Richard Hess has spent fifty years flying as a U.S. Air Force pilot for 28 years, as an airline captain, and as an international military adviser through the U.S. State Department for fifteen years. That life, and the nine war zones, countless countries, and one long marriage that came with it, is the foundation for everything he writes. Whether it's the Cold-War-style tension of Night of the Bear or the hard-won honesty of his memoir High Flight, Richard writes what he knows: the cockpit, the chain of command, and the long road to faith and perspective that comes after a life like his.