Eagle in the Sky

Wilbur Smith

Sep 2008 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

'With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.'

Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country's war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart . . .

Eagle in the Sky, by bestselling author Wilbur Smith, is a tense action-packed thriller, where tragedy and conflict endanger everything David holds dear.

Ratings and reviews

It is all about two people from different backgrounds and religion, they fall in love and he has a terrible disfigured accident. They have not to see each other because of there religion. They love each other from the bottom of there heart and every day they long to be together. Sad and romantic, but you want them to be. I do not read any other books, but this one is exceptional to me as I, myself long to be with my one true love, but cannot not because of religion but because of marrige. xxxxxxx

Wilbur smith is my favorite author and barring two novels, I have read everything he has written. This novel is the first one I was disappointed with. Will of course not stop me from reading the last two.

One of my all-time favourites. I've shed tears over this

About the author

Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His other titles include the successful The Courtneys and The Ballantynes series, and Those in Peril and Vicious Circle, featuring security operative Hector Cross. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.