AOPA Pilot Magazine - November 2024 - 44

BRIEFING
BOOKSHEL F /
A heroic life
Answering Alaska's Call
EDI TOR AND WR I TER Linda Fritz is the
niece of Milo " Doc " Fritz, a pioneering
physician, bush pilot, and Alaska
legislator who dedicated his life to
bringing modern medicine to Alaska and
its Native peoples. As a young woman,
Fritz joined her uncle and aunt in Alaska
for the summer, serving as a nurse's aid
to her uncle. That experience with her
Uncle Milo and Aunt Betsy influenced
her life and inspired her writing. She
finally carved out time to write the story
of her extraordinary uncle and aunt and
their adventures in Ketchikan and his
" mad dream of a Medical Air Service. "
With first-hand accounts of his medical
training and his contributions to the state
he adopted and came to love, this book
offers a compelling portrayal of a heroic
life, an enduring marriage, and Alaska.
" Doc Fritz could repair the delicate
membrane of an eardrum, boil surgical
instruments on a Yukon stove in the
bush, change the spark plugs of a Piper
Cub, or suture a cornea with equal ease.
He pursued a heroic life, fueled by his
passions: medicine, Alaska, flying, and
his wife Betsy. " -Julie Summers Walker
Aviation mystery
thriller series
Archangel Aviation Thrillers
IN ' TROPIC ANGEL ,' former Black Hawk
pilot Luke Angel is living the good life
running a seaplane business in coastal
Florida when an aircraft belonging to his
friend and former brother-in-law goes
missing from his airport. Clues to the
mystery stretch from the Florida Keys to
the Gulf of Mexico leaving local detectives
stumped. When his 11-year-old niece gets
pulled into the danger, it's up to Luke, his
loveable crew, and his aircraft to unravel
the mystery. Tropic Angel seamlessly
integrates general aviation into a mystery/
thriller story. Author Nathan Van Coops
is a commercial pilot, A&P, and CFI from
St. Petersburg, Florida. In the second
book of the series, Tropic Descent, Luke
Angel finds himself responding to a
distress call while flying a routine cargo
mission in his trusty Grumman Mallard
seaplane, Tropic Angel. After a water
landing and a daring rescue, Luke is
left with a dead pilot and a mysterious
unconscious female passenger. When
the passenger disappears from the local
hospital, Luke and his co-pilot begin to
unearth a mystery that's bigger than they
imagined. Tropic Descent takes everything
I enjoyed about the first book and doubles
down with even more general aviation
excitement and suspense. -Niki Britton
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AOPA PILOT / November 2024
Flying
adventures
World Beneath My Wings
" T H E S K Y C A L L S to all who listen "
says author Peter Fraser, who has been
listening for more than 40 years. He
chronicles his flying adventures in World
Beneath My Wings, a collection of stories
based on his career as a test and ferry pilot.
He delivered and tested aircraft all over
the world. Born in Africa, he has flown
as far north as the North Pole, across the
Pacific Ocean, down into Australia, into
Dubai, to Afghanistan, Ireland, American
Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Switzerland,
the Netherlands, Mexico, and across the
United States. Readers are transported
to far-off lands, exciting experiences, and
thrilling flight-testing exploits, all with a
sense of awe and inspiration that Fraser
brings to every adventure. His advice
resonates: " ...all has turned out well, so
be careful, but not too fearful that it stops
your life. " -JSW
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