History Literature / DeadSix

* BloodBrothers: Valentine and Tailor. They also qualify as VitriolicBestBuds.

* FiveManBand: Lorenzo's original crew. Lorenzo is TheLeader, Carl is TheLancer, Reaper is TheSmartGuy, Train is TheBigGuy, and a reference is made to someone named Kat, who was TheHeart. [[spoiler: Train is killed at the very beginning of the story, and Kat apparently left at some point in the past.]] [[spoiler: Kat turns out to actually be TheDarkChick.]]

* FiveManBand: Lorenzo's original crew. Lorenzo is TheLeader, Carl is TheLancer, Reaper is TheSmartGuy, Train is TheBigGuy, and a reference is made to someone named Kat, who was TheChick. [[spoiler: Train is killed at the very beginning of the story, and Kat apparently left at some point in the past.]] [[spoiler: Kat turns out to actually be TheDarkChick.]]

** Alliance Of Shadows reveals that the Chinese Civil War happened after the [[GreatPoliticsMessUp collapse of the Soviet Union]].

* BoatLights: Valentine

* {{Expy}}: Reaper may well be one for Mouse from the TheMatrix. He's a shotgun-wielding computer hacker and non-action guy, and is explicitly described as looking "like an extra from TheMatrix".

* TheSouthpaw: Valentine is left-handed.

* TheWarOnTerror: Dead Six is formed to quite literally bring the war to terrorists' backyard.

* GoOutWithASmile: Adar. [[spoiler: He keeps smiling after Valentine nearly decapitates him with a neck-shot from his big gun.]]

* FiveManBand: Lorenzo's original crew. Lorenzo is TheLeader, Carl is TheLancer, Reaper is TheSmartGuy, Train is TheBigGuy, and a reference is made to someone named Kat, who was TheChick. [[spoiler: Train is killed at the very beginning of the story, and Kat apparently left at some point in the past.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: The Scarab]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Both Sala Jihan and Oracle Ariel have limited prescience. They cannot account for rogue variables such as Valentine and Lorenzo. Sala Jihan is also much much older than his appearance as he has been in operation for at least 60 years.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Both Sala Jihan and Oracle Ariel have limited prescience. They cannot account for rogue variables such as Valentine and Lorenzo. Sala Jihan is also much much older than his appearance as he has been in operation for at least 60 years.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Illuminati leadership are either killed via Project Blue or by our hero. Bob is running Task Force 151 is hunting down the remnant of Majestic in United State with Valentine leading the Ops. Lorenzo returns the stolen nuke back to Sala Jihan's impenetrable former Soviet Bunker. Ariel/Oracle living an ordinary life. Lorenzo and Jill are finally retired from the business.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding:

* BondOneLiner: Tailor. [[spoiler: "April Fool, motherf***ers."]] [[spoiler: "Consider this my two week notice"]]

* BlackHelicopter: A couple do show up and are both silent and invisible to radar, surprising Valentine and Taylor, who've spent enough time in the regular sort to dismiss the idea as nonsense.

* BondOneLiner: Tailor. [[spoiler: "April Fool, motherf***ers."]] [[spoiler: "Consider this a two week notice"]]

* HollywoodHealing: Averted. Valentine suffers scars [[spoiler: and a traumatic brain injury]] during the course of the story. Lorenzo is left with permanent hearing damage [[spoiler: after Valentine fires a .44 Magnum inches from his face]].

''Dead Six'' is a Military Fiction novel co-written by Creator/LarryCorreia and Creator/MikeKupari published in 2011. The world is currently a hellhole with corrupt governments and secret organizations running it. Veteran and mercenary Michael Valentine is recruited by a secret government organization to conduct a terror operation in the small nation of Zubara in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, a thief and assassin known as Lorenzo is blackmailed by a vicious crime lord who wants him to commit an impossible heist. Their goals bring chaos and terror to Zubara, while Valentine and Lorenzo soon come into conflict with each other. Both men will kill anyone in their way to complete their objectives, but secrets and hidden conspiracies lie everywhere. Follow up by ''Sword of Exodus'' and ''Alliance of Shadow''.

''Dead Six'' is a Military Fiction novel co-written by Creator/LarryCorreia and Creator/MikeKupari published in 2011. The world is currently a hellhole with corrupt governments and secret organizations running it. Veteran and mercenary Michael Valentine is recruited by a secret government organization to conduct a terror operation in the small nation of Zubara in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, a thief and assassin known as Lorenzo is blackmailed by a vicious crime lord who wants him to commit an impossible heist. Their goals bring chaos and terror to Zubara, while Valentine and Lorenzo soon come into conflict with each other. Both men will kill anyone in their way to complete their objectives, but secrets and hidden conspiracies lie everywhere. Follow up by "Sword of Exodus" and "Alliance of Shadow".