{"product_id":"2940150428294","title":"Operation Firebrand--Deliverance","description":"All of them are dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe whole family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA threat to all the people of North Korea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd now the soldiers will be coming for us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarvation ravages North Korea, and one family commits suicide to escape the slow torture they see in themselves and their children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the little boy survives. His mother’s sister finds him amid the bodies, and she vows to gather take him across the treacherous border to China, where scandalous rumor says life is better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWord of their plight reaches Jason Kromer and the Firebrand team, who are recovering from injuries they received in the battle in Sudan on their last mission. Complicating things is the love triangle developing between Jason and the two beautiful women on the team—which is messed up even more when a competitor joins the fun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo worries: It’s supposed to be an easy mission this time. Just get to China, help the family across the border, and take them to South Korea, where they have distant relatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen do missions ever go as planned? Especially the “easy” ones.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe team secured the family momentarily, but then the army gets them back—and sends them to the North Korean concentration camps that supposedly don’t exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the family shattered, the aunt nine months pregnant, and the persecution that will come to them because of their newfound Christian faith, things could hardly be more dire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow Jason and the team have to decide whether to shrug and go home…or enter into the fangs of the dragon to try to rescue one small boy and his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich will they choose?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich do you \u003cem\u003ethink?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Operation Firebrand novels are Christian military fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOperation Firebrand—Origin\u003cbr\u003eOperation Firebrand—Crusade\u003cbr\u003eOperation Firebrand—Deliverance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** These novels were originally published in 2002–3. **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eOperation Firebrand—Deliverance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everybody down!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Camry rolled close. The wind of its coming rustled the hay by the road in a rolling cascade of air. The car passed Jason’s gap at fifty miles an hour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut halfway past it seemed to shift into extreme slow motion. The driver was a soldier. The passenger a man in a black suit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in the back seat…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognition chilled Jason’s chest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe saw her only in profile and partially concealed by the window frame, but there was no mistaking who it was. Or who was the little boy standing up looking out the back window.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“That was Chun-Mi!” he shouted. “And Ki-Won! They were in the car! Trieu, shoot out the tires!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The car’s gone, Kromer!” Chris said. “We get the truck!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dust cloud struck him with the wind of the car’s passing. Suddenly his visibility was down to twenty feet of brown fog. He knew Trieu couldn’t see the car in this. He saw ghostly figures running on the road—Garth and Chris planting the nonlethal land mines. Through the dust beyond them he saw twin yellow eyes—the truck’s headlights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Off the road!” he called. “The truck’s here.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey could’ve all been standing in the middle of the street for all anyone could see. The dust cloud was the perfect camouflage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We’ve only got one shot at this.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m on it, boss. Finger on the button.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truck’s twenty-year-old diesel engine clattered like a school bus. The driver, a young North Korean soldier with no hat, leaned up to the windshield trying to see through the dust. He was traveling no more than thirty-five miles an hour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifty feet. Forty. Thirty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe driver’s window was open.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould he pepper him as he passed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen. Five.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Now, Lewis!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason didn’t hear anything. The truck rolled on. “It didn’t work! Take out the tires. Everybody shoot!” A new dust cloud walloped him from the side. He stood and ran beside the road on the left, staying clear of where the others would shoot, hoping to catch the truck on foot by—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe truck seized up and lurched left. It ground to a stop with its nose in the hay field just in front of Jason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis training clicked in and he went into battle-ready posture: knees flexed, weapon shouldered, safety off. “Come on-line,” he whispered into his mic. “Take ’em down hot.”","brand":"Jeff Gerke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109563613424,"sku":"2940150428294","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150428294_p0.jpg?v=1763745865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150428294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}