The Sky Jinx

Some pilots fear engine trouble. Others fear the man in the next cockpit.

Lieutenant Eddie Bride arrives in the Philippines with a reputation no flyer wants: wherever he goes, aircraft crash—and someone else usually pays the price. At Burton Field, the men know him as “Jinx.” One of them knows him from the skies over France, and has never forgiven him.

In the sweltering heat of Manila, an old grievance turns violent. Then a routine flight ends in flames, deepening the suspicion that Bride brings more than bad luck to his squadron. With tensions rising and another flight ahead, the pilots must decide how much they can trust a man whose reputation has already condemned him.

Set among Army flyers in the years after the First World War, The Sky Jinx is a taut aviation adventure of dangerous flying, bitter rivalry, and courage under pressure. Raoul Whitfield brings the reader into a world of open cockpits and fragile machines, where a few seconds can decide a man’s fate.