What makes an air ace? Dramatic vic-
tories, of course, and a high score of
downed enemies. But what forces, public
and private, lead a man down this peril-
ous road to glory?
These are the questions Arch White-
house explores in this new novel of the
flying men and machines of World War I.
His hero is Max Kenyon, the product of a
Newark tenement who worked his way
across the Atlantic in 1914 to fight for his
parents homeland. After surviving the
Battle of Neuve Chappelle, he transferred
to the Royal Flying Corps and, propelled
by natural abilities and war-time exigen-
cies, rose from aerial gunner to testing
pilot to Captain and later Squadron
Leader, downing more than fifty Ger-
mans. He flew everything, from the pon-
derous B.E.2e s to the nimble Sopwith
Snipe. He won decorations from the Mili-
tary Medal to the Victoria Cross. And yet,
he was not a popular hero. His indepen-
dent ways antagonized his superiors as
well as his eolleagues, and his selfish am-
bition cost him the love of more than one
woman. He was a man who had found a
better life in war than he had ever known
in peace, a man who had abandoned the
past for the present and dared nut think
of the future.
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