About this eBook
As a Royal Air Force squadron heads into the chaos of WWII, a helping hand reaching out from the past in this haunting military thriller.
England, 1940. The R.A.F.’s battered 13 Squadron lost most of its crewmen in the fighting over Europe. Now, as the Nazis prepare to invade England, the squadron is regrouping at Marshfield airbase. The surviving personnel are joined by a group of young recruits who will soon discover the grim realities of war—and a comradeship stronger than death itself . . .
Jack Horner and Ginger Johnson are appalled when they are assigned to Peter Maddox, a notoriously inept pilot. But even with his total lack of skills, Maddox, achieves brilliant coups against all the odds. But his escapades are only the beginning of the strange events they witness . . .
An unseen dog howling before doomed operations, and decommissioned biplanes supposedly guiding aircraft down in thick fog. It seemed as if 13 Squadron was linked with invisible forces, carrying them forward to their most dangerous mission of all.About the author
David Beaty was a former RAF pilot, novelist and non-fiction writer whose books about flying earned him worldwide reputation.
Born in Ceylon in 1919, Beaty was educated at Kingswood, Bath and Merton College, Oxford. He became an RAF pilot during WWII, where he excelled, but gave up a life in the Air Force to write full-time. However, his experiences informed his many novels. In 1960, Cone of Silence was made into a film starring Peter Cushing and George Sanders. He was on the staff of the College of Air Training, was an associate member of the British Airline Pilots’ Association, and a Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
