Flight of Dreams
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Frozen River, this ‘enthralling nail-biter’ (People) of a novel brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life.
On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, Emilie Imhoff boards the Hindenburg. The only female crew member, Emilie has access to the entire airship and hears everything, including rumours of bomb threats. But Emilie is focused on hiding a secret she can't afford to share with anyone. Her life depends on it.
Everyone on board seems to be hiding something, from handsome navigator Max, who is madly in love with Emilie, to the enigmatic German officer with everything to lose. Gertrud, a feisty journalist blacklisted in her native Germany, has stumbled onto the scoop of a lifetime, and a brash American and an enterprising cabin boy are not the only ones racing to discover what she's found before it's too late.
A spellbinding flight of imagination, romance and suspense set against the 'Titanic of the Skies’, Flight of Dreams will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
‘At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing. Who will bring down the Hindenburg? And how?’New York Times Book Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For her second outing, Lawhon (The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress) once again reimagines a front-page news event, filling in the entertaining backstory with passion, secrets, and nail-biting suspense, this time taking on the disastrous crash of the Hindenburg in 1937. Using the actual passenger list from the doomed airship, the author has concocted a romance between two key crew members, Max Zabel, one of the ship's navigators, and Emilie Imhoff, the first German stewardess hired for an airship. Since the definitive cause of the Hindenburg's demise remains a mystery, Lawhon has conceived a plausible explanation that involves an act of revenge against one of the crew members, who, in World War I, flew the airship that bombed London and killed an American passenger's brother. The tale is fleshed out with other characters, including a lively acrobatic entertainer named Joseph Sp h; a journalist, Gertrud Adelt, whose press credentials were recently revoked by the Nazis for her outspokenness; and the cabin boy, Werner Franz, whose trip on the Hindenburg was more of a passage to adulthood than he ever could have imagined. Lawhon threads many stories together, connecting passengers and crew and bringing behind-the-scenes depth and humanity to a great 20th-century tragedy even though we all know the Hindenburg's fate.
