Fly Boys Don't Get Married: Merchants Without Borders

By Jerry Dale DeLay III and Lisa Walsh

Book 1 in the series of Merchants Without Borders
A common Russian man, Stefan, rises to power, but must defend his business from the Western Russian Mafia. He finds himself enlisting Americans from the United States who fly the same kind of plane as his, a Kodiak 100. He has them bring a shipment of enhancer that cuts the normal 7-year growth to maturity of his Sturgeon Fish. The enhancer induces the birth of the fish eggs from the Sturgeon fish for his caviar business. The fisheries on the West Coast of Russia want to stop him. He enlists Bill, Scott, Eva, and Matt to help his family’s cause. Romance, Espionage, and Mystery surrounds the story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458311009

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Jerry Dale DeLay III

Fly Boys Don’t Get Married

Merchants without Borders

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Editor:  Lisa Walsh

Art Director: Lisa Walsh

Photos Provided by: Mark Brown

Illustrations: Lisa Walsh

Cover Design Jerry DeLay III, photos Mark Brown, Library of Congress

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Foreword: By Lisa Walsh

HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR MERCHANTS WITHOUT BORDERS

Source citation:  Riasanovsky, Nicholas Valentine. (1984). A History of Russia. Oxford University Press.

The beginning of the Russian state began on the north-south trade route connected by the Dnieper River that cut through an area without physical borders. Being located on the eastern edge of the vast, flat North European Plain, princes of Kiev, Novgorod, and Moscow all felt dangerously exposed to invaders especially from the west. Those same princes also knew that they were land-locked, isolated from trade with the outside world. Thus, the survival of their people and way of life depended on access to the Baltic Sea to the frozen north and the warm waters of the Black Sea to the south. Especially after the Mongol hordes invaded from the east in the 13th century, trashing the city-states of the princes and demanding tribute for the next two centuries, the princes of Moscow became the dominant power of a new Russia. Set on reclaiming their territory and status from the Mongols they embarked on expansion to the east and control of Russia’s rivers to gain access once again to trade and halt the turmoil under the Mongol yoke.

Today Russia is the largest country in the world, consisting of many ethnic groups, most of whom live in a variety of extreme environments, and yet the current ruling elite has control of the vast fossil fuel resources of Mother Russia, the wealth of which does not trickle down to the common folk. Once again Russia’s existence is dependent upon trade with the outside world since the end of the Soviet era in the 1990s. Politically Russia has come full circle during the long rule of Vladimir Putin who looks to create artificial borders by re-creating the empire of Peter the Great. Again, geography guides the foreign policies of Russia. The Russian state began on the rapids of the Dnieper River where merchants from the north and south naturally stopped to trade with the local Slavic population. The world should take note of a Russia that cannot break free from the shackles of fear and paranoia of invasion.

In the series Merchants Without Borders Stefan understands the need to return to Glasnost and Perestroika to secure Russia’s future……

(Note from author, see terms on next page)

Terms to Understand

Perestroika - changing economic policies to allow more competition and incentives to produce Goods. Changing the Gov. Controlled economy that had existed since Stalin. Glasnost - openness in Government, Gorbachev thought people should be allowed within reason to say what they believe in with more open debate

Glasnost, (Russian: openness) Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. It was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union.

Droog, can be used in any social setting and context, from very formal to very informal. Droog replaced the word comrade in the 1990’s as it was viewed as someone that was of a waring nature. Droog is viewed as someone who is purely a friend.

Padrooga, is the feminine version of Droog, it is a word to be avoided if possible because it has taken on negative connotations, it was originally the female version of Droog. Just use Droog for now like we use friend or people.

Credits/Dedications:

The Women:

My wife, Debbie Wimberly DeLay, the first person to read my book and the first person I see in the morning every day, yummy. You guessed it; she has reddish brown hair and blue eyes.

Lisa Wimberly Walsh, my editor and chief, who has corrected most of my mistakes. If you see some more, it is probably because I made some changes that she did not get to review. (Lisa is my wife’s sister). You guessed it; she has reddish brown hair and green eyes.

Jennifer DeLay Helfrich, my daughter, baby girl, she makes me laugh.

Jean Wimberly, the matriarch of this family, she makes me laugh too and puts up with me.

Susan DeLay Tull, my spiritual rock.

Shirley Prihoda, thank you for introducing me to Lulu Publishing Company.

Credits/Dedications:

The Men:

Shannon DeLay, my soldier, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is my oldest son and hunting friend. I prayed every day for his safe return from Iraq.

Jeremy DeLay is my middle child and sounding board; he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and was a member of the Nationally Famous Fightin Texas Aggie Band.

Lonnie Ray DeLay, my loving brother. He has led me to a sober life without the sins of alcohol.

Scott Aulds, a brother from a different mother, which has always picked me up when I was down. He has let me rest my head on his shoulder.

