Author: Slayton Moorhound

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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780965650717

The Delivery Man is a saga of a downed Navy flyer, Robbie Kittering, held as a prisoner of war in Laos for eleven years, and his primeval will to survive. Kittering's commanding officer, T.K. Kirkman, and his wingman, Lorel Gillette, who were flying with him the day his plane was shot down, continued to search for their friend in hopes of finding him alive. He was eventually declared killed in action by the Navy. Lorel Grillette left the naval service and went to work for his father's firm, a world wide food distributor based in Paris. Eleven years after Kittering's disappearance, Gillette is in Vientaine, Laos on business and, by a strange turn of events, finds and rescues his long lost friend. Washington politics and military intransigence force Gillette to sneak the escaped flyer into the U.S. under an assumed name. Lorel has to break the news to Robbie that the Navy listed him as killed in action and that his wife has remarried. The story evolves around the former POW trying to see his children without divulging his identity. The story is intriguing, sad, happy, and rehabilitating. A slice of life at its best and worst. Moorhound's reputation as The Wordslinger of High Fiction rings true in this family tribulation.