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Racing the Dream

by M.T. Bass

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GENRE: Action and Adventure

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BLURB:

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” ~Mario Andretti

Strap down the 5-point harness in the cockpit of a Formula 1 air racing plane and join Hawk as he chases victory! First on their amateur make-shift course over Antelope Acres, then on the re-emerging pylon racing circuit in the early 1960s. And finally, as Hawk battles 7 other top-level pilots at the very first National Air Racing Championship event in Reno!

Abandoning the cloth and his African mission, Father Bob returns to his slide rule to design Hawk’s racer. Sparks, his loyal yet surly mechanic, built it and wrenching both on the engine—as well as on Hawk—keeps them at the front of the pack. Home again in Los Angeles from behind the stick of a T-6 Texan as a mercenary in the Congo civil war, air racing is a new aviation adventure for Hawk. Ride along as he tangles with fellow pilots in “uncooperative formation flying” at two-hundred miles per hour a mere fifty feet off the ground!

And then one day cruising home to Van Nuys airport, Hawk spies Allison, a beach-blonde surfer girl, insanely wing walking on the top wing of a Stearman PT-17 bi-plane. He quickly sets his sights on her.

Fly low…Fly fast…and Turn Left…

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Excerpt 

Chapter 2 — The Wing Walker

“Hey, Scotty…” She climbed down out of the cockpit, hopped off the wing, and walked our way. “Who’s your friend?”

“Him? Oh, just Hawk. He’s got a green Goodyear racer over in the D hangars.”

“Yeah. I’ve seen it.” Allison came over. I’m only five-eight which put me in a fighter pilot’s slot, so her dark emerald eyes met me eyeball-to-eyeball. She held out her hand. “I’m Allison. Nice to meet you.”

“Pleasure’s all mine,” I said, taking her hand, trying hard not to crack a lecherous smile. I looked over at her plane. “This is a nice-looking ride. Really clean, too.”

“Have to keep up appearances for the crowds,” she said.

“Yeah, Scotty was telling me. So, who does the wing walking? You or Doug?”

She gave me a coy smile. “That would be me. No one wants to see my stupid brother risking life and limb, now, would they?”

“You know what they say about skydivers: fools jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. And here you are climbing out on the wing without a chute.”

“It’s a living.”

“I was telling Scotty, I haven’t been in one of these since primary training.”

She looked me up one side and down the other. “You don’t look so old.”

“Ouch!” Scotty shook his head and covered his eyes.“That’s got to burn a bit.”

“What a maroon.” I glared at him. “I’ve got a few hours on the engine, but I’m nowhere near TBO.”

“I mean—” Allison sputtered. “I—ah…”

“Come on, he’s ancient.” Scotty grabbed my shoulder and squeezed. “Damn near an aviation fossil. How many Fokker’s did you shoot down in the War—World War One, that is?”

She hung her head and blushed a bit. “Hey, I’m sorry.”

“No worries. Just take me for a ride sometime,” I said.

“Sure.” Allison looked up and smiled. “I’d like that.”

“Good. Let’s get your plane back in the hangar.”

Scotty and I went back and grabbed the tail to push it inside.

“You dog, you,” Scotty muttered at me.

“More like a cat,” I said, “with nine lives.”

“Whatever…”

Racing the Dream Blog Tour Guest Post

October 5, 2023

What’s All with that Stuff on Your Desk?

Well, beside my laptop, looking at the items on my desk, I guess it’s a reflection of me. Looking left-to-right:

My sister, Karen, gave me that LED guitar light. I’ve played guitar for…oh, well, way too many decades, in rock, bluegrass, folk, and blues groups back in college. Laying off in Colorado while concentrating on scribbling out novels, I started haunting open mikes after I moved back to Ohio, then started a trio, totaling up over 800 gigs…and I’m still at it.

One of the artists in Lola’s gallery in Vermilion creates banks out of old post office mail boxes and she gave me one with twin locks. It’s just like the PO Box in my tribute to Elmore Leonard and Justified in my book Article 15.

A Far-Side mug with my all-time favorite Gary Larson cartoon serves as my pencil holder. You probably can tell from that I’m a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor. Next to it is a tiny metal sculpture I found at AirVenture in Oshkosh. Just above are photos of the first time I took Lola for an airplane ride in my buddy’s Cessna Skyhawk. By the way, Jim’s aircraft registration number, N521DM, appears in Racing the Dream.

Lola and I walk the Lake Erie shoreline out back, collecting beach glass. I found those marbles. Finally, I used wood from the 1905 Herald Building we own in Lorain to make the iPad holder next to the marbles.

Oh, yeah, and I built the desk itself from reclaimed lumber and wainscoting out of the Herald Building.

So, well, all that junk on my desk is, in reality, my writer’s bio:

“M.T. Bass lives, writes, flies, and makes music in Mudcat Falls, U.S.A.”

So it goes…

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

M.T. Bass is a scribbler of fiction who holds fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. He lives, writes, flies and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.

Born in Athens, Ohio, M.T. Bass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, majoring in English and Philosophy, then worked in the private sector (where they expect “results”) mainly in the Aerospace & Defense manufacturing market. He is the author of twelve novels, two novellas, and a book of verse. His writing spans various genres, including Mystery, Adventure, Romance, Black Comedy and TechnoThrillers. A Commercial Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor, airplanes and pilots are featured in many of his stories. Bass currently lives on the shores of Lake Erie near Lorain, Ohio.

M.T. Bass Author Links

Website: https://www.mtbass.net

Blog: https://www.owl-works.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/owlworks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Owlworks

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/mtbass

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5270962.M_T_Bass

Racing the Dream Purchase Links

Author Web Site Info Page: https://mtbassauthor.wordpress.com/racing-the-dream-white-hawk-aviation-stories-3/

Amazon (Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCSVMSQV

Stories by M.T. Bass

White Hawk Aviation Adventure Stories

My Brother's Keeper

Jungleland

Racing the Dream

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Murder by Munchausen Sci-Fi Thriller Series

Murder by Munchausen

The Darknet

The Invisible Mind

Motherless Children

Murder by Munchausen Trilogy: Books 1-3

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Article 15

Somethin' for Nothin'

In the Black

Crossroads

Lodging

Untethered

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

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