Roger Maxim Books in Order

Dave Watson leaves home, earns his wings, and arrives on a carrier just in time for the Pacific air war to turn deadly. Flying an F6F Hellcat, he learns that combat can shred confidence as quickly as it tests courage.

After being wounded in the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, Dave Watson lands in a naval hospital and expects a straightforward path back to flying. Instead, recovery, new orders, and an unexpected turn in the war send him somewhere new.

Dave Watson returns hoping to join a Corsair squadron in the Pacific, but tangled records and weak leadership send him down a rougher road. The payoff is Okinawa, where frustration gives way to a brutal, high-stakes fight.

Thomas Peters grows from college graduate to fighter pilot in the deadly skies over Europe. Escorting Eighth Air Force bombers, he faces the Luftwaffe, military dysfunction, and the hard truth of what air war really costs.

Thomas Peters survives Europe only to find that the war against Japan demands something different from him and his squadron. Back in a P-51 Mustang, he faces a new enemy, new distances, and fresh strain in the Pacific.

Before Pearl Harbor, the destroyer USS Woodside is already sailing through danger, racing to aid torpedoed ships and hunting U-boats in a war America has not officially joined. It is a tense naval opener built on convoy duty, hard choices, and sudden violence.

Woodside heads into the North Atlantic's grimmest fight, where German wolfpacks are trying to strangle the convoy routes. The tension comes from relentless submarine hunting, bad odds, and the knowledge that one mistake can send a ship under.

Commander Ed Palmer and USS Woodside are now fully at war, guarding the Atlantic lifeline that keeps Britain alive. U-boats, aircraft, and surface threats keep the crew moving from one dangerous mission to the next.

The war shifts to the Pacific, and Woodside's crew has to face a different ocean and a different enemy. Island fighting, aircraft attacks, and the long push toward Japan give this naval adventure a new scale.

The battles are over, but peace brings its own questions. As Woodside's sailors head home, they have to figure out work, family, love, and whether civilian life still fits the people war made them.

Years after World War II, the men tied to Woodside are pulled back into uniform as Korea turns hot. Old skills return fast, but so do the risks, and the past is suddenly not past at all.

Pacific tensions harden into a dangerous stalemate as Woodside sails into unfamiliar waters and fresh trouble. This later series entry mixes naval suspense with uneasy diplomacy, where enemies are not always obvious until it is too late.

This series opener starts at the Peace Conference of 1919 and follows two young men on opposite sides of the world as the next war begins to take shape. Politics, family lives, and history slowly lock them onto a collision course.

The air war shifts again, and both pilots are pulled deeper into its changing dangers. Skill, endurance, and fate are all tested as the series moves toward the fight their parallel lives have been building toward.

After everything the war has taken, one American and one German pilot must find a way into the next stage of life. Recovery is not simple, and the people around them carry the scars of the same history.

Born a month apart and raised on opposite sides of the globe, two young men become fighter pilots for enemy nations. The closer the war pulls them together, the sharper the question becomes: when will they finally meet in the air?