Maisie must work with speed to uncover the depth of connection, to save the life of the president's wife and a soldier caught in the crosshairs of those who would see them both dead. JACQUELINE WINSPEAR is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Sunlit Weapon, The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, To Die but Once and In. As the psychologist-investigator delves into the case, she discovers the attempt to take down ferry pilots and the plight of the black American soldier are inextricably linked with the visit to Britain by the First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. Jo is advised to take her suspicions to Maisie Dobbs. Although the death has been attributed to "pilot error" Jo believes there is a connection between all three events-and she wants desperately to help the soldier, who is now in the custody of American military police. Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels. A few days later another ferry pilot crashes and is killed in the same area of Kent. A Sunlit Weapon (Trade Paperback / Paperback, Large type / large print edition) By Winspear, Jacqueline. In a bid to find out who was trying to take down her aircraft, she returns on foot to the area, and discovers an African American soldier bound and gagged in an old barn. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. Jacqueline Winspear’s latest reminds us why.
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