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From cockpit to taxicab and back-Brian Settles, a single parent, experienced airline pilot, seemed to have it all until an airline strike and bankruptcy shattered his existence. Shattered Dream: A Single-Parent Airline Pilot's Story is a gripping account of a desperate father's three year, three-hundred-mile-a-day ordeal driving a cab on the streets of Atlanta. Readers will experience the dangers of cabbie life, the condescension of passengers, what he learned about them and, most importantly, himself.

During the Vietnam War, Brian Howard Settles flew nearly two hundred combat missions in a jet fighter as he struggled with feelings of isolation from his convictions, personal inadequacy, and inner questions of his loyalty to a nation from which he felt alienated. Settles grapples with his hypocrisy in selling out on himself and his marriage in exchange for filling his emotional neediness with the glorified machismo of being a fighter pilot. In his guts and glory story, this retired airline captain discloses the awful truth of his guilt laden mania for booze, broads, and battle, sharing the...

Retired airline Captain and author, Brian H. Settles, gives readers of aviation sagas a true page-turner memoir in SMOKE FOR BREAKFAST: A Vietnam Combat Pilot's Story. Readers will feel, smell and taste the nonstop adventure as if they are riding on the shoulders of this Nebraska orphan who became a fighter pilot to prove he was good enough. Steamy tales of failures at faithfulness and the machismo of pilot ego drip from these pages...