Iflydogs
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Hi, I am looking for a beta reader, or several, for a manuscript I wrote. Not necessarily an author--I know there are several on this forum and welcome them, but also just a reader who enjoys an adventure book, with a dash of magical realism thrown in. Ideally I would like to find someone who is a woman and also of Hispanic descent, if possible, as I am curious if it comes across as offensive to those groups. Of course any pilots--it is a flying adventure book with lots of flying. I will have it read to send on Saturday and intend to send it to my agent around mid-August. Many thanks, please DM me if you are interested.
Here is the blurb:
Mad Dogs is a 99k-word adventure tale with elements of magical realism that will appeal to those who enjoyed Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” and Neil Gaiman’s “Stardust”.
In the spring of 2001, Hiram Bleeker is a lonely Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD whose only remaining loves in life are flying and dogs. He is one trigger-pull away from ending things when a strange woman introduces him to a world that restores his soul—rescuing immigrants in the desert and flying them over the internal checkpoints of the US Border Patrol in southwest Texas. The woman isn’t entirely of this world, but in her otherness, she introduces him to a new way of living and gives him a new lease on life.
As he ferries immigrants and saves them from dying of dehydration and heat exhaustion, the darkness that imprisoned him and caused him to contemplate suicide begins to fade from his heart. But in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, America succumbs to fear and hysteria. What was once a simple act of human kindness is now a serious crime against the state, potentially a capital offense. Can he win the love of his life and elude the clutches of the Border Patrol, while flying over the desolate and hostile plains of Texas? Mad Dogs is a story about flying, love, redemption, and how to hot-wire an airplane.
Hank Rausch is the author of “Submerged”, a memoir of service in fast-attack submarines in the 1980’s which has been approved for release by the DoD and is currently before publishers.
Here is the blurb:
Mad Dogs is a 99k-word adventure tale with elements of magical realism that will appeal to those who enjoyed Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” and Neil Gaiman’s “Stardust”.
In the spring of 2001, Hiram Bleeker is a lonely Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD whose only remaining loves in life are flying and dogs. He is one trigger-pull away from ending things when a strange woman introduces him to a world that restores his soul—rescuing immigrants in the desert and flying them over the internal checkpoints of the US Border Patrol in southwest Texas. The woman isn’t entirely of this world, but in her otherness, she introduces him to a new way of living and gives him a new lease on life.
As he ferries immigrants and saves them from dying of dehydration and heat exhaustion, the darkness that imprisoned him and caused him to contemplate suicide begins to fade from his heart. But in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, America succumbs to fear and hysteria. What was once a simple act of human kindness is now a serious crime against the state, potentially a capital offense. Can he win the love of his life and elude the clutches of the Border Patrol, while flying over the desolate and hostile plains of Texas? Mad Dogs is a story about flying, love, redemption, and how to hot-wire an airplane.
Hank Rausch is the author of “Submerged”, a memoir of service in fast-attack submarines in the 1980’s which has been approved for release by the DoD and is currently before publishers.
