Henderson's 2018
New York Times bestseller
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler, Henderson's national bestseller
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War is the story of U.S. Navy pilot
Dieter Dengler, who was shot down over Laos and escaped from a
Pathet Lao POW camp six months later. On a similar topic, Henderson also wrote
Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II, a narrative nonfiction account of the February 23, 1945,
Raid at Los Baños that freed more than 2,000 civilian prisoners of war – most of them American men, women and children, as well as other Allied nationalities – from an Imperial Japanese Army internment camp located 40 miles south of Manila.
Rescue at Los Baños has received positive reviews from the trade and the media.
Kirkus Reviews called it "riveting." His true crime book
And the Sea Will Tell, a collaboration with
Charles Manson prosecutor
Vincent Bugliosi, was a #1
New York Times hardcover bestseller and highly rated
CBS miniseries. "The book succeeds on all counts", reported the
Los Angeles Times on February 17, 1991. "The final pages are some of the most suspenseful in trial literature." Henderson followed with another true crime title,
Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer. Henderson's book
True North: Peary, Cook, and The Race to the Pole examined the ongoing controversy as to which explorer reached the North Pole first:
Robert Peary in 1909 or
Frederick Cook in 1908.
Publishers Weekly commented: "This adventure yarn delivers as both a cautionary tale and a fitting memorial to polar exploration." Henderson's other Arctic title,
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition, tells the story of the ill-fated Charles Francis Hall expedition to the North Pole. Henderson co-authored ''
Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, the autobiography of African-American theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett, and Ring of Deceit: Inside the Biggest Sports and Bank Scandal in History'', which chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of boxing promoter and convicted swindler Harold Smith. ==Partial bibliography==