Books By Moore
The novels are all historical
fiction based on true events in Vietnam and South East Asia. His novels are
based on the exploits of Sigmund P. Gurtz who loves to fly, fight, drink and
chase women not necessarily in that order.
The novels are not necessarily politically correct or for anyone who
doesn't love adventure.
The author of the novels is
LtCol Robert W. Moore, USAF Retired. He
was born and raised in Ohio and educated at Miami of Ohio, Weber State and
Auburn University. His 40 year+
aviation career is very colorful and interesting. He has been a pilot of both airplanes and helicopters, navigator,
bombardier, radar operator and control tower operator. He has spent several tours in South East
Asia where he flew 1000+ combat missions and was awarded five Distinguished
Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, 26 Air Medals, a Purple Heart and numerous US
and foreign awards. Since the war in
Vietnam he has flown for numerous US government agencies to include State and
the Drug Enforcement Agency. His career has taken him to flying in Alaska,
Bahamas, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, England, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos,
Nicaragua, Turkey, Thailand and Vietnam.
He currently lives in Fort Walton Beach, Florida where he writes and
awaits a call back to the cockpit and more adventure. His bag is always packed for a quick getaway to another cockpit.
His mailing address is Robert
W. Moore, PMB 548 Mary Esther Cutoff, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548. His telephone/fax is 850-243-0422 and his
e-mail is crecom4623@aol.com.
"Live by Chance" is a novel about the adventures of
an aviation advisor with the
Vietnamese Air Force in
1965. His name is Sigmund P. Grutz and he faces
the
unenviable task of instilling
spirit and pride in the pilots
and crew of a young air
force. He is stalked by a man
seeking revenge for supposed
atrocities done to his
family during an earlier tour by
the hero. He meets, and
admires, a French, female reporter who ends up helping
him overcome his stalker. The hero flies and fights in
a war that is still unknown to
most of America. There
are 27,000 American military in
country during this
time frame. Most are advisors and very few of them
are pilots. The hero considers himself the "World's
Greatest Aviator," partly
because he is good, and partly
due to the realization he has to
convince himself to fly
right to stay alive.
"Return to the Fray" is a novel about the further
exploits of Sigmund P. Grutz,
pilot advisor to the
Vietnamese Air
Force. The story takes place in
early 1966, during a U.S. military
buildup of men
and women to 400,000 strong. He was severely
wounded the previous year, and
upon recovery,
chose to return to the war rather
than return to the
States. The novel covers the war from a different
perspective where the hero and his
fellow advisors
fly and fight on a daily
basis. It was still a time of
support by the American
press, and many top
names in Hollywood proved this by
entertaining
troops the length and breath of
the country. Humor
and terror are combined to help
explain a unique war.
"Jungle Winds" is a novel about flying and fighting
in Vietnam in 1969. The hero, Sigmund P. Grutz,
is on his third tour in Southeast
Asia, and the book
covers his being shot at and
missed, shot at and hit,
shot up, and shot down. He has to escape and evade
after his helicopter is brought
down by enemy fire
in Cambodia. He was on a mission supporting SOG,
a U.S. Army unit committed to
collecting strategic
information on the enemy in
Vietnam, Cambodia, and
Laos. He and the other men of the "Green
Hornets"
were in the U.S.A.F, but felt it
was an honor to insert
and extract the long-range patrols
for the Army. The
daring exploits of these men are
proof of what man is
capable of doing under adverse
conditions.
To
order any of these books e-mail Bob Moore at crecom4623@aol.com
or go to Behind the Lines Magazines web page at www.bltworld.com.
If you
order through Bob Moore the books are $22.00 for all three plus 20% S/H. If ordered separately, each book is $7.95
each plus S/H of 20%.