OLD SCHOOL AVIATION ADVENTURE NOVELS? YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
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THE SOUTHERN BORDER SQUADRON: OLD PILOTS AND OLD AIRPLANES VERSUS CARTEL DRONES.
When high-tech smuggling drones start crossing the southern border in waves, the government can’t move fast enough—and the cartels don’t play by rules.
So a handful of old pilots and warbird fanatics dust off the kind of aircraft nobody expects to see in a modern fight. Wood, wire, fabric… and grit.
Get The Southern Border Squadron free and ride shotgun in an aerial thriller where yesterday’s machines become tomorrow’s last line of defense. This is a full-length novel. Download now—instant delivery.
COMING SUMMER, 2026
The first Dutch St. John aviation adventure thriller.
A missile streaks over the US-Canada border—and vanishes into the Montana darkness.
Dutch St. John has seen enough war zones to know when a “one-off incident” is a lie. A former CIA pilot and smokejumper, Dutch lives on a ragged grass airstrip in Montana with his daughter Diana and his old-world anchor of a father, Pop. When something ugly slips into the United States under cover of chaos, Dutch and his crew are the only ones close enough—and stubborn enough—to chase it.
With Diana running intelligence from the hangar, Pop keeping the home front alive, and Niko Petrenko—a hard-bitten ex-Soviet pilot—watching Dutch’s six in the air, the team follows the trail from backcountry Montana to the shadow edges of international black markets.
THE NORTHERN BORDER is the first Dutch St. John aviation adventure—where the maps are real, the stakes are global, and the only way out is full throttle.
WHO AM I?
I fell in love with aviation the old-fashioned way—listening to family legends. My grandfather and great-uncle were World War II pilots who filled my childhood with tales you’d swear were made up: running rum from Cuba in a PBY, getting shot down in a B-17 over Germany, surviving a POW camp. That’ll wire your brain for adventure pretty early.
I became a journalist, filmmaker and aerial cinematographer, chasing stories across Africa, Haiti, Greenland, and a few places I can’t mention without sounding like I’m auditioning for a spy movie. I’ve spent thousands of hours shooting from aircraft—happiest low and slow with the door off. My aviation documentary Return to the Big Skies: Miss Montana to Normandy screened at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
These days I’m raising two kids on a mini farm in western Montana with a half-built Pietenpol in the garage. Somewhere between binge-reading Coonts, Clancy, Cussler, and Nate Van Coops, I realized flying-related fiction is weirdly hard to find. So I decided to write the kind of books I’m always hunting for—high-stakes adventure, real flying, and characters stubborn enough to keep going when the smart move is to quit.
