Fiction

Title: Lost in the Blue Room
Author: Richard Barone
Genre: Fiction, Literary
Reviewer: Carmen Stenholm

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0975471163

America's-most-wanted-novel-that-nobody-wants holds one thousand passengers hostage 35,000 feet over the Atlantic and becomes the greatest bestseller of all time. Would the Twin Towers still be standing if federal air marshals were flying on September 11, 2001? Ex-sky marshal Jack King thinks so, and he's about to make the government and airlines pay for gross negligence. Armed with a top-secret gun-cloaking device, he hijacks a new blended-wing airliner and demands that the passengers take a journey with him back to 1970 when the original sky marshals flew. Andrea High flies first class for a living, compliments of the besieged airlines. Andrea is a college professor, a plastic surgeon, a Buddhist monk, or anyone that fits a sky marshal's cover story, except, of course, a sleeping passenger. To survive boring hours of wakefulness, waiting for a skyjacker to strike, Andrea writes a journal and challenges the woman of his present with the man of her past. Highly addicted to the anonymity of the job, Andrea explores drugs, violence, and sex, loses sight of the destination, and turns the story into a terrorism of obscurity--the very thing the passengers are helpless to destroy.

Title: The Last Jump
Author: John Nevola
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Bob Flournoy

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1432756656

A mother's dying wish propels her only son headlong into an astonishing adventure in The Last Jump. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly as he endeavors to unravel a wartime secret passionately guarded by four old soldiers who swore an oath never to reveal it. As our protagonist reaches out to these aging warriors to solve the puzzle, he uncovers truths he never could have imagined including the shocking conclusion.

The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale and a narrative about the gritty men and women who won World War II. It was a time when ordinary citizens of an imperfect America, with all its incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, stood shoulder to shoulder against the world?s most evil powers in a fight for survival.

Title: Gone to Graveyards
Author: Brewster Milton Robertson
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0615445357

GONE TO GRAVEYARDS—an epic novel of the Korean War (Amazon.com quality paperback, Kindle & B&N)

Erotic, suspenseful, exciting, masterfully paced with unforgettable characters, overflowing romance, birth, death, danger, tragedy, across a wide geographical landscape, leading to a surprising, satisfying denouement, Brewster Milton Robertson’s new fiction, GONE TO GRAVEYARDS—an epic novel of the Korean War, is a veritable rollercoaster of a novel in the literary tradition of James Jones’ From Here to Eternity or Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War.
THIS NOVEL IS UNIQUE IN THAT EACH CHAPTER IS PREFACED WITH ACTUAL NEWSPAPER HEADLINES/ARTICLES FOR THE DATES THE CHAPTER COVERS.
NARRATIVE OVERVIEW

Title: The Ensign Locker
Author: John Zerr
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Sandra Miller Linhart

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1450243843

Set in 1966. Most of the action takes place aboard USS Manfred, a Navy destroyer, operating in the waters off North and South Vietnam. The five junior officers live in the ensign locker. Against a backdrop of the social, moral, and geographic forces working to shape the nation, and the expanding Navy's efforts to adjust to the demands of this new war, the denizens of the ensign locker all struggle to adapt to the Navy and to the rigors of combat, but no one struggles more than the junior ensign, Jon Zachery. But even after a new commanding officer takes a personal dislike to Zachery, nothing affects the junior ensign as much as being personally attacked by anti-war college students after he returns from his combat deployment.

Title: Dragonslayers: Mind Games
Author: Kathy Rowe
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Sandra Miller Linhart

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1453689206

Mind Games, the stand-alone second installment of Project: Dragonslayers follows the Special Forces Team into Al-Qaeda territory, where they uncover the secrets of the terrorists' latest weapons of mass destruction.