Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS PACIFIC REBOUND Many of the islands of the southwestern Pacific, north of Australia, were occupied by Japan or came under the Japanese sphere of influence from the late 1930s through the end of World War II. About halfway on a straight line south from Tokyo to Darwin, Australia lies the Island of Yap. Like its neighbors close to the east, Yap is one of the pinpoint peaks of an under-sea volcanic mountain range several thousand feet taller than Himalayas' Mount Everest. The shoreline of Yap rises over 35,000 feet from the depths of the nearby Challenger...

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS . . The third book of Jay Lillie's Washington Trilogy brings the nations of the hemisphere together to do what none could manage alone. We are introduced to a brilliant young woman, Naval Academy graduate, born in Cuba and married to an officer in the U.S. Department of State, and a fan of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. She leads the President's parade, and old friends, Kate and Gordon, through life threatening challenges in and out of Havana and Foggy Bottom. The author, an international lawyer, writer, and blue water sailor, entertains us with a...

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Classic Imprint The Nation's first woman President is an iconoclast. Well down the list of her foreign policy initiatives is the diplomatic conversion of Cuba from a peace-threatening cancer to a useful hemispheric partner. Considered enlightened to those who agree, and a political anathema to those who don't, her Cuban agenda becomes accelerated by two events. An American fishing boat is boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard coming out of Havana Harbor, and Kate Stevens, a law student at Georgetown University, produces a documentary film questioning the...