 About the Author - Taylor 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. For more than you ever wanted to know about Taylor, click here.
(Photo is not current - taken in the Fall of 1965 while on a scenic tour of Southwest Asia as a member of the Screaming Eagle's 1st Brigade task force. Click HERE for a more recent photo.)
BOOKS
MISSING STICKS  D-Day - Normandy - behind Utah Beach. Just after midnight the drop began. Come dawn, 18 C-47s and their paratroopers were missing. What could have the missing troopers accomplished if they had landed safely and engaged the enemy? MISSING STICKS tells one story.
MISSING STICKS was named the Military Writers Society of America's Book of the Month for June, 2009. Click HERE for the MWSA review of MISSING STICKS. Purchase MISSING STICKS directly from Screaming Eagle Press or other Fine Retailers.
 GULF WINDSCOMING SOON Award-Winning Gulf Winds introduces Uly Grant, a recently returned veteran of the war in Iraq, who is searching for a bit of tranquility among the Florida mangroves and manatees. Uly is tough, but a roadside bomb on the road to Baghdad killed his best friend and left him with a busted leg and Flash, a retired champion greyhound. Gulf Winds won First Place in the Mystery/Thriller (Unpublished) category of the Florida Writers Association 2007 Royal Palm Literary Awards Contest. (Click here to read the combat scene in Iraq - the prologue not included in the final manuscript.) In Gulf Winds Grant has returned to his old home along the banks of the Homosassa River and his life as a fishing guide in the waters in and around the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Gulf coast where, as you might suspect, a woman leads him astray and conspiracies abound. Click HERE for more about Flash and research in Homosassa and Chassahowitzka along the Florida Gulf coast and HERE for a review of Gulf Winds.
Flash of Emerald  Flash of Emerald 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 an 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, 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.
Trade Paperback ISBN 0-7599-4288-9
new ISBN-13: 978-0-7599-4288-2
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. Before the invasion of Iraq, US Army Major Nash Devon is sent into the Northern Iraq Sanctuary Zone on a search for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction where he discovers a nuclear conspiracy that includes America's allies. A thriller with roots in the first Gulf War, Behind the Green Water foretells the crisis between nuclear-capable nations of the Middle East and the religious conflicts that feed the fires of destruction. Behind the Green Water, although fictional, may help you understand the tensions and terror American and Allied forces are trying to keep at bay. Behind the Green Water explores the mystery of Christ and his family coupled with a mystery that predates Leonardo.
Trade Paperback ISBN 0-7599-4299-4
new ISBN-13: 978-0-7599-4299-8
 SAVE OUR SOPHIA.... a valued member of our K9 Forensics Rescue and Recovery Team needs our help after all she has given to us.
Sophia, or one of her buddies, is sure to make an appearance in next year's release of Gulf Moon.
Interested in how to write action and adventure, other military and thriller authors? Doing research on the Taylor family? Need information on weapons for a novel? Some of the older articles in the Library might provide some insight, such as:  Articles about Central Command and the Rapid Deployment Task Force operations in the Middle East, and Hemingway and Key West. If you landed here on a genealogical search for Taylors, try The Taylors of North Carolina.
 Dig deep and you will find a bunch of Vietnam photos and more recent events. Photos of the 101st Airborne Division from Vietnam in the 1960's (on the right, Vikki Carr and Danny Kaye visiting with 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division soldiers at Phan Thiet around December 1965), and more.
If you are interested in publishing your own book, see a historical perspective at Publishing - You or Them. Writing a thriller and want to get your weapon information correct? Try Writers Weapons. Use a PDA? Read a book on your PDA, Kimble, Sony Reader or your smart phone while you are at the doctor's office? Want to publish electronically? Learn more about eBooks and electronic publishing at ePublish. 
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