Originally published by Wm. Morrow in 1995, SKYGODS is the story of Pan American World Airways from its meteoric ascent to its plunge to extinction. Pan Am blazed the way across the world's oceans with its magnificent Clipper ships, launched the first international jet service, was the first to fly the behemoth 747, was the lead customer for America's SST and the Concorde, and was even taking reservations for the first commercial flights to the moon.SKYGODS is the true story of an A...

Brick Maxwell lost his best friend when squadron mate Raz Rasmussen was shot down in the Gulf War. Though Raz's body was never recovered, he was declared KIA and soon forgotten. Years later, when Raz's now-remarried wife receives a call claiming that he is alive, she frantically asks Maxwell to investigate. At first, Maxwell is ignored by the CIA--until his old enemy, Jamal Al-Fasr, is captured on the Iraq-Iran border and offers to trade himself for an American POW. Maxwell attends the exc...

When a routine American-Israeli exercise goes wrong, Brick Maxwell's wingman is shot down and taken prisoner by a Palestinian splinter group. Negotiating the flier's release is the President's shadowy, power-hungry special envoy, Rick Solares. Though the pilot is set free, Brick suspects there is more to the arrangement than meets the eye. And when the woman he loves falls victim to the terrorists, his devotion to duty turns into a desire for vengeance. With the help of his Roadrunner squa...

Thirty years after he graduated from the Navy's fighter/attack school, Robert Gandt returns to participate in the rigorous training program of the class of eight Navy and Marine pilots learning to fly the F/A-18 Hornet. Meet the identical twins from Middle America, the computer nerd with a penchant for speed, the grandson of a Tuskegee Airman trying to live up to a proud legacy, and two women dealing with the post-Tailhook world of the Navy. He shares their joys and failures, hopes and fea...

In FLY LOW FLY FAST, Robert Gandt takes us into the high-risk world of Unlimited Air Racing, following two consecutive championships at the Reno National Air Races. Flying wingtip to wingtip around pylons at nearly 500 mph, just a few feet above the sagebrush, Reno's big throaty warbirds are piloted by an adrenaline-addicted, type-A elite whose oversize talent and egos spawn a hundred stories.

Brick Maxwell and his squadron of Roadrunners are flying cover for the President of Taiwan's jetliner when it's blown from the sky. Other than a slight shimmer of light preceding the catastrophe, there's no visible reason for the explosion. But Maxwell suspects that China has stolen the plans for the Black Star--a virtually invisible superstealth fighter plane. Now a full-scale war is inevitable--unless Maxwell and a team of commandos can hijack the state-of-the-art killing machine. But wi...

As China expands its industrial might, it becomes one of the biggest oil-consuming countries in the world. And the only thing blocking China's access to an unlimited fuel supply is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. When a Vietnamese oil rig is destroyed, China is obviously the culprit. The U.S.--recently joined in a defense pact with Vietnam--calls upon Commander Brick Maxwell to pilot the hyperadvanced Black Star stealth jet against the Chinese. But the Chinese have on their side technol...

The Gulf War has been over for ten years. It's up to pilots like Cmdr. Brick Maxwell and his glory-seeking skipper, Killer DeLancey, to keep the peace by a narrow margin--a margin called the No-Fly Zone. The Iraqi pilots sometimes buzz the borders--just close enough to shake up the U.S Hornets' nest. And everyone knows these Hornets can't sting unless the Iraqis show hostile intent.However, hostile intent is a hard thing to judge when you're in the air and the enemy is flying into ...

A motor launch carrying the USS Ronald Reagan's top brass is attacked. Everyone on board is killed, including two admirals and a U.S. ambassador. The U.S. vows a swift reprisal.Enter squadron skipper Brick Maxwell and his Roadrunners--the F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter pilots aboard the Reagan. Their mission: strike deep in northern Yemen's highlands. The target: Colonel Jamal Al-Fasr, the charismatic commander who has masterminded the plot to kill the Americans.Al-Fasr is al...

Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa.April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing in Europe, and the Americans are overpowering the once-mighty Japanese Empire in the Pacific. ...

They call him the Alien.Erik Bren is a genius, a mystic, and the reclusive inventor of futuristic flying machines. When his old NASA colleague, ex-astronaut Jared Plummer, becomes a candidate for president, Bren is drawn into a swirl of political intrigue, sabotage, and betrayal. He becomes the target of a dark consortium who will stop at nothing to win control over the country. When the conspirators destroy Bren's exotic new plane and murder his crew, Bren the Alien must use all h...

First-of-her-kind President Libby Paulsen is in a world of trouble. Her controversial agenda has made her the target of a right wing military cabal led by an enigmatic Air Force general. The conspirators will stop at nothing—including assassination—to remove her from office. When the cabal targets Air Force One, Libby's Presidency—and her life—rest in the hands of a maverick officer named Pete Brand, a man with whom the President shares a smoldering secret. The President's Pilot is award-w...