James Rosone Books in Order

In 2038, American political infighting leaves a power vacuum abroad while China, Russia, and a rising Islamic Caliphate expand their influence. A new president faces the possibility that advanced weapons and neglected alliances will decide the next global war.

Drawing on his work interrogating prisoners in Iraq, Rosone describes efforts to obtain intelligence without torture. Personal accounts examine the psychological demands, operational dangers, and ethical constraints of conversations intended to uncover insurgent networks and prevent attacks.

Russia invades Europe as China carries the war toward American shores, stretching United States forces across multiple fronts. With Alaska threatened and fighting continuing in the Middle East, technological innovation and uncertain allied support may determine whether the defenses hold.

War in the Middle East escalates when the Islamic Republic brings a nuclear threat to American harbors. The president must respond to an ultimatum while new weapons reshape the battlefield and China prepares moves of its own.

With NATO reeling from an attack in Europe, China encourages North Korea to mobilize against American troops along the demilitarized zone. The new US president faces another front while hidden political pressures and unreliable reports complicate an already expanding war.

A newly elected American president confronts a Russian challenge over Ukraine that threatens to escalate into global war. Military advisers offer competing answers as Moscow presses its aims and advanced weapons raise the stakes of every political and battlefield decision.

American forces stall enemy advances in Europe and Alaska only to confront another threat in California. New aircraft offer an advantage, but their dependence on scarce metals tests whether wartime production can supply the weapons needed to survive.

Former Delta operator and CIA officer Michael Stone uncovers a scheme to smuggle extremists into the United States. Following connections across countries and within his own government, he races to prevent an attack whose organizers may be pursuing a much larger conflict.

The global conflict reaches a dangerous endgame as China considers nuclear weapons and diplomacy stalls. With India backing China, the American president must seek a way out of the war before pride and strategic desperation turn defeat into catastrophe.

After losing two aircraft carriers, American forces make a new effort to protect the Philippines from Chinese attack. Advanced drones, uncertain Russian plans and the involvement of India and Indonesia complicate a Pacific campaign whose costs threaten support at home.

Mounting losses in the Pacific and a new campaign in Russia strain the Allied war effort. As casualties and manufacturing demands deepen divisions at home, the American president searches for a strategy that can reverse setbacks and reunite the country.

China’s threat to Taiwan forces the American president to consider another unpopular military deployment. With other Pacific allies potentially next, political calculations collide with the effort to prevent a regional takeover and preserve American influence across Asia.

An invaded America fractures as rival militias fight across the Midwest and foreign peacekeepers receive sharply different receptions. With four nuclear powers engaged and hidden organizers beginning to emerge, military and political leaders face choices that could turn catastrophe irreversible.

A little girl tries to understand her father’s post-traumatic stress disorder and its effect on their family. Through their relationship, the story introduces children to the condition, encouraging empathy and conversations about changes they may find confusing or upsetting.

A young boy learns about his mother’s post-traumatic stress disorder and the ways it affects their family. The illustrated story helps children understand unfamiliar behavior, develop empathy and begin conversations with a parent coping with difficult memories.

A disputed presidential election brings United Nations troops to America’s northern border while Marshall Tate establishes headquarters in Canada. As the country edges toward another civil war, hidden conspirators pursue a plan whose ultimate purpose remains unclear.

As a divisive American presidential election approaches, hidden power brokers manipulate public opinion and political leaders. Discovering their scheme becomes urgent when the divisions they cultivate threaten to destabilize the country and alter the international balance of power.

Humanity discovers that other humans live across the galaxy under alien domination. Faced with the Zodark threat, Earth’s divided nations must unite, build a fleet, and launch a campaign to free people on a distant world.

Faster-than-light travel opens the way to other star systems, and Captain Miles Hunt leads a mission to a potentially habitable planet. First contact raises dangerous questions about humanity’s origins and whether his crew will make it home.

Earth unites as the Republic and begins adapting alien technology for survival. Drawn into a wider alliance, human forces join a campaign across the galaxy to free enslaved populations and confront the expanding power of the Zodark Empire.

After years of war, the conspiracy against America is exposed, but retreating Chinese forces devastate occupied territory. As intelligence teams hunt those responsible, the United States and its allies escalate their response, raising the cost of victory still further.

Americans rally against an invasion as the conspiracy behind their country’s collapse comes to light. With a new superweapon available and operatives hunting the plot’s leaders, the United States prepares for a decisive confrontation with China.

After Iraq captures Saudi Arabia, an oil crisis shakes global trade and American forces struggle to hold their position. Soviet-backed aircraft and the Republican Guard threaten a widening coalition as a massive desert campaign moves toward a decisive confrontation.

American and allied forces launch a major offensive against Saddam Hussein’s strengthened army. As tanks advance toward Baghdad and Marines prepare an amphibious assault, commanders face the possibility of unconventional weapons and a campaign extending far beyond southern Iraq.

Evidence of a massacre raises urgent questions about missing children while Miles Hunt assumes unfamiliar responsibilities as galactic viceroy. An archaeological discovery threatens Allied unity as Republic troops prepare for brutal fighting on a frozen world.

An engineer creates an advanced artificial intelligence hoping to solve global problems, but China's leadership sees an instrument of conquest. Cyberattacks and manipulated information place NATO in danger, leaving the creator struggling to stop the weapon his breakthrough has become.

