William S. Schaill

William S. Schaill is an American author who has had six books published, five of which revolve around the theme of nautical/underwater thrillers and one that is a historical biography.
Information on the Author
William Schaill was born October, 22 1944 in Yonkers, New York.
Schaill was a young sailor and spent most of the 11th grade aboard a school-ship called the Albatross, which took him through the Caribbean and Galapagos Islands. The ship that was built in 1920 and later sank in 1961 took with it a few members of the crew and a couple of its young students.
He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire from 1962 to 1966; Schaill studied Spanish and Spanish Literature while there. He was also a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) contract student.
He later joined the United States Navy and worked on a minesweeper that travelled the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Later he was trained as a Ship’s Salvage Diving Officer and eventually became Executive Officer and Acting Commanding Officer of a salvage ship in the Pacific.
He later worked as the president of a publishing company that handled mostly educational materials and during that time, wrote language arts filmstrips and workbooks and edited filmstrips on archaeology, anthropology and history. Schaill has also written close to one hundred short features for publications including Newspaper Enterprise Association, Soundings, Cruising World and The National Fisherman.
For fourteen years, Schaill managed many junior boat races (regattas) and swim meets. He also, during that time, taught teenagers to direct ships and vessels near the coast by using land reference points (coastal piloting).
Volunteered in 2007 and spent several months at the Whitney Marine Laboratory organizing and documenting a procedure to identify the mystery DNA molecule. Procedure designed and geared for use by high school students.
William S. Schaill continues to sail and dive in his free time and writes both fiction and non-fiction for various publications.
Books
*Cabot Station (1990)
*Sea Glow (1998)
*The Wreck of the Misericordia (1999)
*Trident Force (as Michael Howe) (2008)
*Sea Hawk (as Michael Howe) (2009)
*Admiral on Trial (coming in 2010)
*Threat Level (as Michael Howe) (coming in 2010)
Cabot Station
A glamour project 30 years ago, Cabot Station--an undersea sonar surveillance outpost in the North Atlantic--has seen its role guarding against missile sub attacks diminished by spy satellites and the emergence of glasnost. But a mystery submarine is detected and then, as Soviet subs bend every effort to prevent investigation, disaster strikes the station. Its crew is trapped on the ocean floor during an Atlantic storm, and commander Alfonso Madiera has to bring his men and women out of a seemingly hopeless situation. Retired U.S. Navy officer Schaill puts modern diving technology to good use in a story whose appeal is enhanced by its unfamiliar setting. His description of Cabot Station's operating routines will please techno-thriller fans, while the rescue mission, pitting human beings against an unforgiving sea, provides narrative excitement. Although the Russian subplot is anticlimactic (the mystery sub has neither technological nor political significance), first novelist Schaill displays promise as a writer of undersea adventure.
Sea Glow
A sunken Soviet nuclear sub lies silently off the coast of Puerto Rico, 300 meters below the surface. But its experimental plutonium reactor has become unstable, leaking radiation into the sea--radiation that endangers not only Puerto Rico, but America's entire Eastern seaboard. The Russian government secretly turns to famed U.S. salvage expert Al Madiera to quietly retrieve their deadly cargo, but as Madeira sets to work he quickly realizes he's not the only interested party. Soon he's caught in a vise between the U.S. and Russian governments, the Russian mob and Saddam Hussein, with global security hanging in the balance.
The Wreck of the Misericordia
A salvage expert works to recover sunken treasure and protect himself against the Cuban government which is intent on sabotaging his mission in this technothriller from the author of "Seaglow" and "Cabot Station."
Trident Force (As Michael Howe)
Special Ops vs. terrorist threatafirst in a gripping new action-adventure series.
The Trident Force is the blackest of the black ops. Their specialty: fighting the war on terror at sea. Handpicked for their skills above and below the waterline, they do the jobs no one else can handle and the jobs no one else could survive.
Sea Hawk(As Michael Howe)
A mysterious terrorist known as the Sea Hawk has deployed underwater mines to disrupt cargo operations around the world and create political and economic chaos. The Trident Force plunges in, but even as they search beneath the sea, their sights remain on their higher objective: find the Sea Hawk and bring him down.
Admiral on Trial
Alternately praised as Britain’s greatest admiral and maligned as the incompetent who lost the North American colonies, Admiral Richard Howe played a significant but often misunderstood role in British and American history. In The Admiral on Trial, veteran author William S. Schaill delivers an illuminating and comprehensive account of Howe’s fascinating saga. In essence, it is the story of an officer beloved by his men and blessed with a brilliant military but undone in his most renowned campaign by a temperate disposition and compassion for the people he was sent to conquer. The author charts the course of Howe’s life from his early years amidst the harshness of eighteenth-century London through his first gut-wrenching voyage aboard the ill-fated Severn to his pivotal role as commander in chief of the British naval forces during the American Revolution. We learn how the admiral’s experiences made him a great leader who abhorred brutality. In North America, Richard Howe sought not to snuff out a rebellion but to mend an empire, not to impose British will in a series of bloody military confrontations, as many of his peers would have, but to negotiate a compromise. The ultimate failure of his approach raises a number of questions, foremost among which is, Did the Americans actually win their independence or did Admiral Howe, in his unwillingness to torment a people he respected, let the colonies slip through his fingers?
Threat Level(As Michael Howe)
Third in the explosive Trident Force military action series.
Off the coast of Africa, modern-day pirates are striking at will. But when they kill the young daughter of an influential friend of the U.S. President, they go over the line. Because now the Trident Force has been sent in to find the bloodthirsty brigands and put them out of business - permanently.

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