Below is the list of my forthcoming and previous American history and historical fiction books on Captain William Kidd, colonial America and global piracy, World War II, and other subjects. Check out the book trailers for Blind Thrust, The Coalition, and Bodyguard of Deception by clicking on the videos below.
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd: The American Patriot-Privateer Who Defied the English Empire
Coming in 2024!
Captain Kidd: The American Patriot-Privateer Who Defied the English Empire is the true story of my ninth-great-grandfather Captain William Kidd (1654-1701). This fast-paced narrative holds the distinction of being the first biography of a famous “pirate” ever written by a direct descendant. The book peels away the layers of mythology and Crown propaganda to uncover and illuminate the real Captain Kidd, by scrupulously recreating his adventurous, romantic, and perilous world during the Glorious Revolution and Golden Age of Piracy in the years 1688-1701. 
In marshaling rigorous DNA analysis and other lines of evidence in the Kidd narrative, this scholarly non-fiction biographical work serves as a corrective to the mythology of Captain Kidd that permeates so much of the academic and mainstream research of my progenitor and the Golden Age in general. The Kidd family saga is told through the eyes of Captain Kidd, the English Crown that sought to make an example of him, and his wife Sarah, my ninth-great-grandmother and a larger-than-life historical figure in her own right. In true bottom-up fashion, Captain Kidd puts savvy Sarah on equal footing with her more historically famous husband and delves deeply into their relationship in one of the greatest New York love stories of all time.
Literary American History
Blackbeard: The Birth of America
Winner Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year Awards
Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist American Book Fest Best Book Awards
The true story of Blackbeard—a Robin-Hood-like American patriot and the most famous pirate of all time—and the British Crown’s man in Virginia, Governor Spotswood, who illegally hunted him down.
The World War Two Series
Bodyguard of Deception – Book #1
Winner Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards
Award-Winning Finalist USA Best Book Awards
Can the American and British Allies stop a diabolically clever German spy and his U-boat-commander brother from warning Hitler’s High Command about the Allies’ greatest military secret?
Altar of Resistance – Book #2
Award-Winning Finalist: Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year, American Book Fest, and Beverly Hills Book Awards
The gripping story of the Italian Campaign and Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1943-1944 through the eyes of the Allies, the German Occupiers, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican, and the Roman Resistance.
Spies of the Midnight Sun – Book #3
Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards
The true story of the legendary British safecracker and spy Eddie Chapman, the British Double Cross Spy System, and courageous Norwegian female Resistance operatives Dagmar Lahlum and Annemarie Breien.
Lions of the Desert – Book #4
Winner Readers’ Favorite Book Awards
Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards
Winner National Indie Excellence Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year
Award-Winning Finalist American Fiction Best Book Awards
The true story of the 1941-1942 Desert War in North Africa, Operation Condor, and The English Patient.
Soldiers of Freedom – Book #5
Winner American Fiction Best Book Awards and Readers’ Favorite Book Award
SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM is the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europe and the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes of William McBurney, a tank gunner in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. history; dynamic General George S. Patton, Jr., commander of the U.S. Third Army; and Angela Lange, a sixteen-year-old German resistance fighter with the anti-Nazi Edelweiss Pirates in Cologne. While Patton’s forces liberate France and Belgium, fight in the grueling Battle of the Bulge, and cross the Rhine to conquer Germany, U.S. tanker William McBurney and his Black Panthers must fight two wars at once: one against the German army, the other against the racism of their fellow white soldiers. Meanwhile, as the Allies drive into Germany, Edelweiss Pirate Angela Lange must survive the Allied bombing of Cologne while she engages in fierce resistance against the Hitler Youth and Nazis and is hunted down by the Gestapo. The real-life heroism of the 761st “Black Panthers” Tank Battalion and legendary General Patton to liberate Europe—and the Edelweiss Pirates German Youth Resistance to combat Nazism—comes to life in this historically accurate tale of the final epic struggle in WWII Europe.
The Nick Lassiter-Skyler International Espionage Series
The Devil’s Brigade – Book #1 (formerly The Slush Pile Brigade)
#1 Denver Post Bestseller (Fiction)
Award-Winning Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards
In Book 1 of the Nick Lassiter-Skyler International Espionage Series, Lassiter confronts the author who plagiarized his unpublished work and winds up in the middle of a CIA operation to take down Russian mobsters.
The Coalition – Book #2
Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist USA Best Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist Colorado Book Awards
When a deadly assassin kills the U.S. president-elect in Denver, unconventional FBI special agent Kenneth Patton goes on the hunt—and his search leads him into the shadowy web of a secret society whose plot threatens the highest levels of the U.S. government.
The Fourth Pularchek – Book #3
Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist American Book Fest Best Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards
In this third book in the Nick Lassiter-Skyler International Espionage Series, Lassiter and the beautiful Italian assassin Skyler become embroiled in a case involving Lassiter’s newly discovered biological father and buried secrets from Europe’s World War II past.
The Joe Higheagle Environmental Sleuth Series
Blind Thrust – Book #1
#1 Denver Post Bestseller (Fiction)
Winner Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year
Winner Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist USA Best Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards
Horrific earthquakes are devastating the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs in an area long believed to be seismically quiescent. But are they the result of natural tectonic adjustments, fracking, or clandestine operations? Environmental Geologist Joe Higheagle is on a mission to find out the answer. If the earthquakes are not stopped, thousands more will perish and more towns and homes will be destroyed, leaving countless injured and homeless as well as untold financial damage across the Front Range.
Cluster of Lies – Book #2
Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist USA Best Book Awards
Award-Winning Finalist Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards
In this second thriller in the Joe Higheagle Environmental Sleuth Series, Higheagle is hired to investigate the cause of a cancer cluster outside Denver. But will he and the police be able to discover the truth behind the cluster and the death of the business owner? Is a prominent real-estate tycoon to blame, or could it be one of Higheagle’s own clients or even a shadowy third party responsible for the deaths? Most importantly, will justice be served before more death and treachery comes to the Rockies?
