Rick Campbell: 12 books

In Rick Campbell’s newest thriller, a military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories—while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond. In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its military strength and regain its role as a superpower. The Russian...

In his third collection of poetry, Rick Campbell ranges from baseball to teaching to Florida landscape. The history of mental illness in his family is a backdrop to these beautiful lyrics.

"These are poems that testify not only to Rick Campbell's ever-increasing skill as a poet, but to his tenderness, his courage, his deep appreciation for exactly the way water flows, light falls, and the many ways we honor and dishonor our workaday lives." --Robert Dana

"Campbell's poems are personal, even intimate, but their metaphors and meanings have a broad and tough reality." --Iron Horse Literary Review

After a long, secret military buildup, China launches a swift and deadly attack on Taiwan. But that's only their first move in a much deadlier game. In Rick Campbell's thrilling Empire Rising, Xiang Chenglei, Chinese president and party secretary, has both a problem and a plan. The problem...

Russia's new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America's newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads under the polar ice cap, its sonar readings reveal the trailing American...

"The best submarine novel since Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October." —Booklist (starred review) The USS Kentucky—a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads—is about to go on a routine patrol. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however,...

"As in Tom Clancy's technothrillers, the war maneuvers feel authentic and are described in stellar detail." —Booklist on Blackmail In Rick Campbell's new thriller Blackmail*, a bold military and political strike by the Russian government leaves the U.S. reeling, crippled and vulnerable,...

Power Play, a thrilling new Trident Deception short story by Rick Campbell. The Russians have their newest class of nuclear attack submarine and is taking it, K-561 Kazan, on a shakedown cruise. Unbeknownst to them, however, this new submarine is being followed by an American submarine, the...

'Niemand kan het leven aan boord van een onderzeeër beschrijven zoals Rick Campbell dat kan.' - Jack Coughlin. De president van de Volksrepubleik China heeft een groot probleem: de steeds beperktere aanvoer van olie die beschikbaar is voor zijn land, dreigt de economische groei en welvaart te verstoren....

'De Trident Deceptie is een thriller die aankomt als een vuistslag. Een meesterwerk.' - Dalton Fury, ex-Delta Force en auteur van The New York Times-bestseller Kill Bin Laden Tijdens een routinepatrouille, krijgt de USS Kentucky - uitgerust met lange afstandsraketten met kernkoppen - een bevel om...

You will encounter at least one natural disaster in your lifetime—directly or indirectly. Your natural reaction will be to seek shelter. And yet, the very thing you seek can feel most elusive. How do you cope in the wake of natural devastation? How can you recover? Will life ever be the same?...