Hwelte

<CENTER>The Old West collides with World War II.</P></CENTER><P>In Roy McShane's second installment of his trilogy <I>HWELTE</I> bomber pilot First Lieutenant Chuck Hewitt returns home wounded from Stalingrad in 1943 to his parent's ranch at Flagstaff Arizona. He's a broken man looking for answers--ultimately finding those answers in the extraordinary history of his white grandfather's and Navajo grandmother's struggle to forge a life together against all odds in the 1880s.</P> <P>Inspired by his grandparent's hardships Chuck decides to get back in the war and transfers into fighters. He eventually winds up in England in 1944 with the 354th Fighter Group--the first group to fly and fight over Europe in the new revolutionary P-51 Mustang. Whereupon after his initial mission escorting B-17s over Germany Chuck makes a startling discovery about the common denominator fighter pilots and bomber pilots share: They are all condemned men living on death row.</P> <P>...McShane's descriptions of the American West and the air war in Europe during World War II are the best I've ever read.<ul>--<I>San Francisco Bay Guardian</I></ul></P><P>The Old West collides with World War II. Strap in and hold on for the ride of your life...<ul>--<I>Los Angeles New Times</I></ul></P> <P>...a western a war story a flying story and a love story McShane pulls them all together with exciting realism.<ul>--<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</I></ul></P><P><I>HWELTE</I> (whell-`tay) n. Navajo: meaning fortress or place of refuge.</P><P>Author's Websites: www.thaiwave.com/hwelte<br>www.phuketdir.com/hwelte