This December starts off with a
bang as M.L. Buchman releases TARGET ENGAGED, the first in his
brand new (and action-packed) Delta Force series! To celebrate his new release,
Sourcebooks Casablanca is sharing the first six chapters of Target
Engaged for FREE! Click
here to download the first six chapters and check out a special
note from M.L. Buchman below.
A Note from
M.L. Buchman
Dear Reader,
Welcome to my
newest series: the first women of Delta Force. I can’t begin to tell you how
much fun this was to write.
Most of us know
little more about Delta Force than the Chuck Norris movies (which leave a lot
to be desired) or perhaps we only know the name. In researching my Night Stalkers
series, I kept running into these guys. They are the elite of Special
Operations Forces. They are at a level of SEAL Team 6, and most would argue
they were even beyond that. They are the ghost and shadow warriors who helped
take down drug lord Pablo Escobar, capture Noriega, were undoubtedly behind the
locating of Saddam Hussein, and are the main reason that Al-Qaeda abruptly
stopped being a topic in the Iraq War when over three thousand of their leaders
were swept off the board.
Yet the
Pentagon states that they don’t exist. Fascinating.
And while they
often work with undercover female operatives, no woman has yet managed to kick
in the front door on one of the most arduous selection programs in the
military.
I decided to
change that.
Carla Anderson
stepped forward to take the challenge. She is a not a woman out to prove she
can match any man, she’s out to prove that she can beat them at their
own game. And that was the first thing that I loved about writing this series.
In the Night
Stalkers, the women were strong, excellent, and determined.
To be a Delta
Force woman, Carla had to add enough attitude and drive to plow through all
obstacles which just made her so much fun. Nothing was off the table when it
came to her attitude or her actions.
And that was
the second thing I came to love about this series launcher, Target Engaged.
Being Delta Force, they really do operate outside so many bounds. They are sent
to do the tasks that no one else can. To that I added the additional challenge
that Robert Ludlum gave to Jason Bourne (though I’m quoting the movie): “I
don't send you to kill. I send you to be invisible. I send you because you
don't exist.” I’m pretty convinced that this is part of Delta’s mission.
It is
occasionally said by retired Delta Force operators (as the on-duty ones never
speak): “If we’d been sent in to take down bin Laden, you still wouldn’t know
how it was done.” To bring that to life gave me a permission as a writer to run
my characters into hard and strange places and be just a little gonzo doing it.
But writing is
a give and take, and I can’t begin to tell you how much the characters I
created shaped my telling of this story. I like to think that they had
as much fun as I did bringing this story to life.
I hope that you
enjoy the reading even half as much as I enjoyed the writing!
M.L. Buchman (the Oregon Coast,
November 2015)
Title: Target Engaged
Series: Delta Force, #1
Author: M.L. Buchman
ISBN: 9781492619222
Book 1 in M.L. Buchman’s thrilling
NEW Delta Force series
Delta Force: The most dangerous
elite counter-terrorism force on the planet
• The deadliest shooters •
• The most out-of-the-box thinkers
in any military •
• Will die to get the mission done
•
Sergeant Kyle Reeves: The premier
soldier of the new recruits
Sergeant Carla Anderson: The first
woman of Delta Force
If the training doesn’t kill them,
their passion may—but Kyle Reeves and Carla Anderson blast right in. Show no
fear. Have no fear. Then they get the call. The most powerful drug-smuggling
ring in Venezuela needs a takedown, and Delta’s newest team leaps into the deep
jungle to deliver. Giving their all? Not a problem. Giving their hearts? That
takes a new level of courage.
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