Eagle in the Sky (1974)

823.914 SMI

Veramente un bel libro. Forse un po' prolisso in alcune parti, ma cattura veramente ( )

this book launched my love for Wilbur Smith and all things African ( )

'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...'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - "The Times."

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*With bold characters and stirring prose, Wilbur Smith writes riveting novels filled with adventure and intrigue. In *EAGLE IN THE SKY, *this master storyteller tells the story of a man born to...*
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**FLY LIKE AN ANGEL*
On land, he was a youth too handsome and too blessed--with carefree charm and enormous wealth. In the air he was something else entirely: born to fly fast and hard, to send the fastest jet fighters into towering climbs and screaming, murderous dives. In a country struggling for its survival, David Morgan found a home, a cause, a woman and a war.

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**FIGHT LIKE THE DEVIL**
South African by birth, David was born into a golden cage, and his hunger for freedom took him to the blood-soaked Holy Land and into a hellish cycle of violence that would lure him past the rules of war--and burn away his physical grace forever.

**AND PRAY FOR REVENGE**
But a woman blinded in a terrorist attack could only see the beautiful David Morgan she once knew. With her, David returned home to carve out a paradise in wild Africa. And that is where he would meet his worst enemy. And this time, he had everything in the world to lose...

**"Smith is without rival."**
*--****Tulsa****** World***

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**"[Wilbur Smith] puts the reader right there with details that are intimate, inspiring, horrifying�fans will be happy to know Smith hasn't lost his touch for the dramatic, exotic adventure story**."
--***The ******Orlando****** Sentinel**** *** ( )

My first of many WSmith books and probably my favorite. ( )