Books by Douglas Savage

This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox. After the war, Lee sought to heal the nation, even meeting with his rival, Ulysses S. Grant, while he occupied the White House. Leaving his military life behind, Lee went on to become president of Washington College.

An historical novel highlighting Billy the Kid's last great gun fight.

Rapid Response Team MemorandumTop Secret/Do Not PhotocopyTo: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO)From: U.S. Space Defense Operations Center, ColoradoSituation Report: Unmanned Soviet Kvant-3 space laboratory destroyed by defective U.S. Orbital Weapons Platform. Communications inoperative. Soviet retaliation imminent unless immediate action taken.Target: U.S. Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE)the most powerful weapon in orbit. Equipped with SECRET hydrogen-fluoride, five megawatt chemical laser, LODE 4-meter firing mirror, and Teal Ruby AFP-888 aiming mechanism.Current Status: 38 degree circular orbit at 130 nautical miles FULLY ARMED AND OUT OF CONTROL.Operation: U.S. astronauts Colonel William Parker and Lt. Commander Jacob Enright to fly Space Shuttle Endeavor in mission to deactivate LACE.Risk Factor: HIGHSpecial Orders: In event of mission failure, U.S. shuttle crew to be terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE.Brief: Presidential briefing NOT RECOMMENDED.

Franklin Pierce was president of the United States in 1855, the Mexican War had just ended; the horrors of the American Civil War had not yet begun. The last of the free spirits known as the Mountain Men were securing their place in the legends of the frontier. Among these fierce adventurers was a man who called himself Highpockets.Into the harsh wilderness Highpockets had come to escape the soot of the cities and the terrible memories of war; with nothing but the strength of his heart and hands he had carved out a life of freedom in the nearly inaccessible high places of the Rocky Mountains.In the autumn of his days Highpockets stumbled across a half-frozen, half-dead immigrant boy who had wandered in the snow and ice-terrified after having been separated from the wagon train carrying his Eastern European family across the vast new world.Highpockets called the boy Cub and took him to the wilderness domain the old man called My Mountain. There, for one long winter, they lived together; the young boy learned a new language and a way of life that he'd never even imagined existed. By the end of the winter, the old man knew that Cub had learned everything he needed to know to survive in a land as dangerous as it was awesomely beautiful.It would have to be enough and more than enough . . . for at the end of that winter Highpockets had agreed to face the council of his old enemy, Painted Elk, to atone for the murder of the chief's son.Both Cub and Highpockets would be judged by the council of Elders . . . and both would learn that justice in the high places was both fair . . . and deadly.

One hundred miles off the coast of Puerto Rico, a top secret experiment too dangerous to be conducted on land is being conducted aboard the U.S. nuclear attack submarine Sam Houstonan experiment that has gone horribly wrong.A predator is loose in the Sam Houstona microscopic killer that strikes without warning, driving its victims to terrifying heights of violent, self-destructive insanity.Soon madness and terror reign eight hundred feet below the oceans surface, as those infected race to defeat the silent killerunaware that another enemy follows in their wake. A diesel submarine relic is pursuing nuclear-powered Sam Houston into a final, deadly confrontation in the deepest waters of the Atlantic.

The blinding sun was shoulder high when Cedar City lay shimmering in the heat rising from Overland Trail. In the distance, citizens trailing little dust clouds shuffled in the street. In the lead, Jason and the Deacon stopped their mounts shoulder to shoulder. Only the town's dirty faced children paid attention to the newest strangers coming down the Overland.The weary riders raised their faces to a great banner which hung motionless in the air above their heads. The wide cloth stretched limply across the road and black letters, thick as a man's arm covered the banner with the words reaching from one side of the street to the other: CEDAR CITY: WELCOME ASSASSINS AND ROAD SCUM The stony face of the black vested Deacon cracked into a narrow smile. "Seems we're expected."