Martin Roy Hill
Author, Journalist, Novelist
United StatesBiography
Martin Roy Hill is the author of the Linus Schag, NCIS, thrillers, the Peter Brandt thrillers, DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, Polar Melt: A Novel, and EDEN: A Sci-Fi Novella. His latest Linus Schag thriller, The Butcher's Bill, received the Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of 2017 from the Best Independent Book Awards, the Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller, the Silver Medal for Thrillers from the Readers Favorite Book Awards, and the award for Adult Fiction from the California Author Project. His latest Peter Brandt mystery, The Fourth Rising, was named Best Mystery of 2020 by the Best Independent Books Awards, 2020 Best Crime Thriller by the American Fiction Awards, and the 2020 Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller by the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
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Books by Martin Roy Hill
NCIS Special Agent Linus Schag is no stranger to violence and bloodshed, but when he’s sent to Iraq to take custody of two Navy SEALs suspected of murder, he finds himself thrust into a manmade inferno as coalition of forces fight to free northern Iraq from the Islamic extremist group called ISIS. The explosion of an IED allows the SEALs, suspected of killing a fellow commando, to escape and flee up the Tigris River in a stolen Navy patrol boat.
Historians tell us the infamous Nazi Party died in the ashes of 1945 Berlin. But what if they’re wrong? The brutal murder of an ex-lover’s estranged husband puts war-scarred journalist Peter Brandt on the trail of a hidden cache of Nazi gold.
Sailors know the sea has its mysteries, from ghost ships to underwater monsters. As global climate change melts the Arctic ice cap, what new dangers might be encountered? In the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea an American research ship disappears, only to reappear a few days later without its crew. When a special U.S. Coast Guard team boards the vessel, they discover an even deeper mystery ...
A collection of true WAR STORIES describing acts of great heroism and acts of pure blundering, intrepid leadership and self-serving vainglory, brilliant wartime technological developments and secret weapon duds. Some will inspire readers; others will astound them with the military stupidity they reveal.
Recipient of four national awards, this this sequel to Martin Roy Hill's highly praised The Killing Depths takes the reader from the California mountains to the coastal waters of the Pacific and into the dangerous world of war-profiteers and international mercenaries ...
A terrible friendly-fire incident during Operation Desert Storm massacres an American MP unit, including an injured U.S. civilian engineer they found behind enemy lines. Two years later, while investigating the tragedy, war-scarred journalist Peter Brandt uncovers a conspiracy of greed, betrayal, government secrets—and murder.
Ambushed by Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers take shelter in ancient ruins recently uncovered by a sandstorm. When a second, more powerful sandstorm strands the GIs in the ruins, they take refuge in a hidden burial chamber where they discover a secret about mankind’s origins ...
The brutal murder of a television reporter leads her ex-husband, war correspondent Peter Brandt, on the trail of the men responsible. Enlisting the aid of an old friend, retired cop Matt Banyon, Peter follows clues his former wife left behind and uncovers a shadowy world of sex, drugs, and political corruption—all centered around a wealthy Cuban freedom fighter with a suspicious past.
Martin Roy Hill’s award-winning collection of short stories about duty and sacrifice. A Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII in the title story “Duty.” A former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past in “Something Far Away.” In “Destroyer Turns,” a murdered sailor returns to haunt his aircraft carrier—or did he? A retired spy's last mission during Glasnost is the subject of “Brandenberg’s Diaries.” ...
The USS Encinitas, the first killer submarine crewed by both men and women, prowls the western Pacific seeking a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. Her mission: to destroy the enemy vessel before it can unleash a nuclear hell. Aboard the American sub, NCIS Special Agent Linus Schag hunts another monster, an unknown serial killer whose psychopathic urges have left a trail of dead women behind on shore.