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Burke's Revenge: Bob Burke Action Thriller #3 (Bob Burke Action Adventure Novels) Kindle Edition

by William F. Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Part of: Bob Burke Action Adventure Novels (9 books)

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Bullets, Bombs, and Mayhem! Bob Burke is back… again.
After his recent adventures in Burke’s War and Burke’s Gamble, all this former sniper, Army Ranger, and Delta Force commander wants is to settle down on his North Carolina farm and let Iraq, Afghanistan, and his recent ‘dustups’ with the Chicago and New York mobs fade away like bad memories.

But sometimes you go looking for trouble, and sometimes trouble comes looking for you. When a home-grown ISIS cell strikes the Special Operations leadership inside Fort Bragg itself, in Delta’s own backyard, it’s time for some serious payback and a taste of revenge.

Undersized, underestimated, and now a telecommunications company executive, he is often dismissed as simply the “phone guy,” but as his former Delta sergeants will attest, whether he’s carrying a .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle, a tactical knife, or just his bare hands, he is one of the most lethal killing machines the US Government ever produced.

When C-4 takes out a close friend and one of their own, it falls to the ‘Merry Men of Sherwood Forest’ -– Bob Burke, Ace Randall, a female CID agent, the Geeks, a maverick helicopter pilot, and a large pit-cat to even the score before the terrorists strike an even more important US military target only 200 miles away.

Looking for a good beach book or something to curl up with in front of the fire, this fast-moving conspiracy thriller is from the author of Burke’s War, Burke's Gamble, Burke’s Revenge, Burke's Samovar, the new Burke's Mandarin and the forthcoming Burke's Rescue, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Lose All, and Aim True, My Brothers, as well as the Our Vietnam War series, Volumes 1-4, with interviews and photos from 240 American and allied Veterans. Together, these books have over 1,00 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Enjoy!

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Robert Kruger, Amazon Reviewer: "5 Stars! His characters are perceptively drawn, multifaceted, and fully defined. The prose is smooth flowing, descriptive, and convincing. The final scenes are heart stopping action -- among the best."

Amazon Reviewer CAH: "5 Stars! Excellent! Don't know how a follow-up could match it - but I plan to find out."

Robert Smith, Amazon Reviewer: 5 Stars "One of the better books I have read in a long time."

Passion Reads: "5 Stars! An awesome must read! This one had me jumping in, head-first. From the beginning to the end, I was kidnapped and taken for an exciting and thrilling ride. And to top it all off, it was hilarious."

Book Pleasures: "5 Stars! Great fun! It is a thriller with enough action, intrigue, humor and romance to please the most jaded reader. My recommendation? Buy this book and have some quality entertainment time. You won't regret it."

G. C. Whitney Amazon Reviewer: "5 Stars! I can always tell when I'm reading a good book because I am disappointed when the story is over, and I have to say "Goodbye" to the characters in it. That was the case with this thriller by Bill Brown."

Mack Holbrook, Amazon Reviewer: "5 Stars! Mobsters, Mercenaries, Mystery and Mayhem...What's not to Love? Set aside plenty of time to read this book, once you get started you will not want to put it down!"

About the Author

A native of Chicago, I received a BA from The University of Illinois in History and Russian Area studies, and a Master's in City Planning. I served as a Company Commander in the US Army in Vietnam and became active in local and regional politics. As a Vice President of the real estate subsidiary of a Fortune 500 corporation, I traveled widely in Europe, Russia, China, and the Middle East, locations which have featured in my writing. I play bad golf, have become a dogged runner, and paint passable landscapes in oil and acrylic. Retired, my wife and I live in Florida.The best way to follow my work and learn about sales and freebees is through my web site http: //www.billbrownthrillernovels.com, which has Preview Chapters of each of my novels, interviews, book reviews, and other links.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XDBSDHG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ WFB FCB, Ltd, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company; 3rd edition (March 2, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 2, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 10538 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #238,439 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,107 in Military Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #1,492 in War & Military Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #2,573 in Action Thriller Fiction

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My newest and 19th book, "Burke's Machete," Book #7 in the Bob Burke action-adventure thriller series is now available in Kindle E-Book and Amazon Paperback and Amazon Hardback editions, Audible audiobook editions. Like my other books, it will soon be out in German, Italian, and Spanish editions. Over half already are

