FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Kaboom Boys to be featured on Amazon’s Penn Station Billboard in NYC.
NEW YORK, NY – 09/22/25 In a testament to its exceptional popularity, The Kaboom Boys has achieved Amazon success, earning a featured spot on the exclusive Amazon Books billboard across from New York’s Penn Station, located at 7th Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan, NYC — one of the city’s most visible places. Reserved for only the most successful titles in the marketplace, the digital advertisement will run continuously from October 13–19, 2025, and the digital ad will showcase the book’s exceptional performance and popularity.
About The Kaboom Boys: An Untold Story of Valor and Brotherhood.
Ignoring a 4-F deferment, Edward Hume, a Pennsylvania coal miner’s son, traded the Great Depression’s shadow for the chaos of WWII, where he volunteered for bomb disposal’s perilous duty. Trained at Aberdeen Proving Ground and then in England with the Royal Air Force, the determined young captain struggles to command a maverick BD squad, a prelude to modern Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). He faces Nazi terror across the English countryside to the bloody hedgerows of Normandy. Amidst brutal battlegrounds, where life is measured not in years but in daily turns, Edward grows into his role, navigating not only deadly enemy devices but the volatile misfits under his command. The story reaches a fever pitch at the mystical Mont Saint-Michel, deserted by Nazi officers, where his team must overcome treacherous tides, hidden mines, and a cache of deadly bombs. Here, caught between duty and the frailty of humanity, the weight of every successful defuzing inches them toward victory yet every failure exacts a final, devastating toll. Edward’s story is cemented, its legacy now told.
About the Authors
Elaine Hume Peake
Drawing on her father’s World War II experience, she developed her Severn River Publishing historical drama series, A Call to War, and Book One, The Kaboom Boys. Her father, Captain Edward Hume, served with one of the first U.S. Army bomb disposal squads, training at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. After Elaine’s career in television news—during which she earned multiple journalism awards, including Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award—this project began as a screenplay. The story was later deepened by an unexpected friendship with one of her father’s WWII friends, a French refugee who knew him in Normandy, inspiring a character in the series. Elaine lives in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee with her husband, Christopher and their two golden retrievers, Lucia and Angus.
Don Keith
Don Keith, a graduate of the University of Alabama, is an award-winning broadcast journalist and a bestselling author of more than thirty-five books. He co-authored the thriller Firing Point with retired U.S. Navy Commander George Wallace, which was adapted into the film Hunter Killer. Keith has twice been named Billboard Magazine’s “Radio Personality of the Year” and has received awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for his reporting. In addition to his work in media and publishing, he is a partner in Fig Tree Media Group and has authored a book called Untold Millions: How You Can Capture and Save Eyewitness History, which provides guidance on creating an oral history project.
To learn more or schedule an interview with the authors, please contact:
Elaine Hume Peake ElainePeake247@gmail.com 518.478.4327
Don Keith don@donkeith.com 205.200.5432
