W. Craig Reed's Books

Intelligent Design or Darwin’s Evolution?

For Navy SEAL George Anders and Russian bioscientist Annelia Salenski, discovering the truth changes everything.

“DNA is an enlightening and terrifying journey that offers a unique answer to the most controversial argument of our time: Intelligent Design or Darwin’s Evolution? Based on five years of solid research, DNA is a riveting story that will compel you to read the other books in the series.” —Malcolm Boyes of Entertainment Tonight

“DNA is exotic and suspenseful, with lots of subplots to keep the reader guessing!”

—Raymond Obstfeld, New York Times Bestselling author of On the Shoulders of Giants with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Millions of James Rollins fans will find DNA a fascinating read. This fast-paced genetic thriller will keep you riveted with breathless anticipation!”

—Carol Davis Luce, author of Night Stalker and Night Prey

       Just after the Gulf War, Ensign George Anders parachutes into Iraq with a Navy SEAL team to hunt down Fahkir Kaseem—an impassioned fanatic bent on continuing his own private war against the West. After finding evidence that Kaseem has commandeered a group of Russian scientists and bio-weapon production equipment, George is thrust into a battle between two opposing forces that each have their own agenda for the future of mankind, and have manipulated world events for centuries to fulfill their plans.
       Russian bio-scientist Annelia Salenski is taken captive by Kaseem—who plans to exploit her expertise in genetics. She soon discovers Kaseem’s true agenda—one that involves using a terrifying technology developed by the Soviets during the Cold War. A technology that could alter the definition of what it means to be human.
       Racing against time to rescue Annelia and prevent Kaseem from unleashing the most horrific genetic weapon imaginable, George comes face to face with his true identity and unravels an astonishing truth behind a discovery made by an eighteenth century scientist—a man that Voltaire once claimed “knows everything and never dies.”   Through the words and formulas recorded by this enigma from the past, George discovers the answer to the most important argument since the dawn of man: Intelligent Design or Darwin’s Evolution? And the proof is hidden in the twisting turning bundle of phosphate atoms that determine the destiny of life.

Release Date: July 2008
Trade Paperback: 308 pages
Publisher: Rain Publishing
ISBN 13: 978-1-419654-62-6

An authoritative insight into the life of the man most film fans consider the "one and only" Tarzan - Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller -- this book offers an intimate look at Weissmuller's early life, middle years, and later decline, through swimming training, Olympic triumphs, failed marriages, a Hollywood life as Tarzan of the Apes, and subsequent career as Jungle Jim.

Written by his only son, this biography is a sensitive yet unsentimental portrayal of the man who was Tarzan to movie fans around the world. Johnny Junior's inside perspective on his father's life and career includes interviews with his father's celebrity friends and former wives, recollections of conversations with his father over the years, and family stories involving international icons such as Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, Joe Louis, and many others. There are "surprises" in the text and many photos from private collections that have never before been printed or seen by the general public.

Hardcover: 230 pages

Publisher: Ecw Press (October 28, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1550225227

ISBN-13: 978-1550225228

Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches

       No other U.S. Navy Diver, photographer or spy has taken pictures of any Soviet submarine from as close proximity as did W. Craig Reed of the Soviet Victor III that almost ended his life. CRAZY IVAN chronicles this true story and reveals intimate details about near-death underwater espionage missions once classified at the highest levels of Top Secret...
       "When I enlisted...I had no idea I would become a Navy Diver assigned to nuclear fast attack submarines conducting underwater espionage operations with U.S. Navy SEAL teams. I had no idea that I would accidentally become embroiled in a Top Secret Codeword program that would take me 400 feet down into the black, cold waters just off the coast of Soviet Russia, where sophisticated listening devices were strapped to a Soviet communications cable. I also had no idea that I would be called upon to take close-proximity espionage pictures of the Soviet's most lethal attack boat, resulting in one of the Cold War's most devastating collisions between a U.S. and Soviet submarine. A never before revealed accident that nearly cost the lives of 130 sailors."
       CRAZY IVAN was an Amazon.com Top 100 Bestseller in its first month of publication and is consistently a Top 50 Bestseller under Espionage.

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press (March 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0595265065

ISBN-13: 978-0595265060

Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches

COMING SOON!

SIX MINUTES is the first in a series that follows tough-guy detective, Joe Barista, and his genius daughter, Linda, as they combine brawn and brains to solve bizarre crimes with intriguing links to historical events.

A professor is murdered by an unseen assassin

A NASA scientist is the next on the list

A detective and his genius daughter take the case

A former KGB agent leads them into Hell

A Pentagon General takes them beyond the heavens

“Six Minutes is a well-written novel from W. Craig Reed that delivers compelling characters and a page-turning plot.”

--Raymond Obstfeld, author of On the Shoulders of Giants with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“In Six Minutes, W. Craig Reed reveals chilling facts, kept secret for centuries, that makes this historical thriller a fascinating read.”
--Carol Davis Luce, author of Night Stalker & Night Prey

Genetic Enhancement or Natural Selection?

The wrong answer leads to extinction…

Detective Joe Barista and NASA scientist Helen Graham race against time to stop rogue scientists from thrusting the human race into a genetically enhanced future that could lead to extinction.

Six minutes. San Diego detective Ron Davis spends his last six minutes with a demon from Hell. After his body is found on the UCSD campus, everyone except detective Joe Barista thinks it’s a suicide. Then another body turns up. A UCSD professor working on a top secret NASA project. When Joe is confronted at the crime scene by federal agent Tina Williams and her sidekick, General Reginald Jackson, he’s thrust into a genetic mystery that spans hundreds of years and half the distance of the solar system. A mystery that leads him to Helen Graham.

Six minutes from Hell. The latest Rover Lander plunges through the Martian atmosphere and reaches the surface in six minutes. NASA scientist Helen Graham has spent the last three years at JPL preparing for those six minutes. But hell collides with reality when the sabotaged Lander spirals out of control and catapults toward destruction. So does Helen’s carefully controlled life when she learns that an unseen assassin has murdered her father, professor David Graham. And she’s next on the list.

Six minutes from Heaven. As the ethereal assassin closes in, along with an elite team of black-ops hit men, Joe enlists the help of his daughter, Linda—a Starbucks-employed history major with a genius IQ. Joe, Linda and Helen soon collide with Ken Kari—a neurosurgeon with a taste for vodka and a secret past with the KGB. While battling to stay alive, the four race against time to stop rogue scientists from thrusting the human race into a genetically enhanced future that could lead to extinction.

“It was six minutes from hell, but we said the right prayer and we rose to heaven.”
--Ed Weiler, NASA’s associate administrator, January 24, 2004

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