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  • Smoke on the Water

    by Jack Bartley

    It is 1971 and the war in Vietnam rages on. Jason Conley, a recent college graduate, finds himself paying the price for his free university education. Since he couldn’t afford college, he applied for and was awarded an NROTC scholarship. He now owes the Navy four years of service. Not wanting to go to war, he devises a scenario in which he would serve on a ship converted to be an oceanographic research support vessel in Hawaii, thousands of miles from the battle zone. A brilliant plan, if it worked. It did. Then, it didn’t.  Through a series of events and miscues, some of his own making and some out of his control, Jason fails to negotiate life on board his first ship and is transferred to a new command, a destroyer escort that deploys on a WestPac tour to Vietnam the very day he sets foot on board. He now faces new challenges. How does he avoid the same mistakes he made on the first ship? How does he reconcile his feelings about the Vietnam War while at the same time directing a destroyer escort on the gunline supporting US and South Vietnamese troops? How will his personal life be affected by the dictates of the Navy? How does he come out of this alive? Based on real incidents and filled with action, romance, and humor, Smoke on the Water paints a realistic picture of life in the Navy during an era when the United States was a deeply divided country.

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  • Memory Weavers

    by Muffy Walker

    From her office in Manhattan, Hadley is preparing for her twenty-second wedding anniversary. She surprises her husband, Bergen, with a gift to get their genomes sequenced to proactively counter any disease risks. In the East Village, twenty-seven-year-old Rachel reluctantly goes to therapy for her panic attacks and flashbacks from a college rape. Her mother is overprotective, and her father has left the family. When the genome results come back, Hadley learns her fate and spirals into depression. Her family struggles to help while grieving her mental decline. Rachel and Hadley meet in the therapist’s waiting room. One woman is desperately holding onto her memories, while the other tries to banish them. They form a supportive friendship, each filling a void in the other’s life. As their bond strengthens, both struggle with suicidal ideations, threatening their progress.

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  • Midnight in Crystal City

    by R. R. Beach

    When Michael, a private contractor working for a government agency, gets stuck in Crystal City due to contract issues, the stage is set for his life to get turned upside down. His wife died in a car crash long ago, and his only daughter refuses to take his calls or see him even though she’s only a few miles away on the Beltway. Lonely and unable to sleep in his stale hotel room, Michael takes a late-night walk through the empty complex—where a huge homeless man, Ben, emerges and asks for a cigarette. Michael is sure he’s getting mugged, but instead Ben shares that he was part of an outlandish Cold War plot to use Olympic athletes to assassinate a top Russian official at the Moscow Olympics. And he speaks of a shadowy CIA agent known only as “Blue Ties.” Events are set in motion when Michael is invited to the government agency’s summer picnic at Great Falls—a place where the threads of Michael’s life will converge in a stunning conclusion.

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  • The Scout’s Driver: Based on the True (but greatly exaggerated) Stories of Big League Baseball Scout Pat Murtaugh

    by Ronald J. Rychlak

    Pat Murtaugh is an MLB scout for the New York Yankees and eats, sleeps, and breathes all things baseball. After a series of misunderstandings during spring training, his driver’s license is suspended. Without a car, his scouting career is doomed. Roger is a former minor league pitcher who never made the big leagues. Unable to figure out his next career move, Roger moves back in with his parents, including his overly critical father, and substitute teaches at the local high school. Desperate to keep his job, Pat hires Roger as his driver for the summer. The two crisscross the country scouting new talent for the team, interacting with die-hard fans, aspiring and former players, and a scout from the Red Sox who’s trying to woo the best players away from the Yankees. But Roger is easily distracted by a pretty face and isn’t always reliable. When Pat is bitten by a black widow spider just before draft day, his ability to successfully represent the Yankees is put in jeopardy. Will that rival scout steal their best players or can Roger step up and save the day?

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  • Death in the Land of Enchantment

    by Holly Harrison

    Patrol Officer Louise Sanchez knows the Northern New Mexico roads, yet when she fills in for a detective who’s been put on leave, she finds herself in unfamiliar territory. The first week on the job, she is assigned a murder case—that of a high-powered attorney found with a butcher knife in his heart and a date-rape drug in his system—and immediately knows she’s out of her league. There is no sign of a break-in or struggle, and the only clues are twenty-one dollars of play money and a photocopy of a woman from an online dating site. The evidence leads to three women connected to Madison but offers little to solve the case. Feeling pressure from a growing number of details that don’t add up, Sanchez decides to forgo standard police procedures and follow her intuition. But as she blazes her own trail to solve the murder, she may lose the case to higher powers.

