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Angel Flights Paperback – October 8, 2015
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As Los Angeles comes of age in the 1960s, two undercover cops, posing as bikers, struggle to maintain their balance in the growing drug trade. Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good--while doing bad.
The newcomer, Gabe, learns from a few masters in the game of life, love, and staying alive while undercover. He soon finds that "Normal" is a meaningless word civilian society makes up. His first master teaches him that the books (on being a cop) don't know squat. The next cop shows him that being irreverent and unconventional in the approach of doing their job, gets results.
As part of his cover, Gabe buys a house in the neighborhood that is serviced by his old precinct. Some old habits die hard. His understanding for those that still wear the uniform runs deeper than a commercial coffee maker and more open handed than the back-door that has no lock. Soon he finds that he must learn to deal with what becomes more like a frat house with a very large snake running loose.
After a bar fight, the team is one man down. But there is a more important job to be done: running young girls into Mexico for illegal abortions.
A group of doctors and nurses had become tired of young teens coming into emergency rooms still bleeding from botched abortions up back allyways. They bought a hacienda south of the border, and had bikers bring the girls across on Friday evening and return them on Sunday.
When Gabe rushes one girl back to the United States to save her life, he sticks around. Cricket is only fourteen, scared, and alone. Through the days of her recovery from emergency surgery, he gets to know her. He is by her side around the clock. With the days, she comes to understand just what an Angel really is.
They part ways, but not before Gabe lets her know how she can find him if she ever needs her Angel.
Three years later, a phone call in the night brings it all into focus--for a battle to save her life.
- Print length472 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMordant Media
- Publication dateOctober 8, 2015
- Dimensions5.25 x 1.05 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100984966676
- ISBN-13978-0984966677
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- Publisher : Mordant Media
- Publication date : October 8, 2015
- Language : English
- Print length : 472 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0984966676
- ISBN-13 : 978-0984966677
- Item Weight : 1.18 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 1.05 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,438,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #14,128 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
- #99,858 in Crime Thrillers (Books)
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Bestselling, award-winning author, Baer Charlton holds a degree in Social-Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine. His many interests have led him around the world in search of the different and unique.
As an internationally recognized photojournalist, he tracked mountain gorillas, was a podium for a Barbary Ape, communicated in sign language with an Orangutan named Boolon, kissed a kangaroo, and many other wild experiences in between--or he was just monkeying around.
There are no more complex and wonderful stories than ones coming from human experience. Mr. Charlton's stories are all driven by the characters you come to think of as friends, if not family.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015A phone call in the middle of the night crying for help, fifty three miles away. First, the story will take us back some years to where it began. Gabriel, Gabe for short, is his name. The ones on the street will only know him as snake. The girls? Angel. As in the same type of angel that many believe watch over us and protect. Gabe's friend Rabbit ends up in the hospital for an extended period of time due to a fight. He asks Gabe to step in for him to be an angel while he recovers. There are borders to be crossed into another country to save the girls. Weekend after weekend after weekend.The girls are instructed as to where to meet, how to act, what to wear. There can be no mistakes. The angels and the girls need to protect each other if their missions are to succeed, and stay out of jail. Along this journey, you will meet Gertie the steak with barbeque sauce and chicken without the skin eating snake. No worries, Gertie is harmless. All the children from the neighborhood come to pet her when she suns herself on the freshly cut lawn. The frat house, where her and Gabe live, magically fills up with food, coffee, steaks piled high in the freezer when Gabe is on a run. Saving the girls takes money though. Lots of it. More laws have to be broken. There is one little girl in particular that will grab your heart, and by the time you finish this book you just may look very differently at what it means to really save a soul. Along the way you will meet others. Chet the bartender, with a towel always over his shoulder. Maria,with her beautiful toddler Lincoln who only likes the hottest spiciest food you can find. Jalapeno peppers? they better be hotter then hot. Maria's brother Lito who at fourteen, has to find a way to finish high school and get into college due to being extremely smart,or face wasting away on the streets if he can't be challenged. Mike, a deaf angel, his ever supportive wife Regina. Romeo and Juliet, who as kids survived World War One and somehow managed to not only survive but thrive. A delightful woman named Daisy, Gabe and a friend come across a chance meeting with and decide to have tea together at a turn of the century hotel. These are just a few of the others that have a story to tell, within the story of Angel Flights itself. It all ties in, and It helps with the story flowing as beautifully as it does. There are nitty gritty down and dirty parts that are not so pleasant, but part of the fabric that makes this book what it is. An amazing ride, full of the biggest hearts, love, and people that were once strangers that become your family under the California sky. In a place and time where laws may have to be broken for better ones to be put in place. I shed a tear and cheered at the end. Enjoy!
- Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019The author writes a classic about intentionally corrupting policemen in order to catch people more evil and destructive to our nation than the police emulating them in order to catch them. All of this serves as an effective backdrop to a heartbreaking tale of men who risk their freedom taking young girls to a safe but illegal abortion clinic. These men are the angels spoken of in the story but honestly it is the young ladies who were usually the victims of rape, incest, pimps, and others who like to look righteous while perpetuating gross violence upon the innocent. It was these young ladies and the innocent infants they carried that were the angels to me.
Some were wounded from having been abandoned to the streets, some by their politically powerful, wealthy fathers. Evil knows no boundaries: not race, not religion, not political party, nor wealth, nor poverty, nor highly educated, nor the illiterate. Evil knows no boundaries but it is an equal opportunity destroyer of all.
I would have liked it better if the girls were taken to safe havens where they could heal of their psychological and physical injuries, receive free educations until they finish schooling through college, and hopefully give birth to their babies to be adopted by genuinely, loving, godly people.
I would have like it better if the evil fathers, uncles, brothers, pimps, and drug pushers were arrested, sentenced to death, and shot immediately. I do not believe in the death penalty but even I will kill a dog gone mad and attacking people, sometimes mauling then to death so surely if anyone deserves the death penalty, it is those who out of their own evil hearts bring forth violence upon those most innocent and incapable of defending themselves in our land.
But instead the babies receive the death penalties, even though the sin was not theirs, even though the sin was not their mothers, just because society would rather be rid of them instead of saving them. They all go to be with Jesus but their mothers are left her to suffer on. I believe the books angels to the heroes doing the very best for the girls that they know how to do. I believe the young mothers to be innocent victims of the monsters who impregnated them, I believe the nurses and doctors performing the abortions are doing the best they know how to do when faced with seemingly impossible situations. I hurt for them all as portrayed in this book and as they operate in the shadows of a real world.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019A good read. The characters are as good as the story line. I could read a few of these. Boy!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2022Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI met the author and they suggested I read the book, and so I downloaded it and read it in about two days solid. This was in May and Early June. Now with what is going on, the story impacts me so much more than it did, which was a lot to start with. The compassion that these individuals had for people who they didn't know, and for the most part would never know the name of strikes me as something we are going to have to go back to and that scares me.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022Format: KindleVerified PurchaseAs a female who grew up pre Roe vs Wade, this story brings to mind all the horror stories heard of the girls and women who weren't allowed a choice in their own lives. I truly worry about what will happen with the current situation without Roe vs Wade backing up our God given rights to CHOICE. That's really what it is all about - choice.
You will not regret reading this book. Well done.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2023Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA storyline that will keep you interested and fleshed out human characters you will love in spite of, or maybe because of, their faults. It's great to read a really creative story instead of warmed over generic genre that could be written by a bot to
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022Format: KindleVerified PurchaseWritten in 2015 about the past before
Roe V Wade. The telling is of women and girls and the people who understood their plight and endeavored to help them.
The past is now the present.
Of course it wouldn't be a Charlton novel without motorcycles, cops, a snake and coffee. This time it's a tour of the SFV and a formally sleepy town at the beach in Baja.