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Once More the Hawks
First published 1984
One last mission, a disastrous result, an impossible escape... Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney, in his most dangerous adventure yet. It is the summer of 1939, and the greatest war in history is on the horizon. Dicken is stationed in France when the fighting starts, but disaster strikes and his plane is shot out of the sky above enemy territory. Beset on all sides with mortal peril, and with only his own survival skills to aid him, Dicken is forced to make a breathtaking escape across Nazi Europe, pursued by his nemesis, General Lee Tse Liu. The crowning finale to the RAF trilogy, Once More the Hawks is a triumph,
The final volume returns Quinney to service as Europe enters the Second World War. His escape through enemy territory turns the novel from an aviation story into a survival thriller about the speed with which borders and civilian routes became militarised.
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