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Navy Historic Fiction




"Assignment Bletchley" is the 1st novel in a series.  Set mainly at Bletchley Park, North of London, 1942. Lieutenant Commander Anthony “Tony” Romella, U.S. Navy, is a specialist in the field of communications intelligence. Little did Tony know that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would have such a direct impact on his career and life. He is urgently ordered from his comfortable duty in Washington, DC to an assignment at Bletchley Park, the British communications intelligence center. This fast-paced, riveting story thrusts Tony into personal, technical and diplomatic situations that test his skills and ingenuity. His love life intermingles with his involvement in a high-level world of intelligence, spies and intrigue. Tony loves every minute of it.

"Assignment: London" is the 2nd novel in a series.  Set in London, 1942
U.S. Navy Commander Anthony "Tony" Romella is handpicked to serve under the U.S. Embassy’s Naval Attaché in London. Working with a top secret element of the British Special Operations Executive at Bletchley Park, Tony is clandestinely deployed to a French resistance cell near the German U-boat base at Lorient. In London, Tony becomes deeply engaged in a puzzling and suspenseful counter-intelligence operation which calls heavily upon his ingenuity. Tony's love affair with a Royal Navy Officer, the widow of a British fighter pilot, is turned upside down when Tony discovers human intelligence of the pilot’s capture by the Germans.
The multifaceted role Tony plays in this demanding, fast-paced wartime envir
onment, make this a compelling novel that is difficult to put down.

"Assignment: (currently unnamed)" - 3rd novel in the series, is in development. It is planned for publication in early 2019.

"HELL TO PAY" is a Korean Conflict novel.  This updated second edition about the 1950s Korean Conflict couldn't be more timely. Folded skillfully into this riveting tale, the reader will find naval action, history, espionage, government corruption, personal challenge, romance and so much more. It's July 1950, a mere month since the North Korean People’s Army stormed overwhelmingly across the 38th parallel. Captain "Hal" Kirby, U.S. Navy, is a pilot's pilot and happy to be on the leading edge of a war held in balance by Naval air power. North Korea wants South Korea at all costs. Kirby's Air Group on the USS Valley Forge is playing a major role in holding the North Korean Peoples Army at bay until significant military forces can be mobilized. A disgruntled officer's six-year-old promise to get even with Kirby and the Navy for ending his career as a pilot also occupies Kirby's attention. The multifaceted plot also includes Kirby becoming an unknowing victim of government corruption that thrusts him into a political incident with the Soviet Union. Throughout the story, Kirby is faced with many life-changing experiences that impact his professional and personal life.

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Navy Historic Fiction
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