A Jake Mahegan Thriller Series

National Bestselling Author of Besieged, A Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 selection
 
“Tata’s books are absolute rollercoaster rides.”
—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect
 
President By Any Means Necessary
 
Despite the election results, losing candidate Jamie Carter refuses to accept businessman and political newbie Jack Smart as her president. In fact, Carter is determined to take her rightful place in the White House—by any means necessary. Once she maneuvers her way into the Senate, only three people stand in her way: the Speaker of the House, the Vice President, and the President himself . . .
 
The countdown begins. The assassins are ready. But when one of them tries to kill the CIA Director under Jake Mahegan’s watch, the plan is momentarily derailed. Jake is able to prevent one murder—but the conspiracy is too big, and too insidious, to stop now. Senator Jamie Carter is the mastermind behind one of the bloodiest coups ever conceived. Her highly trained killers are closing in on all the president’s men. And the course of American history will be changed forever—on Assassination Day . . .
 
“This is the best thriller yet by the former brigadier general.”
—Booklist STARRED REVIEW on Dark Winter

The world order is being hacked to pieces . . .

By the time anyone realizes what’s happening, it is too late. A dark network of hackers has infiltrated the computers of the U.S. military, unleashing chaos across the globe. U.S. missiles strike the wrong targets. Defense systems fail. Power grids shut down. Within hours, America’s enemies move in. Russian tanks plow through northern Europe. Iranian troops invade Iraq. North Korea destroys Seoul and fires missiles at Japan.

Phase 1 of ComWar is complete.

Enter Jake Mahegan and his team. Their mission: locate the nerve center of ComWar—aka Computer Optimized Warfare—and shut down the operation through any means necessary. There are three ComWar headquarters, each hidden deep underground in Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Each contains a human biometric nuclear key that the team must capture to shut down the imminent nuclear strikes. Splitting up the team is Mahegan’s only chance to prevent the next wave of cyberattacks. But even that won’t stop the sleeper cell agents—here in the United States . . .

When Phase 2 ends, World War III begins.

“The high-octane action scenes make this a must-read for military thriller fans.” —Publishers Weekly
 
Direct Fire brings the war on terror to America.
 
A powerful banker, gunned down in cold blood. A military family, senselessly slaughtered as they sleep. A key general, kidnapped from his farm near Fort Bragg. Atrocities like these are all too common in the Middle East. But this is the United States of America . . .
 
Time is running out for Jake Mahegan. Terrorist cells are gathering in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hackers are emptying the nation’s banks. And their final act of vengeance will bring the whole world to its knees. For Mahegan, it’s time to kill. Now.
 
“Horrific at times, spine-tingling throughout, A.J. Tata once again proves capable of writing a firestorm that’s even scarier because it is all too real. “
—Suspense Magazine on Besieged
 
 “Tata’s books are absolute rollercoaster rides . . . fun and fascinating reads.” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect

A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. An all-too-common American nightmare unleashed again. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan happens to be on the school grounds checking in on the daughter of a colleague. Instead, he’s staring down a suicidal gunman rigged to blow. During the standoff, another attack begins outside the school. The gunman goes down, Mahegan is knocked unconscious, and a 12-year-old autistic girl is kidnapped. Mahegan knows his mission before the smoke clears, but where it takes him is unimaginable—deep into a widespread conspiracy that threatens the nation’s very core. Treason in the highest halls of government. And only one man is prepared to stop it—or die trying . . .

One Army geologist is kidnapped—on U.S. soil. Two nuclear plants are attacked—in a matter of days. No American is safe—from the next, and final, wave of terror.

Enter Jake Mahegan, a Delta Force veteran on the most important mission of his life.
If he fails, our nation falls.

The countdown is launched. The clock is ticking.

Armageddon begins . . . Three Minutes to Midnight.

One year ago, Captain Jake Mahegan led a Delta Force team into Afghanistan to capture an American traitor working for the Taliban. The mission ended in tragedy. The team was infiltrated and decimated by a bomb. An enemy prisoner was killed. Mahegan was dismissed from service—dishonored forever. Now, haunted by the incident, Mahegan is determined to clear his name. The military wants him to stand down. But when the American Taliban returns to domestic soil—headed by the traitor who ruined his life—Mahegan is the only man who knows how to stop him. Outside the law. Under the radar. Out for vengeance . . .