Action at Sea and Under It, Around the World
Death of a Siren
Do sirens sing intentionally to trap sailors, or do they sing because it is their nature to sing?
The year is 1938. War is soon to break out in Europe and the body of a beautiful German baroness is found, with a hatchet planted in her head, in the Galapagos Islands, seven hundred miles off Ecuador. Castaway Fred Freiman, a German-American, New York cop on the run from both the NYPD and the mob, finds the body and then finds himself trapped into identifying the murderer or murderers as world and local intrigues and personal passions swirl around him. Early on he meets and falls madly in love with Ana de Guzmán, a young, very wealthy and very clever Ecuadorian woman who collaborates very actively in solving the tangled mysteries.
The suspects are many, ranging from colorful recent German and Norwegian settlers to shady Americans to an elusive German believed to be an SS officer as well as to a seemingly insane German and finally to the Ecuadorians themselves. Motives and relationships are equally wide-ranging and shadowy while every second of the drama is played out in the edge-of-the world enchantment that the Galapagos do, in fact, possess.
" A deftly crafted and compelling read from beginning to end, "Death of a Siren" showcases author William Schall as a master of the genre" - The Midwest Book Review
MacHugh and the Faithless Pirate
17th century wine merchant Robert MacHugh must track down and destroy the loathsome pirate William Archer
Cabot Station
(Walker Books, Avon, Authors Guild Back in Print Program)
Once central to the US Navy’s anti-submarine warning network, Cabot Station is now obsolete. Then, a mystery submarine is found abandoned nearby and Cabot’s 70 men and women are plunged into a bloodchilling battle for survival against time and the icy terrors of the merciless deep.
SeaGlow
(Leisure Books, Authors Guild Back in Print Program)
A Soviet submarine sinks off Puerto Rico during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Years later, Al Madeira is hired by the Russian Federation to salvage the sub because its experimental plutonium reactor is leaking radiation. Madeira finds himself caught between the US and Russian governments, the Russian Mob and Saddam Hussein.
The Wreck of Misericordia
(Leisure Books, Authors Guild Back in Print Program)
A Cuban-American syndicate hires Al Madeira to salvage a rich treasure galleon. The syndicate says the recovered artifacts are for a Cuban Heritage museum but the Cuban government is convinced the treasure will be used to fund dissidents and will stop at nothing to destroy the operation.
Trident Force
(Berkley Books)
The Trident Force must identify and stop a crazed and determined terrorist out to destroy a cruise ship in the Antarctic and cause the hideous death of all aboard while the ship battles ice, bitter cold, monstrous waves and slashing, hurricane-force winds. Pen name Michael Howe.
Sea Hawk
(Berkley Books)
The Trident Force must neutralize a PLO master terrorist before he turns the Mediterranean red with blood. Pen name Michael Howe.
Threat Level
(Berkley Books)
The Trident Force is dispatched to suppress the Somali pirates who are attacking ships, killing Americans and crippling ocean shipping in the Indian Ocean. Just when they are up to their necks in pirates, the force finds it must also prevent a Saudi ship filled with nuclear weapons from reaching port. Pen name Michael Howe.