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About Anthony J Melchiorri
Anthony J. Melchiorri grew up in a central Illinois town called Normal. Since then he has done his best to venture beyond the normal. He has eaten tarantulas in Cambodia, rode horses with gauchos in the Andes Mountains, explored abandoned KGB prisons in Estonia, and meditated in ancient temples with Buddhist monks in Japan and Thailand.
Many of Anthony’s books are inspired by a mixture of his travels and his background as a research scientist. While he earned a BA in English at the University of Iowa, he also completed a BSE in Biomedical Engineering. His career led him to the University of Maryland. There he graduated with a PhD in Bioengineering before running a research laboratory that specializes in 3D printing artificial organs and tissues. He has developed materials to 3D print blood vessels and cartilage, invented devices to extract bone samples from patients, and created cellular therapies to help heal wounds.
Anthony currently calls Houston, Texas home with his wife and an untamable, growing collection of books.
Read more at https://anthonyjmelchiorri.com and sign up for his mailing list at http://bit.ly/ajmlist to hear about his latest releases and news.
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Sergeant Major Shaw and the Deadmen command the only known weapon, the dreadnaught, capable of thwarting the impending collapse of the human race. And their enemies in the Principality know it.
The Republic’s farspace planets struggle against the spread of the biological weapon known as the Scourge. One by one they are falling prey to the devastating alien disease.
Taking advantage of the Scourge calamity, the Principality embark on a brutal conquest to rule all of humanity. The only hope of preventing the Principality’s subjugation of the free worlds rests in Shaw and the Deadmen delivering the dreadnaught safely into the Republic’s hands.
But when the Deadmen become trapped on a Scourge-infested planet, the mission becomes more difficult than they anticipated. Especially with the arrival of Principality forces stronger and deadlier than they have ever faced.
Pacific Rim meets Starship Troopers in Conquest, the fourth book in the Deadmen’s War series.
From the ashes of the ancients, a cataclysmic new threat rises.
Born on a forsaken desert planet, Cole Shaw has two options - perish from starvation and disease, or enlist in the New World Republic’s armed forces. He chooses the military. For the first time, he thinks he has a shot at a better life. But survival is not guaranteed.
Leading an elite team of mech operators, he is deployed to a frozen planet called Ferrous where dangerous relics of a past war lurk beneath the ice and savage creatures prowl the barren wastelands. Scientists on Ferrous are chasing rumors of godlike technologies buried in the ruins of a long-extinct civilization. When Shaw and his team are assigned to protect the researchers, they face an unexpected, merciless new enemy desperate to stop them.
An ancient secret has been awakened on Ferrous. The deadly race to claim this terrifying power has only just begun.
Master Sergeant Cole Shaw and his team of mech operators are on the frontlines of the new war. But instead of mechs, they pilot bioengineered beasts called Sentinels. Only they can stop the Imperial Alliance from unleashing a devastating alien weapon with unparalleled power.
Shaw’s team is sent to a colony planet where rebels clash with government forces, intergalactic empires vie for influence in the shadows, and monstrous feral creatures wreak havoc in forests as deadly as they are beautiful. Amid the chaos, Shaw must make tenuous alliances with untrustworthy forces and face impossible decisions with catastrophic consequences. If he doesn’t succeed, then it’s not just his team’s lives at stake—it’s all of mankind.
Dreadnaught is the long-awaited second book in the Deadmen’s War series. Pacific Rim meets Starship Troopers in this thrilling military sci-fi series.
Veteran mech operator Sergeant Major Shaw spent his career fighting huge monsters known as Sentinels. He never expected that he would be piloting them.
But as a new war unfolds, Shaw finds himself and his team using this unorthodox technology in a desperate attempt to save the New World Republic from destruction. The Principality of the Seven Sons has control of an ancient Progenitor dreadnaught rumored to have the power to enslave and destroy empires. No one is safe.
Not even Shaw and his Deadmen.
