Darlene

By Lon Maisttison

An Air Rescue Team is sent to the Mediterranean to rescue 200+ passengers on a mega-yacht hijacked by terrorists and held for ransom. During a fierce gun battle in the Grand Showroom, Jimmy gets wounded and stray bullets puncture a gas tank starting a fire. As passengers evacuate, an old lady friend Darlene recognizes Jimmy and drags him out of the burning room and saves him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lon Maisttison
• Release date: Oct 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310512643

Lon Maisttison

Lon Maisttison is a retired Southern Indiana boy who enjoyed a 43-year career in Electronics Engineering with 20 years spent in England working on Government contracts.It was during his last assignment in England (1993 to 2003),that the idea for Air Rescue Stories was conceived from day-dreams formulated in the imaginative mind of author Lon Maisttison. The author visualized these day-dream stories based against real life events happening throughout the world and injecting his own 20th century Ninja action hero. A Ninja that was not based on Western Movie type of fighters, but the original fifteenth century Japanese stealth warrior, who specialized in covert assassinations for a paid fee for services. These fifteenth century Ninja’s utilized stealth; the art of being undetected, invisible to their target, which became the basis for the Air Rescue Stories.This theme created the action hero Jimmy West – The Stealth Warrior. An action hero who is paid a million dollars a mission to infiltrate a location, knocks off all the guards with a blowgun and tranquilizer darts, secure the kidnapped person and leave silently.During the late 1990‘s, the author started compiling stores on his home computer into a written outline format about the visualized day-dream stories of that day. For years the day-dreamed stories remained dormant on his home computer until 2003 when the author came back to the United States and contracted a virus that attacked his heart that developed into congestive heart failure (CHF). During that year of recovery from a heart function of 10%, the author started researching the Mediterranean Diet to survive CHF. This research work lead to the book titled: “The Kissed of Death – Congestive Heart Failure.” So, the author made himself a promise to continue writing about CHF and in addition, started a new hobby, writing books about Air Rescue. This lead to the first book titled: “The Two Sisters of Kuwait,” written from stories developed in England.Since 2003, new day-dreamed stories began about Air Rescue with the creation of Global Rescuer, a helicopter support ship, which used hologram displays to disguise its identity i.e. stealth. In addition, four robot based fast attack gunships was created, which use voice commands, supercomputers to fly the gunship. Later, Skyspy and Gunrunner was created, both are robot aircraft. The ship/gunship creation opened an endless avenue of new stories based on Strike Force Rescues i.e. attack gunships and rescue helicopters.For the past seventeen years, these simple ideas and dreams have created fourteen books composed of one short story, six novelettes, three novellas, four novels and four novel versions of “Kissed by Death.”

Book preview

Introduction

"Darlene" is an action - adventure ebook of about the exploits of Jimmy West and the crew of Global Rescuer and the report file titled: Darlene.

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Darlene

Our story begins 125 miles off the coast of Egypt, out in the middle of the Mediterranean.

Whooshshsh! as water splashed up against the bottom of the haul of the Mississippi Goose Flying Boat.

A few seconds later, Swishshsh as the flying boat sat down in the water of the Mediterranean.

Hang on guys, yelled Heather. As we bounced up and down in our seats and at the same time, our heads were going sideways as Heather landed the aircraft.

Vroom goes the engines after she reversed the pitch on the propeller and revved the engine to bring the flying boat to a stop.

Ok guys, we are shutdown, all stop. Do your thing, yelled Heather.

As Heather stopped the aircraft, Ralph had already jumped up and was at the ready to open the back-hatch door. He grabbed the packed rubber boat, and stuck it out the hatch door, pulled the inflatable ring and through the rubber boat out onto the calm water to inflate.

Shshshshhooo goes the rubber boat as it inflates immediately, and Ralph pulled the boat up to the hatch door and tied the rope to a support hook on the plane.

Frankie stepped out the door into the boat and Ralph handed him the small gas outboard motor. Frankie went to work attaching the motor to the coupling plate on the back of the rubber boat and tighten the screws to hold it in place.

Ralph stepped out of the plane into the rubber boat and turned around as Jimmy started handing him guns and equipment through the hatch that will be needed to complete the rescue.

When Jimmy finished handing Ralph equipment, Jimmy stepped down out of the plane into the boat and sat down.

At the hatch, Heather appeared in the doorway and half leaning out the door, said, Okay guys, Global Rescuer has just radioed and advised me that the ship is doing 10 knots, and it appears, they don’t know we are here. So, there shouldn’t be any surprises.

Famous last words, stated Jimmy.

Ha…Ha…Ha…laughs Heather.

You guys take care… happy hunting.

Thanks for the lift Heather, replies Jimmy as Frankie pulled the engine cord to start the motor.

Putt… putt… putt, putt, putt goes the motor as it started up and the boat sped away from the plane.

See you later Heather, yelled Jimmy.

Roger, she replied.

As the team pulled away from the flying boat, vroom, vroom goes the engines as Heather started them up. She flapped the tail a couple of times and the flying boat started making waves in the water as it skipped along at the top of the waves and finally lifted out of the water as the flying boat took off heading south over the horizon.

It was darker than the ace of spades out in the Mediterranean that night, you couldn’t see one hand in front of you as we sped along in the rubber boat. Heather had set down the Mississippi Goose a few miles ahead of a luxury ship, that was owned by a Kuwait billionaire and that was our target