http://awesomegang.com

Where Awesome Book Readers Meet Awesome Writers

1. ROLLING THUNDER

   About ROLLING THUNDER:

   Read About USAF Fighter Pilot “Duck Call” Donnie Higgens.

   Since duck calls are rather newsworthy these days, you might find it interesting to read about Captain Donny Higgens and his use of a duck call in combat. He plays a major role in my Wings of War series (which I wrote long before Duckcall Dynasty) beginning with the free book Rolling Thunder.

   Rolling Thunder is an historical fiction novel of war and politics during the Vietnam air war. Major character, Court Bannister, is the son of a famous movie star who fought in WWII. Other characters are at odds with the White house and the Pentagon.

   Rolling Thunder is an historical fiction novel of war and politics during the Vietnam air war.

   Tom Clancy calls it “a taut, exciting tale of good men in a bad war.” W.E.B. Griffin calls it “a novel of exceptional authenticity that hits like a thunderclap.” Dale Brown calls it a novel of “great authority and utter realism”. It is all of that, and more: an electrifying novel of men at war in Vietnam, the White House, and the Pentagon.

   With over 240 reviews, Rolling Thunder has a 4.6 rating.

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   Mark Berent is admirably suited to write these five historical fiction novels for he lived each story. He served four years and one day in Vietnam during the period from November 1965 until August 1973.

   As a captain he flew 265 missions in the F-100 in 1966 from Bien Hoa Air Base in South Vietnam. While off duty he flew with FACs in their O-1 aircraft to better understand the war. He also spent much time with the Special Forces’ III Corps Mike Force including going on patrol with them in the Loc Ninh area.

   His next tour was as a major flying F-4Ds out of Ubon Air Base in Thailand. He flew over 200 missions, first as a flight commander in the Night Owl Squadron then as commander of the famous Wolf FACs. Both units flew over North Vietnam and all of Laos. Berent spent hundreds of hours over the Ho Chi Minh Trail both as a night strike pilot and as a fast FAC controlling strikes against guns and trucks he found on the Trail.

   As a lieutenant colonel he served from July 1971 to August 1973, first as assistant air attaché then as air attaché, in the US Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (the Khmer Republic). While there, besides flying hundreds of hours in the U-10 and C-47 gathering vital intelligence, he also logged time with the Khmer Air Force in their T-28, 0-1, UH-1, and AC-47 aircraft.

   Additionally, he spent much time with Khmer ground forces teaching them to use air power. In January 1973 when the war was over in Vietnam for U.S. forces, all of the massive air power resources were made available for use in Cambodia to support the Khmer Army until August 15th when the last mission was flown. Due to a fluke in timing, the USAF command post in Saigon was unable to immediately shift full command to its new site in Thailand. During that period, Berent and his team ran the air war in Cambodia from a most unusual place.

   Mark Berent had three tours of combat in Southeast Asia and is the holder of the Silver Star, two DFCs, the Bronze Star, 25 Air Medals, Legion of Merit, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and the Cambodian Divisional Medal. In Cambodia he earned Cambodian pilot wings and paratrooper jump wings.

   ROLLING THUNDER is a post from Awesome Gang

2. White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Paul Clayton

   About White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Paul Clayton:

   One of the most haunting mysteries in American history — The Lost Colony of Roanoke — comes roaring back to life in White Seed, with a compelling cast of characters, among them:

   Maggie Hagger, indentured Irish serving girl, a victim of rape and intimidation,

   Manteo, Croatoan interpreter for the English, inhabitant of two worlds, belonging to neither,

   John White, ineffective Governor, painter, dreamer, father and grandfather,

   Captain Stafford, brave and disciplined, but cruel soldier, and

   Powhatan, shrewd Tidewater warlord who wages a stealthy war against the colonists.
   From Publishers Weekly: This above-average historical hews closely to the record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s second doomed attempt to plant the British flag in Virginia, but embroiders the who, what, when with enough… embellishment to create a riveting story. The focus is 17-year-old “wench” Maggie Hagger, whose passage on Raleigh’s ship was paid by colony Governor Sir John White so she can serve his pregnant daughter. The ship’s stormy passage to the New World — during which widower White falls for Maggie, who is meanwhile evading unwanted advances from a scalawag — establishes the many well-wrought characters, some noble (particularly real-life Native Manteo), others evil. The depiction of the colony’s physical and moral disintegration between 1587 and 1590 — as drunken, cannibalistic soldiers mutiny and brutalize the settlers they were meant to protect, and as colonists confront disease, starvation and madness — evokes a harrowing sense of human fallibility. Readers with more than a nodding familiarity with American colonial history will experience a … déjà vu, but others less hip to what happened in late-16th century times will find this saga, which starts slowly but soon reaches page-turner velocity, to be both a dandy diversion and an entertaining education.

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   Paul Clayton is the author of a three-book historical series on the Spanish Conquest of the Floridas– Calling Crow, Flight of the Crow, and Calling Crow Nation (Putnam/Berkley), and a novel, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (St. Martin’s Press), based on his own experiences in that war. Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam was a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates (Faithless) and David McCullough (John Adams). Clayton’s latest book– White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke– is a work of historical fiction.

   White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Paul Clayton is a post from Awesome Gang

3. Viking Fire

   About Viking Fire:

   856 CE, Ireland is a land of myth, magic, and blood. Viking raiders have fought the Irish for over half a century. Rival Irish clans promise only betrayal and carnage.

   Kaireen, daughter of Laird Liannon, is suddenly forced into an arranged marriage with her sworn enemy, a Viking. She refuses to submit! With no mention of love, only land and the protection of her clan, she endeavors to get her betrothed banished from her country. Will love find its way around her stubborn heart?

   Bram, the cocky Viking, finds himself without future or inheritance as a younger son in his family. A marriage to the Laird’s daughter would grant him land if he swears fidelity and if his men will fight along with the Liannons against any foe – Irish or Viking. However, the Laird’s feisty daughter only holds animosity for him and his kind. Is marriage worth the battle scars of such a relentless opponent?

   With the blame for a rival laird’s death treacherously set against the Liannons, Kaireen and Bram must find a way to lay aside their differences as an unforeseen darkness sends death snapping at their heels.
   Viking Fire is also a Kindle Daily Deal 99 cents until Feb. 2nd

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   Andrea has always enjoyed creating characters and stories. But it wasn’t until she was in her late twenties that she started writing novels.

   What happened that ignited the writing flame in her fingers? Divorced, and disillusioned by love songs and stories. They exaggerate. She thought. Love and Romance are not like that in the real world. Then she met her husband and realized, yes love and romance are exactly like the songs and stories say. She is now a happy wife, and a mom to three kids (two boys and a girl).

   Once she heard about a writer who never let her characters deviate from the script. If they did, she just killed them. How sad, she thought. For her one of the best parts of being a writer is letting the characters have a mind of their own and seeing where the story takes them.

   Viking Fire is a post from Awesome Gang