IO9 has an excerpt from David Kowalski’s  The Company of the Dead and it sounds like an interesting alternate history novel. From the blurb:

The journey begins with a mysterious man aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage. His mission? To save the ship. The result of his efforts is a world where the United States never entered World War I, thus launching the secret history of the 20th Century. Fast-forward to April 2012 and Joseph Kennedy, relation of John F. Kennedy, lives in an America occupied on the East Coast by Greater Germany and on the West Coast by Imperial Japan. He is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order – even though it may mean his own death.

 The book comes out next week (March 13, 2012 for those of you reading this in the future), but the IO9 article has an excerpt for you to read now.