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Eleven Books by Hank Searls
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Overview: Born Henry Hunt Searls Jr. novelist and screenwriter Hank Searls, author of the best-selling Overboard, Jaws II (based on the movie), and Sounding, is creator of the New Breed TV series and writer for the 1960's classic television series The Fugitive . His novel Pilgrim Project became Robert Altman's film Countdown. He has lived most of his life on, under, or over the ocean, having been a world-cruising yachtsman, underwater photographer, and Navy flier.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics



Altitude Zero (1993 paperback) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2022)
Created from the 1993 1st print paperback
Updated February 2022 version This is the 1993 revised and re-edited paperback version of Altitude Zero. From her safe vantage point, co-pilot Anne Woodhouse sees the pilot’s fatal error: as the plane speeds down the runway, the flaps move slowly upward, into cruising position—a fully loaded 747can’t make it off the runway like that! Woodhouse watches in horror as the 747 dips low to the ground, shudders, and crashes, the fireball lighting up the night sky. If not for a last-minute change, Woodhouse would have been sitting in the cockpit of that plane, and dead like all the rest. As the National Transportation Safety Board investigators rush to discover how a seasoned pilot could make such an error, Woodhouse finds a net tightening around her: her employer, the strife-ridden PacLant Airlines, is pressuring her to lie to protect their reputation; her hard-earned job is on the line; and her ex-husband Cal McCann, a Vietnam vet being treated at a mental asylum, is threatening to escape and steal back his daughter. McCann’s lust for revenge, his hatred for Woodhouse, and his emotional instability make a dangerous mix—but is even he capable of slaughtering hundreds of innocent people just to get back at her? Master of suspense Hank Searls takes you on a sky-high ride through the frightening world of modern air travel, pitting one brave woman against a dark and dangerous conspiracy. Altitude Zero is a thriller of the unfriendly skies that rivals Airport or The High and the Mighty in its portrayal of disaster in the air.

Altitude Zero (ed. Jerry eBooks 2022)
Created from the original, unedited, un-revised 1991 1st edition hardback book. Updated Febraury 2022 version
From her safe vantage point, co-pilot Anne Woodhouse sees the pilot’s fatal error: as the plane speeds down the runway, the flaps move slowly upward, into cruising position—a fully loaded 747can’t make it off the runway like that! Woodhouse watches in horror as the 747 dips low to the ground, shudders, and crashes, the fireball lighting up the night sky. If not for a last-minute change, Woodhouse would have been sitting in the cockpit of that plane, and dead like all the rest. As the National Transportation Safety Board investigators rush to discover how a seasoned pilot could make such an error, Woodhouse finds a net tightening around her: her employer, the strife-ridden PacLant Airlines, is pressuring her to lie to protect their reputation; her hard-earned job is on the line; and her ex-husband Cal McCann, a Vietnam vet being treated at a mental asylum, is threatening to escape and steal back his daughter. McCann’s lust for revenge, his hatred for Woodhouse, and his emotional instability make a dangerous mix—but is even he capable of slaughtering hundreds of innocent people just to get back at her? Master of suspense Hank Searls takes you on a sky-high ride through the frightening world of modern air travel, pitting one brave woman against a dark and dangerous conspiracy. Altitude Zero is a thriller of the unfriendly skies that rivals Airport or The High and the Mighty in its portrayal of disaster in the air.

Firewind (1981) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
Santa Barbara, penned between mountains and sea, is utterly vulnerable to the yearly desert gale. The hot winds blow for weeks—tempers flare, brush fires race down from the tinder-dry hills, and arsonists are drawn like moths to the flame. One of them, a murderous pyromaniac, is stalking the brush-filled canyons, cleverly encircling the city with a wall of fire.

Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 2, the first-rate sequel to the original blockbuster by Peter Benchley. Though it says based on the script of the movie, this book is far better; you would believe that the movie was based on the book instead. Searls did an overwhelming job on writing this book, and turning the movie into an edge of your seat, read in one sitting, awe-inspiring book. Read this book and you will never be able to return to the ocean, and if you do, you won't be able to stop asking yourself… is it there?

Overboard (1962) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2018) Newer edition
The story of a strong man panicked, a woman fighting to live, and a love gone wrong. Mitch Gordon, lawyer and yachtsman, awakens 70 miles from Tahiti to find himself alone on his 40-foot ketch. Sometime in the last dark hours his wife Lindy has been swept overboard into the giant Pacific swells.
For thirty-six hours he clings aloft in the tropical sun, tracing and retracing the vessel's course. Lindy, buoyed by a flimsy life-jacket, struggles to survive until he can find her. Their life emerges through flashbacks as he plows back and forth along their track, at times coming very close. Their love, weakened by neglect and things left unsaid, has almost foundered, then been salvaged in the shared danger of a hurricane, and now seems bound for tragedy. The climax is explosive.
In his fiction, Hank Searls has always drawn on personal experience. In Overboard, he leads us from the universal dream of sailing the South Seas into a nightmare of suspense.

