Book #3 of the Rising from the Ashes—Battles Beyond Vietnam Series
Crop-duster pilot and thirty-one-year-old Vietnam War veteran, Buddy Rider, puts all his trust in Miss Molly when he is talked into a dangerous mission in the jungles of Central America. Reluctantly partnering with recent college grad and former anti-war activist, Elizabeth Anderson, Buddy must pilot his World War II era military transport into a remote airstrip in war-torn 1981 El Salvador. Their hope is to rescue missionaries and orphans held against their will by government troops in a mountain village. Despite Elizabeth’s fractious and outspoken behavior, Buddy is compelled to do for others what was done for him twice when he crash-landed planes in Vietnam. This adventure leads him to find something he lost long ago while on the battlefields of Vietnam.
A Reader’s Review of Miss Molly’s Final Mission
By: GySgt (Ret.) G. E. Correll
5.0 out of 5 stars Miss Molly’s Final Mission
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2021
Once again, Rick DeStefanis has given his readers a novel with action and adventure but also a look at the cost to the soul of the Warriors who fight our Nation’s battles. Rick does this without turning his protagonist into a weepy, guilt-ridden wimp, nor a two-dimensional Hollywood character.
His is instead what this Republic has always needed; a brave man who hates war but is willing and able to do all and risk all to protect the weak and defenseless.
That is both the highest calling, and ONLY justification for the horror a Warrior must inflict and endure.