No Reason For Dying:
A Reluctant Combat Pilot's Confession of Hypocrisy, Infidelity and War

Few authors have written a more honest book about male neediness than Brian Howard Settles, a former airline captain and combat pilot. In this page turner memoire, the author reveals the cost men pay to feed their insecurities when the subconscious self is dominated by gnawing notions of childhood abandonment and adoption disconnect. Settles creatively exposes the hypocrisy of men in confessing his own double standard of unfaithfulness, veiled in the macho facade of toughness and invincibility as he takes the reader deep into the world of the real men don’t cry mystique. With the brilliance of a wordsmith philosopher, the author shares his gripping story of an adopted, bi-racial orphan who became a fighter pilot for the wrong reason, in a controversial war. In No Reason for Dying, Brian Settles crafts a ruthlessly honest testimony about men searching for themselves. His wartime experiences in Vietnam and their behavioral impact on his later life are sure to ring all-too-familiar with veterans of the Gulf War and the war on terror; it is the universality of war's horror that is poignantly captured in the pages of No Reason for Dying.  Now an adjunct college professor, his is the voice of the warrior-poet, professing the wisdom that “we must always seek to identify the blessings in our lives although they may be draped in the trauma of crisis.”

  "Read this page-turner by a man who has fully lived the last half of the twentieth century in our America, wrestled with it, survived, failed, confessed, regretted, examined, and finally triumphed-and so much of that took place in the year he was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. This book, about war and men, men and women, racial and personal conflicts, asks questions and offers insights as valuable today as they were forty years ago. In NO REASON FOR DYING, Brian Settles tells all: you will live the life of a fighter pilot who flew 200 combat missions in Vietnam, a love-obsessed young man, a philosopher, a writer, thinker, brave warrior, a lover of peace, a man who has lived to write his story without flinching, facing the wind."
 
Clyde Edgerton- Novelist and author of The Floatplane Notebooks and The Bible Salesman

"Brian Howard Settles has written a powerful book, No Reason For Dying about his experience as one of the few black fighter pilots in the Vietnam War.  It is a truly courageous, brutally honest story of his struggle to confront his own character flaws and to balance his ambivalence about the war with the demand of loyalty from the military and his fellow pilots. Intertwined in the story is his own struggle for racial identity as the abandoned son of a black father and white mother which makes him an outcast in both black and white worlds. Faced with the constant fear of death as a fighter pilot in the combat zone, accommodating the social and political divergences between black and white worlds, his struggle to find his place emerges in dramatic relief."

 Captain Brian Howard Settles

Meet Brian H. Settles, author, poet, former airline captain, taxi-cab driver, single parent, Mercer University adjunct professor and Motivational Speaker. 

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