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May, 1985: The Soviets roll west - their objective: total world domination! US V Corps pushes back against the Soviet flank and penetrates deep into East Germany. A devastating counterattack leaves several American survivors behind enemy lines, desperately trying to make it back home. At the same time, a team of Rangers conducts secret missions deep inside enemy territory. Sabotage, rescue, kidnapping, and supply raids are all in a day''s work for the men led by Gill Torrence. They are about to embark on their deadliest mission yet as NATO falls back under the blow of the Soviet hammer. Gill''s men are assigned to find and bring back General Jan Kessel, the mastermind of East German strategy. Meanwhile, the war takes a very personal turn for Torrence as he learns the fate of his father. For the men who fight and die behind enemy lines, the shadow war comes at great personal cost and sacrifice. How much is Gill willing to lose in order to help his side win?

A hands-on ministry resource manual to help churches know how to develop leaders and systems for lay mobilization. A companion to The Equipping Church, this open-ended approach is applicable to a wide variety of churches.

A dangerous man in a time of war .1972: Michael Winter is a ruthless killer and assassin. He is also part of a covert CIA operation known only as "Gladio." Its goal - conduct guerrilla warfare against a Soviet occupation of Western Europe. Trained from boyhood by a former SS officer, he is the deadliest agent of the Hannover cell.But something goes terribly wrong. Michael is shaken by a crisis of conscience and quits after being ordered to commit terrorist acts against his fellow West Germans. He leaves Gladio to start a quiet life of his own. 1985: The Soviets invade West Germany. Caught in the West German countryside during the opening salvos of the conflict, Michael and his family are trapped west of Hannover. Their lives are transformed in an instant. To ensure their survival, Michael must make gut-wrenching decisions. There''s only one man he can turn to when all hell breaks loose - his mentor, a fanatic who will stop at nothing to avenge old grudges.Michael is forced to confront his past and return to the life of a killer to help his wife and two children survive World War III. Can he do what he must to save his family?

May, 1985: The Warsaw Pact invades West Germany. World War III has begun. Two Vietnam veterans are sent on a secret mission to East Germany to help train and advise an insurgency aimed at the very heart of the Soviet military forces stationed in the country. The chaos of war provides the perfect conditions for a rogue East German major and his soldiers to strike at the Russians as they pour men and material towards the front lines. Though they are on the same side, the three men become embroiled in a conflict not only with the enemy but also among themselves. During the Vietnam War, Joe Ricci and Ned Littlejohn trained and lead Hmong fighters against the North Vietnamese Army. When the Third World War breaks out fifteen years later, they are assigned to work with Major Werner Brandt and his shadowy cell of insurgents. Their objective is to break the Soviet occupation force. Consumed with hatred for the Russians, Brandt''s lust for revenge threatens to unravel the entire operation. Ricci, on the other hand, struggles to keep the nearby civilians safe from harm in the middle of a war zone. The two men are set on a collision course as they fight for their countries - and their souls.