Rotorboys - Paperback

by Larry Carello (Author)

SOMETIMES THE PAST REFUSES TO DIE...

U.S. Navy helicopter pilot Bud Lammers was on the fast track to promotion when a botched raid in Vietnam tainted his career and threw his marriage into a tailspin. Now, a decade after the war, he and his men are on the verge of wrapping up a successful peacetime mission, or so they think.

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos have entrenched themselves as President and First Lady of the Philippines. The charismatic couple has vowed to bring peace and prosperity to a country that's labored nearly four hundred years under the yoke of colonial rule.

But there's growing unrest on the archipelago as survivors of the infamous Huk Rebellion regroup to challenge the Marcos regime. Amid the stirrings of chaos, Filipino Muslims are demanding autonomy in the predominantly Christian country, and they're not afraid to get aggressive.

Caught in a crossfire of deadly forces, Lammers must face the ghosts of his wartime mistakes.

One wrong move, and his career, his life, and the hope of international peace will go down in flames.

Author Biography

LARRY CARELLO hails from the town of Sylvan Beach in central New York state. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, he embarked on a four-decade adventure in aviation. He has flown a wide variety of military and commercial aircraft, and he spent five years attached to a San Diego-based H-46 squadron, during which he made two shipboard deployments to the Western Pacific. His first book, A Golden Weekend, received first runner-up honors from the Military Writers Society of America in the category of Best Literary Novel of 2012. He followed that work with Rotorboys and Verbal Orders, two fast-paced novels of men, ships, and helicopters at sea. Larry retired from commercial flying in 2016 as an international captain for a major U.S. airline. He lives with his wife in Michigan, where he continues to write white-knuckle thrillers about helicopters and the pilots who fly them.