Hal Williams: 18 books

The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal Williams now presents...

A choppy sea is not the only South Atlantic disturbance in February 1982. Many political analysts expect Argentina's military junta to attempt a takeover of the Falkland Islands. A shooting war with England appears to be a real possibility. But the junta also has entangling alliances and tireless...

Former military policeman John Murphy has no real future in his native Pennsylvania. South African Boers offer him a chance to earn good money by utilizing skills he acquired as a soldier. Sharpshooter Elton Whitestone has a different reason for joining the Boers in their struggle to perpetuate...

College student Grady Nash saw something he was not meant to see while doing something he should not have been doing. While sharing a marijuana joint with a friend, he witnessed a murder. Now the Reno police are hunting him, but they are not the ones trying so hard to kill him. Las Vegas gangsters...

In 1961 the Dominican Republic has become a pariah nation ruled by a vain, clinically paranoid egomaniac. There are those both within and outside the government determined to eliminate Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. John Murphy and John Hooper, both former American soldiers stranded in Puerto...

Well financed and well armed, the drug cartel gang known as Los Zetas operates with seeming impunity in Mexico. After deadly bombings on both sides of the Rio Grande River, a majority of American lawmen tend to blame the Zetas for the carnage. ATF explosives expert Pam Robinson disagrees. She suspects...

A gunshot shatters the Saturday morning serenity of a Maryland neighborhood and brings contract government troubleshooter Trent Collins out of semi-retirement. Collins soon discovers that ambition and avarice are key ingredients in a recipe for multiple murders. But being assigned to the case also...

Texas Ranger Captain Steve Oliveras gets a late night phone call from his boss. “Earlier this evening a couple of homeboys burglarized an ISO shipping container in Galveston. They certainly weren’t expecting what they found. Out of a hundred and sixty or so people inside, forty were already dead.” During...

Pam is tasked to substitute for a retiring senior agent, but that means spending time in Houston, a city she loathes. Worse, the man she is replacing temporarily has a sour disposition and unloads his venom on her. Before her interim assignment runs its course, she is indirectly involved in a double...

Pam Robinson followed Jim Snyder, the lead NRT agent on scene, into the ruins. The lobby reminded her of other bombing scenes. The wall that had held mail slots for outgoing cards, letters, and packages now littered the floor in thousands of pieces. Fragments of stationery draped the rubble like confetti....

Recently returned from her assignment in Texas and still nursing an arm wounded by a gunman in Mexico, ATF Special Agent Pam Robinson learns that she is to hit the road again. A bomb attack in Cincinnati has all the earmarks of sabotage, but could it be a reprisal over a Chinese takeover bid? Or possibly...

Post-blast investigation is Pam Robinson’s forte, and she works closely with other ATF and FBI agents to identify and analyze explosive events. When not in the field, her regular workdays consist of reviewing incident reports and preparing depositions for use in prosecution of criminal acts involving...

Ray Denton has a “reputation,” as some Indy car owners like to express it. He has the temperament of a tarantula and the tact of a tornado, and he seldom tries to mitigate either one. On the other hand, his on-again-off-again fiancé, Sharon Firestone (no, not that Firestone), hates racing and...

Steven Henry Todd suffers through a number of situations brought about by “Jake,” his friend (more or less) and apartment roommate. When a really big problem arises, Steve makes numerous suggestions about how to deal with it, but Jake rejects them all. Jake needs twenty-five thousand dollars (and...