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Blood on the Risers

S.R. Doss

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​About the book
Blood on the Risers is a song paratroopers sing about a comrade who is killed when his parachute does not open properly, risers being the shroud lines running from the harness up to the canopy. The song is gory, and usually sung over many drinks.

In this novel, Phillip Dee, a young lieutenant reporting to an airborne unit in Germany on the eve of the Vietnam War, is shocked to see four troopers plummet to earth with their canopies tangled, their bodies crushed as they hit the ground.

Dee is even more shocked when the officer who is guiding him to his unit urges him to join in singing the song after seeing the four hit the earth, leading Dee to wonder what kind of madhouse he has been assigned to—which is what this compelling new novel is all about.

Also by S.R. Doss
Hattie's Pink House
A Game of Inches

About the author
S.R. Doss has been a journalist, a paratrooper, and a professor of philosophy. Hattie's Pink House the second novel in this series about Phillip Dee, is to be published next.

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    • A Game of Inches
    • Hattie's Pink House
    • Blood on the Risers
    • Rites & Wrongs
    • How My Brain Works
    • Secrets of the Creative Life
    • Where Wild Rivers Meet
    • Presence
    • Conga Line on the Amazon
    • The Delicate Balance
    • A World of Our Own Making
    • Made to Be Broken
    • Windmills and Dreams
    • The Devil's Playground
    • Finding Light in the Dark . . .
  • Publishing Services
  • Contact us