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Shadow Flight
In Shadow Flight, Harrison Jones has spun an aviation tale of kidnapping, drug running, and intrigue. The story opens with flight instructor, Kyle Bennett, teaching slow flight and stalls to one of his students, Brooke Roberts, the wife of a surgeon. Brooke’s husband, also a pilot, gave his wife flying lessons as a birthday gift.
Ultimately, that gift could cost both Brooke and her instructor their lives. Fast paced and riveting, this is a flying story that winds its way through almost every facet of a flyer’s career, from flight instructing to charter work to airline flying. Jones’ background as an international captain for a major airline gives him the unique insight required to tell this account of crime and terrorism.
For those interested in flying as a career, this great read is educational in airline operations while the author spins a wonderful yarn. Shadow Flight will not disappoint. Once you begin reading, you will not want to put Shadow Flight down until you are finished.
If you are a pilot, you will connect with this story on many different levels, but in particular, you will absolutely identify with your own level of flying in this story—from student pilot to flight instructor, to second officer, to line maintenance technicians, to line security, to airline captain.
Jones did a masterful job of portraying much of the aviation industry in Shadow Flight.
Ultimately, that gift could cost both Brooke and her instructor their lives. Fast paced and riveting, this is a flying story that winds its way through almost every facet of a flyer’s career, from flight instructing to charter work to airline flying. Jones’ background as an international captain for a major airline gives him the unique insight required to tell this account of crime and terrorism.
For those interested in flying as a career, this great read is educational in airline operations while the author spins a wonderful yarn. Shadow Flight will not disappoint. Once you begin reading, you will not want to put Shadow Flight down until you are finished.
If you are a pilot, you will connect with this story on many different levels, but in particular, you will absolutely identify with your own level of flying in this story—from student pilot to flight instructor, to second officer, to line maintenance technicians, to line security, to airline captain.
Jones did a masterful job of portraying much of the aviation industry in Shadow Flight.
318 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 27, 2011
About the author
Harrison Jones
16 books10 followersAuthor Harrison Jones writes aviation fiction based on personal experience. Before becoming an airline pilot, his forty year career included stints as an aircraft mechanic, a pilot ground school instructor and a flight instructor. He recently retired as an international captain with more than 20,000 hours in the cockpit and extensive flying throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East. His writing features realism and plausibility that is uncommon in aviation novels. His method has been described as separating fiction from fantasy by developing plot that is not only possible but indeed probable. Harrison says, "My career has blessed me with an endless supply of colorful characters and I allow them to dialogue freely. The narrative is there to simply keep them in scene and herd them all toward a final conclusion." Harrison is currently editing the manuscript for his second novel. He lives in his native Georgia with his wife, Diane.
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January 14, 2013
Although this novel started out on the slow side, it quickly turned into a real page turner that I was unable to stop reading until the end. Plenty of action and international intrigue with enough aviation-related content to maintain my interest. It would make a superb, albeit costly to make movie!
Not to be confused with a novel with the same title by Joe Weber.
Not to be confused with a novel with the same title by Joe Weber.
November 23, 2015
Once again retired airline pilot Harrison Jones comes up with an airline situation that has this pilot afraid it might actually happen. The story was slow to get going, but once I was a quarter of the way into it I couldn’t put it down. I look forward to his next book.
September 12, 2012
Harrison Jones's latest novel SHADOW FLIGHT is nothing short of an aviation masterpiece! Once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down again! The characters in the book are both colorful and very realistic; the plot is a real page-turner combining the best of the disaster and detective genres, with investigators piecing information together piece-by-piece and pursuing various true and false leads (and getting in one another's way all the time, as often happens in real-life crime investigations) while the victims have to deal with countless interrelated crises arising at the same time or with one leading to another; action scenes are vividly described and leave the reader breathless; aviation specifics are well-researched and highly plausible; the author's witty humor is more than enough to put one on the floor with laughter; and last but not least, the subject matter is very relevant to today's world, dealing with the symbiotic relationships between Islamic terrorists, rogue Marxist governments and the drug mafia, as well as with both the strengths and the weaknesses of America's homeland security. This book deserves to be a classic of modern literature! Five stars!
December 15, 2011
Awesome book by Harrison Jones. This is the 2nd book I have read by him and it did not disappoint!
It is an aviation lovers dream novel because it is reality based and true to what a real pilot would see and feel. But anybody would love this book as it is just a great story with very loveable characters. It really is a page turner as it kept me in suspense and wanting to find out what was going to happen next.
I highly recommend Shadow Flight as well as Hariison's previous novel Equal Time Point. Both are fun reads with some common characters but you can read them in either order.
I also found his blog at www.harrisonjones.org and it kept me entertained 2 or 3 times a week between reading his two novels. He generally sticks to current avaition news and his usual humorous take on what is going on. He also updates and shares passages from the book he is currently writing. Good stuff!
It is an aviation lovers dream novel because it is reality based and true to what a real pilot would see and feel. But anybody would love this book as it is just a great story with very loveable characters. It really is a page turner as it kept me in suspense and wanting to find out what was going to happen next.
I highly recommend Shadow Flight as well as Hariison's previous novel Equal Time Point. Both are fun reads with some common characters but you can read them in either order.
I also found his blog at www.harrisonjones.org and it kept me entertained 2 or 3 times a week between reading his two novels. He generally sticks to current avaition news and his usual humorous take on what is going on. He also updates and shares passages from the book he is currently writing. Good stuff!
September 22, 2016
Loved this book and all 3 in the series.
SOOO hope there will be more. Outstanding author!!!
SOOO hope there will be more. Outstanding author!!!
March 21, 2022
Creative tale well told
Intricate airline story multi-facited with hijacking, drug smuggling, and enhanced with international terrorism. Good blend of credible and diverse characters.
Intricate airline story multi-facited with hijacking, drug smuggling, and enhanced with international terrorism. Good blend of credible and diverse characters.
August 16, 2020
Very Entertaining
Shadow Flight was a great read, not too complicated, fast moving, good plot line. A lot of good airplane information.
Shadow Flight was a great read, not too complicated, fast moving, good plot line. A lot of good airplane information.
October 11, 2020
Serious entertainment!
Excellent book. A real page-turner! I just wanted everyone to go away and let me read. Well written, and great, realistic detail. Loved it. Perfect title.
Excellent book. A real page-turner! I just wanted everyone to go away and let me read. Well written, and great, realistic detail. Loved it. Perfect title.
October 24, 2020
Engaging
A great read for those who love a mystery with some technical jargon built in. Good character development and plot
A great read for those who love a mystery with some technical jargon built in. Good character development and plot
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