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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1985
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Shake Davis

1 - Laos File (Nov-2008)
2 - Peleliu File (Oct-2010)
3 - Chosin File (Sep-2012)
4 - Beirut File (Nov-2013)
5 - Contra File (Oct-2014)
6 - Havana File (May-2016)
7 - Aztec File (Jun-2017)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



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    The blood-drenched Navy Corpsman had it right as he labored to keep yet another Marine alive on the mean street of Hue City: ""Getting out of Hue alive is like trying to run between raindrops without getting wet."" Nearly half a century has passe...



  • Chris Taylor, the young, newest member of Bravo Company, must battle not only the Viet Cong, but also his own fears and doubts, the perilous Vietnam jungles, and his demoralized buddies, in the story of a boy's confrontation with the horrors of war...



  • A fictional account of the events leading to the massacre of Marines in Beirut focuses on a gunnery sergeant on intelligence duty, a young corporal, and a young, beautiful Arab informant who discover the plot to bomb the barracks...



  • The most highly decorated officer in the 2nd Marine Division, Captain Thurmond Becker learns the penalty of breaking the Corps' Code of Ethics when he enters an affair with a married lieutenant in his division. Original....



  • Obsessed with the legend of Salt and Pepper--two American G.I.s, one black, one white, who reportedly defected to Russia--Staff Seargeant Wilhelm Pudarski goes against his superiors on a mission to find them. Original....



  • Laos File is a 2011 gold medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America! The death of a salty old senior NCO who ran special operations in Vietnam leads Marine Gunner Shake Davis on a shocking and potentially lethal quest to find out what ...



  • While searching for answers to World War II mysteries on the infamous island of Iwo Jima, retired Marine Gunner Shake Davis answers a call on his satellite phone. Not long after that he's back in the counter-terrorism game and immersed eyeball-dee...



  • Chosin File is a 2013 gold medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America! Nuclear saber-rattling in North Korea has created international palpitations and some unlikely partnerships in an effort to keep communist loose cannons from causin...



  • When his wife disappears on a deep, dark intelligence mission, gunner Shake Davis is desperate to find her. His quest to find Chan leads the retired Tier One Special Operator through the tragic Boston Marathon bombing and back to Beirut, Lebanon, whe...






  • Marine Gunner Shake Davis, his best buddy Mike, and their families are in a semi-tropical paradise fishing and soaking up the sun. The vacation in Belize is apparently a freebie, a relaxing interlude funded by persons unknown. And it provides a ch...



  • In the midst of a major move from suburban Virginia (“too close to the flagpole”) to the Great State of Texas (“my kind of place and my kind of people”) retired Marine Gunner Shake Davis is contemplating the government’s proposed normalizat...



  • Bronze Medal winner from the Military Writers Association of America!

    Shake Davis is back! Retired Marine officer Dale A. Dye returns with the seventh novel in his popular, award-winning “File” series: Aztec File. It’s time to Shake, r...



  • She is most definitely a chip off the old Shake Davis block. In fact, her Dad is more than a little proud of his daughter, who is both a research scientist oceanographer at the famed Woods Hole Institute and a U.S. Navy Reserve officer. When Tracey D...



  • He’s unplugged and living the dream at a new Texas Hill Country homestead, but Gunner Shake Davis never really expected that to last. When he gets a phone call asking him to undertake a lazy look-see mission to determine the root of at-sea oil rip ...



  • A bit bored and in a contemplative mood, Gunner Shake Davis examines a pile of long-forgotten family heirlooms and discovers a couple of mysterious relatives that pique his interest: A Confederate Navy riverboat captain and a World War I Marine who f...



  • Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the d...



  • Having lost two of the things he treasures most, retired Marine Shake Davis is at a low ebb. His give-a-damn meter is pegged on empty until he's contacted by a millionaire videogame producer whose wife has been kidnapped by a cutthroat band of parami...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dale A. Dye has published 17 books.

Dale A. Dye does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Burma File, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Dale A. Dye, Run Between the Raindrops, was published in September 1985.

Yes. Dale A. Dye has 1 series.