The Principality has resurrected the worst of the Progenitor weapons, infecting entire planets with a bioengineered disease called the Scourge. With the Scourge and the dreadnaught poised to destroy the NWR, the fate of mankind is dark.
There is only one hope for survival. One mission so dangerous, so impossible that only a single team is suited for it. The Deadmen.
Pacific Rim meets Starship Troopers in Scourge, the third book in the Deadmen’s War series.
Humanity faces extinction. A few stubborn governments fight back, caught on the defensive. But even their concerted efforts may not be enough to stem the tide of the biological weapon sweeping the world. As people succumb to this genetically engineered weapon, they devolve into weaponized monstrosities hell-bent on destruction.
But humanity hasn’t breathed its last breath yet. Those that are determined to vanquish these abominable creatures and the fanatical organization behind them still fight.
Captain Dominic Holland, Meredith Webb, and their fellow covert operatives return on a mission to destabilize the terrifying organization trying to bring humanity to its knees. Instead of chasing their enemy, this time, they are going on the offensive—straight into the heart of enemy territory.
With nowhere left to run, the Allied States fortifies their few remaining outposts and relocates Central Command to prepare for their final stand. President Jan Ringgold and her generals know beating the enemy on the battlefield is impossible. The only path to victory seems to be taking down the leader of the New Gods, a sinister Chimera known as the Prophet, before he can complete his campaign to enslave humanity.
While Captain Reed Beckham trains new troops, his wife Doctor Kate Lovato returns to the tunnels to infiltrate the bioengineered enemy communication network. Injured and exhausted, Master Sergeant Fitzpatrick and Team Ghost make their way back from Canada with a Chimera prisoner that might be the key to finding the Prophet and raising a new army.
In this thrilling conclusion to the Extinction Cycle series, humanity bands together one last time against the Variants. But time has run out for the heroes of the first war to save what remains of the Allied States and perhaps, the world.
The apocalypse is here. Nightmarish creatures haunt every corner of the globe. They are the result of a biological agent that subverts human biology, turning people into monstrosities covered by overgrown bones and fueled by an unquenchable hunger.
And that is just the beginning. A fanatical organization led by a rogue Russian biowarfare expert continues to expand their arsenal of biological weapons. Each design is more diabolical than the last. Now the group plans to launch a new airborne agent that will destroy every last pocket of humanity eking out an existence in this horror-filled world.
Captain Dominic Holland and his team of elite covert mercenaries are assigned to stop the launch of this terrifying new weapon. In a desperate race against time, they must navigate the treacherous waters and cities around Europe to save humanity.
Book 1: The Tide
Book 2: The Tide: Breakwater
Book 3: The Tide: Salvage
Book 4: The Tide: Deadrise
Book 5: The Tide: Iron Wind
Book 6: The Tide: Dead Ashore
Book 7: The Tide: Ghost Fleet
Book 8: The Tide: Devil to Pay
Even the oceans are no longer safe from the scourge of the biological weapon known as the Oni Agent. Governments struggle to stand under the weight of civilization's collapse. Some remnants of human society have risen from the ashes. But the radical military organization responsible for the Agent has developed a new weapon more terrifying than their last. Rumors spread that a ghost fleet of ships have been commandeered to deliver the killing blow that will destroy any hope of humanity’s resurrection.
Captain Dominic Holland and his group of covert operatives are charged with uncovering the whereabouts of the fleet and stopping them before they reach land. On a mission that takes them around the crumbling strongholds of Europe, they uncover a plot more sinister than they could have possibly imagined. With few resources and little time, Dom and his Hunters put their lives on the line to save the world from utter destruction. But even that may not be enough.
