Primordial Vault

By Frank Deft and Deft

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976132117
• ISBN13: 9780976132110
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Hufeisen Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fraught with Intrigue and Testosterone Run Wild

In Primordial Vault, (an excerpt of which we featured last month, Malek's Santuary) author Frank Deft brings us Lt. Colonel Carl Malek, the Air Force's Top Ace pilot and a Medal of Honor recipient. He is Commander of a fighter squadron at Bettingen Air Base in West Germany. Set in the Cold War, the story centers around his relationship with the pilots of his squadron, who he controls and manipulates. Newly installed in Germany and absent their loved ones, the men allow their egos and libidos to rule with cataclysmic results. At age 35, Carl's insecurities and suicidal family history have collided sending his world into a dangerous downhill spiral. His tendency toward abuse of women, from groping of barmaids to battery and threats, catapults him into a life and death situation, which he tries desperately to control. To make things worse, the fighter group's CO, Col. Brengard, recruits Captains Paul Oxner and Brice Trupp to keep an eye on Malek, whose sociopathic tendencies have cast a shadow of suspicion over him in the disappearance of a young German girl. Carl's paranoia and the constant scrutiny of the Provost Marshall, Captain Aaron Kroll, keep him on edge and his determination to maintain his position send him lashing out to destroy those who threaten his very existence. Fraught with intrigue and testosterone run wild, this book will appeal to lovers of war stories and the mind games of competitive men fighting for superiority. Deft's long military background and fighter pilot experience enable him to bring extraordinary technical detail and realism to the practiced war games and dogfights that erupt between Malek and his men. The romances between some of the aviators and their German frauleins soften and fill out the otherwise male-oriented plot. Primordial Vault achieved award status in the 2001 William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition and the New Century Writer Awards contest in 2002.