Robert Schreiner
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ROBERT SCHREINER is a former CIA Intelligence Officer who works as a consultant and executive in the global private security industry. An avid amateur military historian who has traveled the world, he routinely sneaks in side-trips to visit ancient fortifications and battlefields. He and his wife live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee. The Wolves and the Greyhounds is his first novel.
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The Wolves and the Greyhounds
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Historical Fiction
At the outbreak of the First World War, the fearsome German East Asia Squadron eluded a Royal Navy task force, steamed into the vastness of the Pacific—and vanished. The possibility that the elusive German fleet might suddenly appear on any horizon paralyzed the British Empire and set in motion a frantic search for the enemy warships. The fates of two naval commanders—one British, one German—are inexorably drawn together as the world plunges into war. John Luce, a veteran Royal Navy captain, leads a ragtag squadron of obsolete warships into unfamiliar waters in search of the rogue enemy fleet. His darkest fears are realized, and the hunters may now become the hunted. Captain Julius Maerker of the Kaiserliche Marine is serving in the shadow of a mercurial and fiery admiral, whose ambition will take the German fleet on an extraordinary odyssey and risk the lives of thousands of his men. These two captains, their ships, and their rival empires are pulled into a desperate clash—culminating in the most decisive naval battles of the war. The Wolves and the Greyhounds brilliantly dramatizes a largely forgotten chapter of WWI that will captivate fans of historical fiction and military thrillers. 
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