As an AI-driven campaign cripples networks and undermines trust in online information, an American national security adviser struggles to preserve his country's defenses. NATO's response expands into island warfare while financial disruption and propaganda threaten societies far from the battlefield.

China's AI-supported offensive spreads across multiple continents as allied forces struggle to respond. A pilot who survived being shot down over Cuba returns in an advanced fighter, carrying hopes that new technology can challenge the enemy's powerful defenses.

Soviet support emboldens Saddam Hussein to push beyond Kuwait into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. With oil supplies and regional power at stake, American leaders confront an alternate Gulf War whose course could be far more destructive.

Zodark spies locate Earth and prepare an invasion backed by a new superweapon. As the Republic’s defenses face collapse, Miles Hunt struggles to rally scattered ships while research into an ancient civilization offers a possible answer.

After victory brings an uneasy peace, the Republic expands its colonies and trade while enemies secretly prepare revenge. Research into the vanished Humtar civilization and its stargates threatens to uncover knowledge capable of changing everything.

Heavy losses leave Miles Hunt searching for a decisive advantage against the Zodarks. An unfinished warship, the possibility of another ally, and a medical synthetic’s unexpected independence offer uncertain chances of turning the war toward peace.

A new American president confronts a divided cabinet as the war against China's artificial intelligence continues. National security adviser Blain navigates political distrust while fighting in Russia and relentless propaganda threaten the alliances needed to sustain resistance.

China's leaders confront the implications of machines building autonomous weapons for an escalating war. Along the Yalu River, opposing forces prepare for winter when Jade Dragon unveils a new project that threatens to transform the conflict beyond human control.

As China’s automated forces threaten the Allies, Marines fight for Pacific islands while attacks devastate civilian infrastructure. Military commanders and political leaders face simultaneous crises, uncertain whether they can counter the artificial intelligence directing the war.

Harrison, Oliver and Aiden enlist for very different reasons, then become comrades during military training. Sent to New Eden, they confront a brutal alien war that turns their hopes of adventure and renewal into a desperate struggle for survival.

Exhausted Republic troops return from a peacekeeping mission to find Earth under attack. As a commander confronts memories of an earlier battle, a Zodark superweapon and discoveries about an ancient civilization threaten to reshape humanity’s future.

Jade Dragon gains an army of its own as the battle for Taiwan pushes Allied forces to their limits. With the coalition destabilized and defeat possible, its leaders must find a way to outthink an increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.

China hands military command to Jade Dragon, unleashing autonomous machines across land, sea, and air. Facing a war of survival, Allied leaders consider a technological breakthrough of their own whose consequences may be impossible to control.

Allied forces advance toward the Pharaonis home world while Admiral Willis risks his fleet in a strike against the Zodarks. As victory appears possible, the returning Humtars recognize an old enemy they believed had been destroyed.

A captain acquires a virus capable of devastating the Zodarks, raising the prospect of revenge for the attack on Earth. Meanwhile, returning Humtars and fractures within the enemy alliance complicate a war whose outcome remains uncertain.

New intelligence offers the Allies a chance to rescue the Republic’s fortunes, but Miles Hunt’s political standing is uncertain. Elsewhere, researchers discover a sealed ancient portal and must weigh the promise of answers against unknown dangers.

The Humtars’ return changes the galactic balance as political divisions threaten the Zodarks with civil war. Miles Hunt prepares an Allied strike on a strategic system that could split the enemy empire and decide the campaign.

After the defeat of Jade Dragon, President Maria Delgado faces the work of rebuilding a war-damaged world. Soldiers adjust to civilian life, while limited American peacekeeping forces and China’s uncertain reconstruction raise questions about whether peace can endure.

In the 2030s, new Russian and Chinese leaders form an alliance seeking control of essential minerals and technology. Assassination, sabotage, and maritime attacks force NATO to respond as scattered proxy conflicts threaten to become a wider war.

A NATO exercise near the Suwalki Gap becomes entangled in a Russian-Chinese plan to fracture the alliance. Meanwhile, a Chinese quarantine of Taiwan meets autonomous defenses, drawing Europe and the Pacific toward conflicts shaped by artificial intelligence and unmanned weapons.

A hidden fortune on San Andres makes former CIA operative Will Kellogg a target for assassins and an invading army. Repaying an old debt, Hap Stoner assembles veteran fighters to defend the Caribbean island against a much larger force.

As global war spreads, Estonian defenders and American airborne troops face a fast-moving invasion while Finland battles an offensive toward its southern cities. Holding roads, bridges, and forest positions becomes essential to buying time for NATO's response.

Open war erupts across Europe and Asia in 2033, stretching NATO defenses from Poland to Finland. Battles for Baltic supply routes and Arctic islands bring conventional troops and autonomous weapons into a struggle over access to Europe and North America.

A Marine helicopter mission at the Mexican border ends in deaths and the disappearance of Chuck Warden. With an execution threatened and no authorized rescue coming, Hap Stoner recruits fellow Marines for a covert operation to bring his friend home.

Marines face a desperate defense in the Aleutians while a Chinese invasion force approaches Palawan. Beneath the South China Sea, an American submarine and autonomous vessels attempt to stop the landing before control of vital shipping routes is lost.