Book 1: The Tide
Book 2: The Tide: Breakwater
Book 3: The Tide: Salvage
Book 4: The Tide: Deadrise
Book 5: The Tide: Iron Wind
Book 6: The Tide: Dead Ashore
Book 7: The Tide: Ghost Fleet
Book 8: The Tide: Devil to Pay
Beyond the reach of the nuclear infernos, the masterminds survived and continue their assault on outposts across the Allied States. Timothy Temper and Sergeant Ruckley narrowly escaped one of those attacks. On the run from hostile forces, they fight to get an urgent message to command—the monsters aren’t the only threat. Their human allies have a nuclear weapon.
Refusing to hide underground, President Jan Ringgold heads to New York. Doctor Kate Lovato and her team are there working to infiltrate and sabotage enemy communications. To buy them time, S.M. Fischer and his engineers deploy technology to detect incoming Variant attacks. But they can’t hold the monsters for much longer.
Deep in enemy territory, Master Sergeant Fitzpatrick and Captain Beckham discover the terrifying truth behind the New Gods and a plan even more nefarious than eliminating the human race. This time, the future depends not just on the survival of Team Ghost, but their ability to convince new allies to join the fight before it’s too late.
Four books and over 1500 pages of post-apocalyptic action, suspense, and intrigue.
A devastating bioweapon will change the face and fate of humanity as we know it.
Captain Dominic Holland leads a crew of skilled covert operatives and scientific personnel aboard a clandestine ship dedicated to fighting chemical and biological warfare. Their missions have taken them across the world to combat sinister plots and dangerous adversaries. But their next assignment is more dangerous than any they faced before.
Far off the eastern coast of the United States, intelligence officers discover a covert laboratory on an abandoned oil rig with unspeakable horrors. Twisted creatures wash ashore across the country. Hospitals are overrun by patients suffering from an incurable disease with terrifying symptoms.
Dom and his team may be the only ones equipped to find out why. They embark on a globe-trotting race to unravel the apocalyptic mystery behind the bioweapon destroying civilization. But will their efforts be enough to turn the tide—or is humanity’s fate already sealed?
A biological weapon has hit much of the world—including the United States. People are turned into twisted creatures hellbent on destruction. As the country tumbles headlong into utter collapse, O’Neil leads a team of SEALs fighting to defend America against the devastation sweeping city after city.
When vital intel points to the potential culprits of this manmade disaster, O’Neil and his highly skilled team are picked to deliver a crucial strike that might help turn this gruesome war around. These elite operators could be America and the world’s best hope.
His team is prepared to give their lives for the ruthless mission they undertake. But sometimes the cost of success is far greater than death.
Hybrid is a standalone novel in the universe of The Tide. It can be read completely on its own with no need to read the rest of the series. For experienced Tide readers, the events of the novel take place in parallel with Books 5 and 6. For the most spoiler-free experience, it is recommended reading any time after Book 6 of the main Tide series.
Aboard a clandestine ship with unparalleled technology, Captain Dominic Holland commands a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel dedicated to fighting biological and chemical warfare. Their missions have taken them all over the globe to combat sinister plots and dangerous adversaries. But a new assignment leads them to a genetic engineering laboratory on an abandoned oil rig where they discover the most disturbing threat to mankind they have ever seen.
Back in the United States, CIA analyst Meredith Webb exposes a frightening connection between the agency she has devoted her life to and the abandoned oil rig. Her investigations are short-lived when terror spreads across the country. Something is turning humans into nightmarish creatures hell-bent on destruction.
Dominic and Meredith face impossible odds in a perilous effort to fight the impending apocalypse. But will their efforts be enough to turn the tide—or is humanity’s fate already sealed?
"A thrilling, pulse-pounding addition to the genre with compelling science and a frightening twist." -- Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today bestselling author of the Extinction Cycle series and Hell Divers.
Book 1: The Tide
Book 2: The Tide: Breakwater
Book 3: The Tide: Salvage
Book 4: The Tide: Deadrise
Book 5: The Tide: Iron Wind
Book 6: The Tide: Dead Ashore
Book 7: The Tide: Ghost Fleet
Book 8: The Tide: Devil to Pay
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