A Sunlit Weapon

Name: A Sunlit Weapon
Rating: 4.7 (8183 reviews)

by Jacqueline Winspear Book 17 in the Maisie Dobbs Series series.

First published 2022

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Kent, October 1942. Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Jo Hardy comes under fire while delivering a Spitfire and later discovers a bound African American serviceman in a barn. When another ferry pilot dies nearby, Jo asks Maisie to determine whether the attack, the crash and the soldier’s detention are connected.

Maisie’s husband is helping secure Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to Britain, making evidence of German activity in the area an immediate national threat. The investigation exposes racial segregation within American forces and the risks accepted by women ferry pilots, while Maisie must identify whether the violence is directed at individual witnesses or at the First Lady herself.