Nick Ryan's World War 3 Military Fiction Technothrillers

It was one of the most dangerous secret missions of the War in the Pacific: a coordinated US submarine attack against a Chinese arms shipment rumoured to be bound for Pakistan. But as USS Oklahoma City sails towards the Chinese coast, she stumbles onto an even greater threat to the West. Outnumbered, isolated and alone, with tension aboard the submarine at breaking point, the OKC and her exhausted crew must battle to outwit the Chinese navy and then finally fight for their lives.

When the Russian Army invading northern Poland threatens to quickly overwhelm Warsaw, a lone Company of American Abrams tanks and a unit of Irish infantry are sent forward to the small village of Stare Lubiejewo and given an impossible mission: hold back the advancing Russian Army at all costs. Overwhelmed by enemy tanks and APCs, the American tankers and the Irish infantry heroically fight off one determined assault after another until it seems they must surely be overrun. But the American and Irish fighting in the bomb-ravaged village have one last desperate plan up their sleeve. If it works, it might just buy the time the Allies need to reinforce and save the threatened Polish capital.

With only a sliver of hope remaining the allied forces must find a place to make a stand. Would the 173rd Airborne Brigade reach them in time? Colonel Karl Armstrong, a veteran soldier who has seen active duty around the world, has just landed a posting that has him steaming. Training a group of raw Polish recruits wasn't what he imagined he'd be doing at this point in his career. A war is approaching. He knows he could make a difference if he could just get a transfer. Request denied. Armstrong didn't know the war was coming to him. When the Belarusian Army launched a surprise Motorized Brigade-sized attack into central eastern Poland, it caught the world off guard. For Armstrong, it meant one thing: they would need to hold the line long enough for reinforcements to arrive. Could his undermanned unit stop the surge toward Warsaw? The odds seem impossible. Can they find a place to make their stand?

During the disastrous Allied retreat north following the fall of Warsaw, a small group of American infantry from the 10th Mountain Division are cut off from the rest of their company while fighting a desperate rear-guard action. Abandoned and surrounded by Russians, Lieutenant Simon McLane and a handful of soldiers are aided in their escape by a Troop of British Challenger 2 tanks from the Royal Tank Regiment. The tankers and infantrymen forge an unlikely alliance as they fight their way towards Gdansk. Against overwhelming odds, and against a relentless enemy, death and danger shadow their every step. In a war that can't be won, merely surviving is a triumph.

As fierce fighting across Poland and the Baltics captures the world's attention, a single squadron of American F-16 pilots deployed to Ukraine must battle against overwhelming odds and impossible conditions to take the war to the Russians. Shot down behind enemy lines on a dangerous sortie in the skies over Kiev, rookie pilot Steve 'Lone Wolf' McQuade is rescued by a group of Ukrainian refugees who are on a mission to rally patriotic resistance against the Russian invaders. Relentlessly hunted by the enemy and with time fast running out, McQuade decides to help the refugees on their perilous journey–risking his life for a chance to change the course of the war, and to unite a nation.

As Russian troops pour into northern Poland, an elite Platoon of American scouts in Stryker reconnaissance vehicles faces a dangerous assignment: they must clear the route ahead for a US Cavalry column preparing to counter attack the flank of the enemy spearhead before it reaches Warsaw. But the scouts' difficult mission is made even more complicated when a Company of Polish militia are added to the counter attacking force, and a vital bridge is found to be defended by the enemy. Faced with an impossible battle to win the bridge, and the challenge of unreliable Polish allies, the Cavalry scouts must find a way to fight through a dug-in Russian force that is determined to hold the vital crossing at all costs.

Russian High Command has a plan to smash NATOs forces arrayed along the Poland-Lithuania border with an assault that would punch a hole in the Allied lines and overrun the NATO perimeter along a ten-mile wide front. A triumph would turn the momentum of the war in Europe back in Russia's favour. Standing in the way of the Russian advance is an isolated American outpost, manned by a Platoon of veteran soldiers and a rookie Lieutenant. 'Fort Suicide' is right on the frontlines isolated from support, and is directly in the path of the imminent Russian advance. The rookie Lieutenant commanding it must fight for the respect of his men, battle superior officers who don't believe him…and wage war against the entire Russian Army if his men are to survive one of the war's most epic and savage engagements.