The Old Cadet - Paperback

by D. S. Cooper (Author)

When a student vanishes from Ethan North Academy the nation's oldest military preparatory school is forced to close forever, unless a small band of Alumni can solve the mystery.Enter disabled ex-Boston cop Kevin O'Connor, discredited oceanographer Walter Weiss and Alaskan hunter Derek Yeager, who was expelled from Ethan North twenty years earlier, two weeks before graduation. Together with their former teacher Master Sergeant Rocky Chambers and school president Colonel 'Trip' Hammond, they join the missing boy's mother, Liu Chen, in the desperate quest to find her son in the misty Appalachian foothills of Parsons County Pennsylvania.

Author Biography

Douglas S. Cooper was born in New York City and attended Carson Long Institute in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. He has lived on Long Island and Cape Cod and in Charleston South Carolina and San Juan Puerto Rico. He served 28 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, where he commanded three cutters and sailed aboard the tall ship EAGLE, before working as a merchant mariner. Doug's careers have allowed him to see a fair bit of the world with a diverse group of friends, including Europe, the Caribbean, South America, the Arctic and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. His early interests were ocean-centric; deep-sea diving, surfing, saltwater fly fishing, kayaking and sailing. And always, motorcycles! More recently Doug has concentrated on working on old airplanes, and he now lists his occupation as full-time airport bum and part-time writer. Doug Cooper is an Ocean Master of steam, motor and auxiliary sail vessels and holds a Commercial Pilot's License for airplanes, with instrument and multi-engine ratings. Doug is single and lives in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA.