Soldier From the Sky 2

Soldier From the Sky

An epic adventure in six books



Book Two: Italia Mia

It's 1943, Brooklyn. Nick Mancuso is an emerging wise guy. He has a gold flake in his right eye, a reputation for quick fists, a taste for sleek clothes and the high life. Just graduated high school, in love with neighborhood girl Theresa, he enlists as a gunner in the new Army Air Corps. He is quickly singled out for super-acute, dead eye aim and picks up the nickname Flash. He knows there's no counting on coming home from war and before leaving, roughly breaks it off with Theresa, leaving her tearful, and not looking back.

He's assigned to a crew on a B-24 bomber, the Bobbie Jean, sent to an airbase in the heel of Italy, and is soon shooting Nazis out of his ancestral skies, happy to do so, with cold-blooded smile. Aerial combat is a bloodbath and when Nick's plane is shot down, he is gut shot, and bleeding out as the wind carries his parachute toward the wintry Apennines.