Dead Legend

by D.Z. Church

CDR Mac Cooper was one of the Navy's greatest aces. Yet his life ended in suicide and scandal in 1955, leaving his two sons estranged and adrift.

Now, it's 1967. Mac's oldest son, LT Byron Cooper is on his way to Yankee Station, a top Navy attack pilot. His promising career is taking off, but when planes start dropping out of the sky with their pilots trapped in the cockpits, he discovers a sinister operation fueled by vicious avarice.

Mac's youngest son, Laury, a Marine First Sergeant, can't get his father's death or his brother's estrangement off his mind any more than he can hide the limp from a career-shattering wound. In Michigan, Laury stumbles upon an old family secret, one that connects his father’s death to the recent rash of jet failures, leading him to realize…the only difference between any dead man and another is the trail they leave behind.

Dead Legend is “a mystery laced with intense action scenes and compelling family dynamics.” Booklife Reviews

353 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

D.Z. Church served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam Era as a Division, Security and Public Affairs Officer. She has since been an award-winning Advertising Creative Director, and worked educational assessment, specifically the assessment of writing. Raised in the mid-West, she has lived in the Eastern, Southern and Western United States and Barbados. Along the way, she discovered that people aren't always as they seem, and that revenge is best served in a whopping good tale. The kind people like to read with a little history, some foul weather, an absorbing mystery, and a whole helping of suspense.

Reviews

[Sandy Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those who lived through Vietnam, this is a must read. Church has a beautiful grasp of language and multiple levels of story-telling.