{"title":"New Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe newest released Ark Press fiction editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-pirate-and-the-alamo-american-treasure-hunters","title":"The Pirate and the Alamo (American Treasure Hunters)","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e.ark-read-toggle .ark-read-less-label{display:none}.ark-read-toggle[open] .ark-read-more-label{display:none}.ark-read-toggle[open] .ark-read-less-label{display:inline}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 1.28em; line-height: 1.45;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook 3 in an all-new series where the high school age male heroes are smart, tough, and resourceful—and hunting treasure from American history’s secret past is the greatest game of all. At an auction house in San Antonio, the hunters come across an antique powder horn from the Texas Revolution covered in strange scrimshaw symbols. These point to frontiersman and Alamo defender Jim Bowie. 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OYKEN","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e.ark-read-toggle .ark-read-less-label{display:none}.ark-read-toggle[open] .ark-read-more-label{display:none}.ark-read-toggle[open] .ark-read-less-label{display:inline}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 1.28em; line-height: 1.45;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy\u003c\/em\u003e in this biting comic novel of one spy’s quest for justice—and a ray of truth—when he’s cast into a pit of bureaucratic vipers bent on never-ending expansion of the nest, even if they have to kill to do so.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"ark-read-toggle\" style=\"border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.28);\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"cursor: pointer; padding: 16px 2px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ark-read-more-label\"\u003eRead More\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ark-read-less-label\"\u003eRead Less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1;\"\u003e⌄\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 0 2px 18px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PICKLE FACTORY DEVOURS ITS OWN\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKRAY is a nonofficial cover CIA case officer—an overseas NOC operator who works without embassy backup, relying on nerve and ingenuity to recruit and run foreign agents. 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KRAY begins to glimpse that the one thing missing is actual spies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen seven CIA officers die in an overseas suicide bombing, top Headquarters apparatchiks spring into action—not to hit back, but to cover their own broad backsides. Meanwhile, KRAY’s career corkscrews downward. And his return to the field gives Headquarters the perfect opportunity to solve the KRAY problem. Permanently.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFast, sharp, and bone-dry funny, Sam R. OYKEN’s vast comic debut is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with a security clearance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Confederacy of Dunces\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with a nation on the line. Bureaucrats obsess over mandatory trainings, cafeteria upgrades, and birthday cakes, while competence quietly bleeds out in a corner. Underneath the laughs and the irony runs a hard moral line: contempt for cowardice, anger at waste, and respect for those who actually risk their lives for the country. 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On one hand, it has all the insidery intrigue conjured up by modern espionage greats such as John le Carré and Charles McCarry. On the other, it is an absurdist masterpiece that might owe a bigger debt to the paranoia and humane cynicism of literary postmodernists such as Pynchon and Vonnegut. By all rights, this mash-up should not work—but the result is both a provocative commentary on America’s out-of-control intelligence services and a laugh riot that makes Mick Herron’s \u003cem\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/em\u003e look like the very model of competence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Mark Hemingway, senior writer, RealClearInvestigations, review editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Federalist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“The real deal. With merciless wit, OYKEN exposes and pillories the stultifying banality of the mind-numbing, self-serving bureaucracy at CIA headquarters. The only obvious disinformation is the author’s disclaimer that he made it all up.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—J. Michael Waller, author of \u003cem\u003eBig Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“Sam R. OYKEN, or whatever his real name is, does to the CIA what Joseph Heller did to the Army Air Forces in \u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e. Outsiders won’t believe it. Anyone who’s worked for the Agency, and in the operations side of the business in particular, will probably say: ‘damn right.’ It’s hard not to conclude CIA needs a flamethrower directed its way and rebuilt from scratch. The next time the CIA screws up, as it surely will, you can’t say Sam R. OYKEN didn’t warn you.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Col. 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Gone are the United States and Canada, replaced by the socially rigid, authoritarian Confederacy of the Yukon. Gone is the electronic age—destroyed in the apocalyptic Storm Times, which devastated the globe and decimated the world’s population in the late twenty-first century. It is now, once again, an age of steam, an age of lighter-than-air craft, an age of feudalism and knighthood, an age of conquest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIsaac Prophet Fitzpatrick, Consul and Supreme Commander of the Yukon Confederacy, is tall, handsome, dashing and noble. He’s also the man who conquered the world in the name of the Yukons—and destroyed half of humanity in the process.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFitzpatrick’s closest companion, Sir Robert Mayfair Bruce, elevated from the ranks and brought into Fitzpatrick’s inner circle, owed everything to his mentor and commander. 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He explores heady themes with wit and precision.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—J.W. Wartick (Reconstructing Faith)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“Although [he] deals with the grand sweep of history and the place of humanity in the universe, the author never loses sight of his characters.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Berthold Gambrel (A Ruined Chapel by Moonlight)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“Judson’s use of the twin viewpoints allows him to make points about subjects as diverse as history and heroes, academia and ambition, love and shame. Yet like Heinlein, Asimov and other great writers in the genre, Judson never lets his message get in the way of the story.