Stephen Coonts
Auteur van De vlucht van de Intruder
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Stephen Coonts was born on July 19, 1946 and grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He received an A.B. degree in political science from West Virginia University in 1968. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his Navy wings in August of 1969. He made two combat cruises aboard the USS Enterprise. toon meer After the Vietnam War, he served as a flight instructor aboard the USS Nimitz. He left active duty in 1977 and received a law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1979. He went to West Virginia to practice and later, to Colorado to work as a staff attorney for an oil company. Coonts published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, in 1986, which was adapted as into a film in 1991. Since then he has written more than 20 books including ones in the Jake Grafton Novel series, Saucer series, Deep Black series, and Tommy Carmellini series. He also published a work of nonfiction in 1992 called The Cannibal Queen and edited an anthology of true flying stories, War in the Air, in 1996. The U.S. Naval Institute honored him with its Author of the Year Award in 1986 for his novel, Flight of the Intruder. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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War in the Air: True Accounts of the 20th Century's Most Dramatic Air Battles-By the Men Who Fought Them (1996) 139 exemplaren
The Jake Grafton Collection: The Intruders, The Minotaur, Under Siege, and The Red Horseman (2018) 15 exemplaren
Deep Black CD Collection: Deep Black, Deep Black: Biowar, Deep Black Dark Zone (NSA) (2006) 10 exemplaren
Stephen Coonts Deep Black CD Collection 2: Deep Black: Payback, Deep Black: Jihad, Deep Black: Conspiracy (2009) 6 exemplaren
Stephen Coonts CD Collection: America, Liberty, Liars & Thieves (Jake Grafton Series) (2007) 2 exemplaren
Stephen Coonts Book Series in Order 1 exemplaar
Incursori 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Coonts, Stephen
- Officiële naam
- Coonts, Stephen Paul
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Adams, Eve
- Geboortedatum
- 1946-07-19
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Opleiding
- West Virginia University (AB|Political Science|1968)
University of Colorado (JD|1979) - Beroepen
- Writer
- Organisaties
- United States Navy (Vietnam)
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The Cannibal Queen: A Flight into the Heart of America door Stephen Coonts
Add the Cannibal Queen to my list of favorite travel tales: Blue Highways and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—this time in a fifty-year-old World War II Stearman bi-plane. It’s a leisurely romp across America as former Naval Aviator and novelist Stephen Coonts spends a summer landing in every state in the continental U.S. The book is not really a piloting primer, but there’s a fair share of reflection on weather, winds, and landing a tail dragger properly, with a little bit of news (the fall of the U.S.S.R.), opinions about book publishing before eBooks, and the colorful characters who own and operate General Aviation Airports. Coonts belonged to my flying club while I lived in Colorado during the Eighties. Sorry I never got a chance to meet him.… (meer)
Awful sci-fi effort. Author has no style, the book reads like a bad comic book. Good idea for a story done by a hack.
Another winner for a favorite author. Keep writing Mr. Coonts.
FROM AMAZON: Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is an old friend from those days, Tiger Cole.
The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Tiger Cole is right in the middle of the action.
When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. Drawing on the skills of CIA operative Tommy Carmellini, in order to save his wife Jake Grafton must figure out who he can trust-both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future-and make sure the right side wins.… (meer)
FROM AMAZON: Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is an old friend from those days, Tiger Cole.
The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Tiger Cole is right in the middle of the action.
When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech civil war. Drawing on the skills of CIA operative Tommy Carmellini, in order to save his wife Jake Grafton must figure out who he can trust-both among the Western factions vying for control of the volatile situation, and among the Chinese patriots fighting for their nation's future-and make sure the right side wins.… (meer)
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