Announcing Sgt. Dunn #9 - soon to be released!

I am thrilled to announce that Sgt. Dunn #9, which is titled Raid on Hitler's Dam, will be released around mid-January!

I'm currently working on edit #3. You can track my editing progress on my blog (upper left corner). I sent the second edit on to my trusted and super FIRST READERS to get their feedback a couple of days ago.

My friend and cover artist, David M. Jones, is working on the cover. As soon as that's ready, I'll do a cover reveal.

Here's the book description. 

Raid on Hitler’s Dam

U.S. Army Ranger Technical Sergeant Tom Dunn takes a trip he thought he might never get to make: go home. But just for a few days. He and his pregnant British wife, Pamela, are invited to the White House so he can receive the Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt. Dunn’s entire family will be there and he can’t wait to see them after almost three years.

The moment Dunn returns to England, he gets his new mission. It takes all of his remarkable skill to plan the mission with British Commando Sergeant Malcolm Saunders, who just returned to England following a very close-call rescue mission in Holland. The target is so ambitious it seems impossible, even ludicrous. But not to Dunn. He immediately determines he’ll need additional assistance and for the first time, a second Ranger squad is assigned to work for Dunn. Oh, one more thing, he also wants help from a major in the Army Corps of Engineers. Why an engineer? The mission is to destroy a hydroelectric dam, in western Germany not far from the industrial city of Stuttgart, and its power production capabilities. The idea is to cripple Stuttgart for the coming winter.

Dunn and Saunders, and their men, take all the equipment they’ll need, plus weapons, plus a 6,000 pound bomb to bust the dam wide open, and enough explosives to blow up the underground power production water turbines. Things are going smoothly. And then they aren’t.

In perhaps the most action-filled novel in the Sgt. Dunn WWII Action Thriller series, book nine, Raid on Hitler’s Dam, gives readers firefight after firefight, sniper fire by Jonesy and his British counterpart, Ira Myers, ground chases, P-51 escort air-to-air and air-to-ground combat by Captain Norman Miller, who stole the Nazis’ Horten 18 jet bomber in book one, Operation Devil’s Fire. Munsterman’s page-turning style gives the reader no choice but to charge forward page by page.


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December 7th - Remember Pearl Harbor

"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

~ FDR, 8 December 19471

Entire speech 

A horrible day in American history. But let's remember that the Japanese commanders weren't as smart or courageous as they thought they were. They left the oil supply intact, which, if they'd destroyed that, would have crippled the U.S. Navy for much longer. We certainly would not have been able to fight the Battle of Midway.

Here are some newspaper headlines about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Cool WWII fact #2

The P-51 Mustang makes appearances in my books sometimes. The original name for the aircraft was the Apache!

Cool WWII fact

Norvell Gillespie designed the camouflage patterns for the U.S. He was the garden editor for Better Homes and Gardens magzine!

Thank you Veterans!

Today is Veterans Day (observed) and tomorrow, 11/11, is the historical date. 

Please take a moment to reflect on what these men and women have done, and continue to do, for us.

Veterans: Thank you!

I needed a laugh today, so . . .

. . . here are some puppy pictures for you and me. We already know that Pamela has two dogs and that Dunn likes them. More importantly, the dogs like him.

Happy Birthday to Sgt. Tom Dunn sort of . . .

Fourteen years ago, Tom Dunn came to life on the page for the first time. On 22 September 2003, I wrote this in my original notes for Operation Devil's Fire:

Title – Operation Devil’s Fire

Premise

Stop the construction of the first transatlantic bomber, the Horten GO-229 (nurflugel: only-wing) before it can strike Washington D.C. or New York City.

Main character is Tom Dunn, who is charged with finding the GO-229 and getting the American troops to the factory.

Locations

Washington D.C.
London
France
Germany


Characters and Plot in spreadsheet

On that day I was full of hope and excitement at starting my first novel. Since then, I've learned so much. I've had so much support from family and friends, and from you, my readers, to whom I am deeply grateful that you came along for the ride with Tom Dunn, Pamela, and all the others.

Thank you.