Rex Mangin

Broschiertes Buch

Mercenary

Beschreibung

Rex Macare returns to New Zealand after several years on the front line of the Cold War in Germany, a pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is still young and restless and keen to make some real money. He puts the word around that he's a pilot for hire and it's not long before he finds himself deeply involved in the mercenary business, covert flying in Europe, Asia, and North Africa for serious money, but it's dangerous, very dangerous as he begins to realise as he is drawn inextricably into the big money high risk business. He meets and falls in love with the beautiful Kate, a fashion model and this introduces him to a wild sex scene. The story is set around the world, the South Seas, Vietnam, Paris, Algeria, Australia, and the DDR, the German Democratic Republic, the old East Germany. It's a fast moving story that I'm sure you will enjoy.

Autor

Biography. Why do I write? Well I get incredible pleasure from it and that's the most compelling thing that drives this 'writing urge'. I'm retired after a lifetime in aviation both military and civilian and have travelled the world, really travelled it. I live just outside Auckland in New Zealand. Several years ago I attended a reunion in England for some of my old flying buddies from the Cold War years. I was a front line pilot in NATO's Second Tactical Air Force in the old West Germany during the 1960s and spent a few 'interesting' years eyeballing the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies. If war had broken out then I was going to 'nuc' eastern Poland, probably would not have survived, definitely would not have survived, but war did not break out and here I am writing in my homeland in the far off South Seas. It was that reunion that triggered my writing urge. I met up with my navigator from that time so long ago, we had not seen each other for forty five years, and just one week after that memorable reunion he died, minor surgery on a troublesome knee, he died under the anesthetic, these things happen, random chance; it hit me hard, really hard. I had just arrived back in New Zealand when he died and I had no way of getting to his funeral in England. I did write a 'eulogy' and it was read by another of my Cold War mates at Harry's funeral. It was that incident that got me thinking about all the quite incredible things that Harry and I had experienced during that early part of our lives, it needed to be recorded and thus the desire to write was born. My first effort started out as a biography, I put a lot of time and effort into that and tried hard to get it published, but getting published these days is just about impossible, and biographies have absolutely no appeal to the general public. It's up on the top shelf; actually it's not all that good, needs a lot of rewriting and it will get it; one day. I paid to have a professional critic give it a going over and it was his criticisms that set me off in the right direction. 'Cold War Warrior' will appear as an e-book one day, probably in memoir form, but it could be a while. Right now I enjoy the short story format and there will be several more collections for you to read appearing soon. When I am not writing I spend a lot of time chasing marlin off the north east coast of New Zealand, game fishing is a 'bug' you get and it's a hard one to shake. I have my own boat all set ...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rex Mangin
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9798230839040
• Artikelnr.: 73517127