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...Antagonists, Gann...
...Airline Pilot Ernest K. Gann, then 42, quit the cockpit for full-time writing (The High and The Mighty, Fate Is the Hunter), now lives a bucolic existence on one of Puget Sound's San Juan Islands and feels sorry for airline pilots who spend all their working lives at it. Gann is now determined to quit writing and try painting, mainly because he loves the challenge of tackling a new subject that he knows nothing about. "It's fear that makes us old," he says. "In a new career, you don't know what...
Ernest K. Gann's best-selling memoirs of his years as a pioneer commercial pilot. After a vivid, horrific opening, Hunter flies straight into the soup of formula Hollywood fiction. To absolve buddy Taylor, Airline Executive Glenn Ford undertakes an investigation of his own. Needless to say, Flyboy Taylor turns out to have been gay, dashing and brave, a model pilot who survived such hazards as a wartime encounter with Jane Russell and an irreproachable idyl with a Eurasian ichthyologist (Nancy Kwan...
FATE IS THE HUNTER, by Ernest K. Gann. Author Gann was an airline and Air Trans port Command pilot before he became a bestselling storyteller (The High and the Mighty], and he writes convincingly in this excellent memoir of why he quit flying-his growing belief, supported by all too much chilling evidence, that he had pressed his luck too far. Not recommended for above-sea-level reading...
...Fate Is the Hunter, Gann...