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May, 1942. General Wainwright has just surrendered the Philippines. Wendell Fertig, a Corps of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel, refuses to comply and flees into the mountains of Mindanao. Fertig is soon joined by dozens of former Philippino Army scouts who encourage him to form a guerrilla Army. Over the next few months Fertig is joined by several other displaced American soldiers, one of whom builds a small, makeshift transmitter and establishes contact with the Navy. General MacArthur denounces Fertig, going on record claiming it’s impossible for a guerrilla movement in the Philippines to ...

They Stood Above The Rest, an historically accurate novel begins in 1937 with three brothers in Fairfield, Iowa who’ve completed college and ROTC. Walter plans to enter the Navy and the submarine service while Thomas and Jacob plan to enter the Army air corps and become fighter pilots. Walter arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to begin orientation and falls in love with Betty Ayers, daughter of a Navy Captain. He begins his orientation and evaluation cruise, while his brothers arrive at Randolph Army Airfield in Texas to begin flight training. While Walter is at sea, Betty accepts a ...

160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, ‘the Night Stalkers’ takes the reader into the helicopter war in Afghanistan and Army Special Forces in the guerrilla fight against the Taliban. At this same time, retired Brigadier General Pink Nash is recalled to test the super-secret, third generation Aurora aircraft. This epic saga both stands alone or serves as a spellbinding epilogue to the Indomitable Patriot series of historically accurate war fiction.

Hidden Behind The Mask: the Jesse James Saga is a work of fiction. All people, places, and events are the product of my imagination. The book neither endorses nor condemns any person, place or event. Jon and Lindsay have completed stellar archaeological discovery and careers in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. They return to their ranch in Moody Hollow, in Huntsville, Arkansas, and resume their teaching careers. They discover a portrait of the outlaw, Jesse James, in a cavern on their property, dated several months after his assassination in Missouri. Intrigued by the possibility of having ...

My Voice is the story of Ladell Allen Bonner, her journey through life and the afterlife. The book also explains the history of her home, Allen House, in Monticello, Arkansas.The paranormal world ranks both Ladell and her home as credible hauntings. While we know a great deal about her and the house, this book explains both in detail and resolves many of the urban legends about her and the house.Ladell explained her life through clairaudience to me in ‘real time’ as she lived it, and then provided an articulate description of life beyond the veil of the physical world. Spirits are ...

Anybody who’s ever flown should read this book. Is the pilot the only person who should concern you? From the moment the pilot leaves the gate until he’s once-again parked at his destination, he doesn’t turn, climb, descend, or even change his speed without ATCs approval. Who are these weird ducks who operate the safest ATC system in the world? What motivates them to play this real life video game with neither a Pause nor Reset button? Follow along with Carl’s career, from tiny radar van in the Central Highlands of Vietnam to some of the nation’s busiest air control TRACONs. At ...

AURORA: the fastest, highest flying airplane, and the best-kept secret in aviation history. In the Nevada desert northwest of Las Vegas lies Area-51 and Groom Lake, a small part of the Nevada Atomic Test Site. That we know so little amid widespread speculation and theory lies a testament to the unknown. What secrets have they kept for so long?Albeit written in a historically accurate fictional setting, this is the story of a secret airplane – from first conception on a drafting table to final flight… and the men who both made it possible, and flew it.Did this airplane exist? I believe ...

Jon and Lindsay have once again set aside retirement. They’ve returned to Egypt on a two-year contract. Jon becomes the exploration supervisor in the Valley of the Kings while Lindsay becomes the curator of the new, Grand Cairo Museum. Lindsay is assisting the Swedish team in KV-62 when another archaeological team requests her assistance. If their theory is correct and they are successful, they’ve discovered the tomb of eighteenth dynasty pharaoh Thutmose I and his daughter, pharaoh Hatshepsut. Mystery abounds the potential discovery; why did her younger brother and successor, Thutmose ...

Hidden Behind The Mask: the Unexpected Journey begins with the discovery of a staircase under the crypt in Nefertiti’s burial chamber, deep within KV-62 in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Jon, Lindsay, and Alice continue their exploration. Their discoveries upset all previous theories about eighteenth dynasty Egypt while creating altogether new theories of history. Despite her successes over the previous seven years, Lindsay’s never escaped the guilt that she’s somehow responsible for her husband, Paul’s death, six years earlier. Lindsay’s bitten by an infected mosquito in August ...

January 1954, Pinky takes a CIA team to Hanoi, to inspect the French military. The assignment: determine if they will be able to conquer the Viet Minh on the battlefield and end this nine-year-old war. A second, secret meeting is also scheduled – Pinky will be meeting with the enemy leader, Ho Chi Minh. French Ambassador Philippe Reynes becomes infatuated with Pinky and makes no attempt to hide his seduction attempts… even in front of her husband, Roger. Three weeks after returning to the U.S., President Eisenhower sends Pinky back to Hanoi for additional covert meetings with Minh. ...

