The Flight Deck

I just started reading this book a few days ago. It’s not really my usual kind of read but I found it buried in a pile of books – thank God for the flea market, the best place in the world to find cheap books!

Anyway, so far it seems all right. Really enjoyed the first chapter where the horizontal stablizer went kaput (how’s that for a technical term?)  resulting in an engine burning out (yeah, I had to go back and look it up and I know I still didn’t get it right) and the pilot suddenly found himself plunging to the ground, jettisoning the fuel tanks, the canopy cracks…… then he is inverted, spinning, falling………I couldn’t have even  pretended to follow all this if it hadn’t been for Rhythms! Although I never could find the exact spot where he actually turned  the plane right side up to land……….which he somehow did, kind of, sort of, in one piece, if you don’t count the missing parts.

So I have a question. I am only a few chapters in and I am wondering. Anyone familiar with this author? I am assuming he knows of what he speaks simply because that flying escapade sounded a lot like some of what Lex wrote in Rhythms.  Any comments on the author? I see he also wrote “Rolling Thunder”. Any good? Thanks