A Fools Errand, D.R. Bailey
A Fools Errand, D.R. Bailey
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A Fool's Errand
A daring aviation adventure in wartorn skies

Author: D.R. Bailey

Narrator: Graham Mack

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/23/2024

Synopsis

Be careful of the enemy within . . .

1941

The Battle of Britain is over, and RAF Fighter Command turns its attention to France.

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly and the rest of "Maverick" Squadron 696 are engaged in tactics to lure the Luftwaffe into battle. But Angus has grave misgivings about the orders he has been given, which are justified when he loses a brand-new pilot on their first incursion.

And the squadron is dealt another blow when one of their pilot officers is discovered dead in the hangar. The inquest rules the death a suicide, but Angus is certain something more sinister has happened. In between bouts of furious dogfights in the skies, Angus and his good friend Flying Officer Tomas Jezek work tirelessly to investigate the murder.

While they risk their lives fighting a deadly foe, could the real threat be coming from an enemy within?

Are the Spitfire Mavericks being targeted by someone who is supposed to be on their side . . . ?

About D.R. Bailey

D. R. Bailey was raised in a family of bibliophiles. From an early age, he developed eclectic tastes in fiction including sci-fi, romance, crime, and the classics. Some of his favorite authors remain Gerald Durrell, Jane Austen, Peter James, Ellis Peters, and Isaac Asimov. At the age of eleven, he wrote his first fictional story about his toy teddy bear clan. Since then he has gone on to have some of his non-fiction article published in magazines, published a fictional crime series, and a courtroom drama series. He has engaged in several different careers and says that these life experiences have all contributed greatly to his penchant for storytelling.

Bailey's latest foray into fiction is a new WW2 aviation thriller series, The Spitfire Mavericks. It features spies, thrilling action packed aerial combat, romance, and more. The series features a maverick crew of pilots thrown out from every squadron. The hero of the hour Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly endeavors to save the day in a series of thrilling adventures.

Bailey has also penned five full-length crime novels which is a genre he is particularly fond of. The Confessional Killings is the first of a series containing a heady mix of crime, suspense, humor, steamy romance, and much more. Bailey has also tackled some controversial and topical subjects surrounding the Catholic Church in this story. The stories are set in Ireland, and Bailey confesses to having a great affection for the Irish.

Bailey has also published The Innocent Killing, and four other books in a courtroom drama series featuring a fictional barrister in Dublin called Bernadette Mackenna. This new series is a spicy mix of courtroom drama and same-sex romance. When asked why he started writing the books, Bailey said it was a story that needed to be told and one he would want to read himself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M.K. on November 28, 2012

This was a really fascinating book, and I recommend it highly to any student of history. Written in 1879, it is an informative contemporary glimpse into the life of a yankee "carpetbagger" in America's Reconstruction-era South. It is not only interesting from an historical standpoint, but it's also......more

Goodreads review by Bridget on September 12, 2017

sort of cheating. but not really since I read it all.......more

Goodreads review by Frank on August 17, 2019

Today, Albion Tourgee is best known as the lawyer for Homer Plessy in the suit of Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), which, despite Tourgee's best efforts, instituted the "separate but equal" standard in American law. Before that, Tourgee was a union soldier and "carpetbagger" who went to Greensboro, North......more

Goodreads review by Mike on February 17, 2019

"A Fool Lies Here - - -." The era of "Reconstruction" in the aftermath of the Civil War remains one of the most controversial periods of American history, furiously argued over to this day, and "A Fools Errand" is one of the most valuable windows into it that we moderns, and especially the general re......more

Goodreads review by Erik on December 15, 2020

A surprising novel about the era of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Based on his own experience as an idealistic young man who joined thousands of Union Army veterans to move South after the war, Tourgee tells a story that runs counter to the usual narrative of Reconstruction as a time of brutal mili......more

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