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Returning to California after eighteen terrifying months in Vietnam, Captain Joe Harding is assigned a trio of duties: assisting his fatherly former commander at base operations, spying on misbehaving bomber pilots and organizing an air show designed to counter the anti-war fever sweeping the state. Meanwhile, his much younger tennis partner has enrolled at Cal Berkeley, enmeshed himself in pacifist politics and resumed his role as Joe's lover. When a playmate from Wheelus, a one-time fighter pilot now flying for TWA, shows up at Joe's house in Merced, the three men must navigate the joys and difficulties inherent in creating their own sort of ''welcome home.'' Continuing the adventures and misadventures begun in Elliott Mackle's acclaimed Captain Harding series Joe and his fellow officers and men are up against a hot-dogging, risk-taking aircraft commander, a pair of drug-abusing co-pilots and a married administrator with a taste for sexual blackmail. When a Broadway show causes a death in the family, a test flight goes terribly wrong and Joe's honor and patriotism are questioned, he must fight to clear his name and rebuild his imperiled career.
- Sales Rank: #575188 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .45" w x 5.98" l, .66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Remarkable storytelling
By Russell J. Sanders
Elliott Mackle has written a fine, fine novel in Welcome Home, Captain Harding. Packed with well-drawn characters and a compelling plot, the novel begs you to read it from beginning to end, never letting your attention lag. This third of Mackle’s Harding trilogy is set in 1970 San Francisco area, encompassing the Vietnam protests at Cal Berkley, some hotshot flyers at Castle Air Force Base, some under-the-cover surveillance operations, and a trio of very appealing gay men. And that is what makes this book so remarkable. The fact that Captain Harding is gay is just another character trait. Yes, it is 1970; it is pre-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; it is pre-gays openly serving in the military. So the reader can expect complications involving Harding’s sexuality. But, for the most part, the people closest to him not only accept him for who he is, they also embrace his sexuality as simply a part of his being human, another person on this earth. That is refreshing. Having grown up in the 1960s, I’m not sure in my youth I ever came into contact with anyone like these loving, accepting people. So that alone makes this a remarkable book. Add to it the plot which is chockful of stats and flying details and air base operations, and you have one authentic tale, told by a master storyteller. And he is a tale spinner who obviously feels no need to spice up an already intriguing tale with explicit sex. Yes, Harding and his two mates do engage, and yes, we do get a few descriptions of their encounters, but mostly Mackle lets us know that sexual activity took place, and all is right with their world. That is refreshing to me, who has read a spate of gay romance novels lately, where explicit sex scenes, apparently, are required of the genre. Bravo Elliot Mackle for creating a winning story that shows us that, even in the turbulent Vietnam era, gay men did exist, that they led fairly mundane lives, and that they were accepted for the fine people they were.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Recommended if you loved first two books in the series
By Sirius
REVIEW WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED AT REVIEWS BY JESSEWAVE WHERE I RECEIVED THE BOOK AS FREE REVIEWING COPY.
4.5 stars rounded to 5.
I am not sure whether the third book is the last one in the series, but it certainly brings the trilogy to (mostly) satisfying conclusion.
As you can see from the blurb a lot is happening in the third book as well and Joe Harding is as always thrown in the middle of things. I really appreciate that the writer always makes feel that I was thrown back in time when I am reading these books and this is one of the main reasons I read historical books for - to travel back in time the story portrays. It is strange to call the book which portrays late sixties - early seventies in the twentieth century a historical, but that's what it is now, right?
We get to see and feel the atmosphere in San Francisco - much more liberated than in many other cities at that time from what I have read and while I understand and support anti - Vietnam War sentiments, I have never been in the army and it was nice to see some skepticism from the soldier who just came back. Not that Joe is shown as a stringent supporter of the war, definitely not. But this is only a small part of what Joe finds himself being involved in. As blurb tells you he once again has to investigate some incompetence and some criminal things going on in SAC because his commander wanted him to do that. And the story really does not pull any punches with this storyline. The result of Joe's investigation was surprising to me in the most unpleasant (but fitting) way, however I should have expected it based on some things which had happened at the end of the previous books.
Once again I was surprised (why I was surprised I am not sure, because by now I should get used to Elliott Mackle's writing skills) how realistic everything that took place felt. Most characters in the book felt like living, breathing human beings, their reactions made sense, their actions, no matter how stupid or dangerous made sense to. They did not act like characters who know that they are in the book if that makes sense; they acted like people living their lives.
I thought Joe Harding definitely matured in this book - in both personal and professional life, I thought his love interest from previous book matured a great deal as well. I never thought of these series as a romance, even if the second book took more romantic turn in my opinion, I thought of it as an action/adventure gay fiction. However I wondered about certain romantic development which occurs in this book - I wondered the point of it.
The end of the story made me think that this is the end to the series, however there is certainly a room for telling more stories about Joe Harding and his life and if the author chooses to do so, I will be there.
Definitely recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Third of the series, best of the bunch!
By Bob Lind
In this third (of three) novels featuring Captain Joe Harding, a gay Air Force administration officer during the Vietnam era, Joe has finished his tour of duty overseas and is working stateside, assisting one of his mentors assigned as the base commander. Unknown to others there, they also have been given the duty to observe, document and report on any potentially serious misbehavior among the pilots and other officers, a situation that can be dangerous to them if discovered. Adding to the complexity of the situation is that Joe is now able to get together more frequently with his lover, Cotton, the nineteen year old son of an important state department official whom Joe first met when he visited overseas with his mother. Then there is Sam, now a TWA pilot, whom Joe had played with overseas, before he met Cotton.
Joe is given an assignment, to coordinate an important air show at the Northern California base, a seemingly-uncomplicated task that becomes anything but, when a hotshot pilot's carelessness threatens to make it a deadly disaster. The challenge involves many of Joe's contacts, both there and overseas, and a bit of trickery, all in the name of safety. It's an assignment he'll remember for the rest of his life.
As mentioned, this is the end of a trilogy with this character, although you really do not need to have read any of the earlier novels to thoroughly enjoy this one. As in all of his previous books, Mackle shows his talent for providing realistic, fully-nuanced characters, which drive the story throughout. This action/adventure novel is something you will not want to put down. Five stars out of five.
- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine
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