The Long Glide

Complete

3 books

THE LONG GLIDE TRILOGY When the national grid collapses, retired Army Ranger Mason Holt has one problem that matters more than all the others: his four-year-old granddaughter is 1,200 miles away, and she's almost out of the medicine keeping her alive. So he does the only thing a man like him can. He straps into a paramotor and flies — across a broken America, through a country coming apart at the seams, toward the people he loves. Over three books, Mason's desperate flight north becomes something larger: a fight to hold a family together as the world remakes itself in fear and violence. Along the way he meets the best and worst of what people become when the lights go out — and proves, again and again, that the quiet ones are the ones who show up when everything falls apart. The bad ones are loud. The good ones are quiet. The complete trilogy — The Long Glide North, The Long Glide South, and The Long Glide Home — is available now.

The Long Glide North: A Long Glide Novel - Book 1

The lights flicker first. Then the well pump goes silent. Then the news stops making sense. Mason Holt has been a careful man all his life — Army Ranger, husband, father, the kind of pilot who knew the weather before he checked the forecast. At fifty-eight, on forty-two acres outside Gilmer, Texas, he's earned the right to a quiet retirement. His four-year-old granddaughter Junebug doesn't have time for a quiet retirement. She has asthma. The pharmacy in Driggs, Idaho has gone dark along with most of the country's other systems, and Mason's daughter Hannah is rationing the last of her child's medication while his wife works a ham radio network of strangers who still believe in opening their kitchen doors. So Mason loads a tandem paramotor trike with everything Junebug needs, kisses his wife goodbye, and launches north into a country quietly sorting itself into the loud bad ones and the quiet good ones. Six days of flying. Twelve hundred miles of broken America. One mountain range between him and the cabin where his granddaughter is learning to take smaller breaths. The bad ones are loud. The good ones are quiet. Mason is going to need both kinds to make it home.AUTHOR BIO: Steven Graff is an Army veteran and an active paramotor pilot. He lives with his wife on a farm in Gilmer, Texas. The Long Glide North is his first novel.

The Long Glide South: A Long Glide Novel - Book 2

Mason Holt made it north. Against a collapsing country, empty skies, bad weather, and men who had learned too quickly how to prey on the desperate, he flew a paramotor trike across half of America to bring medicine to his granddaughter. Now winter is breaking in Idaho, and the way home is no longer in the sky. With his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter in tow, Mason turns south by road, using the trike as his eyes above a country that has grown more organized, more dangerous, and less forgiving. Fuel is scarce. Bridges are watched. Small towns have gone silent. And somewhere ahead, a new kind of power is rising behind roadblocks, radio rumors, and men who call theft a tax. Back in Texas, Claire Holt holds together a fragile ham radio network that may be the only thing keeping Mason’s convoy alive. But the same voices that guide them can also betray them. The journey north was a rescue. The road south will decide what kind of world is left.

The Long Glide Home: A Long Glide Novel - Book 3

The grid is gone. The country is broken. And Mason Holt is still a thousand miles from over. He crossed a collapsing America to save his granddaughter. He fought his way south through a nation turning on itself. Now, in the final chapter of The Long Glide trilogy, one father faces the hardest flight of all — the one that brings him home. The road behind him is littered with the people he saved and the ones he couldn't. Winter is closing in. The fuel is running out. And the America he's crossing has stopped waiting for the lights to come back on — it's already becoming something else, something ruled by the loud and the ruthless. But Mason has never been either. He's the quiet kind. The kind who shows up. The kind who does what needs doing, no matter the cost. The sky brought him this far. It has one more journey left to give. The Long Glide Home is the epic conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Long Glide North. For readers of grid-down survival fiction who believe the best men are the ones who never quit.