rare instances, when diplomacy and military force are insufficient or inappropriate, the President of the United States calls on the brave men and women of the CIA Special Activities Center.

    They are The Third Option.

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  • The balance of power in today’s world is shifting before our eyes, a titanic struggle between the rising power of China in the East, the aging and battered Russian bear, and the United States as the flagship of the Free World.

     

    The Command and Control series imagines the Great Powers conflicts of the 21st century. From covert missions in Ukraine to full-scale naval engagements in the Taiwan Strait, from the White House Situation Room to the high desert of Central Asia, these novels put you inside the conflicts of tomorrow.

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  • Many readers find us through our bestselling Command and Control series, but The WMD Files is the series that launched our co-writing career!

     

    Nuclear proliferation, homegrown radicalism, cyber warfare, bioweapons. These are the modern-day national security threats that propel these novels, or as one reviewer puts it:

    Tomorrow’s headlines today.

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  • Sometimes sidekicks deserve their moment in the spotlight. Each novella in this series is dedicated to the origin story of a secondary character in one of our full-length novels.

     

    Hero, villain, or somewhere in the murky middle, they all have one thing in common: Readers love them.

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What People are Saying

“David Bruns and J.R. Olson deliver captivating and utterly authentic portrayals of modern day combat that compares with the best of the timeless classics by Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, and Stephen Coonts.” 

Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mission Critical

“A fascinating World War Three scenario, and an action-packed story. This is going to be an amazing series!” 

Andrew Watts, USA Today bestselling author of The War Planners

“With their background in the U.S. Navy, both Bruns and Olson have the right stuff to create a realistic military tale.” 

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“These two guys have lived it. Now they’re writing it. Taut, tense, and totally believable, you will be dropped into the midst of a world with which few of us are familiar. A fine thriller indeed.”

Don Keith, author of Only the Brave and Final Bearing

“Command and Control is a masterpiece of a military thriller from the first page to the explosive ending…some of the best combat writing I’ve seen since Tom Clancy.”

Jason Kasper, USA Today bestselling author of The Enemies of My Country

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Suicide? Murder? Or political coverup?

Sunday, January 18, 2015: Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman is found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment, mere hours before he was reveal his report on the worst terrorist attack in Argentine history.

One bullet. No witnesses. Unsolved to this day.

The military veteran writing team that brought you Command and Control goes behind the scenes of this real-life drama. 

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