Duty - Broadly scoped historical fiction spanning the "American Century." It is the story of men and women totally involved in their unique calling of military service to country.
The first of three novels is the story of Dave Nolan – part man, part legend – who leaves a small river town in Pennsylvania to chase his destiny in the Army as a professional soldier. To him the Army is more than just a career, it is the essence of who he is – his very life. From the Plain of West Point, high above the Hudson, to the trenches of WWI France, to the armored battlefields of WWII he devotes himself wholly and tirelessly to his country and the Army, even when they do not reciprocate. Winner 2012 Bronze Award in Historical Fiction.
Honor- Primarily the story of Mitch Nolan, first born of the second generation to the whom flying Air Corps fighters over North Africa, Italy, and Germany are a grand and glorious adventure, though not his entire life or existence. He is a symbol of the Greatest Generation who won the War, to whom winning was everything, and who transitioned from winning for country the victory on the battlefield to winning for themselves in the economic boom and the tenuous peace of the Cold War that followed. Winner 2013 Silver Award in Historical Fiction.
Country - The story of Glenn Nolan, the grandson of the legend, the namesake of the uncle who parachuted into France on D-Day, a young man caught up in the maelstrom of Viet Nam and the conflicted Military Academy and Army of the late 20th Century. And it is also the story of his brother, Brad Nolan - the irreverent, cocky, fun-loving, extroverted yet dedicated professional helicopter pilot whose experiences are at one and the same time so different and yet similar to and intertwined with his infantry officer brother. This is a generation bedeviled – by doubt in itself and fractured national institutions, struggling to retain the honor the founding fathers created, in a time and place that seems so foreign to the concept of Duty-Honor-Country. Winner 2015 Bronze Award in Historical Fiction. Pass in review website.