Too old to fly

Sergeant Horatio "Dad" Galladay has spent years as a Marine, perfecting the art of killing from the ground. Now the Corps wants him to teach recruits how to stay alive while he quietly dies inside. There's only one thing left that burns in him: he needs to fly. He needs to climb into a cockpit, to taste the terror and glory of the air, to prove his killer's instincts haven't gone soft with age. When ace pilot Buck Weaver agrees to take him up, Galladay finally gets his chance. But the skies over the Western Front aren't kind to dreamers, and an old machine gunner in a fragile aircraft faces the question every aging warrior asks: can I still be what I was? This is pulp adventure at its rawest: a story about the need to be tested, the terror of being left behind, and whether a man can find redemption at the end of his usefulness.