New Indie Book Release: Full Moon Saturday Night (John Ellis)

New Indie Book Release:
Full Moon Saturday Night - John Ellis
Fiction based on Real-Life Experience (408 pages - May 2013)

Full Moon Saturday Night takes the readers where most of them have never been: inside busy hospital emergency departments and medivac helicopters, and aboard a fully armed B-52 nuclear bomber which could be on a routine mission or, at a moments notice, heading to a predetermined target for the beginning of World War III. The author has been there, and this is the way it was.

"Compelling and captivating from beginning to end. Very well written. Outstanding writer with descriptive, energized and chilling events. Highly recommended read." - Reader Review


About the Book

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After completing eight years of arduous medical training, a young physician, heavily in debt from student loans, is feeling adrift. He chooses to try emergency medicine, and he finds the work exciting. At first the job is just as advertised, hours and hours of boredom—then the inevitable horrors and gut-wrenching calamities. He encounters joy and tragedy in life and death situations, not only professionally, but also personally. Add a local factory, driven by corporate greed and total disregard for its workers’ safety, which draws him into a web of terror, and life in the sleepy southern town just got a little crazier. A nurse, herself in a situation spinning out of control, turns out to be his saving grace.
Throughout, the protagonist compares his career and experiences to those of his father, a B-52 nuclear bomber pilot during the 1960s, and the first chapter takes the reader aboard an armed B-52 on an eerie exercise that could turn at any moment into a suicide mission.

Full Moon Saturday Night is the Author's Debut Novel, and it offers a rare glimpse into the chilling psychological warfare of the Cold War and an uncensored look behind the doors of emergency rooms at the chaos and high drama that occurs in the trenches of emergency medicine, a breeding ground for the bizarre and unexpected. It confronts prickly social issues: the costs and inefficiencies of health care, racial and religious issues, immigration, and worker safety sacrificed to corporate greed.

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Link to the eBook Full Moon Saturday Night on Amazon with Excerpt

About the Author

Author John Ellis

John Ellis, MD is a graduate of Indiana University Medical School, and also holds a MPH from the University of Wisconsin and a MBA from Marymount University. During the 1960s he served as a SAC flight surgeon on fully loaded B-52 nuclear bombers that continuously probed the outer regions of the Soviet Union.

After leaving active duty in the Air Force, he was a board certified specialist in Family Practice, held a second specialty in Occupational Medicine, and logged over 25,000 hours in emergency departments. He remained in the Air Force Reserve throughout his medical career, and was recalled to active duty during the Vietnam years. He attained the rank of Colonel, and was selected for a four year term at the Pentagon as Special Assistant for Medical Programs at Headquarters, USAF.

He resides with his wife, Helen, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.

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