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Kent McInnis

Author of the Sierra Hotel trilogy

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SIERRA HOTEL, the first of a three-novel series, looks at the Vietnam War from the perspective of airmen in the rear echelon dealing with a different enemy—dysfunctional commanders, war protestors, and personal demons, while supporting a war their leaders are unwilling to win.
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CLEAR and a MILLION, the second in the Sierra Hotel Trilogy, follows veterans as they struggle through the transition to a civilian world—a minefield all its own. While missing the intense camaraderie of an air force squadron, family pressures, antagonistic civilians, and a lonely young woman can drag a man down.
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SEMPER FLY, the final novel of the Sierra Hotel Trilogy, follows our main character as he further matures and learns to take charge of his own life and grow proud of his service as a Vietnam wartime military pilot in a nation still at conflict with itself.
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DETAIL MAN, a novel of the pharmaceutical industry, covers forty-years of a pharmaceutical salesman and his company. In four decades of medical evolution, industry, doctors, and government affected changes not always in the best interests of patients. Ethics is sometimes best practiced by the one who is face to face with the doctor. Learn what pharmaceutical sales entails. Discover the hilarity, dedication, and enjoyment in being a Detail Man.
DEATAIL MAN due for release in 2024.

TALES of the RIO RIVER RATS is a history of the author’s pilot training classmates, a varied group of student pilots who went to war in the 1970s during Vietnam’s final years. Twenty-five years later the men named the Rio River Rats came back together to continue a comradery that now spans over fifty years. They are telling stories of their facing challenges and enemies, losing comrades-in-arms, and living full and productive lives. Filled with a mix of excitement, hilarity, sadness, fear, and triumph, find out what real military pilots think and can achieve.
Look for TALES of the RIO RIVER RATS in 2025.

Kent McInnis, Air Force jet pilot, pharmaceutical salesman, and history foundation chairman, is now a bestselling author. Born and raised in Oklahoma, he led a life right out of Leave It to Beaver. Inspired by reading Tom Sawyer, he began writing his own tales in Fifth Grade. Throughout high school and college, he kept diaries. While flying for the Air Force, he completed his first novel, then began a second book which he sold years later as the novel, Sierra Hotel.
Schooled in Oklahoma City, he graduated college at Oklahoma State University with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Ethology (animal behavior). Later he earned a master’s degree in History of the Southwest, which led him to writing historical fiction.
Following his debut Air Force novels, the Sierra Hotel Trilogy, McInnis delved into a new novel based on his career in medicine as a drug rep or detail man. Collecting years of stories of doctors, patients, pharmacists, and fellow salesman, his latest novel, Detail Man, weaves a tale of life in the medical arena. McInnis goes beyond people in the industry and takes his reader to an understanding of the big picture of companies involved in government regulations. Names of people and drugs have been changed, not only to protect the innocent, but to protect the author. Real life is often more fascinating than fiction.
Kent McInnis and wife Cheryl live in Oklahoma City enjoying the company of a thousand friends they have met over a lifetime together.

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