Eric L. QualkenbushAuthor

The books

Books from a life in the Navy and the CIA


Two espionage novellas, one Civil War novel and two memoirs. The fiction is invented; the world it is set in is not. All of it draws on service that began in the Navy off Vietnam and ran through thirty-five years in the CIA.

Novel · Illinois, 1861

The Long Road to Lovington

A Civil War Novel Based on the True Story of Samuel S. Boggs

June 1861. A young farmer leaves Lovington, Illinois, to answer Lincoln’s call — and his road home runs through Chickamauga and Andersonville.

Memoir · USS Ouellet, 1972

Grand Opening

From Ohio to the Gunline, A Navy Memoir

A Navy memoir of 1969 to 1972: from a small Ohio town to the Gunline off North Vietnam, as a Radarman aboard the destroyer escort USS Ouellet.

Novella · Sofia, 1985

A Line Through Sofia

A Cold War Espionage Novella

Sofia, 1985. A Bulgarian State Security officer secretly volunteers to spy for the CIA — then is posted back behind the Iron Curtain.

Novella · Libya, 1990

The Quiet Betrayal

An Espionage Story

Libya, 1990. A chemist inside Qadhafi’s chemical weapons program begins to question the regime he serves — and the CIA sees an opportunity.

Coming soon

Memoir · A CIA career

The Accidental Cold Warrior

A CIA Officer’s Journey Through The Cold War

The memoir of an unlikely thirty-five-year CIA career — from young case officer to Chief of Station in three countries, and the family who moved with him.

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