Author: William Roskey
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781073537235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Historical Fiction at its Best! One of the first reactions of many who have read this book is to say that it is far more than a novel about riveting submarine action in World War II. That it is, above all, a book about an extraordinary group of characters and the events that shaped them into the men and women they were when, without warning, 353 Japanese planes swooped down out of a clear cobalt sky on a quiet Sunday morning to wreak havoc on the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, which lay quietly at anchor in Pearl Harbor. Dade Bowie is a 31-year old submarine skipper, the product of poverty and an abusive home life in West Texas. He is secretly afraid that he lacks the courage he needs to go into combat. Rachael Wyer spent 20 unsuccessful years as a missionary in a small Japanese fishing village, and, after Japanese naval cadets brutally murder her husband, she leaves to return to the United States. On her way back in April 1941, the Office of Naval Intelligence recruits her to translate intercepted Japanese naval communications in one of the most highly classified operations run by the United States. As she watches the attack in horror, she is 39-years old, and has already come to hate the Japanese even before this day. She and Dade Bowie will meet in the days following the attack and become lovers. They will battle the Japanese, naval bureaucracy, fear, conflicting loyalties, and their own personal demons in the desperate months that follow.
A Terrible Loyalty
Author: William Roskey
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781073537235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Historical Fiction at its Best! One of the first reactions of many who have read this book is to say that it is far more than a novel about riveting submarine action in World War II. That it is, above all, a book about an extraordinary group of characters and the events that shaped them into the men and women they were when, without warning, 353 Japanese planes swooped down out of a clear cobalt sky on a quiet Sunday morning to wreak havoc on the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, which lay quietly at anchor in Pearl Harbor. Dade Bowie is a 31-year old submarine skipper, the product of poverty and an abusive home life in West Texas. He is secretly afraid that he lacks the courage he needs to go into combat. Rachael Wyer spent 20 unsuccessful years as a missionary in a small Japanese fishing village, and, after Japanese naval cadets brutally murder her husband, she leaves to return to the United States. On her way back in April 1941, the Office of Naval Intelligence recruits her to translate intercepted Japanese naval communications in one of the most highly classified operations run by the United States. As she watches the attack in horror, she is 39-years old, and has already come to hate the Japanese even before this day. She and Dade Bowie will meet in the days following the attack and become lovers. They will battle the Japanese, naval bureaucracy, fear, conflicting loyalties, and their own personal demons in the desperate months that follow.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781073537235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Historical Fiction at its Best! One of the first reactions of many who have read this book is to say that it is far more than a novel about riveting submarine action in World War II. That it is, above all, a book about an extraordinary group of characters and the events that shaped them into the men and women they were when, without warning, 353 Japanese planes swooped down out of a clear cobalt sky on a quiet Sunday morning to wreak havoc on the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, which lay quietly at anchor in Pearl Harbor. Dade Bowie is a 31-year old submarine skipper, the product of poverty and an abusive home life in West Texas. He is secretly afraid that he lacks the courage he needs to go into combat. Rachael Wyer spent 20 unsuccessful years as a missionary in a small Japanese fishing village, and, after Japanese naval cadets brutally murder her husband, she leaves to return to the United States. On her way back in April 1941, the Office of Naval Intelligence recruits her to translate intercepted Japanese naval communications in one of the most highly classified operations run by the United States. As she watches the attack in horror, she is 39-years old, and has already come to hate the Japanese even before this day. She and Dade Bowie will meet in the days following the attack and become lovers. They will battle the Japanese, naval bureaucracy, fear, conflicting loyalties, and their own personal demons in the desperate months that follow.
Debt of Loyalty
Author: Christopher G. Nuttall
Publisher: 47North
ISBN: 9781542019545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An uncivil war in space sends a planet spinning out of control in the next thrilling Kat Falcone novel by bestselling author Christopher G. Nuttall. The Commonwealth has fractured, its interstellar order breaking down into civil war. On one side is Hadrian, the outlaw king of Tyre, driven from his homeworld and forced into a fragile alliance with the colony worlds; on the other sits a parliament determined to restrain him at all costs. The time for talk is over. The matter can be settled only by war. Loyal to the king, Admiral Kat Falcone leads her fleets into battle, joined by allies with motives of their own. But her friend and former comrade Commodore William McElney has chosen to join the Houses of Parliament. They now find themselves on opposing sides of a civil war, trapped into waging a series of battles that neither wants to fight but that they dare not lose. And as shadows and secrets come to light, they may find themselves watching helplessly as the war tears the universe they fought for apart.
