Trouble on His Wings
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<b>JOHNNY BRICE CHASES DISASTER FOR A LIVING. THEN HE RESCUES A WOMAN WHO SEEMS TO BRING IT WITH HER.</b><br>
Johnny Brice is a flying newsreel cameraman for World News, the man sent wherever disaster strikes. Shipwrecks, fires and danger are simply opportunities to get the film first and get it back to the theaters before anyone else.<br>
His latest assignment sends him racing toward the burned passenger ship <i>Kalolo</i>. The surviving passengers have footage of the disaster, and Johnny’s boss wants it fast enough to make the next newsreel. Johnny’s solution is simple: fly out, parachute into the Atlantic and collect the film at sea.<br>
That is where he meets the woman he soon calls Jinx.<br>
She is beautiful, secretive and convinced that dangerous people are looking for her. Johnny brings her along—and the valuable film he risked his life to recover is ruined before he can deliver it.<br>
Then it happens again. Another spectacular assignment. Another narrow escape. Another ruined scoop with Jinx somewhere in the middle of it.<br>
Johnny does not believe in bad luck. But as the disasters mount, he starts to wonder who Jinx really is—and why trouble seems to follow her wherever his plane goes.<br>
<i>Trouble on His Wings</i> is fast-paced historical fiction and action adventure fiction set in the high-risk world of 1930s newsreel aviation, where getting the picture can be almost as dangerous as becoming the story.<br>
<b>“Hubbard propels us through the story, never letting it slow down long enough for us to ponder the sheer improbability of it. It’s a movie serial between two covers, a rollicking adventure that promises big thrills and delivers them.” —</b><b><i>Booklist</i></b><br>
Drawing on his broad knowledge of the world, its people and professions, L. Ron Hubbard created vivid historical adventures shaped by the places, technology and conflicts of their time.<br>
<b>Part of the L. Ron Hubbard Historical Fiction Collection—12 books featuring 17 classic stories—available in paperback, eBook and full-cast dramatized audiobook</b>. If you enjoy the historical adventures of Jack London and Wilbur Smith, discover another master storyteller of historical fiction.<br>
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L. Ron Hubbard
With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.
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