Non-Stop to Infinity

By J B Rosa Filho

Rarely do people tell the whole truth. We are often left with only a fragmented picture that forces us to fill in the missing pieces. The result can sometimes lead to unexpected life-altering consequences.

Such is the case with Patrick Carvalho, who owns a chain of restaurants in southern Brazil that are struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. Lack of business and mounting debts take their toll. Out of desperation, he is persuaded by a friend to use his private plane to transport cargo to a small city in Uruguay. Discovering that the cargo is not what was originally agreed, he finds himself trapped between the authorities and a dangerous drug cartel. With no where to turn, he takes refuge among the unforgiving dunes near the Solidao Lighthouse, but not before hiding the cargo worth untold millions.

It is here that he meets Alcides, humble fisherman and his grandson Dener. This story tells of the adventures of three unlikely friends who outsmart the police, and drug smugglers to find justice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jan 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781393971849

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Non-Stop to Infinity

J B Rosa Filho

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Translated by Robert E Anderson 

Non-Stop to Infinity

Written By J B Rosa Filho

Copyright © 2021 Joao Baptista Machado Rosa Filho

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Translated by Robert E Anderson

Cover Design © 2021 Eldes Saullo

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Non-Stop to Infinity

In the Dunes of the Solidão Lighthouse

Original Title: Sem Escalas para o Infinito – Nas Dunas do Farol da Solidão

Casa do Escritor – Brasil – 2020

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Author:   J B Rosa Filho

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Translated by: Robert E. Anderson

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Cover Art: Eldes Saullo

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The Author

J. B. Rosa Filho was born in Porto Alegre in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Since being trained in Business Administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and pursuing graduate studies in Strategic Marketing at the same University, he has served as a business consultant for the world's largest automakers and manufacturers of agricultural equipment.

An ardent researcher and enthusiastic aviator, and consequently a writer, JB uses his free time to put these three characteristics into action – conducting research, flying airplanes, and writing about the results of his experiences derived from the previous two in the form of historical novels or fiction.

Like so many men whose passion is flying, he follows the doctrine of Spiritism and studies the mysteries of the invisible world – fundamental topics that invariably fill the pages of his works.

In NON-STOP TO INFINITY – In the Dunes of the Solidão Lighthouse, he presents us with a new narrative whose specific writing qualities he keeps intact: the themes relating to aviation and the invisible world described through a gripping, electrifying and surprising plot.

JB is also the author of:

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1943- Operation Weihnachtsmann

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1..................................8

Chapter 2................................28

Chapter 3................................59

Chapter 4................................89

Chapter 5...............................118

What is God?

God is the supreme intelligence, the primary cause of all things.

What is to be understood by infinity?

That which has neither beginning nor end; the unknown; all that is unknown is infinite.

Could it be said that God is the infinite?

Incomplete definition. Poverty of human language, insufficient to define what is above the language of men.

Where can the proof of God's existence be found?

In an axiom you apply to your sciences: There is no effect without a cause. Seek the cause of everything that is not the work of man, and your reason will answer.

Is universal space infinite or limited?

Infinite. Suppose it is limited: what is there beyond its limits? This confuses your reason, I know; nevertheless, reason tells you that it cannot be otherwise. It is the same with the infinite in all things. It is not in the tiny sphere you are in that you can understand it.

The Spirits’ Book

Allan Kardec

Who ascended to heaven and who descended from it? Who restrained the wind in his hands? Who wrapped the waters in his mantle? Who determined the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is the name of his son, if you know it?

Proverbs 30:4

Chapter 1

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Briefing

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Chimarrão: Commonly just called maté. A hot drink, similar to tea, that the peoples of the extreme south of South America inherited from the ancient indigenous cultures of those latitudes. It's sipped through a tube placed inside a gourd (the end of the porongo gourd) filled with crushed yerba maté leaves in which hot water is placed.

Chimarrão served

Source: Wikipedia

Pala: Item of clothing characteristic of the inhabitants of southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Pala is an indigenous word for this item of clothing and comprises a rectangular piece shaped like a blanket, often with fringes at its ends, with an opening in the center through which the user places his head in order to hold it suspended from his shoulders.

A Gaucho's Pala

Source: Magalu

Lockdown: A restriction on the movement of people and the opening of commercial establishments, the purpose of which is to prevent crowds of people from assembling and thus to inhibit the transmission of a contagious disease through the practice of quarantine. During the year 2020, it was applied horizontally in practically all countries of the world in order to combat the advance of cases of COVID-19.

Cessna C-206 Sky Wagon: An American-made aircraft with high wings which, depending on the configuration set, has a capacity for up to 6 seats or 670 kg of cargo.

Cessna C-206 Sky Wagon

Source: Wikipedia

Avgas: A high-octane gasoline for light aviation with piston engines. It is bluish in color and is 100 octanes.

Saint Patrick Plantation,

Coast of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil.

Monday, August 24, 2026, 06:29 a.m.

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THINKING TO HIMSELF, ALCIDES weakly cradled the weight of his 84 years in the rocking chair placed next to the spacious terrace of the plantation house. The skin of his forehead, as well as that of the extremities of his eyes, darkened by the successive years he had exposed himself to the continuous punishment of the sun as a fisherman, was creased by deep furrows, making his face look like aging wood.

His thoughts wandered fleetingly, echoing through his mind in identical peculiarities in his way of speaking: calm, weighted, composed of words spoken in a deep, drawn out voice.

It was cold in the coastal region of Rio Grande do Sul.

The old man sipped a bit of chimarrão, keeping his gaze dispersed over the icy drizzle that fell from the gray sky, crisscrossing the calm surface of Patos Lagoon, on the margins of which some Lincoln sheep were grazing without any concern.

Wearing winter clothes and wrapped in a woolen pala – a gift given by the man who, coming from the sky, had taken refuge in the dunes near the Solidão Lighthouse six years before –, he wore a Campeiro hat on his head, counteracting the lack of hair that the years had managed to impose on him.

Six years have passed, he thought. Six years have passed since an 'Angel' fell from heaven, only to return there two days later. He had learned about his end on the news.

The copy of the Correio do Povo newspaper from that time, which was already yellowed a little bit by the years and with Patrick's photo on the front page, rested on the small table placed next to his rocking chair, the ends of its pages becoming disheveled from the blows of the wind. Alcides had picked up the old copy of the newspaper soon after waking up that morning. That day, August 24, 2026, marked six years since the event. He therefore wanted to reread the article and recall the story of the man who had changed the course of the remainder of his life.

He had met him in the winter of 2020. Frightened, and hidden by his small airplane, he had sought refuge among the inhospitable dunes near the Solidão Lighthouse. The old man remembered the date: the evening of August 24th. Also a Monday, just like today.

The 24th of August represented for him a date of profound transitions in his existence, always bringing him decisive and irremediable events, good or bad, but with a prevalence of the latter. He began to fear its arrival every year, to the point of even refusing to leave the house whenever the calendar gave the said time as the current date.

On that day in 1954, Alcides – only 12 years old, but already an obstinate admirer of the achievements of the then-president of Brazil – was deeply affected when he heard the news that his hero – a man he understood to be his archetype, the example to be followed – Getúlio Vargas, had disappointed him by choosing to leave life to enter history. In 2005, his grandson, Dener, whom he had forced himself to raise as a son after the premature death of his parents, was born to lift him out of the loneliness to which he had been condemned. In 2015, his wife, his son and his daughter-in-law, when