Guidance to Death

Overview

It was a perfect night for sabotage; all he had to do was to disable the guidance system and no one would suspect him. No one would even think it was murder.

Amertec Electronics' company jet carrying the Senior VP and soon to be CEO mysteriously crashes shortly after taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was a cold, rainy day with low visibility.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says it was an accident. The victim's wife says it was murder. Frank Adams, retiree from the NTSB, now independent aviation accident investigator, has been hired to find out. Mounting evidence and an additional murder of a former Amertec employee convinces Adams that there was indeed foul play.
 

Reviews

On The Dung Beetles of Liberia:

"Rugged, riveting, packed with exotic adventure and attitude, Meier's Dung Beetles is non-stop entertainment." —Douglas Rogers, author of The Last Resort and Two Weeks in November
 

On Meier as a writer: "[Meier's]". . . blend of fictional action and nonfiction social inspection is simply exquisite and are strengths that set this story apart from many other fictional pieces sporting African settings." —US Review of Books

 

"Meier's precise prose is vivid and yet straightforward as he details contrasting lives of the common Liberian population and the privileged Americo-Liberians." —The Prairies Book Review

Author Biography

A retired Aviation Safety Inspector for the FAA, Daniel V. Meier, Jr. has always had a passion for writing. During his college years, he studied history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW), and American Literature at the University of Maryland Graduate School. He also worked for the Washington Business Journal as a journalist and has been a contributing writer/editor for several aviation magazines. Guidance to Death is a return to a favorite genre of his, action/thriller with the added intrigue of murder/mystery.