Randolph Mains: 4 books

Journey to the Golden Hour follows the path of Randy Mains, an ex-Vietnam combat helicopter pilot harboring a burning passion to fly after the war. In this personal account, using his personal diaries that he’s kept over the years, Mains recounts his incredible journey to find work abroad which...

For a year Randy Mains endured gross incompetence in the chain of command, top-secret excursions into neutral Laos, routine recovery missions that would turn suddenly, unexpectedly into life-threatening nightmares—more than one thousand combat hours flying into the perilous heart of a terrifying...

Journey to the Golden Hour is the sequel to Randy Mains' highly successful second book Dear Mom I'm Alive. It follows his incredible journey to Australia, New Guinea, Iran, and back home again where he and six other dedicated ex-Vietnam helicopter pilots try to prove to a doubting public and skeptical...

The Reluctant Activist completes the trilogy picking up where Journey to the Golden Hour left off.  The author paints a colorful word picture offering a candid account of what life was like for an American helicopter pilot living and working in for the Sultan of Oman, the King of Saudi Arabia and...