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Lieutenant Colonel John M. Taylor, Jr., USA (ret.) “served
with the 101st Airborne Division as a platoon leader and battalion commander. Airborne and air assault qualified, a scuba
diver and trained as a system engineer, he designed military command and control systems in civilian life before he turned
to writing military thrillers. Using his background in nuclear weapons and extensive travel in the Far and Middle East, Europe
and across the States, he packs a ton of adventure into an action-filled page-turner.”
Lieutenant Colonel John
M. Taylor, Jr. is the author of Behind the Green Water and A Flash of Emerald.
According to the book description
of Behind the Green Water, “Devon sometimes wished he were back in the Carolina swamps puffing
his grandpa's pipe instead of tromping the Iraqi deserts and mountains with the French woman. But his Grandma told him
to follow the eagle and watch out for the crow, and the mountains of Iraq are where the hawk led. But why was the crow cawing
so loud, Devon wondered, as the Iraqi sighted down the barrel of the AK? US Army Major Nash Devon, a Carolinian claiming ancestry back to the Croatan Indians and Sir Walter
Raleigh's Lost Colony, was a hero and a murderer in the Gulf War, but haunted over the years by his actions. Assigned
back to Saudi in enroute to the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq, Devon is shanghaied by US military intelligence and sent
to the Northern Iraq Sanctuary Zone for duty with the UN High Commission for Refugees.”
According to the book description of
A Flash of Emerald, it “begins with Corporal Harry Stoner as a young Special Forces soldier
thrust into the middle of the disastrous and short-lived Cuban counter-revolution, then takes you with a far older and, perhaps
wiser, Stoner when he is summoned from his Washington DIA office to revisit the seamy side of Tampa's Ybor City where
he is drawn into the middle of a drugs-for-arms transaction. Not just guns, this time the stakes are higher - a nuclear weapon
stolen by fanatical terrorists - the beginning of a wild ride across today's South Florida and the Florida Keys where
romance with a member of the Conch Republic threatens to sidetrack his mission.”
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