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In 1985 a U.S. Navy P-3 Orion crashes while on a sensitive recon mission in the Sea of Japan just off the coast of North Korea. Their classified mission and crash location mean that they cannot expect any help from their government. Complicating the situation is Admiral Evans, a passenger on the mission who recently came from classified duty in the Pentagon. If he is captured by the North Koreans the security of the United States is at risk. The crew must now use their training in survival, evasion, resistance and escape to get home. This story is based on real missions flown by the Navy ...

Pat Bartron (1922-1996) was a sailor, policeman, machinist, journalist, Irish story-teller, famed raconteur, and a true son of the west. This Kindle edition is a revision of the novel he first penned twenty years ago. Bartron once said, “Writin’ ignorant is hard work. Mark Twain said that…and if he din’t, then he shoulda.” The Autobiography of Terry Ryan, a Shooter has been compared to the best work of Zane Grey and Louis L’amour, but it moves readers more like The Adventures of Huck Finn. You are enthralled with the narrative but only after the last page is turned do you ...

The story of six generations of a family that helped settle and expand a small community just south of Sacramento is one of change. Yet it illuminates the similarities of today’s westerners to those who came in centuries past. Every custom, attitude and success of today has its roots in what adventurous seekers first brought to the flood plains of the river delta. This is the story of just one family that experienced the growth, heartache, and joys of living along the river in a community of hardworking, self-sufficient and visionary people. Starting in 1850 and tracing the generations to...

Toni is devastated when she is told her husband is dead…twice…and then her sorrow is replaced with a much worse pain…betrayal. She was raised to believe a woman only could be fulfilled with a husband and children, so what does Toni do when the world moves under her and takes it all it away? Her aviator husband is reported as lost, then saved, then lost again. Only then she discovers the truth, that he had intentionally abandoned her. Is she that unlovable that she must spend the rest of her life alone? Toni has a lot to discover about love and choices and herself. Her story of ...

Jake Riley, the one-legged Naval aviator and hero now serving as a JAG officer is assigned to defend an aircrewman charged with murder. It appears to be an open and shut case, the sailor was caught with the murdered civilian in his BEQ room. Fingerprints and a strong motive provide the final nails in this sailor's guilty verdict. But Jake feels it is all too neat and with the help of his good friend, the senior NIS agent, he goes deeper to investigate this deadly crime. Jake uncovers other power-player personnel who have the motive and means to throw this simple sailor client into a tightly...

Jake Riley, a one-legged Naval aviator and hero now serving as a JAG officer, takes a Caribbean pleasure cruise with his wife to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary. On board they meet another Naval officer and his wife, but this couple is not celebrating...they are scheming to steal a quarter million dollars from the Navy! This cruise provides the means to take the money and get away clean...if their plans are not foiled by the dedicated and inquisitive Jake Riley. Another in the Jake Riley crime story series, TO MURDER A GHOST is full of authentic details and believable characters to...

Ensign Tom Percy is bitter. He hates the Navy, his recruiter, his ship C.O. and the civilian who ran off with his wife. However, a series of events in his life has given him an idea on how to set everything right. He has found a way to steal a million dollar Navy payroll in cash...and to get away clean! He has planned the PERFECT crime! But Percy had not planned on LT. Jake Riley being assigned to investigate the theft. This one-legged war hero is the only person able to foil the ensign's perfect plan. This fast moving caper story is a true delight for readers who enjoy an imaginative and ...

Who says a nine year-old can’t save the day? Merrilee goes on a vacation with her best friend’s family that is an adventure of a lifetime! While sailing in the Gulf of Mexico, modern day pirates board the family yacht and kidnap Merrilee’s friend and her family. Only Merrilee is left to rescue the family and capture the pirates. She doesn’t think she can…but she knows she must try!