Product details
- ISBN 9781911440505
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Duckworth Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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On the run, ex-fighter pilot Bart Bandy finds his life starting to unravel.
Flying to Britain in his self-designed amphibious aircraft, Bart makes a forced landing in Reykjavik, is rescued by a beautiful but bossy blonde who takes a shine to him, and finally sinks his precious plane in the drink while saving the life of a novice pilot who has come down in the North Sea.
The boy turns out to be the son of a fabulously rich Indian maharajah, whose shopping list features a complete airforce full of pilots and planes. As Bart can barely scrape together fourpence ha’penny for a pint of beer these days, it looks like his luck has turned . . .
With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the pants escapades, Donald Jack’s series about a young pilot is uniquely funny and compelling.
Donald Lamont Jack (1924-2003) was born in Radcliffe, England. He attended Marr College and later served in the Royal Air Force as an aircraftsman. After de-mobbing, he participated in amateur dramatics with The Ellis Players, and worked for several years in Britain before emigrating to Canada in 1951. In 1962 he published his first novel, Three Cheers for Me, about fictional Canadian First World War air-ace Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. The book won the Leacock Medal for Humour in 1963. His second book, That’s Me in the Middle, won another Leacock Medal in 1974. He received a third award in 1980 for Me Bandy, You Cissie.
