Germany's use of the great Zeppelins in World War I marked the very fi rst time aerial strategic bombing took place in the world. It was a terrible way to wage war. For the British, it was horrible on the ground underneath the behemoths dropping their bombs. For the Germans flying the great airships, survival became a daily question. Using this historical time as a backdrop, William Hallstead penned a novel of action, adventure, intrigue, love, and espionage. Konteradmiral Erwin Gunther Kottenhoff is a traditional navy man. He loved the old navy, the battleship navy, his former life on steel...

He took another step toward me. And grinned. "I should have got St. John to say a prayer for you." Then he burst into laughter. "Jesus, Durkin, you're about to die and you're standing here in rubber gloves holding-what in hell are those?" "Poison-dart frogs. That's why the gloves, Ted." And his disgusted grimace gave me a flicker of hope. "Remember? I told you their sweat can kill. And these little bastards are damned nervous." * * * Emmett Durkin, chief of the Philadelphia-based Rebner Foundation's Research Station Four, stands on the 20-foot-high embankment overlooking the Amazon's...

In Pursuit of the Weapon From Hell It started after the First Gulf War. It was a simple heist that began in The Middle East, progressed through Chicago, then down to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ where the theft went down. From there into Mexico where the first murder happened. Luckily, the Air Force discovered the theft quickly and now the colonels and generals began getting nervous.

After all, it is not every day the USAF loses a relic nuclear weapon with multiple nuclear warheads. Now Brigadier General Oliver Madden has a real mess on his hands. It's a mess he passes on to...