Ted Simmons: 6 books

On August 9, 1990, 16-year-old American Jeff Connors enters the lobby of a four-star hotel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, dressed in the dishdasha of an Arab Bedouin, trying to be reunited with his father. He just survived a terror-filled week, the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi army. Jeff has no idea...

The swamps and forest of North Florida are desolate and dark at 1:00 a.m. on a moonless night. Five teenage boys and a girl thread their way down a path and into a pit, using the meager light of matches. At the bottom is an even darker opening, the cave that is the object of their travels. Three of...

When a Hispanic family is killed in a tragic fire, Peter is scrutinized by the police, and his world makes little sense. His best friend ignores him, and he is lured into the frightening world of a secret militia. Peter becomes an unlikely hero: saving Jerrod and his sister, undermining a second hate-crime, and finding the courage to believe in his convictions.

Sixteen-year-old Peter Grayson and his pal Jerrod rescue a nearly drowned young Hispanic man from raging floodwaters. He refuses to give the boys any clue about the terrible place from which he’s escaped. After leaving their care, Pedro’s body is found floating in the waters of Diablo Creek. The boys’ quest for the truth leads them into a deepening spiral of danger and corruption.

When seventeen-year-old Carter Chamberlain is uprooted from his quiet American life and moved to London, he fears his biggest problem will be boredom. Instead, he is drawn into the sordid world of Irish Republican Army terrorism, while trying to keep his own dysfunctional family intact. Ultimately,...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...