Desert Coasties
Novels
Ice Brothers: A Novel
by Sloan Wilson
The bestselling World War II adventure story based on Sloan Wilson’s experiences as a Coast Guard officer on the Greenland patrol.
Pacific Interlude: A Novel
by Sloan Wilson
During the last days of World War II, a young officer braves enemy fire and a maverick crew on the open waters and in the steamy ports of the South Pacific
Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker, running shuttle and convoy duties for the US Army. Sally, his wife of three years, is eager for him to get back to Massachusetts and live a conventional suburban life selling insurance—but Syl longs for adventure and is bound to find it as the captain of a beat-up, unseaworthy vessel carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean.
Grey Wolf of Superior: Domestic Suspense Fiction Based on a Twenty-Six-Year US Coast Guard Career
by John Kearns
Serving a twenty-six-year career in the US Coast Guard, you see things develop that you know can become volatile. Being conventional, or routine, we always conduct business as usual. That’s when our enemies can start being unconventional.
In World War II, German naval forces brought many nations to their knees doing just that. “The Grey Wolf” refers to a submarine.
To Dance the Hempen Jig: A Frank Dalton Novel (Frank Dalton Coast Guard Novel)
by Jonathan Shipperley
Coast Guard Special Agent Frank Dalton is sent to investigate the death of a fisherman, drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. He's teamed up with know-it-all rookie agent Jessica Carter, and Frank is dreading the confrontation. He's almost ready for retirement and seriously, what’s another drowned fisherman? He just wants to get through this. Fortunately, the case seems routine, that is, until the autopsy results come in. Frank and Jessica must quickly learn to work together to solve the case, and the closer they get to the answers, the killer gets closer to them.
Blindfold Game
Dana Stabenow
In Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly easy, and the ship sails east, toward the western coast of North America.
The crew onboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth, stationed in the Bering Sea along the Maritime Boundary Line, is busier than usual, catching fishing vessels on the wrong side of the line, but it's not enough to cause undue alarm.
Agent Carter, DHS: Book 1 Arroyo Grande
by Robert Little
Josh Carter is a young man in the middle of his second enlistment in the Coast Guard, where he has become a decorated ME Specialist, usually known as a boarding officer. He is transferred to a new, experimental unit in the Department of Homeland Security. Early in his new career, he is sent to sea as the DHS representative on a new Coast Guard National Security Cutter. During this cruise he boards a stolen fishing boat and engages in a battle with drug runners, getting shot and rescuing a young, kidnapped orphan girl.
The Unattended War
The Unattended War is a tale of transformation. Set in Vietnam during the early stage of that war, The Unattended War follows Jim Morgan, a young Coast Guardsman as he tries to adjust to the realities of combat. To his dismay, not all his fellow shipmates share his optimism and belief that good must always prevail. This belief puts him in conflict with the very authority he has been taught to trust.
The Scorpion's Dance
by David Hume - Desert Coastie
When Lieutenant Christopher Garcia, the Coast Guard’s Chief of Intelligence in San Juan, Puerto Rico, initiates an aggressive patrol program, the drug seizure rate soars, but not everyone is pleased; Garcia and his team have unknowingly entered the exclusive territory of a rogue group of US Customs agents and drug-traffickers who decide that the Coast Guard must be stopped...no matter the method, the cost or the consequences.
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