Cuban Missile Crisis

The Man Who Saved the World

The man who saved the world, is how some people have described Gary Slaughter. Gary is a fellow author and during the Cuban Missile Crisis he was serving as a naval officer on the destroyer, USS Cony facing off a nuclear armed Soviet submarine. The events that had the world teetering on the brink of nuclear war are told in Slaughter’s book, Sea Stories: A Memoir of a Naval Officer. Under tremendous pressure, with time running out, horror was avoided—but only because of the decisions made by those on the front lines.

Slaughter is a participant along with Svetlana Savranskaya, and Modupe Akinola in a Choiceology podcast titled Under Pressure-- How can we make important decisions when time is scarce, and the stakes are high? Click on Choiceology to access the podcast.

Works by Slaughter include:

  • Sea Stories: A Memoir of a Naval Office

  • WW II POWs in America and Abroad: Astounding Facts about the Imprisonment of Military and Civilians During the War

  • The Journey of an Inquiring Mind: From Scholar, Naval Officer, and Entrepreneur to Novelist

  • The four book Series Cottonwood— Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

  • And the 1979 work— Data processing training handbook: Cost justification, measurement, and evaluation (PBI series for the computer and data processing)

Gary also wrote a review of my book, The Language of Excellence for the literary magazine, 2nd & Church, In commenting on the book, he said:

“In my judgment, The Language of Excellence by Tom Collins is among the best five books I have ever read on this subject.

Tom Collins’ The Language of Excellence just may be the only guidebook to personal and business excellence you will ever need to read. Borrowing from a lifetime of achievement, Collins lays out clear guidelines that can help you find your own success while enabling you to offer others the same excellence that has marked both his life and career. A must-read for achievers.”

 All of my books are available from Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million as well as your favorite neighborhood bookstore. Ebook and print editions are also available on Amazon, Google Play, Apple iBooks,  Smashwords, and other online bookstores. Audio editions are available on Amazon, iTunes and directly from Audible.com. The latest book, Exploring Asheville, was the winner of the Independent Press Award for its literary category.