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    High Flyer, The: An aviation mystery
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    High Flyer, The: An aviation mystery

    By Elizabeth Darrell

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    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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781780102993
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    High Flyer, The: An aviation mystery
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    Elizabeth Darrell

    Elizabeth Darrell served as an officer in the WRAC (Women’s Royal Army Corps) before her marriage to an officer in the Ministry of Defence. Her many bestselling novels include the acclaimed World War II trilogy At the Going Down of the Sun, And in the Morning and We Will Remember, as well as the Max Rydal series.

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      Elizabeth Darrell's first Ben Norton Aviation mystery paints a wonderful portrait of the early days of flying and some of what was required to bring an idea from the drawing board to the assembly line. These aviation scenes truly bring The High Flyer to life. The author has also created a solid mystery with a very satisfying solution to the test pilot's death. I always like closing a book and thinking, "I never would have thought of that!" Not all the questions surrounding Ben Norton are answered in The High Flyer, which means more unveiling in future books in the series. He's very complex, and I would like to peel back more of his layers, but keeping all these secrets made Norton's character an aloof one. I always felt as though I were on the outside looking in, never to get a decent idea of what sort of man he is. He also had an annoying habit of changing his mind daily about the identity of the saboteur, and that got very old very quickly because he always seemed ready to hang the newest suspect up from the highest yardarm. At least Ben isn't indecisive.... If you're in the mood to put on your scarf and goggles and experience some of the early days of flying, and if the gradual revealing of a mysterious man's secrets are what you hanker for, I'd say you need to read Elizabeth Darrell's The High Flyer.