James Bultema

Arctic Red is the Year’s Best Military Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Military Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The fourth book in James Bultema’s Sea of Red series opens beneath the crushing ice of the North Pole in 2007, where Captain Viktor Melnikov commands the Russian icebreaker NS Rossiya as two submersibles descend to plant a titanium flag on the seabed. The triumphant act, staged under the watch of GRU Colonel Nikolai Orlov, […]

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Invaders of the Heartland, a Riveting Police Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: A riveting police thriller that deftly explores the ramifications of drug legalization in America. Get in on the ground floor of this promising series. Invaders of the Heartland opens in Los Angeles as LAPD officer Jake Dalton is called to an in-progress armed bank robbery. The incident quickly devolves into a hostage situation in which Jake shoots and kills one of the thieves

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Red Lines, an Unmissable Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: Simply unmissable for fans of LT Ryan, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.  Since the 1978 Iranian revolution, American diplomatic relations with Iran have resembled a hot cauldron that occasionally boils over into bursts of limited combat. Until now, the situation has yet to fully tip into all-out war. Red Lines, Book 3 in Bultema’s Sea of Red series, imagines a believable series of events that might lead hostilities

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Sea of Red, a Powerhouse Military Thriller by James Bultema

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The Bottom Line: A timely, powerhouse military thriller with the highest possible stakes, Sea of Red reads like future history. Highly recommended. Sea of Red opens in the South China Sea weeks after the Chinese military downed a Malaysian drone. As the United States Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy conduct joint military exercises, a Chinese destroyer appears and refuses to yield to their warnings. Soon,

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