The Horseman That Fell from the Sky

About the Book

A fast moving novel of faith, love, war and romance that brings to life young Francisco Cordova. A Texas born Mexican American,(Tejanos as they were referred to) Francisco was born and raised on the large Trully horse ranch and farm. As were his parents and grandparents before him, working and training horses for the rodeo. Part of young Francisco’s job, other than to grow up learning to ride and train horses,was to look after young Rose Trully, the only child of Judge John Trully, the owner of the ranch and his family’s employer. As teenagers, he and Rose had to suppress their love for each other fearing there parents would separate them. The outbreak of or war in 1941 changed everyone’s life. Rose went off to Harvard to study law as her father had and Francisco enlisted in the Army Air Corp serving as a tail gunner on a B-17 bomber. His plane was seriously damaged in aerial combat over German occupied France where he bailed out. Unconscious and wounded he was rescued by a beautiful young woman in the French Resistance only to learn he had lost his memory, thus beginning two and a half years of war,romance, and adventure.

About the Author

This is fred's fi rst venture into writing and his very fi rst novel. He is not your typical young, aspiring writer, but is in fact a grandfather and great grandfather doing what many people may have felt inspired to do but never took the fi rst step. Fred is an avid reader of non-fi ction war stories and is a us army veteran whose duties included serving 16 months in korea after hostilities had ceased. Having never attended college, after his service in the army was completed he attended rankin trade school in st. Louis, missouri.(Now rankin college) he served 4 years as a journeyman machinist apprentice at mcdonnell douglas aircraft (now boeing, st. Louis) after 40 years as a journeyman machinist, fred retired and started a successful tax preparation business. Spending so much time at a desk in front of a computer, he began putting his spare time to use writing a war romance novel, incorporating into his characters his faith in god and christian experience