Bill Aldrich, the man who can kill a golf ball and make you laugh, he picked me up so many times, and set me back on my feet in college.

Credits/Dedications:

The Men Continued:

Darryl Hazlett, my mentor in the world of electrical wiring and friend throughout life.

Raymond Gallagher, a great golfer, and an honest businessperson.

Colonel Steve Barczewski, a man of great conviction and champion of computer warfare.

Captain Mike O’Shea, a brother of great writing skills and a man that served his country with his all in Vietnam.

Jim Reed, a man who brought us back together.

Jim Gandy, a man that marches to his own drumbeat.

Steve Bosworth, a gentlemen’s gentleman a natural born leader.

Bob Reuther, a man that keeps me on the sobriety trail.

Cody Wilkins, the leader of golf in Columbia Lakes. If he gets knocked down, he gets back up.

Larry Edge, the man that can do anything on a golf course like mowing, greens keeping, irrigation and playing the game as well.

Kyle Roy one of the fastest moving young men I know. Cody is his guarding angel.

Bob Garcia, my friend, and champion.

Preface by Jerry Dale DeLay III

The political climate has made Russia very unpopular. We must remember that the Russian people are good people. We do not have to love Russian politics, but we should love our fellow man.

The average people and women of the Eastern and Southern regions of Russia have been oppressed by every government that has ever ruled in Russia. It is extremely hard for a commoner to have made it to the status of that of Stefan Syn Vostoka in Eastern Russia. He is, of the people and for his people. He is embracing the humanitarian way of harvesting caviar.

His fisheries are his passion, but his people are his wealth. Stefan was born and raised in the Magadan Fishery that his father owned. He married a wonderful woman, from a Slavic family, Giselle Rudakolva while he was attending college at the university in Gorno-Altyzk. Stefan was and oceanography major. She was a refined woman and considered upper class. She has a Doctorate in Oceanography and is the Dean of the Marine Science Department at Northeastern State University in Magadan.

She works with Marine Biological-Labs in the United States. Her interest of late has been centered on a study of White Sturgeon egg production with a bio firm located in North Carolina.

Merchants without Borders, especially the Eastern and Southern Russian operations, reflect the beliefs, morals, and love that Mr. and Ms. Vostoka have for the environment.

Saving the Sturgeon:

In a recent article written by Alastair Bland for NPR, No Kill Caviar, she reports on the wonderful new technique that uses a proprietary liquid that induces the birth of the Sturgeon fish to give its eggs. The method combined with a massage technique makes the eggs available without using the c section method.

The method is being used in a German fishery located in Loxstedt, Germany is on the North Sea. The farm in Germany is currently using the method developed by Angela Köhler known as the Vivace method. A protein is administered to the Surgeon to induce the labor and then the fish is massaged.

Others have tried similar methods but have failed to achieve the good texture needed for the eggs. Angela Köhler uses a calcium-based method to rinse the eggs, giving them the desired texture before salting.

It makes no sense to kill a fish that you have spent 7 to 8 years raising for its eggs. A Sturgeon fish lives to be one hundred years old. This method will revolutionize the Caviar industry and do away with the cruelty that currently surrounds the Sturgeon.

Written by: Jerry Dale DeLay III

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Fly Boys Don’t Get Married

Merchants Without Borders

Book 1 of the Series

CHAPTER 1: THE CALL

Hello this is Merchants Without Borders, can I help you? The caller had a Russian accent, they explained they had a job for me and would like to meet me at Mattie’s Diner. He did not even wait for me to respond and hung up the phone. I looked at Scott and said, Man, there’s a Russian executive that wants to meet me for lunch. He looked at me and said, Great, maybe this is the break we have been looking for in the Russian market.

Scott and I have been best friends since we were in elementary school. He lived right across the street from me, and we have spent our life working at Redwood Machine together. He was in marketing and exceptionally good at it. I was a mechanic in the machine shop and later the production supervisor of the machine shop. We did everything together through life including getting our pilot’s license.

I have always been a little too involved in the operation inside the hangar and not in the office. We started flying commercially late in life after having retired early from our regular jobs at Redwood Machine. Flying started off as an expensive hobby until we decided to make our hobby start paying for itself. Our first gigs covered small private flights.  From freight-expressing parts all over the United States for critical equipment to us carrying important documents delivered in expedited manners for clients involved in legal matters where faxed documents were not allowed. We later branched out. We fell into the seafood transportation business where time was sensitive to five-star hotels, fine eating establishments and time sensitive high-end retailers.

Sales were always left for Scott until I decided to take it easier on myself. We hired our first certified aviation mechanic, Bill Slovak. Bill is a young smart man with an ambitious and energetic outlook on life. He is a college graduate with a major in foreign languages, oddly enough. He had a rough go of it trying to find a job after college and opted for a career as a trained and certified aviation