The death of Trans-Continental co-pilot, Jay Bridges, looked like an accident, but the head of Trans-Continental's Miami office is suspicious. Ex-pilot Sawer is hired to find out why Bridges died and who was responsible.
Thomas Block has written seven aviation-oriented novels, many which have gone on to acquire best-seller status in numerous countries. His novel writing began with the publication of "Mayday" in 1979. That novel was rewritten with his boyhood friend, novelist Nelson DeMille in 1998 and remains on DeMille's extensive backlist. "Mayday" became a CBS Movie of the Week in October, 2005.
The other novels by Block include "Orbit", "Airship Nine", "Forced Landing", "Skyfall" and "Open Skies". Block is still actively writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and has edited and extensively updated all of his previous novels for ebook format. Block continues to work with Nelson DeMille and over the years has assisted with a number of DeMille novels in various ways. He has also worked with novelist Robert Gandt on several writing projects.
Block's magazine writing began in 1968 and over the past five decades he has appeared in numerous publications. He worked 20 years at FLYING Magazine as Contributing Editor, and as Contributing Editor to Plane & Pilot Magazine for 11 years. Block became Editor-at-Large for Piper Flyer Magazine and Cessna Flyer Magazine in 2001 and continues in that roll.
During his long career as an aviation writer he has written on a wide array of subjects that range from involvement with government officials to evaluation reports on most everything that flies. Block has piloted gliders, seaplanes, the Goodyear Blimp, warplanes and many large transport jets, to name just a few categories from his logbook. He has owned more than a dozen light airplanes.
An airline pilot for US Airways for over 36 years before his retirement in April, 2000, Captain Thomas Block has been a pilot since 1959. Born February 11, 1945, Block has accumulated 30,000+ hours of flight time since his first solo on his sixteenth birthday. He holds an Air Transport Pilot rating in numerous large aircraft. Block flew the Trans-Oceanic routes for US Airways in the Boeing 767 to a cross-section of European cities for the last decade of his airline career. Block is also rated for single and multi-engine land and sea aircraft, and gliders.
Since 2002, Thomas Block has lived on a ranch in Florida with his wife Sharon where they board and train horses.
