β Simon Scarrow
π Fiction
π
2011
π English
β 228 KB
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Eagle & Crane
β Scribed by Suzanne Rindell
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 279 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch.
Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada -- the Eagle and the Crane -- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas -- Japanese immigrants -- stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.
Β Β Β Β When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks high above audiences, they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter, Ava Brooks. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and one of Shaw's planes mysteriously crashes and two charred bodies are discovered in it, authorities...
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