Take a touch of Charles Lindbergh, mix in a dash of Evel
Knievel, throw in one man-killing cat—and you’ve got a recipe for a rip-roaring
adventure featuring the high-flying, hard-living Smoke Burnham.
There’s not a dare Smoke won’t take, and there’s not a
wager he won’t make. Now he’s betting his life that he can fly his plane,
Super Comet—with his pet cheetah Patty coming along for the ride—across the
mountains and jungles of South America to a prize-winning payday.
All he has to do is out-race the competition, out-maneuver
a saboteur, and make out with his girl—who’s determined to bring him down to
earth. One thing you can count on—in the air, in a fight, or in his
girlfriend’s arms—he’s a man who likes to turn up the heat. Because where
there’s Smoke, there’s fire.
Man-Killers of The Air (Aviation Adventure)
By L. Ron Hubbard
ISBN #978-1592122912
Price $9.95
107 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“A Transatlantic Race With Deadly Danger.”
Smoke Barnham was a daredevil pilot not afraid of
anything. He flew the fastest planes over the worst terrain imaginable, and
loved it. When millionaire Paul Harrison Girard sponsored a race over ocean and
land, with a fifty thousand winner’s prize, it was all that Smoke could want.
After all, he was broke, and Girard was repossessing all of Smoke’s holdings.
If would have killed him for his rich girlfriend, Melanie King to discover his
financial problems. Without a plane, he and his publicity manager, Alex
Montague talk an airlines executing into selling them their experimental plane
– on a note. If he didn’t win the race, he was going to be in deeper money
problems than ever.
With Alex as co-pilot, and Patty, his pet cheetah, and
Melanie along, they join the race, only to be sabotaged over the jungle by
Girard’s contact in Brazil. But a piece of silk saves the day, and they are
quickly back in the air.
This was originally published in the June 1935 issue of
FIVE-NOVELS Magazine. I love Hubbard’s writing in the 30s and 40s, especially
his adventure yarns. A great storyteller, Hubbard brings the reader along for
the ride, and the story flows as only as master writer can make them. Highly
recommended.
Tom Johnson
Author of CARNIVAL OF DEATH
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