Meet Lawrence Colby

 
 

Background: Lawrence A. Colby is the #1 AMAZON bestselling author of The Ford Stevens Military-Aviation Thriller Series.

He is currently working on his fourth thriller, a new military-thriller series based out of the Pentagon!

Writing from years of military cockpit experience and over five years at the Pentagon as a military assistant provided Colby with an extensive understanding of combat tactics, government policies and power–knowledge he uses to add political as well as military realism to his fast-paced military adventure thrillers.

A graduate of both the US Navy and US Air Force Flight Training Programs, Colby is part of a select group of pilots qualified to fly jets, prop planes, and helicopters. He held numerous squadron, air group, and wing positions, flying multiple operational missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global locations. He flew under the call sign “Cheese.”

His books are published in over 12 countries, and are enjoyed from the U.S. and UK to India and beyond.

He lives in the Washington, DC area with his family.

Latest Book: The Buffalo Pilot (summary, reviews and links to purchase).

Upcoming Book News: Working on a new, exciting series that involves deception, kidnapping and blackmail involving a missing Pentagon General!

Authors That Influenced You: David Baldacci, Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts and Brad Taylor.

Authors You Would Recommend: Brian Grogan, Don Bentley and Andrew Watts.

Favorite Indie Bookstore: Scrawl Books in Reston, Virginia.

Charities: Team Rubicon serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service, leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. The Headstrong Project provides confidential, cost-free, and frictionless mental health care treatment for military veterans and their families that works.

How To Contact Lawrence: Email, Website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

The Buffalo Pilot (Ford Stevens #3)

 
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THE RISKIEST CAREER OF THEM ALL.

MILITARY FLYING—

More military pilots die in training than at war.

Air Force Reserve Major Ford Stevens is a veteran military pilot, upholding the prestigious family practice of service to the nation in the face of danger.

His younger brother, Charlie, a fresh Lieutenant out of pilot training, joins the family tradition seeking to prove himself.

With the rivalry still strong, all he wanted to do was follow his big brother’s footsteps…

Now, Charlie joins his brother Ford in the same flying squadron, both men putting their lives on the line each time they strap in the jet, whether in peace or war. 

It will be an initiation by fire as they hunt a saboteur killing aircrew, uniting the competitive brothers in an ultimate test of life and death…

The Black Scorpion Pilot (Ford Stevens #2)

In a hidden base in China, Lieutenant General He Chen licks his wounds.

The Devil Dragon project lies in ruins, thanks to the heroics of US Air Force Reserve Captain Ford Stevens and Stevens's best friend, pilot Wu Lee.

But now Lee is gone, and as Stevens mourns the loss of his friend, Chen works to complete his second spy plane, codenamed BLACK SCORPION.

Stevens faces a new--some would say impossible--task: slip near China without being detected, cyber-hijack the Black Scorpion, and fly her back to the United States.

It's a tough mission that will demand the most out of Stevens, whose grief has led to some potentially career-ending trouble.

The Devil Dragon Pilot (Ford Stevens #1)

How do you capture the fastest airplane in the world without anyone finding out?

Concealed deep within China’s inland borders is one of the most secret airplanes ever flown, known as Devil Dragon. She’s sleek, unbelievably fast, and mysterious—her test pilots have one mission in mind: make her test flights successful for operational use as soon as possible. Or sooner.

But when strange transmissions of pilots are recorded without an aircraft appearing on radar, and bizarre cell phone signals are detected at towers hundreds of miles apart, the intelligence community team is set in motion, and U.S. Air Force Reserve pilot Ford Stevens is asked to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life.

What begins as a friend helping a friend explodes into a globe-trotting action packed military-aviation adventure. Against an atmosphere of Washington, DC government red tape, an intimidating Chinese General, DIA leadership, and carrier aviation, all airways lead to a stunning international plot. Crammed with deceitful government employees, smoke and mirrors tradecraft, and the blackest, most secretive aviation flight ever undertaken, you will be unable to put it down.

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