http://www.amazon.com/General-Savage.../dp/1412096383
A short synopsis by the author...
As a fan of the movie and the TV series (I use to be with The Air Museum when it was at the Ontario, CA, airport and we furnished the B-17 for the series. Whenever I was informed that they would be shooting on location at Chino I would go there after school and hang around) it always troubled me that there were so many strings hanging loose (unanswered questions) as to whatever happened to the character of Savage after his little breakdown. There were so many unanswered questions I finally decided to do something about it.
The vast majority of the people that claim to be big fans of the movie and TV series have NEVER read the original story (book), because most of them don't know of Savage's love interest as it was not written into the movie.
Anyway, what I wrote is (as I saw it) the continuing story of GENERAL SAVAGE wrapped around actual events that occurred during the war, including the shuttle missions to Poltava. There is a bit of nudity (an event that actually happened), a murder, and an escape from the Soviet Union. Savage gets married, adopts a child, goes back to the States, becomes a Major General, and the storyline brings him up to the 1950s.
I wrote the story in a format unlike anything anybody is familiar with. I tell people that it's written like I was giving a report about the characters in the story, and I did this because I found that it read faster and was less tiring. I self-published the book.
I liked the format so much I went and copied the original story (word for word) and reformatted it with the intention of having it republished sometime in the future. I'm also writing a prequel to the TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH story that takes place just before Frank Savage is born up to just before the T.O.H story begins. There will also be a fourth story concerning (what I call) the Savage boys.
Once again, anyway, it's not a Great American Novel, it's just a story. A story I had hoped would be of some interest to all those people that said they were fans of the original story, if not just the movie and the series.