Larry Carello

LARRY CARELLO hails from the town of Sylvan Beach in central New York state. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, he embarked on a four-decade adventure in aviation. He has flown a wide variety of military and commercial aircraft, and he spent five years attached to a San Diego-based H-46 squadron, during which he made two shipboard deployments to the Western Pacific. His first book, A Golden Weekend, received first runner-up honors from the Military Writers Society of America in the...See more

LARRY CARELLO hails from the town of Sylvan Beach in central New York state. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, he embarked on a four-decade adventure in aviation. He has flown a wide variety of military and commercial aircraft, and he spent five years attached to a San Diego-based H-46 squadron, during which he made two shipboard deployments to the Western Pacific. His first book, A Golden Weekend, received first runner-up honors from the Military Writers Society of America in the category of Best Literary Novel of 2012. He followed that work with Rotorboys and Verbal Orders, two fast-paced novels of men, ships, and helicopters at sea. Larry retired from commercial flying in 2016 as an international captain for a major U.S. airline. He lives with his wife in Michigan, where he continues to write white-knuckle thrillers about helicopters and the pilots who fly them. See less