A Kamikaze pilot slams into U.S.S. James F. Bridger off Okinawa, leaving Captain Jonas Pratt and his crew fighting hour after hour to keep their ship afloat. In smoke, chaos, and rising water, they improvise, endure, and somehow carry their shattered troopship toward safe harbor. But the war waiting over the horizon turns out to be far more dangerous. As Bridger limps away from the front, Soviet NKVD operatives move to turn the ship—and Pratt himself—into expendable pawns in a larger game....

A Kamikaze pilot slams into U.S.S. James F. Bridger off Okinawa, leaving Captain Jonas Pratt and his crew fighting hour after hour to keep their ship afloat. In smoke, chaos, and rising water, they improvise, endure, and somehow carry their shattered troopship toward safe harbor. But the war waiting over the horizon turns out to be far more dangerous. As Bridger limps away from the front, Soviet NKVD operatives move to turn the ship-and Pratt himself-into expendable pawns in a lar...

Killers and Spies surges across a storm-lashed Atlantic, plunging the mighty troopship James F. Bridger and her battered crew into a vortex of betrayal. With the fires of Europe raging, Captain Jonas Pratt, USNR, is thrust into a shadow conflict with America's Soviet allies. From the secret corridors of the Pentagon to the chaos of the Adriatic, Pratt must outrace Nazi assassins, outwit NKVD spies, and marshal a cast of unlikely warriors-OSS agents, White Russian renegade...

Killers and Spies surges across a storm-lashed Atlantic, plunging the mighty troopship James F. Bridger and her battered crew into a vortex of betrayal. With the fires of Europe raging, Captain Jonas Pratt, USNR, is thrust into a shadow conflict with America's Soviet allies. From the secret corridors of the Pentagon to the chaos of the Adriatic, Pratt must outrace Nazi assassins, outwit NKVD spies, and marshal a cast of unlikely warriors—OSS agents, White Russian renegades, gun-shy code br...

Someone is murdering Marines on their way to GuadalcanalIt's 1942, and America's fastest, finest troopship U.S.S. James F. Bridger is five days out of Pearl and headed for the Solomon Islands to take part in the war for the Pacific. The ship is hosting The First Marine Division, and Bridger's executive officer, Commander Jonas Pratt, USNR, is tasked with maintaining order from her boiler rooms to her masthead.But Bridger's safe, steady passage is disrupted ...

Someone is murdering Marines on their way to GuadalcanalIt's 1942, and America's fastest, finest troopship U.S.S. James F. Bridger is five days out of Pearl and headed for the Solomon Islands to take part in the war for the Pacific. The ship is hosting The First Marine Division, and Bridger's executive officer, Commander Jonas Pratt, USNR, is tasked with maintaining order from her boiler rooms to her masthead.But Bridger's safe, steady passage is disrupted by...

"A historical novel that's as real as it gets…Saving Jewish kids from the horror of Buchenwald becomes the untold story of the liberation of Paris."Lt. Charles Horn, USN, RetiredTides of Mercy is a razor-edged World War II thriller that hurls readers from the mine-laced waters off Cherbourg to the embattled heart of Paris and deep into the shadows of Soviet espionage. Commander Jonas Pratt, USNR, faces impossible orders: Overcome Nazi torpedo boats and NKVD assassins to resc...

"A historical novel that's as real as it gets...Saving Jewish kids from the horror of Buchenwald becomes the untold story of the liberation of Paris."Lt. Charles Horn, USN, RetiredTides of Mercy is a razor-edged World War II thriller that hurls readers from the mine-laced waters off Cherbourg to the embattled heart of Paris and deep into the shadows of Soviet espionage. Commander Jonas Pratt, USNR, faces impossible orders: Overcome Nazi torpedo boats and NKVD assassins to r...

Bridger's Arctic convoy plunges into the shadow warof Soviet espionageThe battle-scarred, World War II troopship James F. Bridger is tasked with an all but impossible mission: deliver vital war supplies to Soviet Union Allies across the frozen, blood-soaked Arctic. To reach Murmansk, her crew must survive relentless German torpedo bombers, brutal anti-submarine skirmishes, and the crushing grip of polar ice. Ships vanish beneath the waves, men die by the dozens, but Bridger...

From the opening of Chimney Rock Park by Jerome Freeman in 1890 to Dr. Lucius Morse�s dreams for Lake Lure in the 1920s, the development of tourism in the Hickory Nut Gorge area is one of the untold stories of the region�s history. For much of the 19th century, the area was remote and known to few; Freeman was perhaps the first to truly appreciate Chimney Rock�s potential, but it took the invention of the automobile and the completion of the Charlotte to Asheville Highway in 1915 for that ...

A headless corpse tossed in a dumpster unites a small-town cop and a formidable retired lady spy to track a killer in a wealthy New England neighborhood.A decapitated body burned to a crisp might be found in any dumpster in any city in America, but not in the aristocratic Gold Coast community of Westport, Connecticut. Local cop Tony DeFranco dutifully collects evidence, knowing that the State Police will take over the case. But when the state investigator tries to ...

Science has proven that sitting too much is bad for your health, but what can you do about it if you're stuck at your desk all day? "Designed to Move" gives deskbound professionals a practical, easy-to-follow movement plan to fight the debilitating and life-shortening effects of sitting disease. Dr. Joan Vernikos, former director of NASA’s Life Sciences Division, draws on decades of scientific research on astronauts to show readers how to use gravity-based movement to counteract the effect...