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"In the shadows, there is truth." Colonel Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt IV has spent over a decade fighting America’s secret wars—through jungles, deserts, and cities where no flag could fly. A Green Beret, a covert operative—call sign Rough Rider—and a member of a legendary family—one whose name evokes memories of grand ideas and courage in battle at San Juan Hill. He has carried the burden of impossible missions on his shoulders, refusing to yield—an unseen guardian at the gate. With the Cold War at its most dangerous, Teddy is forced to choose a new path—one that balances ...

In Umbra, Veritas “In the shadows, there is truth.” Teddy, known to some as "Bull," short for "Bull Moose," for how he charges into battle, carries the same name. He wears the same medal. The spirit of the Rough Rider, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, 1st U.S.V., walks beside him. U.S. Army Colonel Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt IV (Ret.) — Special Forces, Vietnam Veteran, former covert operative, Medal of Honor recipient, and great-nephew of the 26th President—teaches the next generation of leaders at West Point. Yet beneath the calm discipline of the classroom lies a man still ...

East Berlin, 1985. A city of shadows behind the Berlin Wall where a single misstep can be fatal. Into this perilous world steps Jackson MacKenzie, a former CIA asset and decorated U.S. Army officer turned fugitive, drawn out of hiding for one last covert mission. His target: a traitorous double agent carrying secrets that could shatter the Cold War balance of power. Under deep cover and with no one to trust, Jackson navigates a deadly maze of spies and checkpoints. The Stasi are closing in, Soviet operatives lurk in every alley, and even the CIA handlers pulling the strings remain ...

Award Winning Novel - Third Place - The BookFest Awards Fall 2023 - War and Military. Cathy Alexander’s journey began with a dream of becoming a doctor, but when she joined the Army and was sent to Vietnam, her dream quickly becomes a nightmare. As a nurse at the 95th Evac Hospital, she witnesses the brutal realities of war. She perseveres and graduates from medical school. Despite her achievements, the Vietnam War left a lasting mark on her psyche. She must confront the memories she’s been trying to forget. Will she overcome her past and find a way to move forward? "Angel’s book is a...

Major Frank Howard. Doctor. Surgeon. Army officer. 1971. At the 95th Evacuation Hospital, Da Nang, South Vietnam, he learns there is a difference in the moral code of war and peace. A conflict between a doctor’s Hippocratic Oath and his duty as a soldier. To allow some to live while others die. A balance depending on varying factors. Would he lose his soul, trying to live with his wartime decisions, stuck between the fluctuating moral compass of the military and civilian world?

Duty – Service – Love of country – Honor – Dreams – Family. Those words mean everything to young Michael “Mikey” Roberts. From a small Kansas town, Mikey wants to find his path in life. To accomplish that he joins the United States Army. During his first tour of duty in Vietnam, he found his path…medicine. He became a Special Forces medic. However, in war that path can fork many times. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst. Mikey finds more horror than he expected and learns more about life than he ever wanted to know.

Award-winning novel - Third Place - The BookFest Awards Fall 2022 The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: In the Eye of the Storm is not just a tale of action and suspense. It is a deep dive into the psyche of a man who must confront not only external threats but also his inner demons. War doesn’t just change the world—it changes the men who fight it. For Lt. Colonel Jackson Joseph MacKenzie, the battles he fought left scars far deeper than the ones on his body. Dive into this heart-pounding adventure with Lt. Colonel Jackson MacKenzie, a seasoned U.S. Army Special Forces officer with a knack...

"In the shadows, there is truth." The war never ended. It just went underground. Shadow Lance is back—reactivated under a secret directive. Colonel Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt IV, a decorated Special Forces officer long believed to be eliminated by the black world, is drawn into a series of missions that no one will admit ever took place. With Eli and Jack by his side, Teddy must confront the sins of past operations and the shadowy players still pulling the strings. From Berlin nightclubs to jungle fire zones, they battle enemies both in and out of uniform—because sometimes the greatest ...

"In the shadows, there is truth." It’s 1984, at the height of the Cold War, and Colonel Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt IV is a man on the run. A Special Forces legend, fourth-generation soldier, and great-nephew of a president, he led a team of CIA ghosts into the darkest corners of Southeast Asia. When Colonel Roosevelt refused to carry out the last phase of a top-secret mission, powerful men buried him under fabricated charges. The road to redemption is treacherous. Now a hunted man, Teddy must stay ahead of a kill order written in the language of plausible deniability because he knows ...

