An excerpt of Falcon Down is available!

A brief excerpt of my current novel-in-progress is available. You can find it on my website, or simply by going here.

This tale is very different from Outlander Chronicles: Phoenix. The Falcon books are a series of military/espionage thrillers set in the Cold War around 1986. Most of the action in Falcon Down takes place in Siberia. The preliminary "hook" for the series is this:

After USAF Major Jacob Kelly disappears over the Bering Sea in an F-16 during a test flight, the Accident Investigation Board concludes it was a case of pilot error. Kelly’s service record receives its final update: “missing and presumed dead.” There are some, however, who know differently, including the Soviet intelligence officer assigned to interrogate Kelly. . . .

An unusual piece of trivia about the Falcon series is that the first book is the last one to be written. The latter portion is already complete (though in need of some re-writing before release). If, as I am considering at the moment, I divide the already-written second novel into three pieces (it is a rather long, three-part story), then the final three books of the series are finished (except for the final re-write, as mentioned earlier).

Falcon Rising, the second book in the series, takes place largely in Alaska, though the action moves around from Washington D.C., to southern California, and Seattle.

Preliminary titles for the final two books are Falcon Caged and Falcon's Revenge.

BFC folks: If you are curious about this series, talk to Carol Williams; she has actually read the completed [second] novel, only under a different title.

Now you BFCers know what I do with my Mondays. . . .