December 1941. The world is at war, and two American pilots on leave in London find themselves holding a letter that could change everything. Dave Dawson and Freddy Farmer are just looking for a decent meal when a mysterious Chinese stranger hands them an envelope addressed to the U.S. Secretary of State and vanishes into the London fog. What follows is a white-knuckle race across war-torn Europe and into the jungles of Asia, where the legendary Flying Tigers await. Their plane is shot down by a German U-boat. They survive. They keep running. The letter must get through. Written in 1943 while the war still raged, this is pulp adventure at its most urgent: two friends, a dangerous secret, and a world burning around them. For readers who want to feel what it was like to be young and in uniform when history was being written in blood and courage.