Publisher: 47North
ISBN: 9781542019545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An uncivil war in space sends a planet spinning out of control in the next thrilling Kat Falcone novel by bestselling author Christopher G. Nuttall. The Commonwealth has fractured, its interstellar order breaking down into civil war. On one side is Hadrian, the outlaw king of Tyre, driven from his homeworld and forced into a fragile alliance with the colony worlds; on the other sits a parliament determined to restrain him at all costs. The time for talk is over. The matter can be settled only by war. Loyal to the king, Admiral Kat Falcone leads her fleets into battle, joined by allies with motives of their own. But her friend and former comrade Commodore William McElney has chosen to join the Houses of Parliament. They now find themselves on opposing sides of a civil war, trapped into waging a series of battles that neither wants to fight but that they dare not lose. And as shadows and secrets come to light, they may find themselves watching helplessly as the war tears the universe they fought for apart.
Muffled Shots
Author: William Roskey
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475921588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The linecrossers came from North Korea-hard men highly trained in assassinations, hit-and-run commando raids and sabotage. The soldiers sent to stop them were young Americans stationed along the 151-mile long DMZ. It was 1967, and for Team Delta the war was not in Vietnam but on a windswept hill in South Korea.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475921588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The linecrossers came from North Korea-hard men highly trained in assassinations, hit-and-run commando raids and sabotage. The soldiers sent to stop them were young Americans stationed along the 151-mile long DMZ. It was 1967, and for Team Delta the war was not in Vietnam but on a windswept hill in South Korea.
Of Limited Loyalty
Author: Michael A Stackpole
Publisher: Night Shade
ISBN: 9781597802055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
1767. In the three years since defeating the Tharyngians at Anvil Lake, The Crown Colonies of Mystria have prospered. Colonists, whether hunting for new land or the Promised Land of prophecy, have pushed beyond the bounds of charters granted by the Queen of Norisle. Some of these new communities have even had the temerity to tell the Crown they are no longer subject to its authorities. To survey the full extent of the western expansion, the Crown has sent Colonel Ian Rathfield to join Nathaniel Woods, Owen Strake, and Kamiskwa on an expedition into the Mystrian interior. They discover a land full of isolated and unique communities, each shaped in accord with the ideals of the founders. Conflicts abound among them, and old enemies show up at the least useful moments. Worse yet, lurking out there is a menace which the Twilight People only know from folklore as the Antedeluvians; and westward penetration stumbles into their lands and awakens them. Alerted to this threat by his men, Prince Vlad petitions the Crown to send troops and supplies to destroy this new and terrifying enemy. The Crown refuses, citing massive debts from the last war. They dismiss Vlad's claims as fantasy, and impose a series of taxes on Mystrian trade to finance their own recovery. Faced with fighting an inhuman foe in a land seething with resentment against the Crown, Vlad must unite the Colonies in a common cause, or preside over their complete destruction. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Publisher: Night Shade
ISBN: 9781597802055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
1767. In the three years since defeating the Tharyngians at Anvil Lake, The Crown Colonies of Mystria have prospered. Colonists, whether hunting for new land or the Promised Land of prophecy, have pushed beyond the bounds of charters granted by the Queen of Norisle. Some of these new communities have even had the temerity to tell the Crown they are no longer subject to its authorities. To survey the full extent of the western expansion, the Crown has sent Colonel Ian Rathfield to join Nathaniel Woods, Owen Strake, and Kamiskwa on an expedition into the Mystrian interior. They discover a land full of isolated and unique communities, each shaped in accord with the ideals of the founders. Conflicts abound among them, and old enemies show up at the least useful moments. Worse yet, lurking out there is a menace which the Twilight People only know from folklore as the Antedeluvians; and westward penetration stumbles into their lands and awakens them. Alerted to this threat by his men, Prince Vlad petitions the Crown to send troops and supplies to destroy this new and terrifying enemy. The Crown refuses, citing massive debts from the last war. They dismiss Vlad's claims as fantasy, and impose a series of taxes on Mystrian trade to finance their own recovery. Faced with fighting an inhuman foe in a land seething with resentment against the Crown, Vlad must unite the Colonies in a common cause, or preside over their complete destruction. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
The Cost of Loyalty
Author: Tim Bakken
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632868997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632868997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.
Divide and Rule: Can You Prove Your Loyalty to the State?
Author: Rachel McLean
Publisher: Division Bell
ISBN: 9781999878276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Jennifer Sinclair's fight to save her political career, her family and her freedom has failed. Traumatised by prison violence, she agrees to transfer to the mysterious British Values Centre. Rita Gurumurthy has betrayed her country and failed the children in her care. Unlike Jennifer, she has no choice, but finds herself in the centre against her will. Both women are expected to conform, to prove their loyalty to the state and to betray everything they hold dear. One attempts to comply, while the other rebels. Will either succeed in regaining her freedom? Divide and Rule is 1984 for the 21st century - a chilling thriller examining the ruthless measures the state will take to ensure obedience, and the impact on two women.