Sounding (1982)
“He had a brain biologically identical to man’s but seven times its weight and volume,” writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man’s attacks on his kind drives the best-selling novelist’s intricately researched classic SOUNDING. Teetering on a rocky seamount off New York, the young sonar officer of an accidentally sunken Russian spy submarine prepares to die with the lovely ship’s surgeon and the rest of his shipmates. Everyone has lost hope -- until they hear
From the Inside Flap
SOUNDING takes us into the extraordinary mind and emotions of the magnificent sperm whale, an aging bull roaming the waters of the Atlantic. Troubled and separated from his herd, the whale wants to fulfill his one obsessive desire -- to communicate with the human race and learn why they can be both vicious hunters and frolicking playmates.
Far away, on a doomed Russian nuclear submarine, Lieutenant Peter Rostov, the sonar officer and a classical musician, is spending what he's sure are his last days listening to the beautiful "sounding" of the whale.
In the amazing climax to this unique novel, man and whale come together -- and a magnificent destiny is fulfilled.

The Astronaut (1962) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2017)
Everything that goes up must come down.
On Project Pluto this theory posed a double-edged problem. The first thing that went up was an ape—Wilco—and he came down—too soon. Prematurely ejected from the capsule, he landed in a swimming pool in Orlando. His training hadn’t included swimming lessons and he drowned. ¿The next problem was to get somebody else to go up—anybody. The seven highly trained human astronauts one by one defected. Even Lucky Lucas, a barnstorming, pea-brained bush pilot, smelled failure and refused to be conned into the flight. ¿Stanley Livingstone was the only one who wanted to orbit. He was in A-OK condition. But he was an ape and—after what happened to Wilco—his trainer refused to take the chance of losing him.

The Big X (1959) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2021) New edition
In the test-flying area far above the Mojave Desert a strange thing happens to Norco’s number-one pilot, Mitch Westerly. As a combat veteran and an experienced test pilot Mitch has certainly known fear, but now, for the first time in his life, he comes close to panic. He realizes that the Big X may cost him his life—as well as that which seems even more precious—yet he cannot give up without completing the series of tests (three flights to go) which are to carry him into the unexplored regions of the ionosphere.
Mitch is the hero of this up-to-the- minute novel which examines the heart of one of the pilots who daily challenge unknown frontiers of speed and stress and space.

The Crowded Sky (1960) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
Air travel has become a routine part of our way of life, but mid-air collisions continue to make tragic headlines which shock and bewilder all of us. In this exciting new novel the author of The Big X dramatizes a situation in which human frailty and mechanical limitations combine to create such a disaster.

The Hero Ship (1969) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2022) The Newest edition
Ben Casco assumes command of the colossal aircraft carrier Shenandoah—jinxed home of twenty-five hundred demoralized seamen and pilots—at the grim height of her last battle. Under Japanese air assault, culminating in a kamikaze attack, the huge vessel becomes a scene of carnage, cowardice, and courage never surpassed in the history of naval warfare.

The Shenandoah’s disastrous encounter with the Japanese, based on one of the great episodes of valor of World War II, is the climax of a rich, stirring novel of seafaring men at war. The nobility or baseness of a man’s response to unrelenting onslaught is masterfully depicted through the juxtaposition of the book’s vigorous characters: Mitch—humane, dedicated career officer; Hammering Howie Howland—ambitious, publicity-mad admiral; Christy Lee—golden-haired athlete, young man on the make; and Ben himself—maverick officer risen from the ranks, barely tolerated by Annapolis men until his refusal to abandon his fire-gutted ship covers her and the pitiful remnant of her crew with glory.

Ben’s inevitable conflict with Lee, the Academy football hero whose rise through the ranks seems assured, is resolved only twenty-three years later when Ben emerges from retirement to challenge Lee’s bid for the Navy’s highest post. The long, painful contest between the two comes to involve a senator, a survivor turned Washington-lawyer, an ex-kamikaze, and even Ben’s lovely wife, Terry. Its ironic conclusion is played out against a background of tense action and authentic detail that brilliantly illuminates the characters of the men who served aboard The Hero Ship.

The Pilgrim Project (1964) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2021) New edition
In a gripping, relentlessly paced novel, Hank Searls boldly takes his readers behind the scenes and probes the greatest drama shaping today’s headlines. The Pilgrim Project is the story of our race to the moon, and it is told in language so realistic, with characters so vividly alive, that we experience, as readers, all the triumphs and terrors of today’s epic tale of cosmic adventure—our advance in outer space.

When a routine orbital flight is interrupted for no reason—and at a tremendous cost to the nation—official excuses are too lame to satisfy the press, and far too mysterious for a crew brought back to Earth without apparent reason.

But one of the crew members, a famous colonel, does understand, and can scarcely conceal his elation, for he has long since been chosen for a top-secret project that will land him on the moon, and he knows that the moment has come.

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19 Nov. 2021 added:
The Big X (1959), The Crowded Sky (1960), The Astronaut (1962) & Overboard (1962)

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Added Altitude Zero (1993 paperback) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2022), Altitude Zero (Hardback) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2022), Jaws 2