FLIGHT An Air America Pilot's Story of Adventure, Descent and Redemption

Neil Hansen began his aviation career for Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. He spent more than a decade in Southeast Asia as a captain for Air America, the CIA's airline that operated there during the Vietnam era and the Secret War in Laos. Neil reveled in the risky flying that fed his adrenaline addiction. Upon returning to the States, ultimately unable to find work, and unable to let go of the Air America exhillaration rush, he saw the profession he loved come to an end when his trajectory veered off course.This historical aviation narration incorporates the pathos of a war zone, humor and candid insight. Neil pulls the reader directly into the cockpit, onto dirt mountain landing strips, into the raunchy brothels of Laos, alongside his firsty toddling steps into Buddhism, aboard the plane he flew out of Cambodia hours before the country fell to the Khmer Rouge, down the road of self destruction and beside him as he regains a foothold on the path to integrity. Read more