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Life is an adventure; life in the sky, exponentially so. Airline pilot-author-blogger Eric "Cap'n Aux" Auxier has done it all. For the first time, enjoy a collection of Captain Auxier's stories from such publications as Airways magazine, Plane & Pilot, NYCAviation.com and his own blog (capnaux.com). Also included are several unpublished works, guest stories from fellow pilot-authors and other gems.

Once again, Author Eric "Cap'n Aux" Auxier puts you in the pilot's seat at 30,000 feet! More stories, more guest authors, more love, laughs and tears, in an adventure spanning over three decades in the sky! In this special, military-themed volume, Cap'n Aux takes a backseat to several Ace Top Gunners of today and yesteryear, who spin their own adrenaline-pumping yarns. Only difference is, these tall tales are true!

There has never been a mid ocean ditching by an air carrier jet." These are the words that haunt Captain Charlie Wells when he realizes that his jumbo jet has a problem over the Atlantic. None of the passengers or crew could know that a disgruntled airline mechanic has sentenced them to a night of terror. As the flight approaches the Equal Time Point, and is the most distant from land, Captain Wells and his crew of pilots and flight attendants struggle to avoid making history.

Tom Ballard, a young Marine, had been fighting for his life in Vietnam less than 24 hours ago. Now he was on a plane escorting the body of his best friend home. Kate Newhouse had run away from her past to the mean streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood. She had survived and clawed her way up the first few rungs of the ladder to success, thanks to the man who had discovered her, Jack Reynolds, a World War II Marine now writer. On the long flight home Tom and Kate find themselves drawn together.

There's only one way to escape the mafia. Friends since youth, Johnny Sangremano and Mike Kelly shared everything - until time forced them to choose which side of the law they would live on. Johnny is the son of one of the most powerful Mafia families. Mike, following in his father's footsteps, becomes a federal agent, determined to end the Mafia's reign of terror.

Vengeance shows the disastrous results of these decisions on the lowest common denominator: the war fighter. Closely following the actual battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, the listener gets an insider’s view so vivid the smell of cordite will hang in the air.

A Nazi's Nazi, SS Generalleutnant von Bassenheim has no intention of surrendering. And Lieutenant Commander Atsugi, an Imperial pilot with nothing left to live for, wants nothing less than total revenge. With Axis powers facing defeat, the two men set out on a suicide mission in a submarine aircraft carrier with two nuclear weapons on board and two Seiran fighters destined to drop their loads on American cities. In a cat-and-mouse game spanning the globe, one OSS officer and a team of naval aviators and ship commanders hunt the rogue submarine.

Matt Cooper is a 1940s Los Angeles private eye. Here are six short Cooper stories compiled into one novel.

I am a survivor of an 11-year physically and emotionally abusive relationship. I suffered beatings, broken bones, knocked out teeth, public humiliation, and several serious murder attempts. This is unfortunately not a new story in our society today.

The seas were empty of all life. The Midwest was a desert. The western states fought wars over water as coastal cities sank under rising sea levels. What food was left was hoarded by the wealthy living lavish lives in the city states while those around them starved. Vin Tanner and the others in his settlement survived by scavenging the urban waste lands around the cities. There was no law except survival of the fittest in a civilization on the verge of collapse.

Charlie Goodnight hates being charged a toll on every head of cattle he drives over Raton Pass, so he hires Roy Scuggins, a famed scout, trapper, guide, and explorer, to find a way around Raton Pass.

Airship Nine is a tale rich in technological detail and vision, full of action, passion, and the eerie splendors of the Antarctic. Through their fading radio links connecting them to a dying world devastated by unbridled nuclear war, the men and women of Airship Nine—a new-era passenger-and-cargo blimp—and for those onboard the Soviet supply ship Primorye, the holocaust has suddenly and completely destroyed their homelands. The black clouds of nuclear winter are spreading rapidly across the globe, and their only hope for survival is in the white ice fields ahead.

A frantic late-night phone call from his estranged wife, Linda, brings Jake Sullivan back to his hometown in Western Pennsylvania. Jake's childhood friend and law school classmate Simon Branson is about to be appointed a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania when his wife is brutally murdered and he is charged with the crime. Turning to Jake for help, Branson pleads his innocence and claims to be the victim of a political plot to wreck his judicial appointment.

“Everything’s changed.” So says Jake Sullivan as he recalls his recent past. Dealing with private and professional turmoil, Jake, and his best friend Mike Lang find themselves on the hunt in Key West, trying to unravel an assassination plot in this tropical paradise. Only here could a high school reunion, a vice president elect, and thousands of Parrotheads attending a Meeting of the Minds, all play a part in their attempts to take down an evil mastermind.

A Jamaican drug dealer surrenders to authorities after coming ashore in the Florida Keys and tries to bargain for his safety with a fantastic tale of lost pirate treasure and its connection to the Shower Posse drug cartel, the CIA, and more. When a brazen daylight attempt on the dealer’s life leaves American citizens dead on the streets of Miami, President Jordan Fletcher asks Jake Sullivan, chief federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Miami office, and his investigator and best friend, Mike Lang, to join a special DEA task force and go to Jamaica to investigate.

Jake Sullivan had everything - his dream job as the chief prosecuting attorney in the Miami Office of the Justice Department, a loving family, and good friends. Many would describe him as a bulldog of a man with a strong moral streak. No one would have predicted what was about to come. When Jake Sullivan takes on a high-profile case, he naturally anticipates both a moral and a professional victory.

When a retired United States Senator's passion for deep-sea treasure hunting off the coast of Palm Beach leads to murder, Jake Sullivan, chief prosecutor for the Justice Department in Miami, thinks he has an open and shut case: the DNA of the man pulled out of the warm waters near the ill-fated yacht matches blood found on the deck. But life is never so simple for Jake. In a rush of political maneuvering, Jake's suspect is whisked away by the State Department under a claim of diplomatic immunity. The mystery man is no simple treasure thief; he is a covert operator for the Mossad.

When a United States Treasury Agent detailed with investigating an arms deal between a Mexican cartel and a European far-right group goes missing in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, FSI is soon on the case. Jake and Mike are sent by Jordan Fletcher to investigate whether or not a mysterious new financier involved in the deal is a part of Group 45 and responsible for the Agent’s disappearance.

Jake Sullivan has just returned from a life-and-death struggle in Mexico and still faces an ongoing battle with Group 45. He soon finds himself in a confrontation with a late-night assailant, the descendent of a minor historical figure of the 19th century, who provides Jake with an amazing tale and a strange drawing that may hold the key to solving a murder clouded by history and finding the long-lost City of Gold. Once again, Jake and Mike embark on an adventure, aided by a knowledgeable young intern from the Federal Institute of Native Studies.

Jake and Mike have arrived in Martinique, closing in on the elusive “Broker”. Tipped off to a location, they join an assault force provided by the French government through the head of the DST, Philip Rostand. Fighting their way through a beautiful island estate, Jake and Mike become separated, and when Jake makes his way into a secret study, he is attacked from behind and knocked unconscious. Waking momentarily, he sees the shadowy outline of his attacker leaning over him, a form he seems to recognize before darkness claims him again.