The Sea Witch, Stephen Coonts
The Sea Witch, Stephen Coonts
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The Sea Witch

Author: Stephen Coonts

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 2 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/08/2012


Synopsis

When young Dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassigned to a Black Cat squadron as the co-pilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, The Sea Witch. He's thrown into a whole new world, where a Catalina carries five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a fine line between valor and a death wish.A daring night bombing mission against Rabaul forces the crew of The Sea Witch to band together as never before. Each man will soon find out what he's made of..and not everyone will make it back alive.

About Stephen Coonts

This biography could be entitled, West Virginia Boy Becomes a Very Successful Author....... but that would be too obvious. Author, Stephen Coonts was born and raised in Buchanan, West Virginia, a small town of 6,000. He led the typical life of any boy growing up in the 50's and 60's.

He was born in 1946, and ended his childhood by graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in political science. As happens with many poli-sci grads, he had a law degree in mind, but first he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

Coonts received his wings after completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft. After serving in the Vietnam War as an attack fighter, he served as a flight instructor, and did a tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. Upon leaving the Navy, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law. After receiving his law degree, he moved back to West Virginia to practice for a couple of years. But, his career took him back to Colorado where he specialized in oil and gas law.

Finally, in 1986, he published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, which became a huge success, being on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover. Later, a movie by the same title was produced based on his novel, and was released nationally in 1991. All of his books have been published in several different countries.

Currently, Coonts lives in Colorado with his third wife, Deborah, He continues to write novels from Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris

Excellent three novellas from one of my favourite authors. As usual, well written, well researched and you learnt some interesting facts along the way even though they are very clearly fiction. Just the right length with characteristic Coonts unexpected (well for me anyway :-) )twists......more

Goodreads review by Marc

I picked this up primarily because one of the three novellas was based on World War 1, a particular interest of mine. The stories were written over a period of 5 years and cover the Great War, the Second World War and the war on terrorism. Overall a good read, particularily The Sea Witch and The 17t......more

Goodreads review by Colin

It's been a while since I've read anything by Stephen Coonts. This collection of three novellas, all centred around flying stories has two first-rate tales, the first set in the South Pacific in WW2 and the second set on the Western Front in WW1; both are well told and have really believable charact......more

Goodreads review by Frank

My first book from this author. Not a bad read. Good aviation history.......more