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For Squadron Leader Alex Everton dogfights in his Spitfire have become his way of life. He knows every time he goes up in the air, he might not make it home again, but he’ll keep fighting anyway. The boys in blue seem to be winning the Battle of Britain, but during a raid over Dieppe the Luftwaffe gain the upper hand and Alex’s spitfire is shot down. Alex expects to either drown in the water beneath him or be incarcerated in a German prisoner of war camp. Instead, he becomes an evader, dodging the enemy as he tries to get back home to Blighty.

"A date which will live in infamy." Those words spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 7, 1941, spurred young Carl Bridger, the son of a Montana cattle rancher, to answer the call to duty in the Pacific theater of operations. Join Carl as he is transformed from a cowboy into a warrior-pilot of the B-25 Mitchell. Go into combat with the 501st Black Panthers squadron of the famous 345th Bombardment Group "Air Apaches" of such bases as Tacloban, San Marcelino, and Ie Shima.

Um experiente piloto de helicóptero volta à sua cidade Natal—vítima de uma tragédia—levando a bordo uma comitiva de autoridades, em um voo carregado de tensão, rancores e mágoas; narrado com uma escrita inventiva de um dos mais premiados autores da nova geração. Ácido e por vezes sarcástico, O Piloto, certamente, não é uma história de amor, e mostra o poder e o alcance da boa Literatura.