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Inside Stephen Coonts Eric Jay Dolin David Dyer Reviews New Releases Quarterdeck CELEBRATING HISTORICAL LITERATURE & ART Inside Stephen Coonts Eric Jay Dolin David Dyer Reviews New Releases March / April 2016 Quarterdeck Contents A B-M J M / A 2016 INTERVIEWS 5 Stephen Coonts Stephen Coonts discusses his writing career, which was launched with the publication of Flight of the Intruder. T S C 10 Eric Jay Dolan New England author Eric Jay Dolin reveals his approach Quarterdeck is published bi-monthly by to writing history and discusses his new book, Brilliant Beacons. Tall Ships Communications 6952 Cypress Bay Drive Kalamazoo, MI 49009 17 David Dyer 269-372-4673 Australian author David Dyer reveals the story behind EDITOR & MANAGING DIRECTOR his debut novel, The Midnight Watch. George D. Jepson [email protected] COLUMNS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Amy A. Jepson [email protected] 3 Scuttlebutt News from nautical and historical fiction, naval and maritime history, maritime museums and marine art McBOOKS press Quarterdeck is distributed by 4 By George! McBooks Press, Inc. ID Booth Building The Gift 520 North Meadow Street Ithaca, NY 14850 DEPARTMENTS PUBLISHER Alexander Skutt 607-272-2114 9 Review [email protected] The Art of War by Stephen Coonts www.mcbooks.com ART DIRECTOR Panda Musgrove 16 Review [email protected] Brilliant Beacons by Eric Jay Dolin EDITORIAL DIRECTOR EMERITUS Jackie Swift 24 Review The Midnight Watch by David Dyer ON THE COVER: 25 Sea Fiction South Haven, Michigan Light during the gales of November (photo by 29 Historical Fiction George D. Jepson) 31 Sea History © Tall Ships Communications 2 | Quarterdeck | March / April 2016 SCUTTLEBUTT New Book Launches 2016 US (United States) UK (United Kingdom) TPB (Trade Paperback) PB (Paperback) HB (Hardback) EB (Ebook) NF (Nonfiction) APRIL The Winds of Folly (USTPB) by Seth Hunter Brilliant Beacons (USHB) P. T. DEUTERMANN ly promoted to Commodore of an by Eric Jay Dolin American novelist P. T. Deuter- entire destroyer squadron. mann’s previous novels about the What happens next will change MAY United States Navy in World War Wolf's life, career, and the fate of The Pride and the Anguish (USTPB) II – Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo his ships forever. This epic story by Douglas Reeman Suido, and Sentinels of Fire – have of courage, disaster, survival, and been acclaimed by reviewers and triumph culminates in the pivotal Valiant Ambition (USHB) readers for their powerful drama battle of Vela Gulf. by Nathaniel Philbrick and authentic detail. Fatal Thunder (USHB In The Commodore, which will DOUGLAS REEMAN by Larry Bond be launched in August, the Navy McBooks Press will launch two in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing new trade paperback editions of JUNE battle against Japan for control of Douglas Reeman novels in its Ice Station Nautilus (USHB) the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral Modern Naval Fiction Library this by Rick Campbell William “Bull” Halsey is tasked year. The Pride and the Anguish with changing the course of the (see page 21) will be published in Liberty’s Last Stand (USHB) war. April and A Dawn Like Thunder in by Stephen Coonts Halsey, a maverick, goes on the July. JULY offensive and appoints a host of new destroyer commanders, in- ERIC JAY DOLIN A Dawn Like Thunder (USTPB) cluding a wild-card named Har- Eric Jay Dolin, whose Brilliant Bea- by Douglas Reeman mon Wolf. An American Indian cons: A History of the American from a Minnesota reservation, Lighthouse (see page 12) will be AUGUST Wolf has never fit in with the tra- published in April, is currently The Flag of Freedom (USTPB) ditional Navy officer corps. But working on a popular narrative by Seth Hunter under Halsey, Wolf’s aggressive history of America’s pirates during tactics and gambling nature bring the Golden Age of Piracy, from The Commodore (USHB) immediate results, and he is swift- the late 1600s to the mid-1720s. By P. T. Deutermann 3 | Quarterdeck | March / April 2016 BY GEORGE! The Gift N MY DESK sits an inelegant, dark-brown brick, with a O chip on one corner. The re- cent addition to the mementos in my study came to me as a complete sur- prise. On a snow-blown Sunday morning in December, Amy and I sat in the stands at our local ice arena watching our eleven-year-old grandson, Nick, skate for his hockey team. As the fi- nal horn blew, signaling the end of the game, a couple approached us. Mike and Natalie Mason, parents of Nick’s teammate, Sean, handed me a weighty Christmas gift bag. Inside, wrapped in red-and-green tissue, was the brick. A strange gift, you might say, but it immediately tugged at my heart try. strings. It represented my boyhood “rock,” the Landmark Books, an imprint of Random school for which I have had an