Vice President George "Daddy Longlegs" Wartmann has spent his career in the shadows—until the sinking of the USS George W. Bush forces him into the spotlight. From the Compass Room at Number One Observatory Circle, he plots a daring evacuation of Americans stranded in the Middle East while global powers jockey for influence. Facing...
It's been over two years since I wrote a review of Blaine Pardoe's Blue Dawn. My apologies to Mr. Pardoe for taking so long to get around to reading book 2 in the Blue Dawn series, A Most Uncivil War. It was on my reading list, but in preparation for my own follow up to a book, Friendship Games...
Manuscript for book #3 - the follow-up to Friendship Games - is done!
Tayfun Ulusoy flew into Baghdad as his first foreign assignment as Grand Vizier. The international airport at Baghdad was captured by Türkiye's special forces, the Bordo Bereliler—the Maroon Berets—not long before they had liberated the American Embassy there.
That's right, I've reached the halfway point for book #3.
It's been seven months - seven! - since I reported reaching 20,000 words with novel #3.
Mark James' Friendship Games is a masterful geo-political thriller that follows the deadly consequences of an explosion in the Persian Gulf, when an American aircraft carrier, the USS George W. Bush, is attacked and sunk. A thrilling look at the chaos of modern warfare, this gripping narrative spans continents, perspectives, and ideologies,...
I've always been a news junkie, even as a teenager. It is good to be informed and to know what is going on in the world around you.
What a week it's been. More like 15 months.
There's no Jack Ryan. No Jason Bourne. There's no Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, or Alex Fletcher. No heroic wrecking ball super-agent or humble dad with a mysterious special forces background.