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Set in the world of Slingshot, Navy SEAL Derek “Tiger” Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command develop the experimental Gryphon hardshell wingsuit from the initial version 7 to the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4. Tiger makes a basejump from Slingshot, 80 klicks up, and finally, the team drops from LEO—Low Earth Orbit.

Slingshot is a love story, a mystery, an adventure—about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch-loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It's about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal... and opening space to the common person.

The Starchild Compact is an adventure of heroic proportions, commencing on a planet 500 lightyears distant, arriving here just a few years from now, and ending up in the far distant expanses of the Universe.

Offers the closest literary approximation to real submarine experience during the Cold War. Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying acoustic arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica. Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island.

USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge Mac McDowell is leading his submarine team on a mission to lay acoustic arrays under the ice in the Arctic when they clash with a new Alfa-class highly automated Soviet submarine.

As USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge Mac McDowell leads his submarine team laying acoustic arrays under the Arctic ice, they capture an abandoned fully automated Alfa-class Soviet sub. Piloting their prize through the ice pack to the U.S. East Coast, they must evade or confront other Soviet subs trying to recover the sub—or sink it.

Lieutenant Commander Jerry Pait's semi-autobiographical collection of sixty stories recounts his thirty years in and around the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet. Ranging from light-hearted to wrenching, all are poignant inside looks at naval operations rarely seen by outsiders. Topics include the real story behind the shuttle Challenger tragedy, risking his own life underwater, discovering a Soviet spy living across the street, surviving when a DELTA Rocket engine ignites, critical missions, and the everyday lives of men and women of the fleet.

The year is 1987. The place: Vortero, Texas. Trent is a science nerd entering his freshman year of college at the prestigious Atrius University. He’s totally unprepared when he meets Violet, a perky blond religious girl saving herself for marriage. For Trent, there’s something about Violet he can’t forget, and for Violet Trent is an enigma she has to crack. Then, there is Omega Theta Nu, a mysterious fraternity that has a reputation for hazing that ends up in murders and suicides. Find out what happens when Violet and Trent connect and uncover what’s going on behind the fraternity.

After recovering from her beating in the warehouse and being reunited with Davy Jones, Lucy was ready to settle into a quiet life until she woke up next to a dead body. All because of the journal. The journal was written by Francine Skaggs, a secretary who worked for the government in the 1960s after President Kennedy's assassination. In the journal, Francine suggests that she knows who killed the president, and it wasn't Harvey Oswald.

After the New Years Eve kidnapping, Lucy thinks her relationship with Davy has moved to the next level. Then Davy's ex-wife shows up, claiming they're still married and have a daughter. In shock and disbelief, Lucy buries herself in the Kennedy assassination cold case to forget about Davy. Lucy digs deeper into the mystery and begins to unearth answers even the government hasn't found or refuses to divulge. But someone wants her to stop so badly that Annie disappears, a dead body shows up in her office, Lucy is poisoned, and she jumps from a perfectly good plane.

Career-focused Audrey Summerlin (58) has never wanted or needed a caretaker, even when she breaks her ankle from a fall on her slippery sidewalk. A little help might be nice, but she’ll be fine on her own. Maybe. Newly retired Nolan Beckett (57), her former lover from college and her neighbor's holiday housesitter, comes to her rescue. He’s ready to play nursemaid and a whole lot more if she’ll let him.

English professor Elijah M. Clayton, Jr., has promised his dying cousin he’ll raise her unborn daughter, but he knows he can’t do it on his own. His search for a wife fails miserably until he meets Beatrix-35 at a speed-dating event. Unfortunately, the ASD he does his best to conceal turns his best hope into another failure. Plumber Beatrix Glouster is convinced she’s finally met a good guy in Elijah-34—until his probing questions about babies and breastfeeding lead her to suspect he’s more pervert than perfect.

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In early 1989, ten years following an actual 1979 joint Israeli/South African nuclear test near Prince Edward Islands, known as the Vela Incident, South Africa was negotiating the end of apartheid. The regime had built six nuclear bombs, but had announced to the World it was dismantling five. The regime was also working on a small suitcase nuke. Israeli Intelligence got word of a pending nuclear test on Prince Edward Island and informed the U.S. State department.