Publisher: Division Bell
ISBN: 9781999878276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Jennifer Sinclair's fight to save her political career, her family and her freedom has failed. Traumatised by prison violence, she agrees to transfer to the mysterious British Values Centre. Rita Gurumurthy has betrayed her country and failed the children in her care. Unlike Jennifer, she has no choice, but finds herself in the centre against her will. Both women are expected to conform, to prove their loyalty to the state and to betray everything they hold dear. One attempts to comply, while the other rebels. Will either succeed in regaining her freedom? Divide and Rule is 1984 for the 21st century - a chilling thriller examining the ruthless measures the state will take to ensure obedience, and the impact on two women.
Her Loyal SEAL
Author: Caitlyn O'Leary
Publisher: Passionately Kind Publishing
ISBN: 1944247629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Kidnapped and Nearly Broken Lydia Hidalgo is still defiant as she and her family are sentenced to death at the hands of the Mexican drug cartel. Not knowing if she will survive, her one request is that her sister will be cared for. A Daring Rescue Clint Archer and his team mates will stop at nothing to rescue Lydia and her family from their captors. Having to carry this brave woman for five days through the jungle creates a bond that he cannot resist. Clinging To Life The closer they get to civilization, the slimmer Lydia’s chance of survival becomes. The Midnight Delta SEAL team work desperately to get her the help she needs, while Clint finds himself losing his heart more each day.
Publisher: Passionately Kind Publishing
ISBN: 1944247629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Kidnapped and Nearly Broken Lydia Hidalgo is still defiant as she and her family are sentenced to death at the hands of the Mexican drug cartel. Not knowing if she will survive, her one request is that her sister will be cared for. A Daring Rescue Clint Archer and his team mates will stop at nothing to rescue Lydia and her family from their captors. Having to carry this brave woman for five days through the jungle creates a bond that he cannot resist. Clinging To Life The closer they get to civilization, the slimmer Lydia’s chance of survival becomes. The Midnight Delta SEAL team work desperately to get her the help she needs, while Clint finds himself losing his heart more each day.
Enemy Patriots
Author: Rodger Carlyle
Publisher: Verity Books
ISBN: 9781736007464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
His family held by Army Intelligence on a visit to Japan, Mark Ishihara is ordered to the family fish processing plant across the bay from America's only military base in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. With the planned bombing of Pearl Harbor only months away, his job is to spy for Japan, as they prepare to seize American territory.His blood brother, Chad Gritt, a junior army officer is sent to the same island as part of a secretive American intelligence group. The two men are forever tied by a terrible accident that killed each of their brothers. Their childhood trauma makes Gritt a recluse and Mark the life of the party. Their trauma leaves each struggling to connect with the women they care about.The two reunite only miles from the accident site, each spying for the other side.As the war breaks out, Mark's Japanese face is as welcome in Dutch Harbor as a rattlesnake at a party; but if he leaves, his parents die. Simultaneously, the American government begins rounding up its Japanese American citizens, worried that some are spies. Some like Mark are. But after finally disclosing his dilemma to his blood brother, the question is, for which side?
Publisher: Verity Books
ISBN: 9781736007464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
His family held by Army Intelligence on a visit to Japan, Mark Ishihara is ordered to the family fish processing plant across the bay from America's only military base in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. With the planned bombing of Pearl Harbor only months away, his job is to spy for Japan, as they prepare to seize American territory.His blood brother, Chad Gritt, a junior army officer is sent to the same island as part of a secretive American intelligence group. The two men are forever tied by a terrible accident that killed each of their brothers. Their childhood trauma makes Gritt a recluse and Mark the life of the party. Their trauma leaves each struggling to connect with the women they care about.The two reunite only miles from the accident site, each spying for the other side.As the war breaks out, Mark's Japanese face is as welcome in Dutch Harbor as a rattlesnake at a party; but if he leaves, his parents die. Simultaneously, the American government begins rounding up its Japanese American citizens, worried that some are spies. Some like Mark are. But after finally disclosing his dilemma to his blood brother, the question is, for which side?
Love
Author: Anjela Day
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781501079177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Loyalty is a word that is used all the time, but only a select few people truly live by the meaning. Kre is a young hustler forced into the fast life due to some unfortunate circumstances. He is all alone in the game, until Kaihlia comes into his life. Together they form a duo that is ruthless, cunning and able to make money by any means necessary. However, will the money they make divide them or bring them closer? If Kre and Kaihlia are going to survive, they will have to learn to trust in each other and put Loyalty Over Everything Else!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781501079177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Loyalty is a word that is used all the time, but only a select few people truly live by the meaning. Kre is a young hustler forced into the fast life due to some unfortunate circumstances. He is all alone in the game, until Kaihlia comes into his life. Together they form a duo that is ruthless, cunning and able to make money by any means necessary. However, will the money they make divide them or bring them closer? If Kre and Kaihlia are going to survive, they will have to learn to trust in each other and put Loyalty Over Everything Else!
The Girl with Rhythm in Her Heart
Author: Xio Axelrod
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781492698791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 9781492698791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description