"In the shadows, there is truth." May 1970, Eastern Cambodia. Operation Shatterhorn was never meant to succeed. Sent across the border on black orders, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt IV and his team were bait in a covert game no one was supposed to survive. But when the mission implodes and his team is wiped out, Roosevelt emerges as the lone survivor—broken, bleeding, and betrayed. As he fights to stay alive through the Cambodian jungle, a deeper truth begins to unravel. Someone in the chain of command orchestrated the disaster. And someone wants him erased. Hunted from within and marked as ...

The year is 1969. U.S. Army Major Chris Patterson receives his orders for Vietnam. A conflict that has been raging since 1954. Even after a personal tragedy, Chris goes to war. Again. He throws himself into his duty, fighting within himself about losing men and friends. Including one lost, found, and lost again, best friends from their West Point days. They become ravaged by a war that changes them forever. Will their bond survive what Vietnam took away?

Second Lieutenant Tyler "Ty" Carter embarks on his first test as an officer in the jungles of Vietnam. As fate delivers its first brutal blow, he finds himself wounded. Courageously battling through physical and emotional obstacles, he struggles to reclaim his rightful place in the Army ranks. Destiny's twisted hand plays the joker, thrusting him back into the Vietnam War, where his mettle as a leader comes under a fiery crucible of death and destruction. At the end, he is faced with a make-or-break choice that will define his destiny forever.

Duty. Honor. Country. The motto by which Major Harry Russell lived as a United States Army Special Forces officer. How does he move forward when his entire life has been turned on its head? Everything Harry worked toward all his life is gone. Gone like his foot in a nighttime mortar attack. Gone like his career since the Army kicked him out as worthless dead weight. Gone like his friends, missing on a secret mission. All he has now is himself. And as a Vietnam veteran, that may not be enough.

USMC Camp Pendleton, 1951. Jackson Joseph MacKenzie, a seventeen-year-old with a calling, enlists in the US Army. He finds himself hip-deep in the muddy trenches, machine gun nests, human wave attacks, and artillery barrages in the Korean War. Does he have the resiliency to keep moving toward his dream after watching his friends die? Is he a leader or a follower? Will he fold under pressure? Or rise to the top? Questions he must answer before reaching for that coveted prize, an appointment to West Point.

Award Winning Novel - Second Place - The BookFest Awards Spring 2023 - War and Military Born into a well-off but strict family, eighteen-year-old Dakota Blackwater doesn’t appreciate his father’s plan for him. He wants to find his path through life and chase his own dreams. Instead of taking the easy road, he rebels, enlists in the US Army, and goes to war in a place foreign to him – Vietnam. He finds this choice may be the more difficult one, learning the pain of death, not only of his friends but his own hands. Will he keep his morality or slide down the rabbit hole of hate?

Danger lurks in the shadows, an unseen threat poised to strike at Colonel Jackson MacKenzie, his friends, and the heart of the American way of life. Once a decorated soldier, MacKenzie’s world was torn apart when a betrayal cost him his honor, his career, and his freedom. Now disgraced and living in the margins, he struggles to rebuild the pieces of his life while grappling with the ghosts of his past. But when a sinister conspiracy surfaces, endangering everything he holds dear, MacKenzie finds himself pulled back into a fight he didn’t choose but cannot ignore. His friends are ...

Jackson MacKenzie’s life is about to change. After retiring a second time, the Marine Corps general takes his wife on an ocean adventure as a homecoming to renew their marriage vows. But he never expected what would happen next. He finds himself hip-deep in international intrigue. Who is after him? The Russian GRU, the FSB, maybe even someone closer to home. Will he be able to save his family, his friends, and himself? Or will the villains defeat him in the end? And he joins the fallen at Arlington.

Award Winning Novel - Third Place - The BookFest Awards Spring 2023 - War and Military WAR – What becomes of the soldiers who fight them? Do they go home and ride off into the sunset? Do they return to their families and have a normal life? Or are they left to fight another battle alone in an unseen, internal conflict—grappling with the horrible memories of a war no one wanted? Wars leave scars on the body and deep within the soul. So do words. Labeled with epithets like “baby killer” and “murderer,” too many veterans are abandoned or mistreated by the very system they swore to ...

The Giacomo family started immigrating to the United States in the late 19th century, some of them coming through Ellis Island. Members of the family came to Oklahoma to work in the coal mines and stayed for the beautiful country and wonderful people. A family history is told through the food it cooks. This is an Italian family cookbook with a country and Oklahoma flare. Please join our table for a family-style dinner.