Als pensionierter Marinekapitän und ehemaliger Spezialist für Rüstungskontrolle verleiht dieser Autor seinen Romanen ein einzigartiges Verständnis für militärische Strategie und geopolitische Intrigen. Seine Werke, die von Abenteuern im Zweiten Weltkrieg bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Thrillern reichen, befassen sich mit Themen wie Mut, Konflikt und der menschlichen Verfassung unter Druck. Mit einem Erzählstil, der sowohl präzise als auch fesselnd ist, schafft er tiefgründig recherchierte und packende Geschichten, die den Lesern einen lebendigen Einblick in Umgebungen mit hohen Einsätzen bieten.
Als drei Studenten in den Appalachen spurlos verschwinden, beginnt das FBI mit den Untersuchungen. Da diese erfolglos bleiben, nimmt der Vater einer der Vermissten die Dinge in die eigene Hand. Und als ehemaliges Mitglied einer Spezialeinheit scheint Edwin Kreiss auch gute Karten zu haben. Doch der um das Schicksal seiner Tochter besorgte Kreiss kann nicht ahnen, dass er sich damit auf die Spur einer Organisation begibt, die vor keinem Verbrechen zurückzuschrecken scheint ...
Official Privilege begins with a mystery: in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the mummified body of a black Navy lieutenant is found bolted inside the boiler of a deactivated battleship. While the cause of death is clear, the officer's identity is not. With nerve ends raw from the media focus on recent scandals, the Pentagon bypasses its own investigative service and appoints a commander, Dan Collins, and a civilian, Grace Snow, to conduct an inquiry. Together they resolve to ignore the Navy's political sensitivities and conduct a by-the-book murder investigation. But then they uncover evidence that points back to Washington, D.C., and a two-year-old unsolved case involving another black Navy lieutenant, a beautiful young woman, who died under violent circumstances. While they search for links between the two deaths, they attract the attention of one Malachi Ward. Cunning, ruthless, well paid, and ferociously resourceful, he will do whatever it takes to protect his hidden client's privilege. In a tense, deadly game of cat-and-mouse, Malachi tracks Collins and Snow through Washington's streets and corridors of power, determined to keep them from learning the secret behind the body in the battleship.
A midshipman's six-story fall onto a plaza at the United States Naval Academy is classified initially as an accident. The Academy's administration-none-too-affectionately called the 'Dark Side' by the midshipmen-attempts to brush the ensuing controversy under the rug. But a bizarre twist complicates what might otherwise be a tidy cover-up, and pulls Midshipman first class Julie Markham into the incident in a highly embarrassing manner. Suddenly there are rumors of homicide. Julie's flawless reputation, high academic standing, and athletic achievements make her an unlikely suspect, but her father, Ev Markham, an Annapolis graduate who is now a professor there, knows the extremes to which the Dark Side will go to protect the Academy from scandal. Fearing Julie will be sacrificed to appease the rising public outcry, he hires high-powered attorney Liz DeWinter as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service begins an investigation. Meanwhile, Jim Hall, the Academy's civilian security officer, explores a trail of violent pranks in the locked subterranean tunnels connecting the Academy to Annapolis proper-tunnels that lead to an unsolved murder. But as he follows, Jim finds himself becoming the quarry instead of the hunter, pursued by an ingenious predator whose dark secret is hidden deep beneath the Academy's pristine grounds and sterling traditions. Darkside is a twisting, relentless thriller by an Annapolis insider-simply, Deutermann at his best.
