John “Kit” McKittredge is a young Federal officer from Maine who is terribly wounded in one of the first battles of the Civil War. Still unfit for active duty after nine months in hospital, he is recruited by an unorthodox colonel named Valentine Burdette to work in the Provost Marshal General’s ...
A razor-sharp thriller, rich with crackling dialogue and pulse-pounding suspense, that ingeniously interweaves fiction and history. Robert J. Mrazek is a natural-born storyteller, whose previous novels have been described as gripping,magically rendered and compelling by the national press; words...
"A Dawn Like Thunder" is about one of my favorite historical subjects, the Battle of Midway during WWII. These are the facts as history had taught me. On 4 June 1942, just five months and change after Pearl Harbor the Japanese made an attempt to take Midway Island in a gambit to draw out and dest...
There were street lamps every hundred feet or so, revealing a succession of large, brick government buildings and warehouses, all with their windows dark. As we approached the river, I saw what had to be the Birds of Paradise club. It was the only building in the entire neighborhood with all the ...
They were informed at the desk that the testing protocol had been given to a Dr. Cabot, who was still on duty.Inside the basement laboratory, they found a stocky, boyish-looking man wearing a long-billed fishing cap over his army fatigues. Sitting in an armchair with his feet on the desk, he was ...
The ghostly light of early morning suffused the room. Outside, the wind had died. He slipped out of bed and went to the front windows. What he could see of the ocean was black and tranquil, with gentle waves rolling toward the stony beach. He looked at his watch. It was al...
Andrews. I first met Andy when I was a college student looking for a summer job. By then, he was an accomplished independent filmmaker. After he hired me as his gofer, we spent many hours together traveling from one film location to another.Over that summer, I learned that he had been a B-17 pilo...
blasted through the sound system mounted on the wall of the mansion’s formal dining room as Juwan sat alone at the head of the enormous damask-covered table and helped himself to the second of three roast chickens on the pewter platter. Varna had placed him on a strict hig...