D.A. Francis
Novelist & Retired Airline Captain
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The Water Lily
Warriors
One year after a suspected EMP attack, survival has become a question of courage, endurance, and impossible choices.
The novel
When the familiar world falls away
It’s a year after a suspected EMP attack on their country. A small group of senior citizens in Happy Valley—a large retirement community in South Carolina’s Low Country—realize that their situation is becoming more and more desperate.
They must leave if they are to survive, but where to go?
What new dangers will they face along the way?
What will they have to do if they wish to continue to prevail in an unimaginably threatening environment?
Captain D.A. Francis
Meet the author
From the cockpit to the Blue Ridge foothills
Captain Francis studied journalism in college, but his love of flying led him to a lifelong career in aviation. He is type-rated in seven types of commercial airliners, including several widebodies. He has flown as second-in-command in many others. His flying career spanned nearly five decades worldwide.
He currently lives with his wife of over fifty-seven years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western South Carolina, where he continues his writing.
- Flight experience
- Thousands of hours of international airline experience
- Type ratings
- Seven commercial airliners, including several widebodies
- Career span
- Nearly five decades worldwide
- Air ambulance
- Real experience reflected in a chapter of the novel
The Warriors Trilogy
Volume One · Now available
The Water Lily Warriors
Forthcoming
A Rock and a Hard Place — The Return of the Warriors
The author’s world
A lifetime in the air
Reader correspondence
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A Rock and a Hard Place
The Return of the Warriors
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