On the Wings of Angels continues the saga of Otto Kerchner, the airplane-loving Wisconsin farm boy who
becomes a reluctant hero during World War II in On Wings of the Morning (Book One) and continues, with his family,
friends and community, to try new ventures and as a result sometimes falls into
danger in On the Wings of Eagles (Book
Two).
Angels picks up in
1954 and includes the acquisition of a losing minor league baseball team,
threats from Minneapolis mobsters, Otto at the controls of a Soviet MiG, deep and troubling family
discord after a sudden death, initiating an aviation camp, a terrifying
kidnapping and a marauding bear as the Kerchners, and the good folks of Pioneer
Lake learn to cope with an increasingly complex and changing world.
Readers
of earlier novels in the series praise their easy style and realistic detail
which recreate the ambiance and feel of those remembered years, including the
simple pleasures of picnics, birthday parties and pick-up baseball games. The
characters are at once unique and identifiable, and their hopes, fears and
struggles still resonate today. This way of life has vanished, and we can only
experience it vicariously through books like this.