Patrick Bishop
ASIN: B00J3NRD8M
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 532
The year is 1940.Britain is fighting for its survival over the skies of Kent and Sussex. Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, just arrived in the country, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots to avenge the country he has left behind. With death seldom more than a day away, and far from his friends and family, Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham. 'You're out of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry says when the two men meet in the crush of soldiers competing for the few women at a dance in a seaside hotel. But when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam's fortunes seem to have changed.For the next four years, Adam's life and Gerry's are intertwined like good luck and bad, as Adam continues his perilous journey from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside, from war-time Egypt to Occupied France. A hauntingly evocative picture ...