Chopper Pilot’s Delight
Chopper Pilot’s Delight

Author: Charlie Richards

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published: 2024-06-07

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1487440987

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While Enrique Walters thinks the request is weird, gas prices are high and work in the off-season is slow. He takes ex-mayor Sheldon’s money to use his helicopter to surveil the ranch where the new acting mayor—Albert—is living. Even hearing the crazy family rumors about Albert, Enrique thinks Sheldon’s infatuation is due to the fact that the ranch is not only the place where Albert lives but also where the sheriff’s partner works. Sheldon’s actions against the sheriff caused the guy to get fired, after all. Enrique figures Sheldon wants to get some sort of blackmail information on them all. Still, money is money, and Enrique needs it. When Enrique’s trips during the day turn up nothing, Sheldon insists Enrique fly by at night. He spots something he can’t explain right before something slams into his bird. Struggling to control his descent, he hits his head. As he slides into unconsciousness, he figures that’s the end. Enrique’s surprised to wake up, safe and sound, in the arms of…something. He learns gargoyles are real, and he’s the mate of one named Trynche. Enrique knows he can never allow the ex-mayor to find out the truth. Except, Sheldon learns a little something another way and demands Enrique’s help in exposing the monsters. With the help of his new friends, can Enrique shut down Sheldon for good and keep their secrets safe?

The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot
The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot

Author: Colin Cotterill

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 164129261X

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After 15 cunning, mischievous, heartbreaking, hilarious, eye-opening, and atmospheric installments, Colin Cotterill's award-winning Dr. Siri Paiboun series comes to a close. Make sure you don't miss this last chapter, a deliciously clever puzzle that illuminates the history of World War II in Southeast Asia. Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is “we,” and why have they left no return address? To the chagrin of his wife and friends, who have to hear him read the diary out loud, Siri embarks on an investigation by examining the text. Though the journal was apparently written by a kamikaze pilot, it is surprisingly dull. Twenty pages in, no one has died, and the pilot never mentions any combat at all. Despite these shortcomings, Siri begins to obsess over the diary’s abrupt ending . . . and the riddle of why it found its way into his hands. Did the kamikaze pilot ever manage to get off the ground? To find out, he and Madame Daeng will have to hitch a ride south and uncover some of the darkest secrets of the Second World War.

The 600 m.o.l. - Black Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam: Tuskegee Glory - Second Edition
The 600 m.o.l. - Black Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam: Tuskegee Glory - Second Edition

Author: Dr. Joe Ponds

Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.

Published: 2023-09-10

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13:

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This book is aimed at sharing information about a population of men who engaged in military service to their country with duties involving aviation. The era that this book addresses is one during which there was considerable racial turmoil in America. So, these were stalwart men who entered into a professional career field where they were not readily embraced. The field that these brave men entered was one that was dominated by white males. It is the story about the U.S. military’s 600 m.o.l. – Black helicopter pilots who experienced combat duty in Vietnam, some making the ultimate sacrifice of giving their lives, and who certainly have a place in U. S. history. It is also a story of the uncommon fortitude, perseverance, and triumph of black men who were often compelled to fight multiple battles against multiple enemies simultaneously (the enemy overseas and racial discrimination at home). The 600 m.o.l. is perhaps one of the greatest stories that was never told, at least up to now.

The Quest for Earthly Delights
The Quest for Earthly Delights

Author: David Hallam

Publisher: David Hallam

Published: 2024-04-24

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1068625643

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Datch and Carina have just been joined in a ceremony on Bellatrix five. They are on honeymoon and sitting enjoying the sun in a beach resort on Luyten seven when they decide that they want Ice-cream. The real thing as Datch put it is only twelve light years away on Sol three AKA Earth. Can they sneak on to the world and get ice-cream without being noticed after all it has not made contact yet. Datch however does not do quiet and the Raven is quite a large ship and therefore they can't just land it anywhere, can they?

The Raging of the Sea
The Raging of the Sea

Author: Charles Gidley Wheeler

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0595363229

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Steven Jannaway, the son of war hero Frank Jannaway, joins the Royal Navy as a cadet and struggles up the promotional ladder, moving from the bridge of a destroyer in the Mediterranean to the pilot's cockpit of a carrier-borne aircraft flying night patrols over the Malacca Strait. Urging him along the way is an admiral's daughter, Julietta, who is the perfect wife for an ambitious young officer. But Steven tires of the political infighting and the race for promotion, and whatever success he achieves is not without high emotional cost-to him as well as the woman he loves. "One of the best sea novels to appear in years."-Publishers Weekly "A very fine, compelling, thoughtful novel."-Cleveland Plain Dealer

A Life Post-1939 Autobiography
A Life Post-1939 Autobiography

Author: Rajinder Sharma

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2020-11-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1982282673

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I was created by Indian parents in a British colony of East Africa in 1939. Despite some disasters in my early life, I was able to progress and experience the joy of existence. After starting work as an engineer in Kenya I ended up spending most of my working life in Britain. For fifty years I travelled around our fabulous globe both for my work and for my pleasure. My dedication is for the people on my planet who had brought me into existence, educated me and enabled me to have life experiences around our unique globe.

I Think of Africa
I Think of Africa

Author: Anthony M. Whateley

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1608609537

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This is the true story of a man who turns his childhood love of the great outdoors and his day dreams about wild and far-off places into a wonderful reality. At twenty, in 1965, he leaves his family in England to work in New Zealand, New Guinea, Australia and South Africa. Camping, hunting and fishing fill his spare time, often alone in wild remote country with primitive people. Returning to England five years later his love for Africa is confirmed. Eventually, Zululand draws him back to an exciting and often dangerous life in the bush. In Hluhluwe, the oldest game reserve in Africa, he becomes involved in wildlife management. Often tinged with humour, the story presents descriptions of life in the bush, his colleagues, zoological and botanical work, close encounters with big game, and problems facing managers and scientists. Settling down to share his love of the bush with his new wife and daughter, descriptions of Zululand come straight from his heart. In 1987, they leave troubled South Africa to settle in England. He works on a country estate with trips to Dartmoor and the Scottish Highlands, revisiting New Zealand and a changed South Africa. In 2005 they settle in Crete, Greece.