With Burke's Mandarin, I now have the 7-book "Bob Burke Action-Thriller" series, 5 other free-standing suspense thrillers in my "Amongst My Enemies" series, three 3-book boxed sets, and my 4-book Our Vietnam Wars non-fiction series which has interviews with 240 Vietnam Vets and over 400 photos. Those books who they are, where they came from, their experiences and memories of their time in their service, and what they did after the war. All are great, memorable stories. Most of the books are now available in e-book, paperback and hardback from both Amazon and IngramSpark, audiobook from Audible and most other sellers, and German, Italian, and Spanish.

Bullets, bombs, and mayhem, if great action-adventure suspense fiction is your preference, try this top-rated, 7-book Bob Burke series. Burke's War is the first. Think The American Assassin meets The Godfather. In Burke's Gamble, book #2, when one of his men is thrown out the fifth-floor window of an Atlantic City casino run by the New York mob, someone’s going to answer, and payback’s going to be a hoot! Burke's Revenge deals with an ISIS cell and middle-east terrorism attacking Fort Bragg. In Burke's Samovar, the bad guys are the Russian mob in Brooklyn and in Moscow. And it Burke's Mandarin it is Chinese espionage and mischief in the South China Sea. And Burke's Rescue is set in the Caucasus Mountains when one of Bob's friends is kidnapped.

When that happens, he'd coming for him, then he's coming for the bad actors, and he's not coming alone. Bob Burke is a former Army Special Ops, Delta Force commander, and trouble keeps knocking on his door.

Aim True, My Brothers, is a contemporary, American political action thriller, as Middle East terrorism explodes on American shores. Amongst My Enemies is about the secrets and gold lying inside a rusting German U-boat on the bottom of the Baltic. Winner Lose All is about the scramble to grab the Nazi super weapons plans and engineers at the end of the war. In The Undertaker someone is burying bodies under other peoples names and Pete and Sandy are next on the Undertaker's list. Thursday at Noon is set in Egypt in 1963 and it is up to a burnt out CIA agent to stop another Middle-East war.

I am also the author of four screen plays, which have won or placed in numerous screenwriting competitions, and one was optioned for film. In my rapidly diminishing spare time, I like to travel, paint in acrylics and oil, and play bad golf.

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GranJan

Homegrown Terrorists and Islamic Fanatics

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024

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This is the third book in a series. This book gives a very nice overview of the prior books so that a new reader could skip them. I would not suggest that because there are so many details that deeply add to the ongoing story. The plot is tight in this episode. Our heroes are being attacked and they need to plan a serious offense. This is a good story that has some white-knuckle tension. There is no bad language, no gore, definite violence, and inferred sex. There is a good mix of good guys and bad guys from all services. The book goes quickly! I have been reading these in order and am going on to read book 4 now.

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2020

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This is a great story to read. It has a lot of action and interesting characters. Some of the action and characterizations need to be taken with a grain of salt, but that's what makes it fun to read.

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Larry A. Buchanan

Another home run

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2024

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While we often get antsy with all the side clutter, we realize that in his Hemingwayish style, Brown builds. As usual, he takes you to the edge and keeps you there until the very end. Love the Burke series.

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Top of the line author, top of the line book

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2017

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This is not Mr. Brown's first book and as a result it is well polished, planned out well, and while I could go on and on, let's just say it's style fits in with the best writers out there. I loved it! But let me say this - for this to be of help you must know the likes of the reviewer. For instance, an avaid romance reader might not give a good review to a Navy seals type book etc. My review is based on my true love of high tech action with some or a lot of military type action. I do not like excessive foul language but can accept one or two triads from Navy Seals or Army Rangers when backed up to a snarling wall. I've been in the service and know that is a way to handle stress in those instances. This book has none of that yet the action is varied, fast paces and full of details. I tend to compare writers with the likes of; Clive Cussler, Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, Larry Bond etc. If you have read any of them or are knowledgeable of their work you will understand when I say that this author stands shoulder to shoulder with them. and this is his latest and maybe best of the series - based on hoping he is not done yet. In addition, I hate it when my iPhone auto corrects to something other than what I put in there, and many books on the market seem to be using something like that to proof read their books and therefore contain a lot of errors. I just happen to know that Mr. Brown also uses the human eyes machine of a number of people to look over his books in an effort to catch those things before publishing.
In conclusion, if you are the type of reader even considering this book, DON'T! Just jump right in and get it. You won't regret it!

