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Steven graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1993, receiving a bachelor of science in English literature. He served the next eight years on active duty, traveling the world as a naval officer assigned to various Navy and Marine Corps units. His extensive journey spanned the globe, including a two-year tour of duty in Japan and travel to more than twenty countries throughout Asia and the Middle East.

From enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq as a maritime boarding officer in the Arabian Gulf, to directing aircraft bombing runs and naval gunfire strikes as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) assigned to a specialized Marine Corps unit, Steven's "in-house" experience with a wide range of regular and elite military units bring ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 139,610 ratings · 6,146 reviews · 72 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rescue (Ryan Decker, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 26,715 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Sleep (Devin Gray, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 13,654 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 11,287 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raid (Ryan Decker, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 9,994 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jakarta Pandemic (Alex Fletcher, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 7,431 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mountain (Ryan Decker, #3) 4.46 avg rating — 6,428 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skystorm (Ryan Decker, #4) 4.48 avg rating — 5,983 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming Dawn (Devin Gray, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 4,644 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perseid Collapse (Alex Fletcher #2) 4.04 avg rating — 4,300 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractured State (Fractured State #1) 4.24 avg rating — 3,924 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Russians, Russians everywhere—they shouldn’t F’ING be!

My last blog post was titled “Russians, Russians everywhere!” to announce the release of my newest novel about a Russian sleepers conspiracy in the United States. Two months later, we have a very different Russian problem—hence the corrected blog post title. Sadly, I’m convinced that the war crimes committed by the Russia against the people of Ukraine will only accelerate in the upcoming days. And Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Steven Konkoly

Ryan Decker (4 books)
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Black Flagged (6 books)
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Chasing Love (Dark Love, #1)

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“We needed that Border Patrol stop like a hole in the head. Won’t take much digging to figure out who took a close look at their bunker,” said Decker. “This is going to come back at us pretty fast.”
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JULY 2015:For July, we will be reading a Pandemic plot! This poll will run until June 20th.

The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton

3 votes, 50.0%

Carriers
by Patrick Lynch

2 votes, 33.3%

I DON'T CARE

1 vote, 16.7%

The Jakarta Pandemic
by Steven Konkoly

0 votes, 0.0%

Pandemic
by Daniel Kalla

Sour Grapes (Claudia Seferius, #12) by Marilyn Todd

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The Plague
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