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Band of Brothers

by Ernest K. Gann

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When Alexander Malloy, who has become a legend in flying, is blamed for the disastrous crash of the plane he is piloting from Manila to Taipei, the reaction of the aviation world is shock and embarrassment. Only one man, Lewis Horn, believes in Malloy's innocence.
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This is a somewhat lighter manifest than some of Gann's earlier novels but it travels smoothly from here to there, there being the Taipei International Airport after a Boeing 727 crashed before reaching it -- 14 killed, 46 injured -- among them pilot Alex Malloy, now a hull of his former self in a wheelchair and tried and found guilty of negligence. But Malloy was a perfectionist with an ""uncanny record"" and a friend, Lew Horn, is determined to show that something else was wrong -- perhaps his first officer Wu, perhaps other less evident influences in the so-called Republic of China. And there's a shadow of an incomplete romance...
The storyline is tame and a bit of a cliche by all of the modern mystery and adventure stories that have succeeded "Band of brothers". Still it is skillfully told and is in a way a time capsule of both the cold war era and the state of aviation during the start of the "jet age”.
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When Alexander Malloy, who has become a legend in flying, is blamed for the disastrous crash of the plane he is piloting from Manila to Taipei, the reaction of the aviation world is shock and embarrassment. Only one man, Lewis Horn, believes in Malloy's innocence.

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