ALLEN, Texas, May 5, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Jack Weston is known as a sort of gypsy type, a drifter of the skies. Flying from job to job, Jack hasn't exactly set the world on fire, but his fortune is about to change when he stumbles on a treasure of gold lost in the jungles of Venezuela. An exciting adventure is about to take flight in the new novel, Midnight Jungle Flights (now available through 1stBooks Library), by Cole Banner.
Banner tells the story of Jack Weston, an intelligent pilot with no visible means of financial support. His love is traveling, going anywhere he can fly his bush plane and the occasional crop duster. The beginning of his journey takes off in the mountains of Canada where he crashes his plane. Following a trail, he jets through the states, the Caribbean and finally South America. Through a strange twist of fate, his crippled floatplane is swept over a 1600 foot jungle waterfall, where clues manifest of treasure hidden two centuries prior by Spanish pirates. Finding the gold and getting it out of such a remote location will put his determination, ingenuity and skills as a pilot to the test.
He will have to enlist the help of his friend, Austin Riley, a modern day pirate, who is partial to bar fights and has been struck by lightning twice, and Layla, a stunningly beautiful Venezuelan woman and the object of his affection. Jack gets involved in a nighttime operation involving gunfire, bloodthirsty banditos, low fuel and a sizzling lightning-packed thunderstorm.
Fasten the seatbelts and prepare to take flight for adventure and fortune in this exciting novel by Banner.
Banner is a lifelong resident of Texas, currently living in Allen, Texas. He is the fire captain and EMT, as well as a licensed pilot and certified PADI scuba diver. Enjoying flying, scuba diving, traveling, snow skiing, writing, inventing, motorcycles and photography, Banner has had many of his own adventures, which he weaves into Midnight Jungle Flights, his first novel.
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