• MWSA · 2009 President’s Award
  • Branson Stars & Flags · 2009 1st Place, Thriller
F-111 cockpit at night
09°44′12″N · 75°31′45″W · ALT 240 · HDG 117
FIRST EDITION · BOOK 01

JOHN CARTER
HAS A PROBLEM.

His old friends seem to be disappearing.

A thriller from a former F-111 pilot and military attaché. Twenty years of real cockpits and embassies, told as fiction.

DOSSIER · 01

THE SERIES

One novel today. More in the queue. Each book is grounded in a real cockpit, a real city, a real chain of command: and then it takes the turn the official record never will.

Delta 7
BOOK 01 · 2009 · AVAILABLE

Delta 7

His old friends seem to be disappearing.

BRIEFING
Delta Redux
BOOK 02 · 2027 · FORTHCOMING

Delta Redux

The file was closed. The players weren't.

FORTHCOMING · 2027
Colombian jungle at dusk
INTERCEPT · MWSA
"Move over M. Night Shyamalan: John Cathcart has arrived."
JOYCE FAULKNER · FORMER PRESIDENT, MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AUTHOR · LT COL · USAF (RET)

JOHN CATHCART

F-111 driver. Defense attaché in Colombia and Venezuela. Twenty years in uniform, fifteen more in the left seat of a 737. He has been where his characters go.

The procedure in the book is correct because he ran it. The cities are correct because he's been there.

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John Cathcart