A Top Gun for the new millennium, Lions of the Sky propels the reader into a realm in which friendship, loyalty, and skill are tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your afterburners.
Sam Richardson is a
fighter pilot’s pilot, a reluctant legend with a gut-eating secret. He is in
the last span of his tour as an instructor, yearning to get back to the real
action of the Fleet, when he is ordered to take on one last class—a class that
will force him to confront his carefully quarantined demons.
Brash, carefree, and
naturally gifted, Keely Silvers is the embodiment of all that grates on him.
After years of single-minded dedication, she and her classmates can see the
finish line. They are months away from achieving their life-long dream, flying
Navy F/A-18 fighters. They are smart and hard-working, but they’re just kids
with expensive new toys. They’re eager to rush through training and escape to
the freedom of the world beyond, a world they view as a playground full of fast
jets and exotic locales.
But Sam knows there is
a darker side to the profession he loves. There is trouble brewing in the East
with global implications. If they make it past him they will be cast into a
dangerous world where enemy planes cruise the skies over the South China Sea
like sharks, loaded with real weapons and hidden intentions.
About the author:
Francesco “Paco”
Chierici is the author of Lions of the Sky. During his active duty
career in the US Navy, Chierici flew A-6E Intruders and F-14A Tomcats, deployed
to conflict zones from Somalia to Iraq and was stationed aboard carriers
including the USS Ranger, Nimitz and Kitty Hawk. Unable to give up dogfighting,
he flew the F-5 Tiger II for a further ten years as a Bandit concurrent with
his employment as a commercial pilot. Throughout his military career, Paco
accumulated nearly 3,000 tactical hours, 400 carrier landings, a Southwest Asia
Service Medal with Bronze Star, and three Strike/Flight Air
Medals. Chierici’s writing has appeared in Aviation Classics magazine, AOPA magazine,
and Fighter Sweep. He also created and produced the award-winning naval
aviation documentary, Speed and Angels. Currently a 737 captain,
Chierici can often be found in the skies above California flying a Yak-50 with
a group of likeminded G-hounds to get his dogfighting fix. He lives in Northern
California with his wife Hillary, and two children.
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