The Brigade: Book 2 of the Plebe Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535066556)

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, and an Italian Language certification form the Army's Language 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. For the next 18 years, he served as a contract and construction manager in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps, where 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 to do 4 years of Environmental Management. In 2000 Hank started a Project Management Corporation and also worked in a variety of technical jobs in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, California, and Anchorage, Alaska. Later, he returned to Annapolis for a job as a world-wide Master Planner. In 2012 he returned to Saudi Arabia to build an open pit gold mine at an extremely remote facility. In 2013 he moved to the tiny island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to act as facility manager then as General Manager for the largest Base Operations contract in the world. He finally retired to Florida to write full time in 2015. Hank wrote his "Plebe" and "Infidels" novels while working in Saudi Arabia. Plebe was published in 1997 and has been continuously in print ever since. 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. His novel "Second Genesis" is a Sci-Fi story with a different twist.