The Kleber Flight

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When the girl signs up for lessons at the quiet Long Island flying school, David Lum recognises her - as somecne he knew long ago, but under a different name. She is now hopelessly alone, desperate to make a solo flight in less than two weeks, unwilling to reveal anything about herself. But she and David are drawn together with a fierce and poignant intensity, and when she dies, at the pilot's seat of the small plane she Sias indeed learnt to fly in just two weeks, he is determined to unfathom the mystery: why was she wanted by the FBI? how had she come by the terrible scars he has seen on her body? what was the secret of her terrible and fatal mission?
"One doesn't expect THE KLEBER FLIGHT to be the blockbuster it turns out to be. This is the skill of Hans Koning's writing. In muted tone he unveils a theme that brings into question a great many aspects of nuclear power Although this novel reads like a thriller because of its underlying suspense, it has much greater depth" Son... Tovább

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When the girl signs up for lessons at the quiet Long Island flying school, David Lum recognises her - as somecne he knew long ago, but under a different name. She is now hopelessly alone, desperate to make a solo flight in less than two weeks, unwilling to reveal anything about herself. But she and David are drawn together with a fierce and poignant intensity, and when she dies, at the pilot's seat of the small plane she Sias indeed learnt to fly in just two weeks, he is determined to unfathom the mystery: why was she wanted by the FBI? how had she come by the terrible scars he has seen on her body? what was the secret of her terrible and fatal mission?
"One doesn't expect THE KLEBER FLIGHT to be the blockbuster it turns out to be. This is the skill of Hans Koning's writing. In muted tone he unveils a theme that brings into question a great many aspects of nuclear power Although this novel reads like a thriller because of its underlying suspense, it has much greater depth" Son Francisco Chronicle
"An unusual and completely absorbing novel of a heroic act" Library Journal
"There's always been something recognisably distinct in Hans Koning's novels: a ruthless spareness to the manner, a kind of passionate desperation in the plot .The theme is a stark and immediate one, and it is handled skilfully in this fine novel" The New Yorker
Hans Koning, born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam, has been writing in English ever since, as a student, he escaped from occupied Holland and served in the British army during World War II. He now lives in the USA. Among his other acclaimed novels are A Walk With Love and Death, The Revolutionary (both of which have been filmed). Death of a Schoolboy (currently filming). An American Romance and De Witt's War (also available from Allison & Busby). Vissza