Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The true events that inspired Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October


“Mutiny”


 A Cold War Thriller


This was David's first venture into the non-fiction world, with all the action, drama and intrigue it reads like one of his bestselling novels. With his Air Force background and understanding of terrorism, David Hagberg captured the history, frustrations and naval culture of the Soviet Union, and the events of it's officers leading up to the cold war mutiny.  

Aboard the antisubmarine warship the FFG Storozhevoy in the fall of 1975, Mutiny is a firsthand account that anyone interested in the Soviet system or life aboard one of its ships should read. Written with senior lieutenant Boris Gindin whose offering is insightful, heartwarming, and heroic, triggers questions of how his life in the USA compares to his years in the Soviet Union.  


The story itself, is the life of Boris Gindin who at the age of seventeen in 1967, enters the St. Petersburg Military Engineering Academy to build a career in the soviet navy, and rises through the ranks to become a senior officer when most of the crew of the Storozhevoy mutiny. Life in Russia is bleak, harsh and difficult, but Hagberg and Gindin bring it to life as they build the the events of this important story. There is a rewarding account of the most famous mutiny in naval history aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789, where David summarizes the events concisely in just a few pages. 

Confined belowdeck, the captain, officers and Gindin survive the attack of the soviet navy and air force who are ordered to hunt down and kill the warship. In the end the KGB execute the officer who was behind the mutiny, arrest everyone, even the officers who opposed the mutiny, and are forced to swear secrecy on pain of death if they told their story.

Thirty-two years later Boris Gindin and David Hagberg tell the truth, the record has been set straight.  



DAVID HAGBERG has published more than seventy novels of suspense, including the bestselling JOSHUA'S HAMMER, SOLDIER of GOD, and ALLAH'S SCORPION.


Visit David Hagberg at www.david-hagberg.com

Lucinda Betts is a four time award winning author of fantasy romance novels


Lucinda Betts decided to become a writer after a bet. Rumor has it while under the influence of one too many martinis, and we have all been there, the question surface about writing a novel. Someone said she can’t, she knew she could, and we are thankful for it. I’m curious as to what she won besides the wager, being a writer of hot romance novels I’m sure it was something interesting.

After completing her seventh novel for Kensington Books , Aphrodisia, Lucinda has found herself embracing a comfortable writing style that lets her stories unfold into elaborate tales rather than staying bound to a restricting landscape.

Her previous novels are Night Spell, Pure Sex, The Supplicant, Moon Shadow, She, and Eros Island

With numerous writing awards, the Gayle Wilson Award for Excellence in Writing, the Reviewer's Choice Award at Road to Romance, the Fallen Angels Reviewer's Choice Award, and a Coffee Times Romance Recommended Read, Lucinda is also a 2006 PEARL finalist in the Best Debut Author category.

Running Wild is a fantasy tale of two worlds, two people, demons, and the mystical journey in each of their kingdoms. Princess Shahrazad is submissive to the male society, however her world changes when on her wedding day a magician shows up and turns her into a pegaz. By day she is a winged horse and at night her beautiful seductive self.  

Tahir, a prince from an opposite kingdom where women rule, lives  the luxurious life of impregnating young girls, but all this changes in his attempt to save his sister from a spell with the help of Princess Shahrazad. Their journey is an erotic fantasy romance with torrid love scenes and fighting demons.

The style in which Lucinda writes combined with the erotic adventure fantasy she creates makes her a unique voice that sizzles. But don’t take my review for the final judgement. Go to www.lucindabetts.com and pick up a copy of this novel and her many others.