The books
Two espionage novellas, one Civil War novel and two memoirs. The fiction is invented; the world it is set in is not. All of it draws on service that began in the Navy off Vietnam and ran through thirty-five years in the CIA.
Novel · Illinois, 1861
A Civil War Novel Based on the True Story of Samuel S. Boggs
June 1861. A young farmer leaves Lovington, Illinois, to answer Lincoln’s call — and his road home runs through Chickamauga and Andersonville.
Memoir · USS Ouellet, 1972
From Ohio to the Gunline, A Navy Memoir
A Navy memoir of 1969 to 1972: from a small Ohio town to the Gunline off North Vietnam, as a Radarman aboard the destroyer escort USS Ouellet.
Novella · Sofia, 1985
A Cold War Espionage Novella
Sofia, 1985. A Bulgarian State Security officer secretly volunteers to spy for the CIA — then is posted back behind the Iron Curtain.
Novella · Libya, 1990
An Espionage Story
Libya, 1990. A chemist inside Qadhafi’s chemical weapons program begins to question the regime he serves — and the CIA sees an opportunity.
Coming soon
Memoir · A CIA career
A CIA Officer’s Journey Through The Cold War
The memoir of an unlikely thirty-five-year CIA career — from young case officer to Chief of Station in three countries, and the family who moved with him.
Published titles are on the Amazon author page in paperback and Kindle editions, and new releases appear there first.
