One Stick and a Waco

On loan from the 101st Airborne G2 Office, Lieutenant Alex Pfister and his Jedburgh OSS team are betrayed before they can parachute into Holland. Joined by Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Pfister and his new team's mission is to liberate prisoners held in a concentration camp, steal back a Flying Fortress and destroy a German V-2 mobile launch battery. Then survive.Lieutenant Alex Pfister was born in Nazi Germany German Jew, but escaped as child. Now a college professor, he joined the Airborne and returned to Europe as a Screaming Eagle of the 101st Airborne Division on D-Day, and now is seconded to the fledgling Office of Special Service. Helped by the Dutch Resistance, he joins forces with other isolated Screaming Eagles, some old friends from D-Day, to fight their way through the Germans attacking the highway to Arnhem.ONE STICK AND A WACO is the second in the "STICK" series, and military historical fiction in the style of W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy, with a cast of characters molded from real life. J. M. Taylor is the author of the award-winning south Florida thrillers, GULF WINDS and LOST KEY, the international thriller DESERT WINDS and the WWII historical novel trilogy which follow the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles from Normandy to Bastogne: MISSING STICKS, ONE STICK AND A WACO and SNOW STICKS. Combining his experiences as a paratrooper, nuclear weapons specialist and operations research analyst with travels in the Far and Middle East, Europe and the States, he packs a ton of adventure into action-filled page-turners. The STICK Trilogy features Max, the German Shepherd, a brave and true friend of the Screaming Eagles, along with a Redtail pilot and a medevac nurse. Taylor originally was published with a small press and was a pioneer in independent publishing. D-Day, 6 June, 1944 - Normandy - behind Utah Beach. Just after midnight the drop began. Come dawn, 18 C-47s and their paratroopers were missing. What could have the missing troopers accomplished if they had landed safely and engaged the enemy? MISSING STICKS tells one story. ONE STICK AND A WACO is also fiction, a historical novel set in time and place during Operation MARKET GARDEN with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, the second novel in the Trilogy. Like MISSING STICKS, ONE STICK and a WACO isn't about strategy or glory, just men and women in combat. SNOW STICKS picks up our 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles troopers as they are fighting across Holland to "The Island" during Operation Market Garden, then take a little break in France; take time to to enjoy the fruits of France, maybe sneak back to England for a short visit to a war bride. We all know what is coming - the German attacks that result in the Battle of the Bulge and especially the fight around Bastogne to stop the German advance back to the Channel. No Generals strategizing or Cabinet discussions, no arguments between Patton and Montgomery, this is about the grunts, the point of the spear.