Conflict Overhead

About the Book

The main character in the book is Gordon William Grey, a young man from Australia who was raised in the bush. It’s the 1930s, and his love for flying takes him to Victoria, where he joins the RAAF. Circumstances then take him and a group of RAAF pilots to England. Great Britain’s Fighter Command does not fall for Hitler’s political rhetoric of peace. They believe a war is imminent. As a result, RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Grey and his Australian contingent are retained and must join the RAF as fighter pilots. In the theatre of war, all sensations are accentuated. Fear, happiness, pain, love, heartbreak, and hate, and in this story, all those experiences materialise.

About the Author

I was born in NSW Australia in 1952. I spent most of my young life in the country, very similar to the life Gordon had in the book. At the age of eleven I went to boarding school for six years after which my family moved to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. I have been self employed all my life and the businesses I have conducted included; food retail, earthmoving, land development and primary industry with sheep and cattle. I have recently returned to Australia from living ten years in Thailand and it was while I was there, I wrote the story, “Conflict Overhead”. I am now living on a fruit farm with my Thai wife on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.