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Aces Facebook
My next novel "Aces" a romance about fliers in the Battle of Britain, an American and a German on opposite sides who duke it out in the skies over the channel, both love the same girl in an epic love triangle of aerial dogfights, spy intrigue and life in Nazi Germany in the years leading to war, is planned to be released sometime in August or September. You can follow the @acesnovel facebook page Aces: A Love Story in the Battle of Britain
Aces Reviews are Coming in
Raving reviews are coming in for Aces: A Novel of Pilots in WWII with wing guns blazing!
Kirkus Reviews
In the 1930s, Aaron Miller and Michael “Miki” von Steuven are both students at Princeton University and the best of friends, despite hailing from radically disparate backgrounds. Aaron’s father is a Polish immigrant who moved to New York nearly penniless and built a wildly successful construction business. Miki grew up in Westphalia; his father is a German noble and the family’s prestige and wealth are tied to an ancient pedigree. But both students are talented pilots, and bond over the amateur races they enter and routinely dominate. These competitions are thrillingly portrayed…. The pilots’ friendship, though, is complicated by a shared passion for Lacy Dunbrough. While she loves Aaron, she’s perpetually frustrated by his unserious impetuosity, and her family unabashedly prefers Miki. Miki proposes to Lacy and she accepts. The two move to Germany but she is quickly dismayed by Hitler’s increasingly ominous rule and the malignant treatment of the nation’s Jewish population. Miki joins the Luftwaffe and is sent to Spain, and Lacy begins to worry that he has changed in some profound way she cannot countenance. Meanwhile, Aaron decides to decamp for Canada to join the Royal Air Force, eager to do his part as war finally breaks out in Europe. A grand showdown seems…inevitable, and the emotional stakes are effectively raised when Aaron believes Miki has shot down one of Aaron’s closest friends. In his propulsive tale, January vividly captures the fast-paced terror of combat in the air, and the peculiar mixture of precision and bravado displayed by the best pilots. An action-packed melodramatic war tale.
Online Book Club Featured Review
It begins with a thrilling flying competition…a rivalry between two former friends…turned to enemies fighting on opposite sides. The author weaves themes of friendship, romance, love, war, and loyalty into a perfect story made more intriguing by numerous twists and turns. Fascinating… Action-packed… Astonishing… 4 out of 4 Stars!
Bavaria Media International
Aces tells an exciting, entertaining and dramatic story. A love-story set against the background of World War II, which examines anti-Semitism, human corruptibility and a fascination with flight technology at its dawn. The concept of a woman torn between an American Jew and a German industrialist's son offers big emotions and heavy strokes of fate. Very satisfying.
Brooks Wachtel - History Channel's "Dogfights"
Michael January's "Aces" is a roaring, aviation-fueled dogfight of a read, filled with romance, suspense, twists, turns, wonder and danger, perilous but so worth the flight. Well researched and enjoyable.
Kirkus Reviews
In the 1930s, Aaron Miller and Michael “Miki” von Steuven are both students at Princeton University and the best of friends, despite hailing from radically disparate backgrounds. Aaron’s father is a Polish immigrant who moved to New York nearly penniless and built a wildly successful construction business. Miki grew up in Westphalia; his father is a German noble and the family’s prestige and wealth are tied to an ancient pedigree. But both students are talented pilots, and bond over the amateur races they enter and routinely dominate. These competitions are thrillingly portrayed…. The pilots’ friendship, though, is complicated by a shared passion for Lacy Dunbrough. While she loves Aaron, she’s perpetually frustrated by his unserious impetuosity, and her family unabashedly prefers Miki. Miki proposes to Lacy and she accepts. The two move to Germany but she is quickly dismayed by Hitler’s increasingly ominous rule and the malignant treatment of the nation’s Jewish population. Miki joins the Luftwaffe and is sent to Spain, and Lacy begins to worry that he has changed in some profound way she cannot countenance. Meanwhile, Aaron decides to decamp for Canada to join the Royal Air Force, eager to do his part as war finally breaks out in Europe. A grand showdown seems…inevitable, and the emotional stakes are effectively raised when Aaron believes Miki has shot down one of Aaron’s closest friends. In his propulsive tale, January vividly captures the fast-paced terror of combat in the air, and the peculiar mixture of precision and bravado displayed by the best pilots. An action-packed melodramatic war tale.
Online Book Club Featured Review
It begins with a thrilling flying competition…a rivalry between two former friends…turned to enemies fighting on opposite sides. The author weaves themes of friendship, romance, love, war, and loyalty into a perfect story made more intriguing by numerous twists and turns. Fascinating… Action-packed… Astonishing… 4 out of 4 Stars!
Bavaria Media International
Aces tells an exciting, entertaining and dramatic story. A love-story set against the background of World War II, which examines anti-Semitism, human corruptibility and a fascination with flight technology at its dawn. The concept of a woman torn between an American Jew and a German industrialist's son offers big emotions and heavy strokes of fate. Very satisfying.
Brooks Wachtel - History Channel's "Dogfights"
Michael January's "Aces" is a roaring, aviation-fueled dogfight of a read, filled with romance, suspense, twists, turns, wonder and danger, perilous but so worth the flight. Well researched and enjoyable.
Aces going to Frankfurt Book Fair
My new WWII aviation themed historical novel. "Aces" an epic romance adventure about American pilots in the Battle of Britain is going to premiere at the Frankfurt Book Fair Oct. 10-14 2018.
The book has been getting great reviews, "thrilling... vivid... action-packed... memorable... rip-roaring read... twists and turns..." 5 Stars Reader's Favorite etc. will be presented at the Combined Book Exhibit Booth 6.0D16 at the Frankfurter Messe, with a full page ad.
Not sure whether I will be there or not as deadlines are a little close. But by all means if you are, check it out!
The book has been getting great reviews, "thrilling... vivid... action-packed... memorable... rip-roaring read... twists and turns..." 5 Stars Reader's Favorite etc. will be presented at the Combined Book Exhibit Booth 6.0D16 at the Frankfurter Messe, with a full page ad.
Not sure whether I will be there or not as deadlines are a little close. But by all means if you are, check it out!
