1948: Indo-China. Lee Crane is an American pilot flying demobbed air transports - C47 Dakotas - across South-East Asia for the highest bidder. But his experiences during the war are haunting him, and when he meets a woman from the past, it is literally a slap in the face. 1941: Burma. Crane is a young and innocent airman flying P40 Tomahawk fighter planes for the notorious Flying Tigers; the American Volunteers who are helping the Allies push back the Japanese. But when he falls for the charms of a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl, she has a devastating effect on him. As the Japanese create chaos in Indo-China and all around him people are looting and lining their pockets, Crane desperately needs to return to find his lover, no matter what the cost.
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"It was ok, not really my sort of thing but I'm trying to take a break from reading literary stuff. Well researched and a lot happens, though somehow I found it kind of difficult to give a damn about the characters."
" The first and third person need more careful editing, and the word 'instinctive' is hugely overused, but that didn't detract from a cracking read which I finished in a day. "
Jamie Parker is best known for his roles in the films The History Boys and Valkyrie and the television drama Van Gogh: Painted with Words. He has also performed in the television series Foyle’s War, The Hour, Silent Witness, and Silk. He is the narrator of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and Under the Greenwood Tree for Naxos AudioBooks.
William Hope, an actor and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has had leading roles in many films, including Aliens as Gorman, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Shining Through, and The Saint. His television credits include the Shell Seekers, As Time Goes By, and Gimme Gimme Gimme. On the London stage, he has appeared in The Seven Year Itch, The False Servant, and Doctor of Honour. He has appeared regionally in All My Sons, Twelfth Night, Way of the World, and La Ronde.
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