The Wahatoya
In the Valley of the Sun
Gary L. Bridges
Art Work
by
Shawn Kingston Bridges
Book Summary
U.S. Army Air Force Captain Ben Curtis had survived the doomed air raid on Ploesti, Hitler’s most important oil refinery, by virtue of his superior flying skills and a whole lot of luck. He had crash landed his crippled B-24 bomber in Benghazi, Liberia, bringing most of his crew home safely; all but the waist gunner who had literally been blown out of the aircraft. Just a matter of months later, on what should have been a milk-run, he struggles to survive after his B-24 crashes into the Wahatoyas, Southern Colorado’s majestic, snow-capped mountains. The other crash survivor is an unwilling Nazi spy, who was captured before he could defect to Germany with secrets from the Manhattan Project.
Sven Curry leads a desperate search and rescue effort to save Ben Curtis and his injured passenger. A team of Nazi assassins is also on the mountain with orders to bring the defector and his secrets of the atomic bomb to Hitler. United States government agents race against time to locate Sven and the crash survivors. Sven relies on his outdoor skills and instincts, honed by years of living with the Ute Indians and their great chief Towaoc. He eventually hides them in the labyrinth of caves behind Chaparral Falls, where the exciting and deadly conclusion plays out.