Robert P Wells: 5 books

At one time, Robert P. Wells was “world famous in Scotland,” as the saying goes, a young American author with a rising reputation as a poet and literary critic in the United Kingdom. His poetry ranges from free verse to highly formal traditional structures, from lyrical to narrative poetry, and...

Veteran's Day is a dark comedy in one act, set in Southern California just after the fall of Saigon. Three ex-Marines, now butchers working in the Meat Dept. of an Alpha Beta Supermarket, are on strike, manning the graveyard shift picket line. As they talk while playing poker, comic confessions...

Three longish short stories, character studies set in Southern California in the late 1960s/early 1970s, men at work telling each other stories from their lives – funny, poignant, dark secrets – lives that are about to change. As the title suggests, all tales are based on true stories, fictionalize...

Can one ordinary man make an extraordinary difference? Overlord / Underhand, based on an amazing and inspiring true story, tells of the international espionage adventures of Luis Estefan, a Spanish national in London, a pacifist and a humanitarian working to defend democracy against Nazi tyranny during...

It was a dream mission – a Special Liaison assignment to join the British Expeditionary Force facing off against the Nazi war machine on the Continent. But it was early May, 1940, and the Royal Navy’s First Officer Judith Burroughs never dreamed the Nazis would unleash their ferocious surprise...