Locked Up With God by Guy D Gruters

Locked Up With God by Guy D Gruters

The danger lies not in the water.

As a veteran of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, Talmon Bonnett usually holds his PTSD at bay. When a wealthy couple hires him to spy on Rusty Wing, the man responsible for building the Mourning Island's new resort, Talmon injects himself into Rusty's inner circle. Lying about his intentions, Talmon gets to know Rusty's troubled fianc e Claire, his sinister Cuban first mate Santos, and Marlene, Rusty's alluring sister.

Talmon and Marlene begin a torrid affair; then someone is murdered, and Talmon learns that two Cuban mobster brothers are the money behind the resort. Talmon forces the couple to divulge the real reason they hired him. Everything is connected to the murder, Rusty's circle, the mobster brothers, and Claire's vanished father, who might know something vital.

Talmon's lie threatens the life he envisions with Marlene. Violence erupts because of a dispute between the brothers, with Rusty's circle as targets caught in the middle. Talmon desperately seeks Claire's father, while the two brothers maintain their collision course.

The Mourning Islands is an electrifying story that fuses mystery, passion, and tragedy against the serene beauty of Florida's coast.

A U.S. Air Force Captain, Guy Gruters, of Sidney, Ohio, flew more than 400 combat missions during the Vietnam War. Captain Gruters was awarded more than 30 combat awards, including two Silver Stars, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars for Valor, two Purple Hearts, the P.O.W. Medal, and more than twenty Air Medals. But it was his faith that carried Guy to victory in the biggest battle of his life. Shot down twice during the Vietnam war, Guy was captured the second time and spent a grueling five years and three months in communist prison camps. Captain Gruters has spoken around the country sharing his unique message, a joyful, positive one full of faith and hope. He and his wife, Sandy, have been married for almost fifty years, raised seven children and have adopted an eighth. I was in my early twenties when I volunteered to go to Vietnam. I was very healthy and strong, both physically and emotionally. I had been through four years of school at the Air Force Academy. It included significant physical training and mental discipline. I was on Judo and Boxing teams there, and took parachute training with the US Army. I also attended Purdue University where I earned a Masters Degree in Astronautical Engineering, then completed pilot training and fighter gunnery school. It was a different world back then. Our country was fearful of communism and rightfully so. We were engaged in a war in Vietnam to stop communism from spreading and taking over the whole world. Communism had already grown like a horrible cancer to include Russia, China, all of the Eastern European nations, North Korea, and North Vietnam. Now South Vietnam was being invaded. It had to be stopped. This is what the leaders of our country thought. I agreed and as a soldier was happy to be able to contribute to this struggle. I volunteered for Vietnam. I served there a total of six years and 15 days. The first seven months were as a forward air controller with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, an excellent U.S. army unit. This Brigade fought in many parts of Vietnam. During the last months of my service assigned to this unit in 1967, it was stationed at the Dak To Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands. Combat action was continuous because we were the Fire Brigade, and it was our job to finish up the tough battles. Then I volunteered for the MISTYs, a top-secret all-volunteer fighter unit flying Forward Air Controller missions over North Vietnam. I was surrounded by heroes.

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ISBN 13	9780989051514
ISBN 10	098905151X
Title	Locked Up With God
Author	Guy D Gruters
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Guy D Gruters
Year published	2013-07-07
Number of pages	284
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