Here are seven tales about things taking flight: sandhill cranes and albatross on the one hand, Flying Fortress and Messerschmitt on the other; in between, a story about an Air Force unmanned air vehicle pilfered and used for teenager's revenge in an attempted raid on the Super Bowl; a story about WW-II veterans flying combat in WW-I aircraft; another about espionage and a feisty miniature drone's jousts with a hummingbird, and, somehow, a story about polar bears and the yet to be realized warming of the globe.

A novel about hidden gold and drug smuggling A Mission was founded as a refuge for the .Jesuit priests of Baja California to escape danger and await a rescue boat to anchor at nearby Gonzaga Bay in the Sea of Cortez. King Charles iii of Spain ordered the expulsion of the Jesuit order in 1633. His soldiers carried out his orders with cruelty and the priest gathered at the Mission with all of their gold and treasure. A pair of Yankees go in search for the Mission and find its site used as a base for airborne drug smuggling by an ex-pro wrestler named Montezuma's Revenge.