Hydra Protocols

In the waning days of WWII, an Army Air Corps pilot becomes involved with a smuggling operation in the South Pacific run by a nefarious, enigmatic colonel. After the war, career opportunities fall into his lap with ease and beautiful women suddenly slip in and out of his life. The mysteries of both lead him down a path of corruption, deception, and revelation.

Julian is an American cargo pilot flying routes around the South Pacific. In the waning days of World War II, he's recruited by an enigmatic co-pilot to carry unmarked crates on no manifest. From points around Polynesia, they would be taken to a tiny, isolated atoll and disappear into the ether. He soon discovers his employer is a shady, cryptic colonel who directs many mysterious enterprises on the tiny coral dot. After the war, anxious to put his nefarious past behind him, Julian finds it strangely easy to secure a coveted airline pilot position flying routes around the Hawaiian Islands. Moving from there to a top pilot job with a major airline seemed curiously easy as well. Along the way, he meets and becomes intimately involved with several beautiful women who suddenly appear in his life, then disappear without a trace. As he seeks to know each woman, they are either unable or unwilling to disclose anything about their past. His journey for the truth will shatter his sense of reality and reveal the lengths depravity will go to conceal unspeakable pasts and weave diabolical futures.

Dorian McClenahan has been a charter pilot in Florida and the Bahamas, an airline pilot based in Philadelphia, and a planetary exploration researcher for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dorian holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, as well as a Doctoral degree in Adult Education Theory and program development from Arizona State University.