William Peter Grasso Books in Order

When the atomic bomb fails in 1945, America faces the invasion of Japan the hard way. Recon pilot John Worth is pulled into a race to locate a Japanese nuclear threat while dodging fighters, weather, politics, and the pull of love.

A wartime murder in neutral Sweden refuses to stay buried. Years later, as the killer reinvents himself as a presidential hopeful, two witnesses and an ambitious reporter try to expose him before power and money erase the truth again.

In an alternate 1942, disgraced Pearl Harbor hero Jock Miles leads a near-suicidal patrol across Cape York after Japanese troops land in northern Australia. Between brutal terrain, bad orders, and Jillian Forbes's risky help, survival becomes victory enough.

As the invasion of Papua New Guinea bogs down, Jock shifts from infantry command to aerial observation, hunting weak spots above the jungle with rookie pilot John Worth. On the ground and in the air, bad leadership may be as dangerous as the Japanese.

After a plane crash, Jock is sent to seize a Japanese observation post on Manus Island before MacArthur's fleet arrives. Then news of a hidden POW camp, and a possible link to Jillian, forces him to choose between mission discipline and hope.

MacArthur's push for Buna turns into a nightmare of jungle sickness, mud, and entrenched Japanese defenses. Jock's worn-down battalion is ordered into what looks like a suicide assault, and any chance of success comes at a heavy personal cost.

Shot down over Biak, a wounded Jock has to get his scattered survivors home while learning how badly the coming invasion has been planned. When the battle stalls and the maps prove useless, he is dragged back into frontline command.

In an alternate late-summer 1944, American brothers Tommy and Sean Moon fight the Normandy campaign from very different vantage points, one in the air and one in a tank. Allied rivalry at the top turns their battlefield into something even messier.

At Fort Driant near Metz, the Moon brothers are caught between a stubborn German stronghold and a wild new plan using radio-controlled bombers. One brother goes underground into the tunnels, while the other takes on a mission that could destroy them both.

As Germany weakens in 1945, the Moon brothers face a fresh danger from both Nazi wonder weapons and an increasingly aggressive Soviet ally. Victory is in sight, but the shape of the peace looks almost as dangerous as the war.

In the summer of 1950, the postwar US Army discovers too late that it is nowhere near ready for Korea. Veterans like Jock Miles, Top Patchett, and the Moon brothers are thrown into a desperate retreat as North Korean forces surge south.

Germany has fallen, but the Moon brothers find little comfort in occupation duty. In a Europe full of bluffs, provocations, and rising tension with the Soviets, peace feels like war wearing a thinner mask.

After the breakout from Pusan, Allied troops push north with fresh confidence and dangerous illusions. Jock and the Moon brothers ride the advance toward disaster as Chinese intervention turns victory into a freezing fight for survival.

The winter retreat from North Korea drives exhausted American forces back toward the 38th Parallel. New leadership offers hope, but politics at home and abroad threaten to lock Jock and his men into a war with no clean end.

By 1951, the Korean War has become a bloody stalemate of ridges, talks, and repeated assaults. Jock Miles and his regimental team are treated like one more solution to impossible problems, asked to hold the line in a war no one can truly win.

In 1967, second lieutenant Jif Miles arrives in Vietnam carrying a famous military name but no combat experience of his own. The Central Highlands quickly teach him that officers are made under pressure, not by rank alone.

Tet may be fading elsewhere, but the fighting around Hue says otherwise. Jif Miles, still just a young lieutenant, sees how false optimism and bad reporting can be as deadly as the enemy.

During Operation Pegasus and the drive toward Khe Sanh, Jif and the 1st Cavalry fight through heliborne assaults, armor clashes, and hard ground combat. A brief trip home afterward leaves him facing a deeply personal decision about the life he wants.

In the second half of his Vietnam tour, Jif Miles commands an artillery battery in the A Shau Valley and learns how often American victories circle back into the same fight. Each success feels temporary, and the war keeps resetting the terms.

Near the end of his tour, Jif Miles is hit by personal loss and sent into a new role with the 1st Cavalry. What follows pushes him toward a lasting decision about whether the Army is merely his job, or his life.

Working beside the ARVN for the first time, Jif Miles is drawn into a dangerous operation near the Cambodian border. The fighting is brutal, but the larger threat comes from commanders whose political games put good soldiers in impossible positions.

Jif returns to Vietnam in 1971 and 1972 as an advisor, only to find himself fighting and improvising far beyond his job title. As American forces withdraw, he watches the hard truth of the war come into focus.

Eight years after Vietnam, veteran officer Jif Miles lands in Grenada with the 82nd Airborne. The mission sounds simple, but rushed planning and thin intelligence leave experienced soldiers scrambling to keep a short war from becoming a fiasco.

In 1990, Colonel Jif Miles leads part of the 82nd Airborne into Saudi Arabia as Operation Desert Shield begins. Coalition politics, desert hardship, and the threat from Iraq test whether the post-Vietnam Army is finally ready for war again.