Henry Rausch
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Henry Rausch graduated from Stanford University and then joined the US Navy submarine force. He served on two fast attack submarines in the 1980s and 90s, during which he conducted classified missions vital to the security of the United States. Leaving active service, he continued to serve in the Reserves, primarily in NATO Submarine Command and Control, and retired as a Commander. He lives with his wife in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and enjoys outdoor activities and flying small planes, and has over 4000 hours of experience as a pilot in command. His first book, a memoir of submariner service, was an Amazon bestseller for five consecutive months. He likes to write realistic, plot-driven stories with strong characters, about topics of interest today.
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Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War
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Memoir
The author graduates from an elite university and enters the submarine service when rhetoric between the US and USSR threatens to turn the Cold War hot. He encounters an unforgiving world where submarines hunt each other unseen. On four classified missions to the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic, the Barents Sea, and the North Pole, he gradually and painfully learns the trade of a nuclear submarine officer in a world few people know of and even fewer have experienced. At sea, the submarine crew exercises total radio silence and the rescue buoy is welded fast to the hull, ensuring that their families will never know if a catastrophe occurs. During these missions, his young wife suffers a miscarriage and later gives birth via emergency C-section, all while the author is at sea and unaware. While she undergoes these trials alone, far from home, in the unforgiving depths, they track adversary submarines in dangerous games of cat and mouse. A storm damages the sub on the way to the North Pole, jeopardizing the ability to surface through the ice. While under the ice the crew suffers a poison gas leak and has to find a hole to surface quickly or perish. 
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How to Hotwire an Airplane
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Thriller
In the spring of 2001, Hiram Bleeker, a lonely, guilt-wracked Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD, is holding a gun to his mouth. As he is about to pull the trigger, an enchanting woman who does not seem to be of this world introduces him to something that restores his soul—rescuing immigrants in the desert and flying them over the internal checkpoints of the US Border Patrol in southwest Texas. As he flies immigrants in his small plane and saves them from the killing dehydration and heat of the Texas desert, the darkness in his heart begins to fade. But when America is attacked on September 11, it succumbs to fear and hysteria. What was once a simple act of human kindness is now a serious crime against the state, potentially a capital offense. Hiram must woo the love of his life and elude the clutches of the Border Patrol while flying over the desolate and hostile plains of Texas. In this book, you will learn about the healing power of love, redemption through sacrifice, and how to hot-wire an airplane. 
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