abiding affection House featuring stories about American heroes since a September morning in 1951. and institutions, were favorites. I read about Entering the second grade that autumn, just George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Paul shy of my seventh birthday, I embarked on an Jones, the Erie Canal, the Pony Express, Old eight-year journey at Milwood. Dedicated teach- Ironsides, the U.S. Naval Academy and West ers, with at least one who ruled with tough love Point, and much, much more. These books and an ever-ready ping pong paddle, taught us made history fun. reading, writing and arithmetic and, most im- Independent book dealer Dan Glaeser in portantly for me, United States history, a subject Modesto, California, says, “Landmark Books are which seems to be sorely lacking in early educa- perhaps the most sought after out-of-print chil- tion today. dren’s books by home schooling families. Writ- Each morning we recited the Pledge of Alle- ten in a novelistic style, these biographies and giance, standing smartly before Old Glory. histories are geared for mid-range readers in from The emphasis placed on American history in my the third to sixth grade. I am currently trying to classes ignited flames that still burn within me. I read the entire series and enjoying them im- became a regular in the school library, where I mensely.” found books that related the story of our coun- CONTINUED ON PAGE 33 4 | Quarterdeck | March / April 2016 INTERVIEW STEPHEN COONTS TEPHEN COONTS BURST onto the fiction scene in 1986 with the launch of Flight of the Intruder, S which spent twenty-eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Three decades later, the book, which introduced young Navy Lieutenant Jake Grafton, remains in print and recently has been released in a new paperback edition by St. Martin’s Press. Flight of the Intruder launched Coonts’ writing career like an A-6 Intruder catapulting off the deck of an air- craft carrier. In eighteen novels to date, Coonts chroni- cles Grafton’s career from a young carrier pilot during the Vietnam conflict to a retired two-star admiral serv- ing with the CIA. Along the way, Coonts created an engaging new character in Tommy Carmellini, who first appeared with Grafton in Cuba, and eventually spun off into his own series. In his latest novel, The Art of War (see review on page 9), Grafton and Carmellini face a treacherous plot to cripple America’s naval Photo by Deborah Jean Coonts. capabilities. Stephen Coonts Besides the Grafton and Carmellini series, Coonts co-authored The author discusses his writing career in this inter- The Deep Black series view with Quarterdeck: about a covert CIA team that battles bad What was the spark that ignited your passion for flying? guys around the world. Did you always have your sights set on naval aviation? A science fiction series features tales of flying Reading Fate Is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann con- saucers. vinced me that flying would be a great adventure. The He has also written Navy offered a program that would allow me to com- several other works, including Cannibal Queen, his plete Aviation Officers Candidate School while in col- first venture into non-fiction, detailing his cross-country lege (the program is long gone) and guaranteed to send flight in a 1942 Stearman open cockpit bi-plane with me to flight school when I got my degree. So I joined his fourteen-year-old son. the Naval Reserve while I was a sophomore in college. 5 | Quarterdeck | March / April 2016 publishers before the U.S. Naval Institute picked it to publish as their second novel, after The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy. Were you surprised at the over- whelming success the novel generat- ed? Not surprised, flabbergasted. Amazed. Stunned. Was Jake Grafton, your now well- known protagonist in Flight of the Intruder and in subsequent novels, including The Art of War, based on any one in particular from your ex- perience in the Navy? In the twentieth anniversary edition No. He was a character I created to writing the book that became Final of Flight of the Intruder, you wrote tell Flight of the Intruder, and as Flight. in the preface that the idea for the such was an amalgam of all the guys novel “occurred to me while I was I knew in naval aviation. Once you set a course to write full flying A-6 Intruder attack jets from time, did you find it difficult to the flight deck of the USS Enter- At what point after Flight of the In- come up with new story ideas? prise.” Was this the first time you truder was launched did you decide had considered writing fiction? The difficulty is not dreaming them up, it’s getting New York Essentially, yes. I quickly “. I scribbled at flying scenes publishing editors excited found I didn’t have the craft, about them.
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