Summary

Challenging the Odds in the Drug Wars

New Novel features gripping story about the third world drug trade and a unique group who face the challenge to survive.

In the late 1970s and '80s, the South Texas borders spawned a unique group of aviators involved in the dubious industry of smuggling goods into Mexico. They traded their skill and bravado for the fast buck, matching whits with the authorities in Mexico, finding safe haven in the border towns of south Texas.

In Flyboys-Risky Business, the friction of the drug trade and our government's politics of expediency in Central America, forces this disparate group to cast their lot together. They fight to salvage their lives from the deceit and treachery of these merchants of despair. Coerced to play a game not of their choosing, sustained by their anger and an anachronistic sense of brotherhood, they fight back with the skills and cunning that are their calling cards in a perilous world. A world where latter-day pirates and vagabond adventurers ply their trade in the backwaters of aviation, where love of flight and spirit of innovation often replace good sense and judgment.

Populating the pages;

Don, tempting fate in the sky for half a century, from the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, to the wild land fires that savage the western states, has done it all.

Charlie, pilot, adventurer, schemes with Don, in an ill-conceived plan to save a fellow aviator held captive in El Salvador, his ransom a plane and its contents.

Nancy, stepping ashore from her travels in the Caribbean, finds herself attracted to the motley group of aviators, her unlikely companion, Jorge.

Jorge, his village decimated by a hurricane, emerges from the jungles of Central America, struggling to find a life for his family.

Wallace, fugitive from the law and the drug syndicates, looking for a new life and redemption.

Harry, owner-operator of Risky Business Inc.

Ken, from the wreckage of his navy career, debauching his way into the lives of the ill-fated group.

The catalyst is the loss of a shipment of cocaine in a plane wreck. A deadly coalition of individuals mass the collective resources of the DEA, Mexican Federales, and drug syndicates, to intimidate and coerce in their bid for the lucrative trade. Inexorably drawn into a web of deceit and greed, politics and power, the fated group must step into the lion's den, in the Central American Republic of El Salvador. They must find a way to save a friend, and themselves, from the denizens inhabiting a world of pleasures, pain, and murder.

Ultimately, it is a story of the triumph of spirit, and the bonds of brotherhood, fashioned from a common experience, and a belief in the basic value of a human being. In the face of overwhelming odds, seven people take on the drug cartels, their agents, and the shadow world that has cast a pall on their lives.

Together, they run the gauntlet.