Buy this book on-line LYALL**, GAVIN TUDOR: : Shooting ScriptLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1966. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,clean white laminated,pictorial illustrated dw/dj with b/w author portrait
photograph to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear to edges,negligible creasing and a tiny closed tear to bottom front edge.Top edge,internally of dw/dj slightly
aged/toned.Top edge lightly aged with minimal spotting,fore-edge lightly aged too,but much cleaner.Contents bright,tight
and clean with no internal foxing.Royal blue paper/cloth(?) boards with bright, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-254pp.
Author's 4th novel,simultaneous US edn issued in 1966.The book was selected as number 99 in the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time,a list published by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.author died Jan,2003.
As a former RAF pilot,a former Air Correspondent for The Sunday Times,Lyall certainly knows about flying.Combining his
expertise with fast-paced,well-written plots has made him one of the most popular
writers of action thrillers.An adventure story,influenced by the works of Hammett and Chandler.See also rja1810.
In this one,Keith Carr,piloting cargo around the Carribean,finds himself mixed up with potentially lethal local politics.
An ex-Royal Air Force fighter pilot with combat experience in the Korean War and now living in Jamaica,where he makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Caribbean in his mortgaged second-hand de Havilland Dove. After he discovers that a pilot he knows from his Korean War days now commands a squadron of de Havilland Vampire jet fighters for the hard-line military dictators on the Central-American nation of “Republica Libra”,Carr suddenly finds life more difficult.And for some reason he can't understand,the United States FBI is keeping him under surveillance. Republica Libra at first offers him a job, and then impounds his plane when he refuses.
Carr is hired by the flamboyant movie director Walt Whitmore,who is filming an action movie on the north coast of Jamaica to fly an old World War II vintage B-25 Mitchell medium bomber as a camera plane. However, after the student pilot he's training ends up murdered,it becomes apparent that Whitmore has more in mind for Carr and the elderly bomber than just making a film.
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