The use of the chassis dynamometer test cells has been an integral part of the vehicle development and validation process for several decades, focusing on the delivery of clean, efficient vehicles globally. This type of testing involves specialists from different fields such as mechanics, ventilation and refrigeration, among others. Not all of them necessarily experts in automotive engineering. As the demands on chassis dynamometer testing become more exacting and more diverse, the challenge of delivering effective installations and operating procedures becomes ever greater. Chassis Dynamometer Testing sets out to gather knowledge from multiple groups of specialists to better understand the testing challenges associated with the vehicle chassis dynamometer test cells, and enable informed design and use of these facilities. Chassis Dynamometer Testing analyses the main factors affecting a vehicle in order to closely reproduce them in a testing facility. It provides complete guidance on how these tests should be performed, including the requirements affecting the test cells themselves so that they can be fully optimized.

On a medical rescue mission to Djibouti, North Africa, Dr. Jake Matthews, TJ, a supply officer, and Charlie, a master chief who "fixes" things for the government, encounter a plot to use Blue Death as a bio-weapon. Kelly, the resident CIA station chief, sends them on a daring mission to save a local terrorist who has the answers. Back home on Guam, Jake discovers women are becoming pregnant at an alarming rate-and all pregnancies are abnormal. Somebody thinks it's related to blue globes Jake found while scuba diving on a local reef. That somebody is after the globes, and is killing everyone involved. What is it about Blue Death and the blue globes Jake discovered that is damaging pregnancies? What is in the water that is wreaking all the havoc? What does the government knows and isn't revealing? From Djibouti, to Guam, to Cozumel, Jake searches for answers. Loosely based on adventures aboard the USS Carl Vinson and while stationed on Guam, the author brings to the reader the possibility and plausibility of using the natural human reproductive system as a bio-threat to mankind.

The inimitable Quinny Hite is on the case-tough, cocky Quinny who invariably ends up in deeper waters of detection than he bargained for. The Fourth Star: Quinny investigates the mysterious death of a woman found in an empty home owned by her ex-husband. Sinister Street: Quinny is hired to investigate a robbery, but murder soon exposes a more insidious plot. "The Corpse in Grampa's Bed" A Quinny Hite short story involving mysteriously mixed-up corpses.

The inimitable Quinny Hite is on the case-tough, cocky Quinny who invariably ends up in deeper waters of detection than he bargained for. Chinese Red: A wealthy playboy disappears from a dinner party at a Chinese restaurant, only to be found murdered. Quinny finds plenty of suspects, and one beautiful half-Chinese, half-Russian singer. Here Lies the Body: A cold-hearted patriarch is found murdered in the family cemetery. Family secrets complicate Quinny's investigation (not to mention a jarring ride on horseback).

(PLEASE NOTE: second edition has a new title: "PAYBACK" is the more up to date edition) Ben's brother Jake has died in a hit and run car accident - or so Ben thinks until he finds a hidden letter from Jake: "Someone killed me, Ben. Unless it was flu or something, someone killed me...Talk to Memet, only to Memet. Then walk away." Ben finds Memet, a colleague at Jake's investment bank - and discovers he is now embroiled in a deadly conspiracy. As Ben struggles to support Jake's wife Ruth and son Michael through the tragedy, he searches for answers. Why is Jake's glamorous but violent mistress pursuing Ben? Why did Jake leave Ruth penniless? Who were the people who hurled Jake into the path of a speeding car? Above all, where are the missing millions that Jake claimed he had made...and who is prepared to kill for them?

Barbary Freight is a World War II mystery novel.