My Vietnam War novel At Sea will be free on Kindle from October 25 through October 29 in advance of an upcoming price increase.  This giveaway is my thank you to all of you who have supported my work.  The novel is inspired by my service aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61) off the coast of Vietnam.

Long-time readers of this blog may remember that I was part of a group that campaigned to get the ship donated to a museum that would have been on the Columbia River. Our effort did not succeed; the ship was scrapped and its history (including being the first carrier with an angled deck and services through Operation Desert Storm) was lost.

Synopsis

Even though he wanted to dodge the draft in Canada or Sweden, David Ward joined the Navy during the Vietnam War. He ended up on an aircraft carrier. Unlike the pilots, he couldn’t say he went in harm’s way unless he counted the baggage he carried with him. As it turned out, those back home were more dangerous than enemy fire.

While aboard, he discovers that an aircraft carrier truly is a floating city, though a dangerous one from the flight deck to engineering spaces and especially for the pilots of the A-4, the F-4 Phantom, the A-7 Corsair, and the A-6 Intruder.

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The cover photo is one of my pictures of the ship.

–Malcolm