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Dead Reckoning

Fourteen U.S. destroyers barreled down the California coast in a dense fog—until a wrong turn led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history.

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Who Is the Bad Art Friend? (Published 2021)

Who Is the Bad Art Friend? (Published 2021)

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