Act of Honor: Duces Virum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781981976539)

Hank Turowski grew up in an ethnic neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Parochial school and Johns Hopkins University before gaining a Congressional appointment to Annapolis. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and later received a Master's Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Hank served in combat on a Destroyer, USS Rupertus (DD-851), on a deployment to Vietnam and the Western Pacific. After Vietnam, Hank attended Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, then transfered to the Navy's Engineer Corps. For the next 18 years, he moved eight times around the world including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Yorktown, Virginia; Guam, Mariana's Islands; Sigonella, Sicily, and Monterey, Port Hueneme, and San Diego, California. Following Naval service, Hank worked for 3 years in Saudi Arabia, after which he moved to Washington State where he worked in a variety of environmental and technical jobs in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, California, and Anchorage, Alaska. In 2008 he returned to Annapolis for a job as a world-wide Master Planner, then he returned to Saudi Arabia to build an open pit gold mine at an extremely remote facility, and rounded out his management career by moving to the tiny island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to act as General Manager for the largest Base Operations contract in the world. He finally retired to Florida to write full time in 2015. In the last six years, Hank has written 3 books of Short Stories and several Screen Plays. His newest novels "The Jihad", "Harb", and "The Angel of Mercy" are continuations of the Infidels novel.