The High and the Mighty

Author: Ernest K. Gann

Price: $4.00

At nine thousand feet the flight of the 420 from Hawaii to San Francisco was like any routine flight. The point-of-no-return was passed. Then, suddenly, there was a jarring shock —number one engine had worked loose. The fuel tank was leaking.

Fear, like a living thing, seeped through the crew and passengers. The paralyzing kind of fear that could make brave men lose their judgment. The savage terror that rips away the veneer of civilization and strips a man down to his primitive emotions. It was a question of landing or ditching in the rough night waters of the Pacific.

And the nerves of the man who held the lives of twenty people in his hands were raw with terror..

Published by: Perma Books (#M-4002)
Genre (A) Thriller
Genre (B)
Edition: Second
Date: 1954
Cover Art:
Format: Softcover, 287 pages
Condition: Used, ( G), Slight spine curl, glue at spine becoming brittle, some yellowing of pages, all pages are complete and clean.

2/17/2010