Spotlight on Brodie Curtis, author of Angels and Bandits

 

The Battle of Britain rages and two young RAF pilots from very different stations in life must somehow find common ground—and stay alive.

On the eve of World War II, working-class Eddy Beane is a flight instructor in London. He successfully completes dangerous espionage missions for Air Commodore Keith Park and takes on society-girl June Stephenson as a student. Her ex-fiancé, Dudley Thane, is also a flyer, but upper-class and Cambridge-educated. When the German Luftwaffe attacks England in 1940, Eddy and Dudley end up serving in the same Spitfire squadron. Aerial combat is intense, and both men show their skills and courage, but can they set aside jealousy and class differences to become fighting brothers for the defence of Britain?

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Brodie Curtis

FUN FACTS

 I love to road cycle. Wife Sue and I graduated from high school in West-Central Illinois and spend a lot of time there with family and friends. We take summer bike rides on country roads through fields of seven-foot hearty green stalks of seed corn, soybean fields, and repurposed strip mines. One route takes us through the truly Americana town of Victoria, Illinois (population 296) which has the smallest American Legion post I’ve ever seen. Outside it, there’s a WW2-era army tank. It’s missing more than a few parts from the day, but it might have been a Stuart class light tank used in North Africa in 1942 and later in the Pacific theater. I couldn’t resist a close look.

 

Our sons play two sports that seem on the opposite end of the spectrum: fencing and ice hockey. The oldest’ s game, fencing, is an individual sport where strategy and finesse seem to control the action. The younger one is a defenseman in what seems like the ultimate fast, tough and intense team game. Sue and I knew pretty much nothing about these sports until our sons got involved. But we’ve come to love the swash-buckling and cold steel on ice!

 

   

I’ve made quite a few journeys with my bro-in-laws to Northern Ontario, well past ‘the end of the road’ in search of the mighty Northern Pike. Our float plane lands on the surface of a lake with the nearest town dozens of miles away, so other than satellite phones, we’re essentially out of communication with the rest of the world for most of a week. We are totally self-reliant, and sometimes the weather socks us in or can even bring an element of danger to the boating, but there is nothing like the song of the loon, spotting caribou or moose grazing on the bank, or a shore lunch of freshly caught walleye over an open fire. I’m not much for smallmouth fishing when my bros fire up their Bass Trackers here in the states, but it’s a thrill to fish for these monsters with “heavy metal” spoon lures!

 

Most memorable book I’ve read in a while? I’m going with “Say Nothing,” in which Patrick Radden Keefe sheds light on The Troubles in Northern Ireland while unfolding the stories of IRA front-liners Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price, and politico Gerry Adams, around the 1972 disappearance of 38-year-old mother of ten Jean McConville. I posted my short take on Say Nothing on my website: Non-Fiction Book Review: SAY NOTHING by Patrick Radden Keefe - Brodie Curtis Author  

 Now and then I’ll pick up a drink coaster at the end of my visit to a bar or a restaurant. Sometimes the establishment will gladly give you a few of them. I put them in my bar at home and set out drinks on them when guests come over. It’s fun to reminisce about all the terrific places I’ve stopped into!

 

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Brodie Curtis

 

Raised in the Midwest, Brodie Curtis was educated as a lawyer and left the corporate world to embrace life in Colorado with his wife and two sons.

Curtis is the author of THE FOUR BELLS, a novel of The Great War, which is the product of extensive historical research, including long walks through the fields of Flanders, where much of the book's action is set. His second novel, ANGELS AND BANDITS, takes his protagonists into The Battle of Britain. Curtis is currently working on a novel set on a Mississippi Riverboat prior to the Civil War.

 A lover of history, particularly American history and the World Wars, Curtis reviews historical fiction for the Historical Novels Review, and more than 100 of his published reviews and short takes on historical novels can be found on his website.

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