Posts by pwsbuilder

In an age where business is too often seen as brutal combat devoid of ethics and human concern, the amazing story of Harold Simmons’s journey from bank trainee to one of the nation’s… wealthiest, most successful corporate investors is an inspiring record of intelligence, honesty, and faith in the American system. It is also a…

On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the wing of his Boeing 757, leading Mitchell to an impossible life-or-death choice.Mitchell’s decision will land the former military pilot in the…

 Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with…

Tackling the third-rail issues of patient safety and hospital quality in an unprecedented way, this compelling and easy-to-read book has become a major influence on how hospitals, doctors, and nurses embrace the lessons learned of human failures and the indispensable role of teamwork, those primary lessons having come from the aviation industry.  This work was…

For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on an American Space Adventures spacecraft is a dream come true.  One grand shot of self-indulgent insanity, he figures, and he can return to his mundane earthbound existence fulfilled. But the thrill turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot.…

As the Northwest‘s Cascadia Subduction Zone threatens to rupture in the wake of a series of smaller but devastating earthquakes, the folly of building a huge new resort on an earthquake sensitive coastal island comes to a head when hundreds of stranded vacationers try to escape the early signs of a seismic cataclysm which could…

As the physician protagonist from Why Hospitals Should Fly works to instill in a troubled Las Vegas hospital the lessons he’s learned from St.Michael’s, his new journey as CEO becomes a manual for inculcating the philosophies of the first book.  This is the planned follow-on work to WHY HOSPITALS SHOULD FLY, and as such it…

Two national parks are burning, but the aircraft needed to douse the flames are falling apart, and veteran pilot Clark Maxwell is faced with trying to find out why and who’s cheating on the rules before more deaths occur.  This work was researched on site and has earned high praise from the aviation firefighting community. …

A “black” Air Force project is threatened by sabotage as a brilliant young engineer struggles to find and eliminate an extremely worrisome line of computer code that almost killed him – and the project.  Meanwhile, at first appearing to be unconnected, a veteran airline captain is equally desperate, in his case to regain his pilot’s…

A real-life version of the Pinochet extradition case targeting John Harris, a beloved ex-President of the U.S., and involving a wild chase across Europe and the North Pacific, and careening through the Irish courts in Dublin.  A lightning fast, fun, and fulfilling read against the background of reality. BUY NOW