Coming this November! THE RUINING HEAVEN, J Hardy Carroll’s thrilling novel of the air war over Europe.
Hawser is an orphan who dreams of flying, but when he washes out as a pilot he becomes a bombardier instead. It’s a glamorous job that comes with a lieutenant’s commission, combat pay, and a sixty percent chance of being killed in action.
It’s dangerous work dropping bombs on strangers from the nose of a B-17. At 25,000 feet the temperature is 40 below zero. German planes attack from above while cannons fire from below. Sometimes four planes in ten make it back. The law of averages will kill all of them, sooner or later.
Knowing these odds, the OSS is training selected airmen in guerrilla warfare to keep fighting after they’re shot down, an elite group that includes both Hawser and his enemy, the psychotic Lieutenant Colley. The program is so secret that Hawser can tell nobody about it. Not his best friend and commander, Captain Meyer. Certainly not Betty, the swashbuckling British ATA pilot with whom Hawser is falling in love. She has enough to worry about flying damaged aircraft across England, an occupation almost as dangerous as combat.
The Ruining Heaven takes the reader on a wrenching first-person trip through the brutal air war over Germany and shows what war can do to the minds and souls of the men and women who fight it.