James L. Nelson is the author of 15 works of fiction and nonfiction. His novels include the five books of his "Revolution at Sea" saga and three in his "Brethren of the Coast" series. His novel "Glory in the Name" won the American Library Association's W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Best Military Fiction. "Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads", 2003, was his first work of nonfiction, and he has since authored two other histories of naval warfare in the American Revolution: "Benedict Arnold's Navy" and "George Washington's Secret Navy", which earned the Samuel Eliot Morison A