Vietnam American War veteran wrote an historical fiction naval novel about the Tonkin Gulf Incident called "TIN CAN" available at Amazon.com It's a nice cleanly written beauty.
Then wrote a brilliant science fiction novel about a trillionaire psychopathic owner of Mars' entire planet in 2084 called "Brave New Mars" at Amazon. It's about Artificial Intelligence owning the population's daily ablutions. It's good dramatic poetic political reading.