Desert Venom

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Junior RAF pilot Rob May has arrived in Iraq at the worst possible moment.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1957 should have been the year the British treaty was renewed instead the Royal Air Force have been asked to leave.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With an urgent need for him to qualify on the De Haviland Venom to enable a hurried sudden evacuation May is thrown together with an irascible and unpredictable flight commander Flight Lieutenant 'Bunny' Pater-Smith.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Venom is a fast jet which needs careful handling or it will kill you quickly.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But that's nothing compared to Bunny.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a mix of biting desert sandstorms a broken flight commander and a corrupt member of the Iraqi royal family Rob May must choose his next step carefully.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His life depends on it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Cold War novella from James Blatch Desert Venom evokes the golden age of military jets among the dying embers of the British empire.</strong></p>