Between 1945 and 1990 the Western Allies mounted some of the most audacious and successful intelligence collection operations of the Cold War. Conducted in great secrecy, aircrews flew specially modified transport and training aircraft along the Berlin Air Corridors and Control Zone to gather intelligence on Soviet and East German military targets in the German Democratic Republic and around Berlin. The Air Corridors comprised three regulated airways for civil and military...

General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction.A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned, he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, for assembling the British ground component o...

Baghdad Butcher is the first book of my nine book "Janitors" series. The team—formed at the end of this book—which does off the books (black bag) jobs directly for the President doesn't actually pick up the name "Janitors" until the second book. Most of the main (good guys) characters in all nine books have military backgrounds, with a few still active duty military personnel included.The time frame of the series runs from approximately nine months prior to the 9/11 Islamic terrori...

A Little Golden Book based on a kid-favorite song!Doo doo doo doo doo doo!Join Baby Shark, Mama Shark, Daddy Shark, Grandma Shark, Grandpa Shark, and some special underwater friends in this fun Little Golden Book based on the interactive song. The youngest Baby Shark fans will love the bright, colorful illustrations and engaging, repetitive text!

In Jim Scott Book #44, A MURDER…PLUS, a very wealthy woman is found dead in her home. Frank Sansone, a Detective Lieutenant of the Utah Department of Public Safety winds up handling the case, after the Park City Utah Chief of Police asks for the states help. In talking to an employee of the dead lady, who found the body, it is soon determined that there are at least three prime suspects, none of whom turned out to be the killer.One of those suspects once had a rather long relations...

JSB #40 – X GROUP, is an action packed thriller starting off with recently forced to retire CIA agent Larry White seeing two men trying to abduct a small, 5'5" woman, named Joan Dodge. While she fights back with some degree of success, Larry goes to lend her a hand. Between them, they disarm the two men, and scare off the driver of the van the men had come out of. Larry soon finds out Joan has just been fired by Homeland Security, and in short order they discover they are both unemployed f...

THE CHICKEN HUNT is Jim Scott Book #43. In it Army Sergeant Major Kenneth (Ken) Novak, is due to retire later in the day, has found a house to buy in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, and goes into a bank there to open a new checking account.That day, and the next, cram quite a bit into the life of Ken. He gets the account open, and a date with the lady who opens it, gets his discharge, and is called back to active duty in the Army. Also, on the date he manages to stop a man from shootin...

DINGUS MONROE is Jim Scot Book #41. In this book, Dingus is now employed by X Group, and is tasked with tracking down a rouge senator, who has been selling government secrets to the Chinese for years, and has also profited from pushing bills in Congress favoring various companies, at a great reward for him. He also pilfered his own various campaign funds of a great amount of money.He has a well-designed escape plan, which he puts to use when he discovers someone has found out his m...

GENE'S LONG TREK is Jim Scott book #42. In it, recently retired Army Special Forces Sergeant Major Gene Foreman bought a house needing substantial rehabilitation. His idea was to flip the house after he did all the rehab work needed on the house, mostly by himself. When he had in his mind that the house about 80% finished, he is worn out, and decides to stop for a while. He had been thinking about looking up an old friend from the Army, one who had, in Gene's words, taught him how to be so...

In the late 1990s, NATO led the Kosovo Force (KFOR), charged with stabilizing Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after genocide and other atrocities were carried out in the Balkan region. Operation Kinetic is not only a history of the origins and operations of the Kosovo Force but also a history of the vital operations conducted by the Canadian Army units and their allies assigned to KFOR during the crucial early days and months after entry into the province in 1...

ANGIE DOES HAWAII is Jim Scott Book #39. This novel is a humorous Romance novel (with a WWII mystery tossed in). Angie Breite, the wife of Navy Captain Vic Breite, informs him she has purchased, with his approval and signature on the contract, a four and half acres piece of property, for $50,000.00. Due to the land prices in Hawaii, the price was way below what it should have been. The rub was there was a building, called a mansion or a castle, by Angie, which was in total disrepair. They ...

BETTY CAIN'S CANE, Jim Scott Book #35, is another cozy mystery featuring Betty Cain and Ward Newman as well as Jim Scott, and friends. A rich man's wife seemingly has been kidnapped, only to find out she has in fact been murdered. The non-grieving husband is soon paced right at the top of the suspects list, with his sister soon to follow. During the course of the investigation Ward, now the lead detective for the Troy, Missouri Police Department, as much as he dislikes the husband, comes t...