No One Left Behind:  The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story.  ·  Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner ·  ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner.  Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former intelligence officer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, breaks the incredible true story of Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first American pilot shot down during the Gulf War, found alive in Iraqi custody eleven years after the US government left him for dead. On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War. Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG-25, Speicher's plane vanished over the Baghdad desert. The next day, Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He was listed as KIA/BNR. Tracking this explosive story for the past eight years, Yarsinske interviewed top government and military officials, diplomats, pilots, informers, and Iraqi defectors to write a stunning true account of the denials and cover-ups that obscured an essential fact: Speicher actually survived. 

No Room For Error:  The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan. When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions.  They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous dictators.  They have suffered eighteen times the casualty rate of America’s conventional forces.  But they have gotten the job done. Now, for the first time, Colonel Carney lifts the veil of secrecy and reveals what really goes on inside the special-operations forces that are at the forefront of contemporary warfare.

Amy Waters Yarsinske is the author of two dozen books and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for her six-part series in The Virginian-Pilot on Scott Speicher titled, "Dead or Alive?" written with Lon Wagner.  A former intelligence officer in the navel reserves, she lives with her husband - a reserve naval aviator and Desert Storm veteran - in Norfolk, Virginia. Colonel John T. Carney Jr., the founding father of Air Force Special Tactics, was the first commanding officer of any such unit.  Originally a six-man team known as Brand X, this elite unit now comprises a group of seven squadrons deployed worldwide.  In 1996 he received the US Special Operations Command Medal and, a year later, was inducted into the Air Commando Hall of Fame. Benjamin F. Schemmer, a West Point graduate, Ranger and paratrooper, is uniquely qualified to write on military matters from several vantage points.  His military service included three years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where became director if land-force weapons systems.  From 1968 to 1992, he edited the privately owned Armed Forces Journal International and later Strategic Review, published by the United States Strategic Institute.