Malcolm Havard
Historical Fiction Author
Historical Fiction Author
Aviation based fiction
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CONTRAIL
It is 1951. Italy. The revolutionary DH Comet is on a final test programme. The plane, a technological leap of faith by a relatively small British company, will give Britain a 5 year head start over its American and French competition.
But the knives are out for it; there is a threat to the plane. Soon three people - Stafford, a brilliant engineer, his headstrong sister Harriet and Harry Jones, a rogue and former Soviet agent - are reluctantly drawn into a web of intrigue spun by the competing interests of British Intelligence, the company, the Americans and the Russians involving sabotage, espionage and murder.
Can they find out who is behind the plot before it is too late? Can they save the aircraft and themselves?PRE-ORDER HERE!
CZECHMATE
A few months after the events of Contrail, Harry Jones, Stafford and Harriet are still in Italy. But there are plots in motion that affect them.
Stafford's family want him and his sister back in England.
The secret services want to use Stafford's engineering knowledge and connections in the East to gather intelligence.
And Harry's past is catching up with him...
Czechmate is a fast-moving novel of double-crosses, murder and intrigue.
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Eleven Days
In April 1917 the average lifespan of a British pilot posted to the Western Front is measured in days.
Eddie Grenville is 19, young, keen, idealistic. He hero worships his brother Percy, follows him into the RFC.
Then he finds that Percy has committed a war crime...
Eleven Days looks at how war changes people. Set against the events of Bloody April, it drops the reader into the most dangerous part of the first global war.Click picture to visit Amazon!
LEVIATHAN
It's a foul night in late October 1916.
You're alone, in the cockpit of a frail, unreliable biplane, chasing a Leviathan in the darkness. A Zeppelin, somewhere out there in the night, sent to attack your country.
You're cold, frightened, with nothing but your own thoughts and memories for company.
And you're 20 years old.Click picture to visit Amazon!
LMF
On a bitter night in January 1944 one last RAF bomber struggles on to the target alone with one engine out and its crew terrified, driven on by its burned-out pilot who needs one last mission to complete his tour.
And all of them know that if they fail the RAF has the sanction of declaring them to be 'Lacking Moral Fibre'... essentially cowards.The Three Brothers
It's a story people know. Germany, facing overwhelming odds in the skies by enemies out producing them in machinery and pilots, turn to technology to try to turn the tide.
But this is not 1945. It's 1918. It produced Black September for the British, Americans and French with higher losses than Bloody April.
And what if you fly one of these wonder machines and your cousin flies against you in one of the near obsolete aircraft? And he is with the girl you love? Would you betray your country's secrets for him - or rather her?Click picture to visit Amazon!
Short story collections
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Hurricane Season
This series of fiction and nonfiction pieces is a little bit of an indulgence. It is, in many ways, both a love letter from a fan and my own small contribution to righting a wrong. It is centred full square on a machine, the Hawker Hurricane.
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