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  • One Rogue Raider: Death of the White Swan

    by Larry Allen Lindsey

    In late June 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo have changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is dead, and World War I begins. Across the world, the German dreadnought SMS Emden is sent to the Far East to disrupt Allied shipping. The Emden is outnumbered sixty to one, but the men on board will do their duty. What follows is a three-month cat-and-mouse chase with the Royal Navy. Under the leadership of “gentleman pirate” Captain Karl Friedrich Max von Müller, the elusive “White Swan of the East” manages to sink sixteen civilian Allied vessels without a single loss of life on either side before meeting her demise. Solidly grounded in history, One Rogue Raider imagines the thoughts and dreams and deeds of Emden’s crew, her pursuers, and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, bringing to life what was perhaps the last instance of a conflict at sea where tonnage sunk and body counts did not trump human decency and honor.

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  • Night of the Bear

    by Alan Cockrell and Richard Hess

    Reverend Bobby Chatman is a successful television preacher and the United States president’s spiritual adviser—though he’s hiding a dark secret. Immigrating to the US from Russia, he and his two assistants are deep-cover Russian intelligence operatives who have devised a plan to bring the United States to its knees with just four cruise missiles launched from within its borders.
    Captain Mark “Suds” Matthews is an F-15 Eagle pilot stationed in Massachusetts. Frustrated with bureaucracy within the US Air Force, he’s prepared to leave his job and fly his final Eagle ride. Meanwhile, the career of his girlfriend, FBI Agent Darryl McCormick, seems to only be at its outset.
    The night of the Russian attack is a desperate race to deliver the weapons and exit American airspace before being discovered, performed by an aircrew forced to risk their lives for a mission they don’t believe in. Unbeknownst to him, Captain Matthews’s last ride as an F-15 pilot may just be his most important.

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  • Mud Season

    by Jeff Kramer

    Mud Season tells the story of Woody Hackworth, a newspaper reporter laid off amid whispers that he made up a source. Resentful, bored, and looking for a way to get back at his ex-employer, Woody makes a fateful decision: To write an environmental thriller and post chapters online as he goes. His novel-in-progress gains traction in the gossipy, snow belt city of Icarus, N.Y. but not for reasons Woody wanted. His readers believe Woody is using his fiction to expose his in-laws and their successful family-owned construction business. With each new post, Woody’s domestic discord grows, but how can he stop now? He’s almost famous? Mud Season merrily wallows in the classic conflict between ambition and family, digs into the murky perils of online notoriety, and slings a comic-tragic elegy to the once-mighty institution of the daily newspaper.

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  • No Stones Left Unturned

    by Marie-Claude Gingras

    Martha and Jeff are desperate. Stephan, their five-year-old child, has vanished. He is one of the many children who have disappeared over the last decade in the region of a peaceful village in Vermont. Jeff calls on his friend Ryan, an elite tactical rescue unit member whose approach is based on tangible facts and ground research. Martha recruits Leila, a young woman with perceptive abilities and telepathic skills. Friction between them runs high while crimes of different natures keep unfolding. They finally make a truce. After facing life-threatening adventures together, leading them as far as Alaska and Montana, the case finally seems to reach its conclusion. But is it really solved? In an incredible turn of events, the entire case is slipped open.

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  • Drinking From the Stream

    by Richard Scott Sacks

    By turns action/adventure, political thriller, historical and literary fiction, Drinking from the Stream is set during 1971 and 1972, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution marked a generation. The action leapfrogs ten countries, from the United States to Tanzania, in a coming-of-age tale of youth colliding with post-independence Africa. Jake Ries, a twenty-two-year-old Nebraska farm boy turned oil roughneck, becomes a fugitive when he unintentionally kills a homicidal White supremacist on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. On the run, he meets Karl Appel, a restless, disillusioned Oxford dropout and former anti-war activist. Throwing caution to the wind and both struggling with personal demons, the two young men plunge into the Ethiopian and East African hinterland, where they discover that dictatorship and mass murder are facts of life.

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