OLD SCHOOL AVIATION ADVENTURE NOVELS? YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
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THE SOUTHERN BORDER SQUADRON: OLD PILOTS AND OLD AIRPLANES VERSUS CARTEL DRONES.
When high-tech smuggling drones start crossing the southern border in waves, the government can’t move fast enough—and the cartels don’t play by rules.
So a handful of old pilots and warbird fanatics dust off the kind of aircraft nobody expects to see in a modern fight. Wood, wire, fabric… and grit.
Get The Southern Border Squadron free and ride shotgun in an aerial thriller where yesterday’s machines become tomorrow’s last line of defense. This is a full-length novel. Download now—instant delivery.
COMING SUMMER, 2026
The first Dutch St. John aviation adventure thriller.
A missile streaks over the US-Canada border—and vanishes into the Montana darkness.
Dutch St. John has seen enough war zones to know when a “one-off incident” is a lie. A former CIA pilot and smokejumper, Dutch lives on a ragged grass airstrip in Montana with his daughter Diana and his old-world anchor of a father, Pop. When something ugly slips into the United States under cover of chaos, Dutch and his crew are the only ones close enough—and stubborn enough—to chase it.
With Diana running intelligence from the hangar, Pop keeping the home front alive, and Niko Petrenko—a hard-bitten ex-Soviet pilot—watching Dutch’s six in the air, the team follows the trail from backcountry Montana to the shadow edges of international black markets.
THE NORTHERN BORDER is the first Dutch St. John aviation adventure—where the maps are real, the stakes are global, and the only way out is full throttle.
WHO AM I?
I fell in love with aviation stories the old-fashioned way: I got hooked on them as a kid listening to family legends. My grandfather and great-uncle were World War II pilots, and they filled my childhood with tales you’d swear were made up—running rum from Cuba in a PBY, getting shot down in a B-17 over Germany, and surviving a POW camp. That’ll wire your brain for adventure pretty early.
I grew up and became a filmmaker and aerial cinematographer and went chasing stories across Africa, Haiti, Greenland… and a few places I still can’t talk about without sounding like I’m auditioning for a spy movie. I’ve spent thousands of hours shooting from aircraft and helicopters, which is a fancy way of saying I’m happiest low and slow with the door off. (Far too few hours as pilot-in-command, but my logbook is slowly building time.)
These days I’m raising two kids on a mini farm in western Montana with a half-built Pietenpol Air Camper in the garage. My feature-length documentary, Return to the Big Skies: Miss Montana to Normandy, screened at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and I continue making films about aviation history.
Somewhere between binge-reading Stephen Coonts, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler and newer aviation fiction superstars like Nate Van Coops, I realized something: for how many pilots and aviation nuts exist on this planet, flying-related fiction is still weirdly hard to find. So, I decided to write the kind of books I’m always hunting for—high-stakes adventure, real flying, trouble in beautiful places, and characters stubborn enough to keep going when the smart move is to quit.
If you’re anything like me, you’ll read one and immediately want the next. Good news: I’ve got a bunch in the pipeline.
