Young and reckless David Morgan fall in love with Israeli Writer Debra Mordecai and a new purpose in life as a Jet fighter pilot in Israel air force but tragedy looms.
Wilbur Smith is a guilty pleasure of mine. So much of is writing is clearly derived from the pink covered romance books that a lot of people steer wide away from his stuff. This is really a shame. Now of course I don’t want to say that is heroes aren’t all impossibly masculine, their lives doomed etc. just that he is a really good writer that craft fairly unpredictable and very enjoyable stories.
Eagle in the Sky is an old one, 1974, from before he got caught up in the great family sagas. The hero is archetypical Smith material, incredibly beautiful, rich and talented. The author himself acknowledges it many times.
The plot is mainly a love story but meander between many different settings and events. There are a fair number of action scenes, long and very detailed hospital sequences and much more stuff. This is a story where things happen, a lot of things actually, even if the basic structure is a little bit simple I honestly didn’t see it coming and so I was surprised by the main plot twists.
The ending is strange and fells truncated. I think that the author had another idea in mind then, after seeing that it didn’t work, he spun a change of setting with a new agenda and a new enemy. This is actually nice because it added another layer of unpredictability to the novel.
A very good book, this is a page turner.
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