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MISSED APPROACH is an
action/suspense novel targeted for a mainstream audience. Its theme is
aviation when pushed to the limit. Its main character is a determined,
good-hearted pilot/aircraft salesman who risks it all for his deep-seated
beliefs. Its venue fluctuates between various locales in the tumultuous
country of Brazil and in the pulsating American city of Fort Lauderdale
during the early 1980s.
MISSED APPROACH will captivate
the reader with each page through its passion for authenticity and realism,
and its underlying intrigue. The novel will find favor in a wide variety of
readers: the 600,000 active pilots in the United States; the 700,000
aviation industry employees; the millions of passengers who fly the
airlines; the multitude of people who eagerly search for an avenue of escape
and long to be thrust onto center stage in hopes of righting wrong; and
lastly, the many proud Brazilians who might correlate the story's fictitious RioAero, SA, with their own country’s now renowned Embraer aircraft
corporation.
While the novel’s characters are
engaging, memorable, and will find a spot within each reader’s heart, the
action and suspense interwoven into each chapter make the tale told even
more gripping than Crichton’s AIRFRAME (Knopf, 1996). Though not a
Clancy-genre techno-thriller, the story's clean, crisp, fact-filled style
makes it a compelling read.
You’ll be plunged back in time
to the fast-paced, multi-million dollar aircraft sales days beginning
February 20, 1981, in Fort Lauderdale and Rio de Janeiro where anything can
happen...and does. During a long three day span, you’ll learn how aircraft
are designed and produced. You’ll go deep inside the high-performance sales
business and follow the exploits of Rick Harris as he struggles to uncover
one of the most complex and far-reaching plots of sabotage ever to plague an
airframe manufacturer. And along the way, you’ll learn the successful way to
sell multi-million dollar equipment, as well as learn how to fly a high
performance turbo-prop regional airliner well enough to talk the talk.
This tale of suspense and
intrigue is vibrant with real-life risk, glamour, and winner-take-all
rewards. It is packed with insider information that’s interwoven with a dash
of fiction. The story is so carefully crafted that even the most savvy
aviation enthusiast will find fiction virtually indiscernible from fact.
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