The Ironclad Covenant

This is the 10th book in my Sam Reilly series, and I think I've enjoyed writing this one the most out of all my stories so far. It can be read as a stand alone novel too, so you don't need to have read the other ones to enjoy it :-)......more

I loved this book. I grew up on the shores of Lake Superior and know the author got everything right. The plot is most imaginative and brings in aspects of history all the way back to the civil war. It has Confederate Gold, bootleggers, organized crime and crooked cops and politicians. The book inte......more

5/18/1863, Natchez, MI. CSS Mississippi (5-gun, 2 120-lb. Blakely 7.5” rifles, 2 68-lb. smoothbore muzzle-loading guns). William Chestnut (narrator, former ship engineer) was secure in hand/leg irons. Commander Baker had Marshal Reynolds (provost) read the arrest warrant to William. Robert Murphy (I......more

This book starts with a bang! During the middle of the Civil War the Confederates are shipping some prisoners on an ironclad up the Mississippi to be hanged. Most of them are simple deserters. One had done something apparently so dastardly that he is despised by all the Confederate officers. During......more

Following a Cussler format, this tale opens on the Mississippi River in 1863 where a Confederate ironclad war ship is making its way north to Vicksburg with a secret chest from the Confederate treasury and a group of prisoners heading to be hanged in Vicksburg for deserting. The story then jumps to......more