Down a Dark Road: 4 (The When Heroes Flew, 4) Paperback – 9 May 2023

H. W. Buzz Bernard . Severn River Pub . English

Down a Dark Road transports readers to the shadowy forests of WWII Austria, where a weary and battle-worn Army platoon is about to discover the war’s darkest secret... As the war in Europe draws to a close, young Army lieutenant Jim Thayer finds himself and his platoon on the point of the American advance into Austria. Jim and his men are no strangers to the horror of war. But what they find hidden in the forests of Western Austria is beyond anything they have yet experienced. Battling remnants of the legendary Waffen SS, Germany’s elite fighting force, Jim and his men come face to face with the cruel brutality of the Nazi regime. And bear witness to the fields of death left in its wake. Determined to hunt down the architect of this atrocity, Jim dispatches an unofficial team of unlikely allies—an American bomber pilot, a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot, and a young Austrian woman. The war may be ending. But for these strange comrades in arms, the final battle has only just begun... In Down a Dark Road, former Air Force officer H.W. "Buzz" Bernard plunges readers into the final dark and bloody chapter of the war, as they follow Jim and others into the true heart of darkness.

Categories: Horror

About the Author

H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is a bestselling, award-winning novelist. His debut novel, EYEWALL, published in 2011, became a number-one bestseller in Amazon’s Kindle Store. Three of his next four novels won Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition eBook awards in the suspense/thriller category. In 2020, with the publication of WHEN HEROES FLEW, Buzz switched from writing suspense/thriller novels to WWII historical fiction and began a new series. The first four novels in the series were awarded Gold Medals by the Military Writers Society of America. Buzz himself was honored with the MWSA’s highest accolade in 2023, the Founder’s Award. In 2025, he was selected as the MWSA's Writer of the Year. WHEN HEROES FLEW: THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, the third book in the series, in addition to garnering an MWSA Gold Medal, won the 2023 Nancy Pearl Book Award for genre fiction. The award is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Buzz's fifth novel in the series, WHEN HEROES FLEW: WHERE THE DAWN COMES UP LIKE THUNDER, was released in February 2025. Number six in the series, WHEN HEROES FLEW: BLACK THURSDAY, comes out in February 2026. Before becoming a novelist, Buzz worked at The Weather Channel as a senior meteorologist for thirteen years. Prior to that, he served as a weather officer in the U.S. Air Force for over three decades. He attained the rank of colonel and received, among other awards, the Legion of Merit. Buzz is a past president of the Southeastern Writers Association as well as a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the Military Writers Society of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Atlanta Writers Club (member emeritus). Although a native Oregonian, Buzz lived for 35 years in Atlanta, and now resides in Kennewick, Washington, with his wife and number-one beta reader, Barbara.

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