Engineer. Gourmand. Corporate executive. Entrepreneur. Fixed- and rotary-wing commercial pilot. Raconteur. Keynote speaker. Architect. Polyglot. Philanthropist. 

Bon vivant and a swell guy.

Author. 

These are just some of the words used to describe Manfred Leuthard, the author of the new seat-of-your-pants thriller Broken Arrow: A Nuke Goes Missing, now available through Amazon and many other bookstores. 

Leuthard has seen and done it all—or at least a whole bunch of it. He can make a paella that’s out of this world. Or cross the country in a gyroplane he built, sharing pilot duties with his wife and licensed pilot Lilo. As a way of transitioning out of the corporate snake pit, Manfred bought a helicopter and started his own helicopter service. His clients were tourists, utility companies, ranchers and the movie industry (That’s him, behind the stick on Wild Hogs, 3:10 to Yuma and many other hit movies.) This background—diverse, international, complex—and his extraordinary ability to grasp and articulate the details of technology come together in his first novel, written over a two-year period, with many of hours of research to get every detail just right. From the grittiest face-to-face battles between the men intent on selling nuclear weaponry to the highest bidder and the men intent on stopping them, to the quietest moments of passion and love, Leuthard unravels a heart-pounding story you won’t—no, you won’t be able to—put down. After having lived all over the world—he’s an American and Swiss citizen—today Manfred and Lilo are now nestled in the tight-knit community of Santa Fe, New Mexico. In fact, that just might be him at the café, weaving another entrancing tale for his friends.