Previously, in Stormbreak: Doug MacIntyre, a wildfire pilot, loses his helicopter, all he owns in the world, in a forest fire incident. His girlfriend leaves him, then a strange guy shows up and offers him a job…

Wheels down. When Mac tromped down the rolling stairs at Neely Field, two things struck him almost simultaneously. First, the horizon encompassing the airfield was entirely flat, a brown line drawn with a ruler. Second, a good walk off the path to the terminal, a short black woman with almost no hair waited with a sign reading MCINTYRE-TWOBERRY. She wore a black flight suit and oversized aviator sunglasses and everything about her was proportionately, umm, correct. For the first time in days, he felt at least marginally lucky. He wanted to make a good impression. Hef...

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