Silent Battleground Author: D. M. Ulmer; Editorial Assistant: Doris Littlefield; Managing Editor: Dari Bradley; Executive Editor: Nelson O. Ottenhausen. Wartime operations on board the nuclear submarine USS Denver take an unexpected turn as weapons officer, Lieutenant Brent Maddock, faces numerous challenges to his combat tactics skills from both an elusive enemy and a vindictive and ambitious skipper. While the complex war unfolds beneath the waves, Herculean efforts ashore restore a Washington west coast submarine facility to keep the war defense effort ongoing as the President of the...

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The sequel to Missing Person. In Washington State's San Juan Islands, during a weekend visit arranged by Michael Kincaid for his son to become better acquainted with the focal point of Michael's evolving romance, things go from bad to worse. Kincaid reopens a case with an official finding of accidental death that many believe should have been murder. This leads to both Kincaid and his son being caught up in a wild adventure on the high seas.

Michael Kincaid, a retired Marine Corps Sgt. Major turned English Literature Professor, and his wife Doris, become involved in a caper while on their honeymoon in Long Beach, WA. Their first day at Long Beach, a stranger recognizes Michael as the author of the Harry Steele detective novel series, introduces himself, then asks Michael to investigate a mundane problem within his family, keeping or disposing of their three generation legacy; the Heinrich Voelcker farm in Idaho. This request ends up being more than Michael and Doris bargained for, turning their honeymoon into a kidnapping and...

Where or When, an absorbing love story which spans the years, is set in modern-day life of the Pacific Northwest and the closing years of World War One in Europe. Blaire Coolidge learns of her late great-grandmother Alice's unknown marriage to 1st Lt. David Reynolds, U.S Army Flying Corps, a young American aviator lost without a trace in 1918 during aerial combat over France. Alice's family objected to the marriage prior to David's departure for war-torn Europe, but deeply in love, they wed. Post war attempts by Alice to find her missing husband are futile and she returns home. With the aid...

Shadows of Heroes Author: D. M. Ulmer; Editorial Assistant: Doris Littlefield; Managing Editor: Dari Bradley; Executive Editor: Nelson O. Ottenhausen. January 1949, early in the undeclared Cold War, the U.S. diesel-electric submarine Kokanee has illegally penetrated deep into Soviet Union waters of the White Sea and is detected by a pair of Russian destroyers. Depth charges fall on Kokanee and seem on the verge of tearing the besieged ship apart. A vindictive Russian captain is determined to eradicate the Americans. Two U.S. intelligence agents have been put ashore, their mission: determine...

The Cold War Beneath tells the story of an event at sea off the New England coast during the post World War II years. Two submarines play a dangerous underwater game of hide and seek in this action thriller as U.S. Navy forces try to find out the Russians' true intentions for being in American waters. The story addresses day-to-day life onboard a submarine during conduct of a hazardous mission, its effects upon the crew, and upon family and friends ashore. A Soviet spy becomes involved in the personal lives of the submariners' friends and family then uses them to his advantage to gather...

Ensure Plausible Deniability is a tale of the mid-sixties Soviet Navy flexing its muscles throughout the world's oceans by provoking head-to-head confrontations with U.S. units. Ensuing games of chicken on the surface and beneath the seas between vessels armed with nuclear weapons portended disaster. It would take only one hotheaded skipper on either side to go off half-cocked and plunge mankind into World War III. The saga is set in the backdrop of U.S. diesel-electric submarines' demise to make room for the higher performance nuclear powered submarines. However, the questionable nuclear...

Count the Ways is the tale of a reluctantyoung businessmancalled upon to vindicate the memory of his grandfather. Flashbacks between the years 2000 and 1950unfold a touching story of an unlikely romance between a US Naval Academy Midshipman and an obstinate Iowa farm girl. The grandson discovers amazingparallels between his own and his grandfather's life. The recovery of his grandfather's remains in Korea sends David Judge, twenty-eight, upon a life-changing journey. Lieutenant Junior Grade Brendan Judge, missing in action since 1953, married Carlie Buhl two years earlier. He was said to have...