Primary Valor by Jack Mars (smart books to read .txt) 📕

It was sappy, but that was okay. Bill Ryan had a tendencytoward making sappy overtures. He’d been making them since the day Don met him whenthey were eighteen-year-old knobs at the Citadel. What made it okay was hemeant every word he said.

“I swear,” Bill said. “With God asmy witness, while I’m alive and have any influence in this town, you havenothing to worry about.”

“There are vipers everywhere,” Donsaid.

He could try to articulate justhow offensive it was to him that they had tried to derail this missionto protect a corrupt billionaire. That they were eavesdropping on hisagency’s communications. That they had sent assassins, to kill Buzz Mac,to kill Miles Richmond, and even to try to kill Luke Stone. But it would taketoo long, and be too complicated, to describe the depths of his revulsion.

“It’s a snake pit,” he saidsimply.

Bill nodded, more emphaticallythis time. “I know it. Don’t you think I know it? And we’re going to changethat. I want you with me, Don. That’s what I’m saying here. You and I areallies in the battle. I brought you here to stand between these two greatpresidents, so we could renew our love for, and our faith in, this country.”

He stopped. Don did the same. Aheadof them, the massive spire of the Washington Monument pointed into the paleblue sky of morning.

Bill shook his head, as ifashamed. “This town… this government… it reminds me of an open sewer sometimes.”

“I feel that,” Don said.

“There are actual degenerates inpositions of power and influence,” Bill said. “This is how someone like DarwinKing could thrive for as long as he did. The degenerates would sooner see goodmen die than lose an ounce of their own privilege. I believe that it’s adisgrace before God. I believe that we can never reach greatness as a peopleagain until these tendencies are hunted down, choked, and stamped out for good.”

Don nodded. “Agreed.”

This little walk was beginning totake on the passion of a church meeting. He imagined that Bill would havepreferred to hear him say “Amen.”

“You know,” Bill said, “for yearsI comforted myself by saying that one day a real rain would fall, a hard rain,and wash these streets clean. But it didn’t happen. And I asked why. Why doesthe rain never come? And only recently did the answer occur to me. Onlyrecently did I finally understand why I’ve been waiting in vain so long.”

Don looked into Bill’s eyes. Everythingin their environment, the early morning, the people hurrying to their offices,faded deep into the background.

“And why’s that?” Don said.

Bill Ryan pointed at Don, thenback to himself.

“Because waiting is the wronganswer. We can’t wait for something outside of ourselves. You and I, and menlike us… we are the rain.”

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!

 

PRIMARY DUTY

(The Forging ofLuke Stone—Book #6)

 

 

“One of the best thrillers I have read this year.”

--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary)

 

In PRIMARY DUTY (The Forging of Luke Stone—Book #6), aground-breaking action thriller by #1 bestseller Jack Mars, a Supreme CourtJustice is taken hostage by a terrorist organization. With a consequentialdecision before the court, the death of this swing Justice could change thepolitical landscape for decades.

 

Getting him back, against the backdrop of a massivemarvel of engineering, would be mission impossible—a mission that only eliteDelta Force veteran Luke Stone, 29, and the FBI’s Special Response Team, may becrazy enough to take on.

 

In this action-packed military thriller, filled withshocking twists and turns, the stakes as high as can be, Luke and his team maybe up for their most challenging mission yet.

 

PRIMARY DUTY is a standalone, un-putdownable militarythriller, a wild action ride that will leave you turning pages late into thenight. The precursor to the #1 bestselling LUKE STONE THRILLER SERIES, thisseries takes us back to how it all began, a riveting series by bestseller JackMars, dubbed “one of the best thriller authors” out there.

“Thriller writing at its best.”

--Midwest Book Review (re Any Means Necessary)

Also available is Jack Mars’ #1 bestselling LUKE STONETHRILLER series (7 books), which begins with Any Means Necessary (Book #1), afree download with over 800 five star reviews!

PRIMARY DUTY

(The Forging ofLuke Stone—Book #6)

Jack Mars

 

Jack Mars is the USA Today bestsellingauthor of the LUKE STONE thriller series, which includes seven books. He isalso the author of the new FORGING OF LUKE STONE prequel series, comprising sixbooks; and of the AGENT ZERO spy thriller series, comprising twelve books.

ANYMEANS NECESSARY (a Luke Stone Thriller—Book #1) and AGENTZERO (An Agent Zero Spy Thriller—Book #1) are both available as free downloadson Amazon!

Jack loves to hear from you, soplease feel free to visit www.Jackmarsauthor.com to join the email list,receive a free book, receive free giveaways, connect on Facebook and Twitter,and stay in touch!

BOOKS BY JACK MARS

 

LUKE STONE THRILLERSERIES

ANY MEANS NECESSARY (Book#1)

OATH OF OFFICE (Book #2)

SITUATION ROOM (Book #3)

OPPOSE ANY FOE (Book #4)

PRESIDENT ELECT (Book #5)

OUR SACRED HONOR (Book #6)

HOUSE DIVIDED (Book #7)

FORGING OF LUKE STONEPREQUEL SERIES

PRIMARY TARGET (Book #1)

PRIMARY COMMAND (Book #2)

PRIMARY THREAT (Book #3)

PRIMARY GLORY (Book #4)

PRIMARY VALOR (Book #5)

PRIMARY DUTY (Book #6)

AN AGENT ZERO SPYTHRILLER SERIES

AGENT ZERO (Book #1)

TARGET ZERO (Book #2)

HUNTING ZERO (Book #3)

TRAPPING ZERO (Book #4)

FILE ZERO (Book #5)

RECALL ZERO (Book #6)

ASSASSIN ZERO (Book #7)

DECOY ZERO (Book #8)

CHASING ZERO (Book #9)

VENGEANCE ZERO (Book #10)

ZERO ZERO (Book #11)

ABSOLUTE ZERO (Book #12)