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    Sabotage in the Sky: Golden Age Stories
    Sabotage in the Sky: Golden Age Stories
    Sabotage in the Sky: Golden Age Stories
    Audiobook1 hour

    Sabotage in the Sky: Golden Age Stories

    Written by L. Ron Hubbard

    Narrated by R.F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Lori Jablons and

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGalaxy Press Audio
    Release dateMar 15, 2010
    ISBN9781592125135
    Sabotage in the Sky: Golden Age Stories
    Author

    L. Ron Hubbard

    With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

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      This 1940 adventure story dates from that bygone era where America was poised on the brink of war. The devastating events of Pearl Harbor were still a year away and many Americans were in favor of staying out of the European conflict. Of course, that would all change, and Hitler’s mad plan would be dashed by Allied Forces. Hubbard’s story taps into these events with a patriotic tale about Bill Trevillian who finds himself caught up in an international scheme involving the latest design in pursuit planes meant to out-maneuver the German Messerschmitt. Hubbard’s use of the fictional Messerschmitt 118D appears to be a variation on the Messerschmitt BF 109E-3, which was already in action over France. The BF 109E-3 had an advantage of the eight gun British fighters in that it could fire a greater weight of metal and thereby cause more destruction. Hubbard’s use of an advanced version is a thrilling plot device that adds credibility to Sabotage in the Sky. In fact, various versions of the Messerschmitt BF 109 would become the mainstay of the Luftwaffe. Hubbard also refers to the L97 as the secret American design to counter the threat of the Messerschmitt 118D. The L97 would be a fictionalized version of the British Spitfire or the American Bell P-39. Of course, readers following international news at the time were well aware of the war raging in Europe and it’s interesting to note that Hubbard’s villain here is Erich von Straub, an unsympathetic Nazi. Sabotage in the Sky appeared a year before America entered the war but already the Nazi regime was being reviled by adventure writers. Sabotage in the Sky is an excellent example of a patriotic air adventure story. Hubbard’s knowledge of current events and airplane technology (circa 1940) add another level of enjoyment to this fast-paced tale. I found myself swept along by the adventure where “The whistle of wind in the wings made the night seem mysterious and lonely.” And Bill Trevillian is cut from the cloth of the American experience. I love Hubbard’s description of him: “He was good-looking in a sleepy sort of way, very tall, very languid, always looking for something upon which to lean his obviously weary soul. Down in his eyes there lay a watchful spark of humor, and upon his lips there always lingered the ghost of his last smile and the beginning of the next.” That reminds me of the All-American Gary Cooper in a lot of ways. The fast pace, snappy dialogue, endearing characters, and the air action scenes all carry the reader along on a breathtaking adventure of thrills and spills. Highly recommended.