Certain Jeopardy Cpt. Jeff Struecker with Alton Gansky Paperback, 400 pp., $14.99 B&H Books (May 1, 2009)
Six American men live behind a protective façade, their real work hidden from neighbors and friends. They are Special Ops. Informed by the true combat experience of Captain Jeff Struecker and finessed by award-winning novelist Alton Gansky, Certain Jeopardy is an immersing and pulsating fictional account of what really happens at every level of a stealth engagement: the physical enemy encounter, the spiritual war fought within a soldier, and the emotional battles in families back at home.
The Bell Messenger Robert Cornuke with Alton Gansky Paperback, 304 pp., $12.99 Howard Books (September 2, 2008)
This rich and involving historical and archeological thriller begins as a Union soldier, Tate, shoots a Confederate preacher known as the Bell Messenger and is bequeathed a worn Bible by the dying man.
A stranger from a distant world has come, he says, to complete our knowledge, explain our beginnings, and correct our errors. He speaks of one greater who will soon return to the Earth he seeded long ago. And the world is ready to receive him: politicians seek his advice, religious leaders call him friend, and philosophers seek to debate him. Priscilla Simms, investigatory journalist, is the only one with doubts. She sets out to find the truth. It’s a search that may cost her reputation, and maybe even her life.