Meet Paco Chierici

 
 

Background: During his career in the U.S. Navy, Paco Chierici flew A-6 Intruders and F-14 Tomcats, deployed to conflict zones from Somalia to Iraq and was stationed aboard carriers including the USS Ranger, Lincoln, and Kitty Hawk.

Unable to shake the dogfighting bug, he flew the F-5 Tiger II in the Navy Reserves for a further ten years as a Bandit concurrent with his employment as a commercial pilot. Throughout his military career, Paco accumulated nearly 3,000 tactical hours, 400 carrier landings, a Southwest Asia Service Medal with Bronze Star, and three Strike/Flight Air Medals.

Prior to his first novel, Lions of the Sky, Paco published extensively in Aviation Classics Magazine, AOPA Magazine, and Fighter Sweep, as well as creating and producing the award-winning naval aviation documentary Speed and Angels.

The second book in the series, The Dragon, is due out by the end of this year.

Paco lives in Northern California with his wife Hillary, and their two children.

Latest Book: Lions of the Sky (summary reviews and links to purchase).

Upcoming Book News: The second book in the series, The Dragon, is due out by the end of this year. Slammer begins the story by losing the most important dogfight of his life. He vows to spend the rest of his days getting back what is most important to him.

More high octane flying scenes, snipers, a car chase, an Iranian Tomcat, and a climactic battle scene that will have your pulse racing.

Authors That Influenced You: Daniel Silva, Michael Connelly, John le Carré and Elmore Leonard.

Authors/Books You Would Recommend: A Perfect Spy by John le Carré; Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard; the Bosch series by Michael Connelly and the Allon series by Daniel Silva.

Favorite Indie Bookstore: Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, CA.

Charities: The LAM Foundation urgently seeks safe and effective treatments, and ultimately a cure, for lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) through advocacy and the funding of promising research. We are dedicated to serving the scientific, medical and patient communities by offering information, resources and a worldwide network of hope and support.

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

 
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Sam Richardson is a fighter pilot’s pilot, a reluctant legend with a gut-eating secret. He is in the last span of his tour as an instructor, yearning to get back to the real action of the Fleet, when he is ordered to take on one last class—a class that will force him to confront his carefully quarantined demons.

Brash, carefree, and naturally gifted, Keely Silvers is the embodiment of all that grates on him. After years of single-minded dedication, she and her classmates can see the finish line. They are months away from achieving their life-long dream, flying Navy F/A-18 fighters. They are smart and hard-working, but they’re just kids with expensive new toys. They’re eager to rush through training and escape to the freedom of the world beyond, a world they view as a playground full of fast jets and exotic locales.

But Sam knows there is a darker side to the profession he loves. There is trouble brewing in the East with global implications. If they make it past him they will be cast into a dangerous world where enemy planes cruise the skies over the South China Sea like sharks, loaded with real weapons and hidden intentions.

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