John Bushby is the author of the Harry Braham and Rick Kasten series of espionage novels. He is also a retired US Navy lieutenant commander and naval flight officer. Having been commissioned at NAS Pensacola following college, he went on to earn his wings as a naval flight officer and was assigned to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 131 at Whidbey Island, Washington. In 1972 the squadron was embarked upon USS Enterprise for a nine-month combat deployment to the South China Sea flying the EA-6B Prowler. During his deployment, then lieutenant (junior grade) Bushby flew sixty-seven combat mis...