Blue Steel

Cold Blue Steel contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest metropolis. In the patrol car, at scenes of suicides and DOAs, in the overtime reality of aching feet and sweating torsos, the reader experiences the hard realities and unexpected luminosities of doing America’s most dangerous job.

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS Amidst the preparations for the National Maritime Institute of Technology’s school festival, Takao and 402 make their way into the heavily guarded “Facility Number Four.” Deep below the burned-out ruins of the facility lies a strange secret. Elsewhere, in order to protect the White Whale from an encroaching Fog patrol fleet, the crew of the I-401 creates a diversion, only to find themselves ambushed!

An all-new science fiction manga epic about how the fate of humanity against alien invaders lies in the hands of one unique girl... and an unstoppable military weapon LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Alliances and subterfuge are the order of the day! Japan’s military, anxious to prevent the the sentient submarine 401 from leaving for the United States, takes desperate action. What they haven’t banked on is Gunzou and his crew getting help from two Fog ships: Hyuga, who’s kept the 401 in good repair and maintained the crew’s base of operations, and the opportunistic Takao, who’s allied herself with them in pursuit of her own goals. On the other side of the world, Gunzou’s father-the 401 ’s former captain, Chihaya Shouzou–supported by the Musashi and other likeminded Fog vessels, announces a new approach for making Earth’s oceans once again safe for humanity and Fog alike, but under his authority. Gunzou has plans of his own for bringing peace to the world, if only Japan can be persuaded to go along with them...

In the shadow of September 11, a mysterious vessel, laden with Iraqi refugees, is drifting stricken off the coast of Western Australia. Caught in a tropical cyclone, it is driven onto the continent's rocky shoreline. Out of the wreckage emerge two heroes. Major David Black, Australian Army, reluctantly thrust into the limelight. Yousef Musaref, Iraqi refugee, incarcerated and hidden from the world's gaze. When the two men are thrown together by chance, the fate of their nations is in their hands. Surrounded by the enemy, trusting no one, they begin a desperate mission to flee Australia, bound for Baghdad, to track down an enemy that has eluded armies, and to save the women they love. Power and Revenge, Friendship and Duty, Family and Love. What greater motivation do men need? Three families, two nations, one moment in time.

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