About Enemy At The Helm by Mark Dickson
2026 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Winner for Fiction – Thriller – Terrorist Genre
AMAZON BESTSELLER
The United States is in crisis.
All the major US ports have been rendered inoperable by the simultaneous sinking of large vessels in their choke points, thus halting the bulk of global trade. At first, the president thinks he has been given a gift. He always thought the United States got the raw end of the deal in international trade because of the spineless behavior of his predecessors. But with the resulting shortages of everything, he soon realizes that people in extreme situations behave irrationally, and he struggles to stay afloat himself.
Tom Jensen, a young hippie devoted more to surfing than to working, is improbably caught in the middle, drawn to fight back against the unseen forces driving the global disaster. Joining his FBI agent uncle and others working to uncover the terrorist plot, he gets an international adventure he never saw coming.
Enemy at the Helm is the provocative and engaging first installment of a new thriller series full of terrorist activity, conspiracies, and the military operations and other, less-expected efforts to stop them. This fast-paced story will keep you turning the pages and leave you eagerly anticipating the next episode in the series.
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About the Author
Mark Dickson has lived a few lives most thriller writers only research: surgeon, farmer, global traveler, and student of the fighting arts. His debut geopolitical thriller, Enemy at the Helm, is a PenCraft Best Book Award winner and a top 5 Amazon Bestseller, praised for turning the world’s fragile shipping lanes into a high-seas chessboard of drones, warships, and very bad decisions. Readers Favorite calls it “absolutely rip-roaring” and “fast-paced,” lauding Dickson’s sharp, intelligent writing, heartbreaking characters, and his knack for making radar screens and storm-tossed decks feel like live fire.
AuthorsReading.com hails the novel as a “high-stakes geopolitical thriller” and a sobering reminder of how one overlooked thread can unravel the entire global tapestry.
TheBeardedBlackCowboy says “Enemy at The Helm is a forecasted blueprint for what we see happening around the world. The author and his creative genius does an excellent job bringing us in.”
Literary Titan says, “. . .hit me harder than I thought it would.”
When he’s not sinking ships on the page, Dickson draws on his surgical precision and real-world experience to craft mayhem for readers who like their thrillers global, gritty, and just a little too plausible.
When he’s not working. . .Oh wait, he’s always working. And training for SWAT team qualification.
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