The Keeper's Son

This is one of those books one might want to give up on in its early stages, but it was my experience that staying with it was well worth it. This novel, based on meticulous research by Hickam of the destruction of US ships (military and civilian) off the East Coast, begins to really carry one along......more

This reader is wondering if the book rates a 2 Star and ends giving the book, a 5 Star.. Why, Guess it's the fact I'm a Coast Guardsman, admitting that, yes the lighting of the light house mantle is correct, the CG had these many different types of stations and cutters and yes the Outer Banks produc......more

Set on the Outer Banks fictional island of Killakeet, this novel chronicles the entrance of the U.S. into WWII, and the slowness of our military to respond to the attackes by German U-boats on merchant and passenger ships traveling the Atlantic sea lanes along the coast. Partly told from the point o......more

This is a true story about the people who inhabited the islands along the outer banks of N.C. They were mostly fishermen and their families who had lived there all their life and had never traveled far from these islands. They played an interesting and significant role in the beginning of World War......more

Although this is fiction, it takes place along the NC coast around what is most likely Cape Lookout. It takes place during WWII, and reviews the main character's experiences serving on a small boat defending the US coastline against U-boats. It is an entertaining story, and I am looking forward to r......more