Even before Christopher Nash has completed his second tour as a fighter pilot in Vietnam, his career is already experiencing a meteoric rise. Then, his fiancée abruptly postpones their marriage, and then tells him to not write or call her any more. Has she found someone else, and will he recover from the loss of his lifelong love? While Nash tries to deal with his unexpected emotional distress, the CIA and Lockheed Skunk Works develop new, ultra-secret aircraft and they want Nash to serve as their pilot. Will Nash recover from his emotional trauma and fly the SR-71, Have Blue, Aurora and ...

This latest installment in the Indomitable Patriot series takes the reader into the realm of WWII Naval and Marine aviation in the Pacific theater, in the 1944-45 era. Revel in the stateside development of procedures, extending our kill ratio from 2:1 to 15:1. What is the contribution real-life character John Boyd makes and how will it influence dogfights against the enemy? Tighten your belts during the air-to-air combat over Truk Atoll, the Battle of the Philippine Sea and Okinawa. What happens when Pack, seeking a hot date, meets timid and demure Julie Packard? The OSS plays an important ...

The CIA has resurrected the submarine, USS Great White, from the mothball fleet to use for clandestine electronic eavesdropping along the Asian coast. They select Lieutenant Commander Joe Garrett as the boats executive officer. Great White plays a vital espionage role when the Korean War erupts. The battle lines surge from the Pusan Perimeter to the Yalu River in North Korea. Great White provides a vital role in the rescue of a CIA team trapped far beyond enemy lines at the Chosin Reservoir. Just as the mission appears to succeed, four destroyers attack Great White. Joe takes the conn when ...

“Well researched and written drama.” RP, “Should be on NYT best seller list.” JDH, “A page turner, couldn’t put it down.” CTM, “Great material for a movie.” Doc Rio, “This book gets 4.0 marks from this old Navy SEAL with Vietnam experience.” HD. “Incredible story, made me quake with anticipation.” Mrs. W. Roger and Pinky Nash have come up through the ranks with the OSS and CIA. Along the way Roger earned the Navy Cross fighting in the Philippines, as well as a Bronze Star fighting with Merrill’s Marauder’s in Burma. In January, 1950 Pinky assumes command of the...

It’s 1966 and Joshua’s like any other kid; out of high school and wondering what life holds in store, when he receives his draft notice. The son of a Korean War hero who died at the Chosin Reservoir battle, he realizes his best changes of surviving his year in Vietnam is through training. After arriving at Basic Training, he signs up for Army Special Forces, hoping to receive that training. All of his commanding officers detect strong, if latent, leadership skills in him. That hidden talent surfaces in unimaginable ways at the Battle of Dak Hoa. On the verge of being overrun by the ...

Jon and Lindsay have retired from stellar archaeology careers and settle onto their ranch in Arkansas. Their goals shift to their children and they concentrate on their upbringing and education. Jonathon enters the Air Force academy, intending to become a fighter pilot, while his sister, Alice Lin, pursues her education to become a nurse. Jonathon meets the girl of his dreams while attending flight school; fellow aviation cadet Becky Meyers. Will they find everlasting love and happiness, or will their parallel careers drive a wedge between them. Jonathon masters the McDonnell Douglas F-15 ...

It’s 1963 and Margaret Grey, a recent journalism graduate of Auburn University, has mailed out hundreds of resumes, only to receive rejection after rejection. She fears having to return home to surrender her virginity to a young officer at Fort Rucker. In the nick of time, an opportunity affords itself, and Margaret’s father, retired Colonel Marvin Grey, escorts her to Bude, Mississippi, for a job interview: the position is that of caregiver for ninety-year-old Rebecca Ward, heiress of Ward Manor, a Civil War era plantation. The job offer is a windfall, providing Margaret with time to ...

It's 1943 and the USS Great White has just inserted a covert OSS team into the Philippines. Hungry for action, her captain, Marcus Spencer starts with a Japanese man-of-war, almost meeting her match in the process. The OSS draft the Great White for another covert operation, after which Spencer finds himself in a once-in-a-lifetime setting: a harbor filled with enemy vessels and only two destroyers to protect them. Finally, the Great White takes on a suicidal mission which, if successful could shorten the duration of the war by six months. This book will be an interesting and entertaining ...

Newlyweds Paul and Lindsay graduate from college and begin work in their chosen professions. They purchase a century old haunted mansion in Huntsville, Arkansas. In the process of restoring the mansion and exploring its haunted clues, they discover a copy of Tutankhamun’s death mask and other Egyptian artifacts. Egyptologist Dr. Jonathon Clark authenticates the mask and states it’s over three-thousand-years-old. They donate the mask and artifacts to the Cairo Museum and Lindsay joins Dr. Clark in an exploration in KV-62, in the Valley of the Kings. Lindsay’s life and career path are ...

…I ascended from my bed although my feet were not touching the floor. Levitating above the floor, I turned and saw a beautiful woman sitting at the foot of the bed. She shifted her gaze to me. “Carole… Carole Lombard?” I stuttered. "Is this a figment of my imagination, or are you actually here?" “It is me, Matt; and no…, you are not dreaming. You are asleep right now, but this isn’t a dream. You’ve ventured into another dimension; the dimension where I live with my husband, Clark….” In the wake of an emotional crisis, Matt's taken a month off work, climbed into his car ...