num_pages: 304
description: The saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame tailspin into scandal and crime and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption.During the height of the roaring twenties Jessie Miller longs for adventure. Fleeing a loveless marriage (though without divorcing) in the backwaters of Australia twenty-five-year-old Jessie arrives in London and promptly falls in with the Bright Young Things those boho-chic intellectuals draped in pearls and flapper dresses with martinis in hand. At a gin soaked party Jessie meets William Lancaster married himself and fresh from the Royal Air force with a scheme in his head to become as famous as Charles Lindbergh who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster will do Lindy one better: fly from London to Melbourne and in Jessie Miller hes found the perfect co-pilot.
language: English
title: The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
publisher: Flatiron Books