The Shepherd
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
On a frozen Christmas Eve in 1957, a young RAF pilot takes off from a West German airbase for a routine solo flight home to England — and then everything goes wrong. His instruments fail, his radio dies, and he is left utterly alone above the North Sea in a crippled de Havilland Vampire jet, with no means of navigation and no hope of survival. Then, out of the darkness, a ghostly de Havilland Mosquito materialises alongside him, piloted by a silent stranger who leads him unerringly through the fog toward safety. Frederick Forsyth, the master of the precision thriller, delivers a masterwork of atmosphere and tension in this short but unforgettable novella. Written with the meticulous technical authority that defines his best work, The Shepherd transcends the aviation genre to become a haunting meditation on fate, mystery, and the miraculous. It is a story that lingers long after the final page — who was the silent pilot, and what brought him back through the veil between worlds?
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Hutchinson, London
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
On a frozen Christmas Eve in 1957, a young RAF pilot takes off from a West German airbase for a routine solo flight home to England — and then everything goes wrong. His instruments fail, his radio dies, and he is left utterly alone above the North Sea in a crippled de Havilland Vampire jet, with no means of navigation and no hope of survival. Then, out of the darkness, a ghostly de Havilland Mosquito materialises alongside him, piloted by a silent stranger who leads him unerringly through the fog toward safety. Frederick Forsyth, the master of the precision thriller, delivers a masterwork of atmosphere and tension in this short but unforgettable novella. Written with the meticulous technical authority that defines his best work, The Shepherd transcends the aviation genre to become a haunting meditation on fate, mystery, and the miraculous. It is a story that lingers long after the final page — who was the silent pilot, and what brought him back through the veil between worlds?