Slingshot

Captain Paul Coulter flies alone through the black, the last line between Earth and the cold vastness of space. As a fighter pilot in the escalating conflict between America and Russia, he has already lost friends to the void, and the only certainty is that more will follow. When a critical mission demands everything he has, Coulter must navigate not just the deadly dance of space combat, but the weight of memories: the love he left behind, the life he may never live, and the question of whether any victory is worth the cost. Written during the height of Cold War tensions, Slingshot captures a moment when humanity first learned to weaponize the stars, and the loneliness of those asked to pilot the thunder. It's a meditation on duty and sacrifice wrapped in the adrenaline of aerial dogfights transferred to the cosmos, told through one man's struggle to hold onto his humanity in a war that threatens to swallow him whole. For readers who wonder what it felt like to look up at the night sky and imagine it as a battlefield.