Flying Blind

by Max Allan Collins Narrated by Dan John Miller

Overview

In 1935, Nate Heller is hired to escort Amelia Earhart on a speaking tour due to numerous cut-and-paste death threats against her life. Heller suspects the threats are a stunt by Earhart's publicity-hungry husband, and the detective's growing closeness to the bisexual aviatrix leads to a steamy affair. Two years later, when Earhart embarks on her flight around the world-and mysteriously disappears over the South Pacific-Uncle Sam enlists Heller in a clandestine search of Japanese waters for the popular Earhart...and the top-secret plane she was flying.

Blending the unsolved mystery and historical facts swirling around Earhart's disappearance with Heller's sarcastic wit, Max Allan Collins delivers another riveting tale of intrigue and betrayal, taking Heller far from his native Chicago. As he investigates, Heller discovers a treacherous plot involving marital betrayal and the U.S. government. Heller's secret undercover mission leads to Saipan where Earhart is believed to be held prisoner. But Nate's heartbreaking attempted rescue leads the detective to return, many years later, to extract his final revenge.

Editorial Reviews

JULY 2012 - AudioFile

The polished Dan John Miller continues his narration of the Nate Heller detective series, solidly entertaining listeners with the fictional Heller’s investigations of the world’s most famous real-life mysteries. This time Heller confronts the disappearance of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, delivering a vivid and arguably credible scenario regarding what happened to her over the Pacific during the round-the-world flight she never completed in 1937. Complementing the fascinating speculative aspects of the story is an entirely fictional but no less moving romance between Heller and Earhart, which Miller delivers as effectively as he does the thriller aspects of the story. Tough, often funny, and surprisingly tender, Collins and Miller see to it that FLYING BLIND will get to both your head and your heart. J.P.M. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

JULY 2012 - AudioFile

The polished Dan John Miller continues his narration of the Nate Heller detective series, solidly entertaining listeners with the fictional Heller’s investigations of the world’s most famous real-life mysteries. This time Heller confronts the disappearance of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, delivering a vivid and arguably credible scenario regarding what happened to her over the Pacific during the round-the-world flight she never completed in 1937. Complementing the fascinating speculative aspects of the story is an entirely fictional but no less moving romance between Heller and Earhart, which Miller delivers as effectively as he does the thriller aspects of the story. Tough, often funny, and surprisingly tender, Collins and Miller see to it that FLYING BLIND will get to both your head and your heart. J.P.M. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171327330
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	04/10/2012
Series:	Nathan Heller Series , #9
Edition description:	Unabridged

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