Mediterranean, 1942. Submariner Peter Sinclair R.N. has been promoted to First Lieutenant, known in the Royal Navy as Jimmy-the-One.Carrying out wartime patrols from Malta with the famous 'Fighting Tenth' Submarine Flotilla, H.M. Submarine Rugged has orders to disrupt Axis supply convoys. Deep in enemy waters, Rugged encounters deadly mines, depth-charges and torpedoes!Hunted down by the remorseless destroyers of the Trapani First Eleven, the crew of Rugged, fast running ou...

Can Peter Sinclair and his men foil a Communist revolt in the Caribbean?Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, RN is recalled to serve with the British Section of the United Nations Naval Security Force.In command of one of Britain's first nuclear-powered submarines, HM Nuclear Submarine Rugged, Sinclair manages to man her with most of his former ship's company, including Able Seaman Bill Hawkins and Lieutenant Hank Jefferson, US Navy.Dispatched to dea...

The crew of H. M. Submarine Rugged are on a high-stakes, high seas mission.Mediterranean, 1942. Britain is at war with Germany.Responsible for protecting British convoys in the Channel in a small Chaser, young Peter Sinclair, R. N., is thrown head-first into the horrors of war.Sent to serve in H. M. Submarine Rugged, defending convoys delivering food and supplies to the besieged island of ...

Peter Sinclair stumbles across a deadly Communist plot!On a routine patrol, H.M. Submarine Searcher strikes an unidentified moving object where no obstruction should have been and sinks to the bottom of the sea.Her Captain, Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, R.N., is court-martialed.Given the chance to clear his name, Sinclair joins H.M.S. Ross, an ocean survey ship, and is put in command of one of her small submersibles. ...

Mediterranean, 1943. Lurking in the Dodecanese, an unknown terror has been ambushing British submarines.Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, R.N., Captain of H.M. Submarine Rugged and the youngest Commanding Officer with the famous ‘Fighting Tenth’ Submarine Flotilla, sets sail. His mission: to destroy the enemy.In the Turkish city of Istanbul the discovery of a murdered agent reveals a cryptic message; a message which, once deciphered, reveals the existence of an enemy fortress prod...

Sinclair and the crew of H. M. Nuclear Submarine Rugged are in a race against time to prevent a world catastrophe!A Nazi war criminal believed to have been executed years ago is seen very much alive in Hamburg.When Lieutenant Hank Jefferson, U.S. Navy, goes missing, the Admiralty, already troubled by disturbing rumors of Nazi resurgence, know just the man to find him.Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, R.N., in comm...

I am proud to be an American. It is astonishing how seven words can carry so much weight yet leaves us wondering the validity of their claim. As Americans, we often feel the conflict of loving our country and noticing the ripe injustices that still plague our borders. Turning on the news, we see violence, crime, disease, hatred, and fear. So, in this uncertain time, when our country is on the precipice of change, where do we turn? How do we seek to right the many wrongs? Where can true rec...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build—and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America itself means. "Disintegra...

New York Times Bestseller: "A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America." — Library JournalA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black PowerRace, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to i...

“An indispensable guide to good citizenship in an era of division and rancor.” —Anne ApplebaumThere is no question that the United States faces dangerous threats from without; the greatest peril to the country, however, comes from within. In The Bill of Obligations, bestselling author Richard Haass argues that, to solve our climate of division and safeguard our democracy, the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at t...

The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, and economic hardship.Rules have replaced leadership ...

A "persuasive . . . heartfelt and vividly written" call to counter systemic racism and build national solidarity in America ( Publishers Weekly).The American Promise enshrined in our Constitution states that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Theodore Johnson argues, the promise that made America unique on Earth will have died. In When the Stars Begin to Fall, Johnson ...