A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 17)

ISBN: 0063142260

Author: Winspear, Jacqueline

Condition: New

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspears beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire-the fastest fighter aircraft in the world-to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo