High Flyer, The
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Descripción editorial
Twelve years after World War I, former Flight Sergeant Ben Norton must discover the truth behind his wartime colleague’s death.
1930. The Lance family, major shareholders in Marshfield Aviation, watch in horror as their prototype fighter fails to pull out of a dive during a display before government and military VIPs. At the pilot’s funeral, a man introduces himself to the widow as Ben Norton, a close friend of her husband during war service with the Royal Flying Corps.
Ben becomes Marshfield’s new Test Pilot, determined to refute worldwide press claims of a faulty aircraft design. Convinced that deliberate sabotage was behind the crash, the young flyer vows to uncover whoever was responsible. But who is Ben Norton? And why is it that the man he claims to have been his close wartime colleague had not once mentioned Ben to his wife during eight years of marriage?
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In this solid series debut set in 1930 from Darrell (Spanish Inquisition), Chris Peterson, a test pilot who shot down 18 German planes during WWI, perishes while flying a new aircraft, the Lance fighter, during its debut at an English airfield. Witnesses to the fatal crash include government ministers, high-ranking RAF officers, and Ben Norton, who flew with Peterson during the war when the two were "as close as brothers." They later had a falling out, and Ben was planning to blackmail Peterson. Instead, he attends his fellow airman's funeral, where he tells the widow, Julia, that he believes there should be a thorough investigation into the tragedy. Ben comes to suspect foul play in Peterson's death, which complicates his plan to replace the dead man as test pilot for the Lance. His own secrets are threatened when he's sought out by a woman who hopes to mine his memories for a biography of Peterson she's writing. The characterizations aren't deep, but Ben makes for an intriguingly enigmatic series sleuth.