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Major
Robert A. Gallinger, USA (ret.) began his military career when he enlisted at the age of 17 with an eight grade education.
According to Major Gallinger, “After I had accumulated two years of credits, I was commissioned a warrant officer.
Later, after I earned my bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Alaska while I was stationed in
Fairbanks, I received a direct commission to first lieutenant. During my army career, I not only managed to earn a degree,
but was married and had three daughters along the way.” Major
Robert A. Gallinger is the author of: Whispers; Taken by Force; A Debt of Honor; Escape; A Crooked Path; Suffer
the Fool; No Time to Die; Deadly Encounters; and, Dead Light.
According
to the book description of Whispers, it “is an absorbing story about a soldier who discovers
that different people judge different people differently, much the same as they do love and hate. John
Warren Scully becomes a womanizer at an early age. His older brothers teach him well, but fail miserably in one area of his
"street education." They never teach Scully that there is a big difference between tolerance and intolerance, and
between compassion and brutality. Scully has to learn that for himself. At the age of seventeen, Scully joins the army, where
he soon comes face-to-face with the concepts his brothers never explained. Along the way, the new knowledge almost gets him
killed, especially after basic training when he finds his best buddy, Howie Sullivan, brutally murdered. Howie was recently
recommended for a Soldier's Medal for saving a mother and her child's lives. But the homicide investigation reveals
that Howie may have been a homosexual. The Soldier's Medal is put on hold, pending clarification. Now, Scully is faced
with a new dilemma. Should he disclaim his past friendship with Howie, or should he continue to honor that close friendship
despite the ugly suspicious that could adversely affect him and his military career?”
According to the
book description of Taken by Force, it “is an explosive suspense about people who lust for
power, while totally ignoring the destructive consequences of their actions on innocent lives. But one day fate intercedes,
and proves once again that consequences work both ways, up and down. Taken hostage
by terrorists can be a devastating experience as Charlie Moore learns when he visits Fort Ritchie, Maryland. He is taken hostage
by a group of alleged terrorists who have just kidnapped the President of the United States. Soon, a Top-Secret message is
dispatched to Secret Service Agents, revealing a chilling dilemma. There are two Presidents missing, the real one and his
double. While the search intensifies by special military and civilian teams, Charlie Moore plans a daring escape with one
President, whichever one he is. Meanwhile, the alleged terrorists prepare to implement their own plan.”
According to the
book description of A Debt of Honor, it “is a fast-paced suspense/thriller that involves the
illegal flow of Soviet nuclear scientists to terrorist countries that seek mass-destruction capabilities. Colonel
Antonovich is assigned to a Special Investigations Department (SID) of the town prosecutor's office to stop the illegal
flow of Soviet scientists to terrorist countries, whether their disappearances are voluntary or otherwise. Before it is over,
many government officials are dead, and more scientists have vanished, including Colonel Antonovich's wife, who is also
a nuclear scientist. With new information, Antonovich rushes for the Sheremetyevo Airport outside of Moscow with a special
tiger team. He believes his wife and some other scientists are being held there, pending relocations to secret destinations.”
According to the
book description of Escape, it “is a breath-taking suspense that pits the will of a paranoiac
commune leader with the grit of a Daphne, Alabama grade-school teacher who fights to escape his madness and power. On
a familiar jogging trail in the densely wooded area near historic Blakeley Park, Pilar Brighton slices through the shafts
of early morning light like a frightened gazelle in flight. Her eyes are glazed with terror as she dashes for her very life.
Four men dressed in sweat suits, and wearing ski masks, are closing fast behind. They are determined to drive Pilar to Willnook
Springs, a commune headed by Leo Croker, an ex-convict and self-ordained priest. She pushes on, hoping her legs and wind hold
true. If she loses this race, she will soon discover that Leo Croker is more than a self-ordained priest; he is a madman out
to kill her. Despite her determination, Pilar is soon captured and taken to Willnook Springs to face the horror behind the
commune walls. Unwavering in her resolve, she now attempts a new escape, one that is filled with doubts and dangers exactly
like her failing marriage at home.”
According to the
book description of Suffer the Fool, it “is a provocative suspense that places a hired killer
on a deadly collision course with a man who wants to die, but not by his own hand. David
Maloney is a quiet novelist, a man who wants to die, but not by his own hand. To make it legal, he wants Alabama to do it
for him, using "Yellow Mama," the chair up at Atmore. Then his death would be on the State's hands, not his,
and his wife would receive the insurance money without a hitch. But David needs help. He must convince his best friend, Harvey
Masterson, to disappear for a while, and then convince the police that he killed him. But sometimes even the best-laid plans
fail, particularly when a vicious killer like Jake Chiles is in town. He comes to set some fires and do some killings to support
an elaborate real estate scam that is centered on the Eastern Shore of Mobile. Joe Dudley is intimately involved in the scam
and so is Pat, Harvey's wife; Joe's new lover. And that definitely presents a delicate complication for David Maloney
and his plans, especially after Pat and Joe find out about Maloney's "simulated" murder scheme, and decide to
disappear Harvey for real.”
According to the
book description of Dead Light, it “is a page-turning suspense that begins with an alleged
suicide that quickly evolves into multiple murders that involve Soviet officials at every level of government. During a violent thunderstorm,
a man's body falls from the Sobakina Tower, and crashes into the garden outside the Kremlin walls. During the initial
investigation, Colonel Antonovich and his partners discover that there have been many alleged suicides lately. Strangely,
the families of many of them are missing, the same as the family of the alleged suicide found at the bottom of the Kremlin
walls. As the investigation continues, the so-called rash of suicides leads to a trail of illegal exit visas, evidence of
laundered money, and multiple cases of unlawful death, and finally to the questionable disposition of nuclear waste. Now,
Colonel Antonovich must hurry to find who is responsible before anymore "suicides" are found, or someone makes a
dirty bomb from waste.”
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