TailGunner-Pip

Twenty years after WWII, Pip emerges as a young adult in 1960's England. He shoulders the burden of being a love child of Buck Remke, an American tail gunner and Ilona Laszlo, a Hungarian night club singer at a west London cabaret. Despite a horrific childhood, he is filled with hope in a decade where anything is possible. Pip has completed schooling at Wadsworth, a school for orphaned boys, and in this new era of freedom, chooses to attend Oxford. After years of struggle to find his son, Buck, the tail gunner from Pennsylvania, moved to London and pursued a successful career managing dance studios. When health issues strike his elderly mother, Buck brings Pip to the States to meet his family. The trip to Buck's home town, in the coal mining area of Pennsylvania endows Pip with the legacy he has been missing. Upon return to London, Pip enters medical school. Later, as a full fledged physician, he faces challenges and realizes that some of the same issues occurring in the Pennsylvania coal mining town will influence a decision for his future,
About the Author: ANN FROMMER -- In addition to co-authoring the three TailGunner novels, Ann published Anne Cooks, a cook book for people with lactose intolerance. Ann, an RN, with a successful healthcare management career, wrote and published multiple medical articles. She studied liberal arts at Columbia University in New York and completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Ann is also a photographer who has won numerous awards. Her work is exhibited in several New Jersey galleries, hung in private collections and has appeared on multiple magazine covers. VIC MERKEL -- his first published book was Misery Mountain, a young adult novel. Other credits include two biographies. Activist, Joseph Baca, commissioned Vic to write, Constant Reminder, a shocking memoir about the dark side of the Roman Catholic Church. Also, former politician and brain aneurysm survivor, Fran Merkel, took Vic through a medical maze of doctors, hospitals and therapists in her biography, My Brain Aneurysm. He is a guest speaker at civic organizations, conferences, libraries and book clubs, to name a few. Vic studied business administration at University of Wisconsin. As an international sales executive, he negotiated contracts with foreign manufacturers.