C Norman Noble: 5 books

It’s mid-morning in late March of 88 AD. The marketplace in Smyrna, a remote Aegean outpost of the Roman Empire, is alive with shoppers and merchants. Suddenly, a commotion erupts and a handsome young man, well-dressed, is being confronted by a merchant and two Roman legionnaires—the policeman...

A prestigious American electronics company develops a terrain avoidance / terrain following radar system that is completely undetectable by enemies. Then, mysteriously, the CIA discovers that the Soviets have the design. At home, an FBI investigation reveals that the culprit is someone high up in Pierce Electronics. They have their man. There can be doubt about it! Or can there?

A routine daily commercial non-stop flight from Seattle to Hong Kong portends nothing more than a very long day and a night without sleep for the flight crew on InterContinental Flight #499. But the spectacular eruption of an Alaskan volcano just as the aircraft shifts its polar route to follow the...

Local hero Cort Harper returns from college to teach science at his hometown high school, but despite his fame and spotless reputation, things don't go well. His wife, a local girl and also a teacher, battles cancer and later is murdered in an unsolved crime from which only Cort's airtight alibi staves...

It’s 66 A.D. Young Lucius is the son of the Roman Legate in charge of military affairs in the district surrounding the Greek city of Corinth, which is under the protection of the Roman Empire. The inexperienced innocent is recruited as a “salesman” by a pair of unscrupulous promoters aiming...