Bad Odds

ISBN: 1468099426

Author: Davis, Duke

Condition: New

Product Description Bob Sloan, a young helicopter repair and design technician for Atlanta, Georgia, based HeloTechnologies. Sloan has spent six years in the Navy working on choppers on aircraft carriers, and four years in the civilian world working for Helo Tech. Atlanta, Georgia. Oppertunity knocks and Sloan volunters for an assignment in Vietnam as a civilan tech rep. The money sounds good. He knows nothing about warfare, the jungle, or Vietnam, other than what he has seen on the TV news, but, he reasons, it makes no difference as he will be on a big safe base somewhere fixing helos and not involved in the Army way of life. On his first day in Vietnam the helicopter he is riding in is shot down over the A Shau Valley, known as The Arizona. He is the only survivor and has no idea how to survive or get out of the heavy combat zone. He is just starting to figure things out when he is captured by the Viet Cong. About the Author Since retiring from the Navy, Duke Davis has spent a large part of his life either teaching or traveling the world. He has been a policeman, college professor, special warfare operator, real estate salesman, computer engineer, instructor, customer service specialist, bartender, and counselor amongst many other things. Most recently he worked as a computer instructor on a cruise ship. He now lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife of fifty years and his two little dachshunds.