Another Death at Gettysburg
An annual reenactment of Pickett's Charge ends tragically with the shooting death of a participant. When the investigation stalls, a Navy combat veteran and professor of American history is drawn into the challenge with his Vietnamese librarian wife — a journey that uncovers corruption, extortion, grand larceny, and ties to organized crime beneath the façade of local government.
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Five days before the 136th anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history the body of a young man is found at the center of the Antietam National Cemetery. He is wearing the uniform of a Union Army private. Annie and Mike Davis are drawn into the leisurely official investigation into the mystery of the young man’s death, eventually encountering intertwined evidence of human trafficking, illegal arms smuggling, and a self-styled constitutional militia unit.
This is the second of the series of modern-day murder mysteries by award-winning author Peter Adams Young. The first of these, Another Death at Gettysburg, is set in and around the historic battlefield.
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One Hundred Stingers follows a young Navy flier as he experiences combat for the first time over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Key locales move between life on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, day and night combat missions over Laos, and a few rowdy shore leave breaks in the Philippines. Combat scenarios are not limited to the viewpoints of American fliers. Many scenes integrate the actions and perspectives of a diverse array of adversaries on the ground anti-aircraft gun and missile crews, truck drivers, "volunteer" female civilian road workers, and foreign military advisors.
This debut novel by a former US Navy bombardier relates the untold stories of heroism and sacrifice that unfolded during the clandestine war in the flak-filled skies of neutral Laos. It is the first of its kind to provide the warriors' perspectives of this little-known aspect of the US entanglement Vietnam War—a conflict that claimed the lives of hundreds of American airmen and tens of thousands of North Vietnamese.
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