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“As Bruce's tale unfolds, the author skillfully demonstrates how fallible men become heroes through a deliberate distortion of their deeds. The author's ability to suggest an entire culture from a few telling details makes this an engrossing read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFitzpatrick's War\u003c\/em\u003e, ingeniously incorporating two contrasting points of view as a memoir edited by an opinionated historian with numerous annotations and footnotes, is a speculative masterwork that will appeal to a surprisingly wide range of readers. For fans of historical fiction and military-powered science fiction as well as those who enjoy postapocalyptic novels, \u003cem\u003eFitzpatrick's War\u003c\/em\u003e will impress—and enthrall.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“A very effective novel disguised as a memoir. 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Now the hunters race for answers, crack old codes that even the World War II codebreaking geniuses couldn’t, and gear up for scuba diving on a dangerous, fascinating wreck that may contain a mountain of wartime German loot, and the answer to a decades-old wartime enigma.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails class=\"ark-read-toggle\" style=\"border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.28);\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"cursor: pointer; padding: 16px 2px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ark-read-more-label\"\u003eRead More\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ark-read-less-label\"\u003eRead Less\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1;\"\u003e⌄\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 0 2px 18px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFueled by mystery, grit, glory, and sandwiches, three modern-day teens uncover America’s history and forgotten treasures one adventure at a time. The hunters are Ben Prescott, 18—The researcher, the mystic, the trailblazer. Porter Rockwell, 17—The man of action, the social glue. And Latch McRae, 17—The mechanic, the gear man, the straight-shooter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe U-Boat That Vanished\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHigh school seniors Ben Prescott, Porter Rockwell, and Latch McRae don’t seem to fit together at first glance. Homeschooled Ben has brains and vision. Porter is a man of action, with brawn, good humor, and social ability. And Latch McRae is a wizard with engines and equipment. They’re drawn together by a shared passion: treasure hunting for the forgotten loot of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a hurricane rearranges a sound-side shoreline of the North Carolina Outer Banks, the hunters find a broken piece of antique china on a newly formed sandbar. It’s a shard that comes from the plateware of the WW II German Navy. There’s only one way such a shard could turn up in the sandbank—brought by a sunken enemy U-boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut was the German U-boat on the attack, or was it part of a far more mysterious operation? Seeking the answer, the Hunters run up against dangerous local goons and the shadowy, nefarious Alignment, both determined to steal whatever treasure the hunters uncover. Facing long odds, the hunters race for answers, crack old codes that even the World War II codebreaking geniuses couldn’t, and gear up for scuba diving on a dangerous, fascinating wreck that may contain a mountain of wartime German loot, and the answer to a decades-old wartime enigma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9798901160381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.28);\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"cursor: pointer; padding: 16px 2px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;\"\u003eReviews and Endorsements \u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1;\"\u003e⌄\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 0 2px 18px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“The mystery and the adventure were a lot of fun, but for my money, the best parts were the historical discussions and tidbits sprinkled throughout the book. . . . It’s good. It’s clean. It’s fun. . . . Our heroes are solving a mystery downstream of those facts, and they have to stick to them if they’re going to find the treasure.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Federalist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“Andrew M. Dare wants to renew popular culture by directly renewing its seedbed, literature, with stories that will inspire young men to prepare their minds, souls, talents, and imaginations to dream big and achieve big. That’s why he has written a new series of novels for teenage boys who crave adventure and knowledge, learning technical skills and unraveling historical mysteries. Call them Hardy Boys for the Twenty-First Century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—RealClearBooks.com\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“If I’d read it when I was 13 years old, I would have thought it’s one of the greatest books ever written. . . . Ben, Porter, and Latch are fine protagonists, and the story moves along at a fast pace through a well-constructed historical mystery. . . . [The reader gets] a mixture of educational stuff with action, mystery, a little romance (that angle is handled quite well), and a little humor.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—James Reasoner, Rough Edges\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; padding-left: 14px; border-left: 2px solid #b94b42; display: block; width: 100%; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.86); column-count: 1;\"\u003e“American Treasure Hunters continues to deliver exactly what it promised in Book 1: competent, ambitious young men having old-fashioned adventures while learning real American history. . . . It’s Hardy Boys with modern tech, surfing, football, and podcasts, aimed squarely at boys who want to read about other boys doing cool, heroic stuff.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Upstream Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.28);\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"cursor: pointer; padding: 16px 2px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.06em; text-transform: uppercase; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;\"\u003eAbout the Author \u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 1;\"\u003e⌄\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 0 2px 18px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew M. Dare\u003c\/strong\u003e is the creator of the American Treasure Hunters series. 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