COLLISION

Dunmore, Spencer

ISBN 10: 0432035028 / ISBN 13: 9780432035023

Published by Peter Davies, 1974

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To our USA customers. We ship to the USA via "Deliver Duty Paid" shipping options. This means that there will be no duty or tariffs that you need to pay on your purchase! We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of all books, please just ask! First British edition, first printing. Published by Peter Davies in 1974. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Bottom spine area of jacket is chipped across. Jacket is neatly price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine. Dirt mark on bottom of pages. Previous owners sticker on front end page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: COLLISION
• Publisher: Peter Davies
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0432035028
• ISBN 13: 9780432035023
• Binding: HardCover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction

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Synopsis

“Suddenly the barometric pressure soared. As if someone had pressed a button, the winds abruptly shifted. Hail thrashed the earth, and the sky became a battleground . . .”Three aircraft enter the turbulence over Toronto a charter Boeing 707, on its way from Gander; a Douglas DC-8 coming in from L.A.; and a lightweight Aeronca flown by an inexperienced trainee pilot Henry Peel.Are the weather conditions the cause of the catastrophe to come, or does the blame rest with the Boeing pilot Beatty who lies to his doctor so that he can go on flying? Or with Vaughan at the controls of the DC-8, obsessed by the memory of his adulterous love for Lee — is Vaughan fit to fly?Three aircraft enter the storm zone over Toronto — and the tension is devastating. More tense and vivid than Bomb Run, more powerful than The Last Hill, this is Spencer Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, a novel about planes and people — pilots, passengers and crew, wives who wait and wonder — all under pressure, the incessant pressure, that forces them to the point of collision.About the Spencer Dunmore was a schoolboy in Yorkshire, England during World War II and watched bombers limping home to the RAF airfields there. His imagination was fired by this experience to the extent that he became an expert on the war in the air, 1939-1945, and his accounts of the bombers and fighters involved are renowned for their accuracy. Dunmore left Britain for Canada in the mid-50s where he was an advertising executive for many years. Dunmore is now a full-time writer and a private pilot on weekends and resides in Ontario.