by David Bruce

Published by Exposure Publishing, August 2007, ISBN 978-1846858963

(The sequel to “Prototype”) December, 1942. The air war is intensifying, but Britain has yet to get a firm grasp of the technology that could make all the difference - the jet-engine. So, the Prime Minister gives a small aircraft company a challenge; a new jet fighter prototype within a year – or bust. The prototype flies, but has a serious flaw and is threatened with relegation to experimental work. The solution? - banish it to Scotland for intensive operational testing while the politics are sorted out.

For test pilot Peter Wren, veteran of the Great War and the Spanish Civil War, the task of leading a team of crack Mosquito crews and a pair of Jive-crazy Mustang pilots would be tough enough without having to cope with their personal problems; and his own growing feelings for the widow of an American fighter pilot.

But the combat worthiness of the fighter is proved in ways that were never anticipated, and when a deadly threat to the USAAF bombing campaign emerges, the “Assassin” is ready...

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