Sabotage in the Sky - A Heated Rivalry a Heated Romance and High-flying Danger

L. Ron Hubbard

Beschreibung

Bill Trevillian is as ruggedly handsome as he is bold and brave.  Kip  Lee is as strikingly beautiful as she is fiery and fearless.  And  they’ve got something in common.  They’re both test pilots . . . for  rival aviation companies.  Put them together and, like a young Tracy and  Hepburn, sparks are bound to fly.The Second World War is raging  in Europe, and England and France are looking to America for a fighter  plane to match up with the superior Nazi Messerschmitt.  The competition  between Bill and Kip is fierce, and the stakes are stratospheric.   Because there’s an added element in the mix: a deadly saboteur.People  say all’s fair in love and war, but when there’s Sabotage in the Sky,  the flight path from heated rivalry to heated romance could lead Bill  and Kip to crash and burn.“If you crave air adventure  written by an airman who knows what a hot plane can do, don’t miss  Sabotage in the Sky,” wrote the editor introducing the story in 1940.  And Hubbard’s knowledge proved prophetic—unknown to the FBI, the German  intelligence service, the Abwehr, was actively gathering intelligence  about American military aircraft designs and manufacturing. The author  also had personal aviation experience, earning a reputation as a  daredevil pilot barnstorming across the United States, landing in  farmer’s fields and skimming over the top of telephone wires—experiences  he put to good use as a well-known aviation correspondent and one of  the most accomplished writers of aviation adventure.

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