His entry begins:
Very seldom do I reread a book. But I have just reread Wind, Sand and Stars by the French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.About The Warriors, from the publisher:
Saint-Ex’s lyrical descriptions of flight, his gift for word pictures, and his humanist philosophy captivated me when I first read him. I was still in my teens, and I knew nothing about flying. But Saint-Ex gave me the urge to fly. His airplane took him through an exotic world of foreign lands to visit, storms to battle, great distances to traverse. I wanted to live in that world.
Now that I have just retired as an Air National Guard flight engineer with nearly 5,000 hours of flying in more than 40 countries, I returned to the book that helped send me into that career.
Through the printed word, I traveled again with Saint-Ex. Turns out I have flown to many of the places he described in Wind, Sand and Stars. Revisiting his descriptions felt like...[read on]
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson has seen plenty of action lately, so he’s happy with his new assignment as safety officer at a Kyrgyzstan air base. It’s a pretty laidback way to spend the next year.Learn more about the book and author at Thomas W. Young's website and blog.
Or so he thought. On his second day, a C-27 crashes on the runway with a load of electronic gear—and opium. Recruiting his battle companion Sergeant MajorSophia Gold as interpreter, he investigates not only the crash but the source of the cargo, and the answers they find will lead them into a conflict as lethal as any they have known.
A new Balkan war is brewing, driven by a man of ruthless ambition. Parson himself flew during the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, so he’s known their horror firsthand. But neither he nor Gold has seen anything like what’s about to happen now.
My Book, The Movie: The Mullah's Storm.
Writers Read: Thomas W. Young (August 2011).
Writers Read: Tom Young (August 2012).
Writers Read: Tom Young.
--Marshal Zeringue
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