VOL. 1 · No. 01
RENO, NEVADA · 2026
Gary Watkins
Fifty years in microwave engineering. Fourteen books about everything else.
Engineer · Author · Traveler
THE AUTHOR ISSUE
NewestFraud Nation
HistoryMemories of Vietnam
TravelSeeing Italy — places he's walked himself
CuriositiesAgartha, and other myths that won't die
01 The Shelf/ 02 The Profile/ 03 Dispatches/ 04 Inquiries
01 — The Shelf

The whole library, one click from your door

Fraud Nation by Gary Watkins
ResearchFraud Nation

The government’s own watchdog puts federal fraud losses between $233 and $521 billion a year — an estimate, because most of it is never caught. Who runs the schemes, and who pays.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by Gary Watkins
ResearchDiversity, Equity & Inclusion

What diversity, equity and inclusion actually mean — where the idea came from, how it spread through companies and campuses in the 2010s, and why it is now under fire.

Trump Pro or Con by Gary Watkins
ResearchTrump Pro or Con

Every serious charge against Donald Trump and every claim made for him, set side by side from the public record — January 6 and the Abraham Accords, the tariffs and the tax cuts. The ledger is laid out in full; the verdict is left to you.

Time Travel by Gary Watkins
IdeasTime Travel

Forward time travel is already real in small amounts — relativity says so, and astronauts live it. Backward is another matter entirely. What the physics allows, what it forbids, and where the paradoxes actually bite.

Racial Issues in the USA by Gary Watkins
ResearchRacial Issues in the USA

How race is defined, counted and argued about in America — where the categories came from and how they have shifted. Laid out from the public record, written to swing your perspective neither right nor left.

Crossfire Hurricane Explained by Gary Watkins
ResearchCrossfire Hurricane, Explained

The key players and the timelines, laid out from information openly available at publishing — written to swing your perspective neither right nor left.

Seeing Italy by Gary Watkins
TravelSeeing Italy

The Colosseum, the canals of Venice, the ruins of Pompeii — the places Gary has been, with the photographs he took himself and loved.

Know Before You Go - ROME - Travel Tips by Gary Watkins
TravelKnow Before You Go — Rome

Fifteen years of trips to the Eternal City, boiled down to the small things worth knowing before you land — plus his own favorite places in and around Rome.

Memories of Vietnam by Gary Watkins
HistoryMemories of Vietnam

From the ancient kingdoms of the Red River Delta, through a thousand years of Chinese rule and the fall of Saigon, to the reforms that rebuilt the country.

25 Influential People by Gary Watkins
People25 Influential People

How reach and credibility move money, behavior and policy — because the real power was never money or intelligence. It is attention.

Edward Snowden by Gary Watkins
ResearchEdward Snowden

The 2013 disclosures that exposed PRISM and the bulk collection of phone metadata, the Espionage Act charges, and the asylum that followed.

Agartha by Gary Watkins
Myth & LegendAgartha

The legendary civilization beneath the Earth's crust — crystal cities, Atlantean knowledge, and the barriers said to keep it hidden from the surface.

Myth or Reality by Gary Watkins
Myth & LegendMyth or Reality

Atlantis, Shambhala, Kitezh — the cities that sit between history and imagination, and why every culture keeps building them.

Butterfly Effect by Gary Watkins
IdeasButterfly Effect

Lorenz rounded one number in a weather model and got a different world — how the smallest change reshapes everything that comes after it.

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02 — The Profile

The engineer who kept asking questions

He spent fifty years explaining how microwaves work. The books are what happened when he turned that same habit on everything else.

Gary Watkins came out of Northeastern University with an electrical engineering degree in the mid-1970s and went straight to M/A-COM — Microwave Associates then — building RF and microwave components for military, aerospace and commercial work. He spent about seven years with his hands on the technology before moving to the other side of the table.

What followed was twenty-five years as a microwave sales representative and, eventually, president and CEO of Custom & Wireless Sales, covering Northern California and Northern Nevada. Under him the company grew from $1 million in sales to $100 million — built, by his own account, on knowing the engineering well enough to be worth trusting.

The books came from the same instinct. Non-fiction, mostly: political events, history, and the places he and his wife have actually walked. The photographs in Seeing Italy are his own.

Based Reno, Nevada Titles Fourteen Beats History · Travel · Current affairs
03 — Dispatches

Straight from the source

New writing, before it's a book — a reader newsletter is on the way.

04 — Inquiries

Press, speaking & a note to the author

Write to Gary directly, or browse every title.

gary@garywatkinsbooks.com Browse Gary's books