P T Saunders
Just when you thought a story couldn’t get any madder, and it’s safe to go back into the library P T Saunders comes up with a second book in the series. Basic Training II Grounded, picks up where the first book Basic Training Flying by The Seat of His Pants ended. Having attempted to prove that A young Scallywag, Ben Baxter didn’t have it in him to get into the Paras’ Our fly decided to follow Ben throughout the grueling twenty-two-week training course. All was going well until some general swotted our fly just before the pass-off parade. In this book, Our fly has been reincarnated into Sgt Maj Brynn Williams and the Sgt Major into a fly somewhat temporarily. Unable to come to terms with his reincarnation our fly is sectioned under the mental health act. Where he meets a few, let’s say interesting Characters, such as Cowboy Dave, Sue the boxer-short thief, and Spanish a typically gobby scouser.Upon his release from the hospital, he decides to complete his mission of proving that Ben didn’t have what it takes to be a Para. During that mission, he meets the Bus-Hag, Charlotte Charlotte, the woman with more with a little extra anatomy, and a couple of drunks he nick-names Bill and Ben. Will he succeed in his mission? You’ll have to buy the book.
