Books by Carl Nelson
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Madam President and the Admiral
"Let me play this back," President Cass said as she scanned her advisors. "Russia and China are poised to fight over a border dispute and an oil pipeline. If war breaks out, they will need to replace that oil. They expand by taking the Spratly Islands, then take control of the mid-East oil trade route and risk a world war? China fights Russia and takes us and Taiwan on at the same time? None of it makes sense." She took a deep breath. "I have followed China and this is out of character. This could be about oil or property, or both, but my take is it's about something else. Something we've never faced before. As commander-in-chief, I will decide."
Other Books by Carl Nelson
Secret Players
Secret Players, Carl Nelson's second novel, was recently recognized as “best thriller” of 2003 by the prestigious San Diego Book Awards Association. Covering the last 50 years of the twentieth century, Secret Players moves back and forth between America and Japan. Opening with a tale of gripping terror aboard ship, it then chronicles the story of the post war lives of an American and Japanese man who first met in that WW II sea battle. Secret Players is about international intrigue and behind-the-scenes power run amok. But is also about how their families become intertwined. The finale is between the two men and their wives who intervene to prevent another mass war. A metaphor for the hate existent in the modern world of terror, the book shakes the reader in light of 9/11 and questions whether there can ever be reconciliation. A challenging read.
The Advisor
The Advisor (Co-van), which won the first Southern California Writers Conference “best fiction” award, is about sailors, SEALs and Marines fighting for Vietnam's freedom at the end of that controversial war. Commander Blake Lawrence, a blue water officer, must adapt to a foreign culture and treacherous riverine guerrilla warfare in the brown water of the Rung Sat Special Zone (RSSZ). There, he fights the Vietcong and his own admiral to protect the Long Tau Channel, the most strategic river in the Vietnam War. In 1975, back at sea in command of a destroyer, Blake witnesses "Black April," the loss of South Vietnam's freedom. For young adult and adult audiences (war language).
h-so-long boring way out... but that first sunset took away all the cares in the world...
