Her Reluctant Hero

A dream shattered – a love jilted – a heart broken. People change. Is there a second chance for love above the clouds? It’s the swinging sixties. An ex-fiancé flies back into a stewardess’s life. He dumped her once. But this war veteran knows what he wants now. Torn between attraction and fear, will she head for the runway or the hangar? She’s left behind her past, with its small-town values and jilted love to see the world and become independent. He’s returned from war and death with a single goal—to redeem the worst mistake of his life. She wants nothing to do with him. He wants her as his wife. Will their flight end with an emergency landing—a total crash—or a perfect glide into the right airport, the right gate, and the right destination?

Her Reluctant Hero (Historical Romance)

By Anne Greene

Winged Publications

ISBN #978-1980368526

Price $5.94 (Paperback)

Price $2l99 (Kindle)

94 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

Laura Richards is awakened with her home in fames. The young fireman is a volunteer named Josh Langford. He carries her to safety, but all she learns is his name. Then their lives cross again at Texas Tech where they become an item. But Josh is an ROTC cadet, and this is 1968. He knows he’ll be heading for Vietnam, and doesn’t want to leave a widow, so breaks up with her. While he is in Vietnam, Laura becomes an airline stewardess. Their paths cross again when he flies home, and now Josh wants to pursue Laura, but she wants nothing to do with him.

The author always does her homework in researching the period her stories are set in. This interesting romance is set during the war in South East Asia. The helicopter school at Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas is almost forgotten now, but I was there is 1966/67, and remember it fondly, as I remember coming home from Vietnam, and the airline stewardess that served me on the plane from California to DFW in Texas. A flight I will never forget. Reading this novella reminded me of my own past, and it helped me connect to the characters. It was fun reading about Laura and Josh, and their falling in love again after so many mistakes. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Author of THESE ALIEN SKIES 

The Three-Nine Line

The Three-Nine Line (Murder Mystery)

“A Cordell Logan Mystery”

By David Freed

The Permanent Press www.thepermanentpress.com

ISBN #978-1579623999

280 Pages

Price $29.00 (Hardcover)

Rating 5-Stars

“Well Written With A Good Twist.”

Vietnam. Where Americans died. Where pilots were shot down and captured, spending years in captivity in the North’s Hanoi Hilton, being tortured. Now America is seeking a Trade Agreement with Vietnam, and three ex-POWs are returning to Hanoi as good will ambassadors to cement the agreement. At a meeting, they are reunited with a vicious guard they nicknamed “Mr. Wonderful”, who provided some of the more horrific torture. The former POWs are to let him know they no longer carry any grudge against him or Vietnam. But the next day Mr. Wonderful is found murdered, and two ex-POWs are arrested for his murder.

The President wants an investigator sent to Hanoi to unravel the mystery, and hopefully save the Trade Agreement. Cordell Logan, private pilot instructor, and ex-Alpha team assassin is called back into service. His old friend is now heading another unit, and he wants Logan to go to Hanoi, disguised as a psychiatrist named Bob Barker to act as the prisoners’ doctor while in confinement.

This was a well-written mystery with a good twist. The setting was a good touch, and using ex-POWs as characters, though fictional, was a good plot tool. In 1973 I was part of security for Operation Welcome Home in California where families awaited aircraft bringing their heroes home. It’s a time I’ll never forget, as those men stepped off the planes, and their families rushing through the security ropes to get to them. We wouldn‘t have stopped them if we wanted, and we didn’t want to. We also guarded them at news conferences and in the hospital. 42 years ago, and you never hear about those heroes today. Even the war in Vietnam is almost forgotten. But this is a mystery story, and I highly recommend it to mystery lovers.

Tom Johnson

Detective Mystery Stories

35 Years Ago Today

Although I had taken 60 days terminal leave, I departed my last duty station on December 1st 1978. February 1st, 1979 was my official date of retirement. It's hard to believe I retired 35 years ago today. I was active duty from November 1958 until February 1979; twenty years of good and bad assignments. But a lot of great friends, the names of many are forgotten, but their faces still haunt my memory, as do their voices. I know I've mentioned this before, but one evening several years ago the telephone rang and on the other end was a voice from Vietnam. Talk about ghosts, I instantly recognized that voice. He was a young three-stripe sergeant who worked for me in Vietnam. Today he lives in Tennessee and teaches school in Alabama. He didn't make a career in the military, but went into teaching instead. Like many from that period, Vietnam made him choose another career than the military. But anyway, I'm feeling a little nostalgic today, I hope you don't mind.

Tom

Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising by Tom Johnson, available on kindle for $.99 at http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Moon-Rising-ebook/dp/B00872JTVO/ref=la_B008MM81CM_sp-atf_image_3_32?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378910659&sr=1-32 The paperback edition is currently out of print, sorry.

The short novel is of a Recon Team and the dangers they faced in Vietnam. There is no Rambo stuff. These men weren’t heroes, they were only men who wanted to survive and go home. This is a collection of short episodes facing the fictional combat team led by SSgt Martin at the height of the war. Some things you may not have known about the Vietnam War.

Bad Moon Rising

Bad Moon Rising by Tom Johnson, available on Kindle for only $.99.

The short novel of a Recon Team and the dangers they faced in Vietnam. You won’t find comic book super heroes here, or badass killing machines like the men’s paperback novels. If you ask a real veteran of the Vietnam War, they’ll tell you it was the helicopter pilots and the medics. These men weren’t looking to be heroes, they were only men who wanted to survive a crazy war and go home. This is a collection of short episodes facing the fictional combat team led by SSgt Martin at the height of the war. Some things you may not have known about the real Vietnam War.