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Glynn Young

Snaps and crackles with action and excitement

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017

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Bob Burke, retired from the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force, is now living near Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His home is called “Sherwood Forest,” and the estate comes complete with its own band of “merry men” – computer geeks, retired Special Ops soldiers like himself, his pregnant wife Linda and her daughter Elle. He remains chairman of a telecommunications company in Chicago, but he has put good people in charge of running its day-to-day operations. Life should be relatively quiet and serene.

Except this is Bob Burke, and “quiet” and “serenity” are two words that don’t associate with him. At a small college in nearby Fayetteville, a sociology professor named Henry Shaw and just returned from a trip to the Middle East. What no one but the FBI suspects is that Shaw has set up an ISIS cell, with members from both students in the college and soldiers at Fort Bragg. Shaw has become a Muslim, and is going to bring jihad to Fort Bragg.

To say that “Burke’s Revenge,” William Brown’s third Bob Burke suspense/thriller novel, is packed with action is to be guilty of gross understatement. From desert towns in Syria to the sleepy environs of Fayetteville, Brown stages more car bombings, killings, and explosions than a half-dozen similar novels combined. And the action bleeds authenticity, with descriptions of guns, knives, airplanes, and explosives so vivid and real that you know this is an author who knows what he’s writing about.

Brown, the author of seven previous novels, has established himself as a master of military suspense, whether it’s World War II or the contemporary war against ISIS. He knows his military and how it operates, and he knows its politics, and how it operates. And he puts the knowledge of both to good use.

The more they understand, the more Burke and the people he’s working with realize that Shaw, and deadly as he is, may be just a side show. Three members of ISIS from the Middle East are also on the ground in the Fayetteville area, and what they are planning is worse than any car bomb or building explosion that Shaw dreams up. (I should point out that Shaw is a totally despicable villain, without any redeeming qualities, and it may cause me to look at sociology professors in an entirely different light.)

“Burke’s Revenge” snaps and crackles with action and excitement. It’s a wildly entertaining read.

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John

When ISIS comes to America

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2017

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I enjoyed 'Burke's Revenge' by William F.Brown but thought that the author dedicated much of the book to the Sociology Professor and his plans to bring ISIS to the US and take on the special forces at Fort Bragg, NC. Readers are treated to an inside look of the 'upper mgt.' within ISIS and how they manipulate people to do their bidding; their influence reaches around the world and even convinced US soldiers to turn against their own.

The Professor and his group of minions wreck havoc within Fort Bragg and the surrounding town, and he seems to be a formidable opponent that manages to stay a couple steps ahead of the military police, CID, FBI, and Bob Burke's group out of Sherwood Forest. However, when some close friends are killed and his wife kidnapped, Bob and his crew go balls out to stop this insanity.

It's a real page turner! Great job Mr. Brown!

John Podlaski, author
'Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel' and 'When Can I Stop Running?'

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Mr. M. J. Standy

Thoroughly Entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2017

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Enjoyed so much that I have gone bought series 1 and 2 so that I can start at the beginning. I will definitely be reading all of the Bob Burke series.Pp

A. Mellor

3rd book in the Burke ‘action’ series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2018

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This is a stand alone book in this series about ex military Bob Burke, but there is lots (almost too much) of explanation about references to previous events and how various characters fit in. This time there is a focus on ISIS; bringing the ‘battle’ to the USA. As ever, there are numerous clashes with bodies left around! The military and weapons detail appears to be well researched. I shall look forward to what Burke and his unofficial team of Merrie Men get up to next!

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Byrne's Revenge.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2018

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A good followup to the first 2 books, but contained a small error concerning the murder of Prof. Bloomberg. Prof. Shaw used a K-Bar knife to cut his throat but when interviewed by the FBI the Agent said Bloomberg's neck was broken. No further mention of this was made in this book!

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