The Flying Buccaneer

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In a future of global air routes and dazzling aerial machines, a masked pirate shatters the illusion of safety by destroying a transpacific mail airship and stealing its cargo in mid-ocean. Washington's Air Department reels as Secretary of Air George Cowl, the Secretary of the Navy, and their aides confront reports of a monstrous flying boat armed with a three-inch cannon, fast enough to threaten every passenger line. Their alarm turns urgent when they learn that loved ones may already be aboard the next crossing. Against this backdrop of danger, Mary Ingleton boards the great airship Wilbur Wright with her mother and Commander Fitzgerald, but her journey is shadowed by her lingering heartbreak over Joe Levanter's proposal and her fear that she refused him too quickly. Levanter, meanwhile, is devastated and vulnerable to the lure of power when a stranger from Marseilles offers him wealth and command of a criminal aerial empire. Elsewhere, Howard Redmond reaches Pearl Harbor and reveals the truth behind Levanter's island stronghold: a fortified pirate base, a secret liquid-oxygen engine, and an extraordinary craft that can fly, skim the sea, or dive underwater, all while Miss Ingleton remains under Levanter's watchful protection.