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An Army Special Forces team under the command of Captain Brent Chase fights for its life in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan. Years later, in a house at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky one of its elite soldiers lies dead of an apparent suicide. Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Colby, from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, meets with anger and resistance as he probes into the history of the soldier and the Special Forces Team he served with.

A spectacular collection of outstanding half-hour short stories...perfect for commuters or bedtime listening. 'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole, 'The Well' by W. W. Jacobs, 'The Scrupulous Father' by George Gissing, 'The Debt' by Edith Wharton, 'The Problem of the Five Marks' by Melville Davisson Post, 'The Purple Wig' by G. K. Chesterton, 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'Humplebee' by Geroge Gissing.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.