Caly's Island - Paperback

by Dick Herman (Author)

They're called the Freakin' Old Guys, FOGs for short. Six geezers who love their small sailboats and cruise the Pacific Northwest for weeks at a time, enjoying the comradeship and sharing small adventures. It all turns serious when they pick up a fifteen-year-old juvenile delinquent, and becomes deadly when the Russian Mafia comes after one of them. The FOGs make a run for cover and hide in a fog bank. But when they emerge into an open sea, they are not anywhere near the Pacific Northwest and they're missing a man. Six retired men, all from different backgrounds with different personalities and capabilities, find themselves catapulted into the wildest adventure - their own Odyssey packed with the excitement, monsters, mysterious women, and capricious gods who tormented Ulysses. Their greatest enemy may be a demigoddess. She may also be their greatest ally. The FOGs are in a strange time and a very strange place. They have to find their way home somehow. They have a long, long way to go.

Author Biography

Richard Herman prefers to go by his nickname "Dick" and is a retired Air Force officer who flew C-130s and F-4s. While on active duty he served two tours in Southeast Asia during the "unpleasantness" there and logged over 240 combat missions. He also taught at the Air Force Academy and served as an operations plans officer. After retiring, he turned to writing about the aircraft he loves, and is the author of fourteen novels - including critically acclaimed and best-selling "The Warbirds" and "Power Curve." His novels have reached the White House and are read worldwide, ranging from Japan to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, to Poland. "Caly's Island" is a departure from his normal genre, and his fourteenth novel, "The Peacemakers", has been released and is available on Amazon.com. Dick lives and writes in Folsom, California.