
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Last Pilot
About this book
Winner - Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2016Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2015Selected for Brave New Reads 2016With echoes of Raymond Carver as well as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff and Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, The Last Pilot re-ignites the thrill and excitement of the space race through the story of one man's courage in the face of unthinkable loss.Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier. Among the exalted few is Jim Harrison: dedicated to his wife, Grace, and their baby daughter.By the 1960s, the space race is underway and Harrison and his colleagues are offered a place in history as the world s first astronauts. But when his young family is thrown into crisis, Jim is faced with a decision that will affect the course of the rest of his life whether to accept his ticket to the moon and at what cost.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PROLOGUE
- MOJAVE DESERT MUROC, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 1947
- MOJAVE DESERT MUROC, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 1959
- MOJAVE DESERT MUROC, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 1961
- LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA APRIL 1961
- HOUSTON, TEXAS 1962
- CAPE CANAVERAL COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA 1962
- MOJAVE DESERT MUROC, CALIFORNIA MARCH 1966
- EPILOGUE VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS EVE, 1968
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- About the Author
- Copyright
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