Toes of Apollo

Toes of Apollo is an exciting nautical adventure dramatizing the best and the worst about the U.S. Coast Guard. It's the Caine Mutiny on steroids! Lt. (jg) Tom Stierwell, a twenty-two year old office falls in love with the beautiful daughter of Captain Kearse, an out-of-control commanding officer on the Coast Guard's Albatrosss, a unique mystery ship operating in the Eastern Mediterranean, six-thousand miles from the USA. The location is on land and ashore in tumultuous Greece where the Colossus of Rhodes once stood, where religion and greed are a deadly reality on an island of Muslim minarets and the rebuilt castle of Christian crusaders.

TOM SWICEGOODgrew up on South Beach, Key West, Florida; graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy and the University of Florida; served on a U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker in Alaska and a Coast Guard Voice of America ship in the Mediterranean; hitch-hiked military aircraft around the world; spent a month in China; was stoned in Tripoli, Libya; rafted the Colorado River; photographed penguins in Antarctica; and wrote and directed exploitation movies in Hollywood. His other books include Our God Too!, The Intoxicated Taxi, Von Cosel, and The Submariner’s Son. Tom resides in Edgewater, Florida.