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Targets of Opportunity is Out Now!

Congratulations to D. R. Bailey, whose thrilling wartime adventure, Targets of Opportunity, is out now!

Targets of Opportunity is the seventh book in the Spitfire Mavericks Thrillers series: action-packed aviation novels set during the Second World War and featuring a team of vigilante pilots.

Spring, 1943

Flight Lieutenant Angus Mackennelly and his squadron have been given a new mission. The Mavericks are to attack ‘Targets of Opportunity’ under the umbrella of Operation Wagtail.

The War Office wants to capitalise on the Germans’ defeat by the Russians at Stalingrad earlier in the year by harassing them in Northern France and the Low Countries.

Military targets are now on the table. The modus operandi will be to fly in, strafe the targets and get out all under the radar.

The first mission of Operation Wagtail goes ahead. But while the pilots are away, personal items go missing from the mess.

Angus is worried about a security breach.

Are his men under threat? Who is stealing from them?

And will the sense of mistrust interfere with the operations in the skies…?

Bouncer’s Blenheim is Published Today

Congratulations to Tony Rea, whose thrilling fighter pilot adventure, Bouncer’s Blenheim, is published today!

Bouncer’s Blenheim is the second book in the Gus Beaumont Aviation Thrillers series: action-packed military novels set during the Second World War.

Europe, 1940

After surviving the Battle of Britain, fighter pilot Gus ‘Bouncer’ Beaumont has been promoted to Flying Officer and is posted to a Spitfire reconnaissance squadron.

That is, until Wing Commander Peacock creates another mission for him.

A new top-secret unit called the Special Operations Executive has been formed to gather intelligence on the enemy. And Gus is ordered infiltrate the Greek Resistance and establish their political affiliation.

Mussolini’s army have occupied Greece but the locals have been fighting back. The actions of the civilians seem promising and British Intelligence want to know where the Greeks’ allegiance lies.

To have a chance of success, Gus needs to ditch his plane into the sea and get picked up by the Resistance fighters.

But that is easier said than done … if you want to survive the crash.

Will Gus make it to Corfu in one piece? Can he persuade the Resistance fighters to confide in him?

And can he successfully evade the Italian army…?

The Fleeting Target is Out Now

Congratulations to D. R. Bailey, whose gripping aviation novel, The Fleeting Target, is out now!

The Fleeting Target is the third book in the Spitfire Mavericks Thrillers series: action-packed aviation adventures set during the second world war and featuring a team of vigilante pilots.

1941

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly is flying over Northern France when his tank is holed and he’s forced to crash-land.

Luckily, he is picked up by the French Resistance before the enemy can get to him and, after a tense few days moving between safe houses, he escapes back to Blighty.

Reunited with his squadron, Angus expects to return to flying duties. However, Squadron Leader Bentley informs him that he’s not going to be flying sorties. He is singled out to lead a top-secret mission.

The special mission is to conduct a low flying night operation with six blacked out Spitfires to strafe a convoy carrying a top general from the German High Command and assassinate him.

Training quickly commences but a spate of unexpected enemy fighter attacks leads the team to suspect that a spy is trying to leak details of the upcoming mission to the Germans.

Angus is put on the case to squirrel out the informer and protect the rest of the men from the enemy within.

Will Angus succeed in his secret mission? Can he identify the mole?

Or will the lives of all the men in Maverick Squadron be compromised…?