Danny Walters attended Chandler Heights High School in a city of luxury homes. Most of the students came from rich families. Danny came from a working class family and developed a severe inferiority complex. He compensated by telling outrageous lies and grandiose stories. As a result, he had few friends. After graduating in 1944, during World War II, Danny joined the navy. When the war ended, Danny took flying lessons. After securing his pilot’s license, he attended a flight attendant training school. He passed the course and flew on overseas flights for several years. All the while, he continued flying lessons and eventually was licensed to fly transport planes. He got a job with a start-up airline as a co-pilot. Danny met a young girl and learns her father is a wealthy San Francisco businessman. He is desperate to become part of that lifestyle, so presenting his best high-end behavior, like his rich classmates, he seduces her. She becomes pregnant and her family insists that Danny marry her which is exactly the outcome Danny desired. Danny has big plans. The lure of huge amounts of money leads him to a New York crime family. They agree to allow him to become a distributor of drugs and now the mafia has their ‘hooks’ in him. In an effort to break away and be his own man, Danny takes a job with Air America, the CIA’s secret air force. He accepts an offer from corrupt Vietnam officials to use his plane for moving drugs. After leaving Vietnam, Danny returns to his home in San Francisco with more money than he could spend in two lifetimes and yet his mafia boss has other plans which he can’t refuse. At age fifty he buys a ranch in Colorado. He wants to retire, get married and settle down. But his plans are short lived. In the end, he will learn that “For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
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